In typical tireless DJ Burn One fashion, iNDEED is now back just a few months later to bless us all with a full length project to show a more fully realized vision of precisely what it is that they have to offer the music world. What the seven song EP did display was the ability to make great individual songs, often in completely different styles, from the Neptunes-esque “More Than a Dance” to the pimp meets mosh-pit “Brass Knuckles,” to the RZA influenced “Black Tears” to the trademarked straight-up 5PMG sound on “The Pinkpather.” What the EP didn’t quite make clear the direction or vision of the band: Would iNDEED have a frontman or just rotate singers and rappers in? Would they have a signature sound or be more like a stylized hip hop interpolation band? What was clear was that they could make great music and that they had a lot of fun in the process. Although the EP was an excellent introduction to the members of Five Points Music Group as a standalone band, the “album of the year” contender comment was probably a bit hasty for a seven song EP. When iNDEED dropped the iNDEED EP, earlier this year, I made the remark in my review ,of the also 5PMG produced Paraphernalia album from Burn One & SL Jones, that the EP begged consideration for album of the year despite it’s short length.
In many ways Vinyl Room might be a reasonable sonic ancestor for iNDEEDFACE if Sleepy’s Theme had been into psychotropics and irreverence. made some great music, but the charts always seemed to be an aim in one form or another, Organized Noize’s closest attempt probably came with the historically snoozed upon Sleepy’s Theme album Vinyl Room. Earthtone III was mainly concerned with producing their own work and that of a few other Dungeon Fam rappers, N.E.R.D. Even less common is getting to hear the group really let their hair down and make music for themselves without serious commercial aspirations getting in the way. The legitimate production crew or group, as opposed to the group of producers who work individually (eg DITC), is not an aberration in rap music – Organized Noize, Neptunes, Block Beataz, Earthtone III – but it’s not all that common either. Muthafuckin' eXquire Nacho Picasso Nell New York Open Mike Eagle playoffs posterized Raider Klan Ricky Fontaine Rittz Roc Marciano Rvidxr Klvn Schoolboy Q Shawn Kemp Sixers Sky Lexington SL Jones SpaceGhostPurrp Spencer Hawes Sunday School Thabeet The Legendary Traxster Top Dawg Entertainment Tree Young Chop Yung Raw Yung SimmieĮnter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Billy Woods BJ the Chicago Kid Black Hippy Blazers blockhead Blue Sky Black Death Canales Chicago Chief Keef Chris Travis Denzel Curry DJ Burn One Doug Collins Dough Dough dumping Eddy Baker El-P Elton Brand Ethelwulf Evan Turner Flynn Grandmilly Grief Pedigree Harvey G hero ball Hickson Illogic iNDEED Independent Hip Hop Jackie Chain Ka Kendrick Lamar Key Nyata Killer Mike King Louie Lil Ugly Mane Live From the Underground Lord of the Fly Lou Williams Mikkey Halsted Mista Thug Isolation Mr. 4Eva N a Day 5PMG Aesop Rock Amber London Andre Iguodala Atlantic Division Big K.R.I.T.
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