Re: Pharoahe Monch - W.A.R. (We Are Renegades) (2011)

by Nightjar Wed 24 Feb 2021 - 19:37

This dude is somewhat unreconstructed compared to the rest.

by Guest Wed 24 Feb 2021 - 19:37

King Crimson dontpanic

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Wed 24 Feb 2021 - 19:37

Track 12 - The Grand Illusion (Circa 1973).

by Nightjar Wed 24 Feb 2021 - 19:38

Ooh, the sample...

hmm

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Wed 24 Feb 2021 - 19:38

Sounds familiar.

by Nightjar Wed 24 Feb 2021 - 19:39

Audacious.

by Nightjar Wed 24 Feb 2021 - 19:40

by Nightjar Wed 24 Feb 2021 - 19:41

Brilliant fusion.

by Nightjar Wed 24 Feb 2021 - 19:42

Storming guitar solo.

by Nightjar Wed 24 Feb 2021 - 19:43

Shame it's fading out really.

I think the proper album version goes on longer.

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Wed 24 Feb 2021 - 19:43

Last track - Still Standing.

by Nightjar Wed 24 Feb 2021 - 19:43

Crackly.

Sounds like a Roy Budd OST.

Or Barry White.

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Wed 24 Feb 2021 - 19:43

by Nightjar Wed 24 Feb 2021 - 19:44

by Nightjar Wed 24 Feb 2021 - 19:45

Rotary Connection?

by Nightjar Wed 24 Feb 2021 - 19:46

Jill Scott retro-ing her ass into last century.

by Nightjar Wed 24 Feb 2021 - 19:47

Channeling Gladys Knight and Gloria Gaynor and Randy Crawford like bonkers.

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Wed 24 Feb 2021 - 19:49

It is over.

It was decent. It was a lot less monotonous and repetitive than most of the Rap albums we've done on here.

Now to look back at the thread and see what everybody else made of it. Excited

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Wed 24 Feb 2021 - 19:49

I shall give it 4 stars for having made an effort.

by Nightjar Wed 24 Feb 2021 - 19:53

Wow!

What an terrific album.

Much better in fact for a close listen than it just being on the background.

Dizzyingly complex lyrics, yet still with the cadence and flow of a true master of his art.

Engaging, entertaining, challenging, interesting and downright brill production.

Also, an overall message to embrace, get behind, support etc - whichever position you need to take.

Hip-hop got mad lazy in the '00s - sheer bullshucks - Pharaohe Monch revives the corpse some with that luminous green glo-stick Re-Animator serum. yes

Fargin' A.

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