I realize that this is a long-anticipated, highly sought-after seven-year follow up to the BBs last new release. I further realize that we almost lost a good man to cancer and that this should be the feel good triumph of the year with Yauch, already a positively outlooking Buddhist, being even further exasperated by life.
Trouble is... the record's just not that good.
Maybe I got myself spoiled on the live calypso-funk jamming of Paul's Boutique / Check Your Head and the rock of Ill Communication. Seriously, where is Caldato these days?
Hot Sauce just picks up where they've been since then. Hello Nasty / 5 Burroughs regressed all lyrical content to hip-hop boasting. All of it. And the rhyme's are not without merit, it's just after three albums, it's like- I get it. You like your style of rapping more than any other rappers'. I know that they have the ability to conquer more. It does not bode well for the three that my favorite track on the album is the instrumental.
"OK" is easily the worst song in the BB catalog since "Girls". And there's simply a LOT of filler. Unrealized song fragments. "Funky Donkey" "The Larry Routine" "Crazy Ass Shit" and they even close with a bullshit 1:30 tune that declares quite emphatically that they "Get down Grade A ground round."
The beats too, are not awful, just mostly electronic humdrum. Less, "Looking Down the Barrel of a Gun"; more "Intergalactic". I think what they do well, rhyming, comes easy to them. But that eclecticism that paved their return from backlash of their debut is lost again. Maybe their content with that. (2 of 5 stars)
Trouble is... the record's just not that good.
Maybe I got myself spoiled on the live calypso-funk jamming of Paul's Boutique / Check Your Head and the rock of Ill Communication. Seriously, where is Caldato these days?
Hot Sauce just picks up where they've been since then. Hello Nasty / 5 Burroughs regressed all lyrical content to hip-hop boasting. All of it. And the rhyme's are not without merit, it's just after three albums, it's like- I get it. You like your style of rapping more than any other rappers'. I know that they have the ability to conquer more. It does not bode well for the three that my favorite track on the album is the instrumental.
"OK" is easily the worst song in the BB catalog since "Girls". And there's simply a LOT of filler. Unrealized song fragments. "Funky Donkey" "The Larry Routine" "Crazy Ass Shit" and they even close with a bullshit 1:30 tune that declares quite emphatically that they "Get down Grade A ground round."
The beats too, are not awful, just mostly electronic humdrum. Less, "Looking Down the Barrel of a Gun"; more "Intergalactic". I think what they do well, rhyming, comes easy to them. But that eclecticism that paved their return from backlash of their debut is lost again. Maybe their content with that. (2 of 5 stars)
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