21 October 2008
THE MIGHTY UNDERDOGS - Droppin' Science Fiction - 2008 - Album Review
THE MIGHTY UNDERDOGS - Droppin' Science Fiction - 2008 - Album Review
HIGHLIGHTS: So Sad – UFC (Remix) – Aye - Warwalk
SOUNDBITE: “In order for positive to exist, there’s gotta be some kind of counter-balance right?”
RATING: 3.5/5
The Mighty Underdogs project finds MCs Gift of Gab (Blackalicious) and Lateef The Truthspeaker (Latyrx) teaming up with producer Headnodic of Crown City Rockers. Not dissimilar to previous Quannum-related stuff and more interesting than (for example) the last Blackalicious LP or Gift Of Gab’s solo LP by dint of the fact that some of the tracks on here are actually memorable, this nevertheless alternates between ‘back-packer hip-hop’ by numbers and soul-hop blandness by numbers a lot of the time. Bear with me till I get to the good stuff though as this isn’t exclusively the case...(READ MORE @ MONKEYBOXING.COM)
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