Anticon, Music for the Advancement of Hip-Hop Released August 1999 brought to you by Inertia The liner notes read like a virtual Who’s Who of cutting edge, left-coast MCs, so why is no one picking this up? Too many White MCs decided that to be successful they had to lie about how they came up (ala Vanilla Ice) or pretend they were just as ‘gangsta’ as any Black rapper on the scene. That’s how the brilliant and celebrated freestyler Eminem became the reviled bad boy of top-40 music under the tutelage of the ever exploitative Dre. These guys are different. Their flows are riddled with hard hitting jabs, clever punch lines and honest glimpses into the lives of these artists who aren’t in the business of constructing false identities. This is a compilation of genuinely poetic hip-hop, accessible to anyone, from those who want to hear some intelligent lyrics to those who just want to shake that ass to some phat beats. The players include Eyedea who some people may remember as the run-away winner of the 2000 Blaze Battle, and Sole, the orchestrator of Anticon whose recent mind-blowing solo project "Bottle of Humans" will be reviewed on a future date. Want a taste? Click here to listen to samples on Amazon.com I especially like track 8, Divine Disappointment, and track 12, Nothing But Sunshine. Listen to everything; its all good. Metric Old World Underground, Where Are You Now? Goldfrapp Black Cherry Fleetwood Mac Say You Will DJ Dara Breakbeat Science Exercise 01 The 88 Kind of Light The Kills Black Rooster EP The Libertines Up the Bracket Jettatura Squadra Fantasma Tone Ambient Metals The Streets Original Pirate Material Grand Buffet Cigarette Beach Roni Size Touching Down Rolling Stones 40 Licks Brendan Benson Lapalco Anticon Music for the Advancement of Hip-Hop copyright © 2000-2005 - www.stellargirl.com