J. Rawls & Middle Child
Sometimes people confuse being fresh with far out conceptual shit or bleeps and blips that sound like nothing else but as a result don’t sound at all. Just making quality music, these days, is more than enough to stand out from the mediocrity. Something J. Rawls clearly understands. His J. Rawls & Middle Child album proves that. No boundary pushing beats, no avant garde MC’s or singers. Nope, just damn good music. Beats that come from a tradition of keeping it soulful above anything else. The tradition that brought us Tribe, Dilla, Common et al. No wonder if you know J. Rawls history. Member / beat maker of Lone Catalysts and producer for the classic “Brown Skin Lady” by Talib Kweli and Mos Def are credentials that speak. Combine this with Middle Child who’s got a nice voice and knows how to use it and you’ve got a killer combination.
Haven’t been impressed by much Hip Hop lately but this was a release I’ve been looking forward to. Because it good. Plain and simple.
lovers on a stroll; is zo een harde track.
album is pretty nice. indeed.
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Comment by lefto — May 22, 2008 @ 11:28 pm
glad to see other people are promoting the goodtruehonest music too!!
Peace Moovmnt
Comment by Moovmnt — May 25, 2008 @ 1:42 am