The LP starts with this dope as hell beat getting the heads nodding ‘it’s about keeping it real as you notice, I’m out here doing my own thing. I ain’t large, i ain’t up in a hotel room havin’ people pass out my shit. You got the original article rite here passing out the tape. That’s realness’. Yeah that’s Maundz’s statement to the world this dude is keeping it real for the Hip hop culture.
A Melbourne MC full of anger and bitterness (but let me tell you its the type of bitterness that gets you g’d up and head nodding with agreement) This LP is nothing short of brilliant. I was in my dining room speakers vibrating with this Australian hip hop that made me reminisce about Lyrical Commission. In my mind this is similar to Lyrical Commission (with amazing production) but i don’t want people to think I’m stigmatizing Maundz, its like saying A Tribe Called Quest are similar to the Jungle Brothers (and yes I know they were affiliates) but he also reminds me of El-P. Anyway the production is so on point, funky, deep and boom bap with hints of soundtrack and library music samples and live instrumentation (‘No Concern’) that it would make most beat makers jealous. The cuts are insane and are full of Hip hop quotables which in my mind are a must to bring back the yester years and to educate about the past of our culture.
Altogether I was shocked at how good this was. A dark and brooding album that kicks the shit out of most highlighted releases this year. If the Australian Hip hop scene is as good as this all over share more with me people.
Stand out tracks: ‘Extra, Extra’, ‘Pink Shirts’, ‘March the 5th’ and ‘The Campaign’.
Low points: ‘Mr Nobody’ (Not that any track on here can be called wack it was just a track I didn’t like and yeah it’s very rare for there to be one average track on an LP these days)
Support artists and go buy the LP...
http://itunes.apple.com/au/album/mr-nobody/id370881985
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