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Nexus - Cold Dark Night...~REVIEWED~
Sccit:
http://www.soundclick.com/bands/default.cfm?bandID=23350&content=music
TraceOneInfinite:
--- Quote from: NIKCC on August 29, 2013, 10:09:26 AM ---http://www.soundclick.com/bands/default.cfm?bandID=23350&content=music
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I might be the biggest fan of this album other than Nexus himself. I must of been deep in my Muslim phase and missed this when it origionally came out. But I've gone back and listened to it while I do my exercise routines during the day.
I find it an album that you can bump from beginning to end. You don't have skip any tracks. It's very fresh material, you don't get the feeling that he is trying to be somebody else. He is just himself, and his rhymes are clever and thought provoking. I love how he embraces the underdog persona, rather than trying to rap like he's already famous and successful. He responds to all critics, real or imagined. He can make up whole songs where it's like every line, he thinks it first, the critic response to that line, and then he counters with a response, and so on... He has an interesting perspective as an emcee that's very fresh. There's a lot of self-reflection on the album, but not overly dramatic or forced.
His rhyme schemes are not overdone. A lot of rappers these days may try to show off their flow, like Slaughterhouse does. They want to show how fast or complicated they can rap. Nexus always stays within himself and just does what he does best.
...sometimes less is more.
Sccit:
--- Quote from: Infinite on August 29, 2013, 11:54:43 AM ---
--- Quote from: NIKCC on August 29, 2013, 10:09:26 AM ---http://www.soundclick.com/bands/default.cfm?bandID=23350&content=music
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I might be the biggest fan of this album other than Nexus himself. I must of been deep in my Muslim phase and missed this when it origionally came out. But I've gone back and listened to it while I do my exercise routines during the day.
I find it an album that you can bump from beginning to end. You don't have skip any tracks. It's very fresh material, you don't get the feeling that he is trying to be somebody else. He is just himself, and his rhymes are clever and thought provoking. I love how he embraces the underdog persona, rather than trying to rap like he's already famous and successful. He responds to all critics, real or imagined. He can make up whole songs where it's like every line, he thinks it first, the critic response to that line, and then he counters with a response, and so on... There's a lot of self-reflection in that.
His rhyme schemes are not overdone. A lot of rappers these days may try to show off their flow, like Slaughterhouse does. They want to show how fast or complicated they can rap. Nexus always stays within himself and just does what he does best.
...sometimes less is more.
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real shit...i believe nexus stopped rappin, but if he ever wants to make a comeback, it'd be my honor to feature him on an L.A.M.B cut.. even if we were on mtv gettin daily plays, the olive-branch will remain extended. this album is too good for how slept on it was....we were actually workin on a follow up when he suddenly lost inspiration and decided to retire....a few years later, i contacted him and he was workin on some rock music, where he was playin guitar, singin and all. the alerg route lol.....safe to say, it wasnt nearly as good as his hip-hop stuff.
TraceOneInfinite:
--- Quote from: NIKCC on August 29, 2013, 12:02:34 PM ---
real shit...i believe nexus stopped rappin, but if he ever wants to make a comeback, it'd be my honor to feature him on an L.A.M.B cut.. even if we were on mtv gettin daily plays, the olive-branch will remain extended. this album is too good for how slept on it was....we were actually workin on a follow up when he suddenly lost inspiration and decided to retire....a few years later, i contacted him and he was workin on some rock music, where he was playin guitar, singin and all. the alerg route lol.....safe to say, it wasnt nearly as good as his hip-hop stuff.
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They can take it how they want, but I call that selling out.
Sccit Style Records was the shit, those were good times, and you really had a lot of great ideas. The music coming out was genuine, and there should have been a bigger market and support base. There was a growing trend amongst the hip-hop underground and internet forums at the time, but somehow all that got subverted into this ignorant ass South shit that emerged. Cats like AlerG, Naz-T, and Nexus sold out, and it's a new era now. God Willing, L.A.M.B will still break through when it's said and done and I will be there when it does 8)
ARYC:
This is FUCKING NICE
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