PHAROAHE MONCH - Push / Let's Go 2006 Single review

Who's your daddy?

PHAROAHE MONCH - Push / Let's Go 2006 Single review
RATING: 5/5
In which rapper Pharoahe Monch makes a glorious return to the world of hip-hop by - er - singing. He does it rather well actually - for the first two thirds of the song with a laid-back, early seventies funk-soul style over a fat, heavy, rolling break, seismic soul bassline and epic horn riff - provided by seventies west coast funk band Tower of Power. Finally, somewhere about the point when you're wondering if maybe there's been some sort of mistake after all and you're listening to the wrong track, the man re-enters the funky flow, spitting rhymes about the plight of the disadvantaged in Bush's America. So there you have it - an angry political song that's so drenched in heavy funk and superdisco sunshine harmonies that you don't even realize it's political at first. The flipside's phat shit too. My nipples are hard just waiting for the new album.
Listen to Pharoahe Monch - Push