Z-Ro & Chill - The Rain
We're kicking off today's releases with some homefield advantage.
I'm counting this as his 13th LP since the late '90s, but it's fucking impossible to keep track. Perhaps the Houston rapper's most glaring tragedy is his inability to assemble. Z-Ro is an endless stream of verses, guest flows, Screw tapes, and mixtapes. In other words, good luck catching up with the rest of his best of.
Finding a comprehensive discography or even album art for an album that comes out today is harder than hunting down a Coldplay zip file that hasn't been deleted by label bosses.
I don't even know who Chill is.
U-God - Dopium
One of the Wu's more obscure, less important figures releases his third LP. But this isn't an associative wash of name droppings a la Cappadonna's album, it's basically another Wu album sans RZA production.
The gang's all here: Meth, Ghost, Raekwon, GZA all provide guest spots along with borough-centric heavyweights, Jim Jones and Sheek Louch. Bangers and knockers in bulk, basically.
Dead Prez & DJ Green Lantern - Pulse of the People
Admit it: for all the good that stic and M-1 represent, they've only made one good album.
No matter how revolutionary you felt after watching Michel Gondry edit a mid-afternoon set patrons weren't really tuned to at the time into a watershed liberation front during "Block Party," it was difficult to move beyond Lets Get Free.
Pulse seems competent and its packaging is environmentally friendly, which is subtly revolutionary. I guess.
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