|  | Expert review by Joe Viglione "X on the flex hit me now" is not rap as much as it is the return of The Last Poets and their classic "Wake Up Niggers" from the Mick Jagger film "Performance". This immortal slice of sound from Public Enemy's seminal Fear Of A Black Planet album has a solitary beat you don't even hear because the words, the variety of aural sensations and the groove explode out of the speakers in the same fashion that the progressive group Yes reinvented themselves with "Owner of a Lonely Heart". Regarding the Yes classic Wikipedia notes "Trevor Horn's innovative use of jarring, heavily synchopated orchestra hits and other high-tech sound effects; | | Rabin's disorienting, schizophrenic guitar solo, which was played through an MXR Pitch Transposer, which mixed the original note with one a perfect fifth higher." Producers The Bomb Squad (Hank Shocklee (James Henry Boxley III), Chuck D (Carl Ryder), Eric "Vietnam" Sadler, Gary G-Wiz and Keith Shocklee (Keith Boxley) create a parallel world to "Owner of A Lonely Heart" here with this amazing post apocalypse landscape that can fit into any dark Sci-Fi flick that chooses this epic for its soundtrack |
The pit and the pendulum
Check the rhythm and rhymes The five minutes and twenty-six seconds of this masterpiece actually continues with the forty-six second "Meet The G that Killed Me" which follows, a harrowing piece about AIDS that is quick and somewhat homophobic: "he don't believe he has it either...Yo, terminator man", the tone only changing when the next title "Pollywannakraka" takes hold. |
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