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MH-235 Busdriver - Fear Of A Black Tangent  With the most cohesive work of his career, Busdriver turns his razor sharp wit on his place in the music industry with his new full-length release, Fear Of A Black Tangent. It is the follow-up to his career establishing release, Temporary Forever. Songs covering small club touring, independent music promotion, and the barrage of uninspired hip-hop releases on the market all contribute to the album's theme of trying to break as a emerging artist. Busdriver has taken a year's worth of material and trimmed it down to thirteen impressive tracks that range from lightning fast Project Blowed style raps to sing-song pop. The album features production by Daedelus, Danger Mouse, Thavius Beck, Omid, and Paris Zax and has guest appearances by fellow Project Blowed MCs Abstract Rude, Ellay Khule, Mikah-9, and 2Mex. |
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| Outstanding - Urb / Genius - BBC / Experimental and fresh - Hip-Hop Connection / Intoxicating - Straight No Chaser / Decidedly cool and deadly - XLR8R / Treads where most wouldn't dare - DJ / Busdriver straight kills it - Hour / Certainly the best I've heard in a long time - Indigo Flow |
| This veteran of the Los Angeles underground thrives on flow that ranges from nearly unconscious cool to goofball hyper. Dude sounds like he's flipping through a year's worth of journals, spinning each entry into a few verses that hold together better than they should. Of course "Avantcore" his attack on hipster hip-hop fans and the artists they love, could sound like sour grapes. But the bitterness is only surface; he sounds like he honestly wants to expand hip-hop's vocabulary, and not just complain about people who are more famous than he. But a little fame wouldn't hurt, either. - Austin 360 |
1XLP/Out Of Print