Clouddead
Hiphop has never been the same since these guys came along. Other artists had pushed the boundaries of what hiphop was supposed to be or could be (think Kool Keith), but most of these were pushed aside as outcasts and ignored by the mainstream juggernauts. But what Clouddead did to it is so beyond repair that they immediately were doomed to the underground and cult followings. No one could touch them, because there simply was nothing like it before! Their sound was atmospheric and creepy, barely funky and the freestyling of Dose One and Why? was way too surreal (to say the least) and poetic to be attacked. I would never have thought that the genre could be given this much of an experimental touch. All the imagery and MTV heavy rotations left me thinking that it was meant to be mainstream and commercial (even though it was far from being politically correct). This was the language of the streets, it had it's own set of rules and, as is often the case, would shun on outsiders. Clouddead is it's benign cancer, oozing with mutated cells, it took rap's basic forms and grew out of it, changing it, deforming it, but without killing it. You gotta respect that!
ClouddeadLabel: Big Dada Recordings Release: 2001 Format: CD Cat. no: BDCD028 |
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