Soul Position - Things Go Better With Rj & Al
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Artist: Soul PositionEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2006-04-04
Music Label: Rhymesayers
Soundtracks:
- The Beginning
- No Gimmicks
- Hand-Me-Downs
- The Extra Mile
- Blame It On The Jager
- I Need My Minutes
- Keep It Hot For Daddy
- I'm Free
- Keys
- The Cool Thing To Do
- Priceless
- Drugs, Sex, Alcohol, Rock-N-Roll
- Things Go Better
Music reviews of Things Go Better With Rj & Al
Music Review: Things Could Go Better (3.5 Stars)
Rating: 3 Stars
The Album kicks off with a sample that I cannot seem to place as an intro and quickly blends into the opening track "No Gimmicks" which sets the tone for the rest of the album which is 100% RJD2 and Blueprint "...just the best producer and the best MC, This is it, No limits No Gimmicks" Blueprint is at his battle ready best on this track but you can already sense the RJ is on a slightly different tip.
On the next track RJ gifts Print a relatively stripped down (by RJ's standards) bass & horns heavy track ala DJ Premier complete with the cuts & scratches. Print proceeds to give his two cents on the current state of Hip-Hop and the Black Community in General. By track three "The Extra Mile" it is clear that RJ is pushing the envelope production wise. Gone are the complex, layered grand productions we associate him with in are stripped down, horn heavy and guitar laced loops.
This is not neccesarily a bad thing and it generally works well when Print is on point lyrically as on "keys". On this one Print weaves an intricate tale with a somewhat surprising ending. It doesn't work that well when Blueprint is not in top form. Case in point is "Blame It On The Jager" which is not that bad but sounds tired after J-Zone's more creative version. It's made worse by the fact RJ's beat sounds a little like J-Zone anyway.
I've never been the greatest Blueprint fan and this album generally does nothing to convince me to change my mind. He tends to take his average man thing too far. Which is cool if you have a lot of charisma which he doesn't. The album is filled with too many concept tracks and not enough battle ready, crush an MC tracks. He relies on his humour and storytelling which are cool but won't have you pressing the rewind button. "I Need My Minutes" will surely have a lot of people in stitches but it does not do it for me. "Priceless" is a great concept but in a album filled with concepts it doesn't stand out.
RJ is the real reason I bought the album, he is easily one of my favourite indy producers and one listen to Diverse's One AM I was converted for life. On this album he generally comes correct especially on the more standard RJ tracks like "Drugs, Sex, Alcohol, Rock-N-Roll" and "Things Go Better". These are also the tracks when Print is at his best. On "The Cool Thing To Do" RJ doesn't really deliver and neither does Print with his Slick Rick rendition.
Overall the album has high points and weakpoints which might be easier to forgive on a longer album but not on a short one such as this. In all honesty both artists are to blame for this.
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