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Reviews & Discussion: This is the album which represents the energetic and aggressive sound of rapcore in its own special way. It's an angry and ragged hip-hop/punk-rock fusion - (hed)'s self-declared "g-punk" style. Raw, gritty and violent garage punk attitude meets the groove of dirty funky hip-hop. It's rebellious lyrically and musically, it's intense, noisy, messed up, muddy, distorted and loud, yet somehow sincere, saturated, layered and focused. The album cover convays the content perfectly, it's chaotic but at the same time consistent on the whole. It also has a kind of a mystical sense to it, due to the use of some weird samples, echoes, scratches, silent parts and overall blurry lo-fi approach. The album also has some fast, relentless moments, many broken rhythms, lots of hip-hop groove, some kind of lost man's confessions, everything glued together by the versatile vocal delivery of the half-african, half-brazilian vocalist Jahred. There is no filler material, songs flow into each other organically, and the album overall sounds amazingly solid, in spite of having any possible influence, such as reggae, funk, hip-hop and punk-rock soaked in. This is the ultimate street album. I've been listening to it since '99 and it still manages to grab my attention. | ||||