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From | Sam Smith <sam@lullabypit.com> |
Subject | Re: Top 15 for 2k6 |
Date | Sun, 24 Dec 2006 20:45:10 -0700 |
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Stewart Mason wrote:
----- Original Message ----- From: "Sam Smith" <sam@lullabypit.com>
13: The Streets – The Hardest Way to Make an Easy Living: I
don't
know enough about hip-hop to comment intelligently, but this is
unusual
in its intelligence. Frankly, there's too much damned critical
fawning
over rap artists who aren't smart enough to craft a coherent
thought, so
I'm always appreciative when I trip across a hip-hopper with
something
useful to say.
If you haven't heard them already, you really must check out the two
previous Streets albums, ORIGINAL PIRATE MATERIAL and A GRAND DON'T
COME FOR FREE. Suffice to say, this album is jostling with
Calexico's GARDEN RUIN for the less than coveted top slot on my
"biggest disappointments" list: musically, it's fine, but lyrically,
it's not a patch on the earlier albums. Skinner's original persona
was obviously a contrust, but that persona was definitely a lot more
interesting than his lyrics here, which are nothing more than yet
another iteration of "Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhh! Being rich and famous
and successful is SOOOOOOOOOOO stressful and annoying!" Did the
world really need grime's answer to RUNNING ON EMPTY?
S
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