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| Release: | Idiomatic Mixtape : Volume 1 |
|  | | MyHHHdb | |
| Media: | [Audio CD] | | Released: | 2005 [ Listen to HHH from this era on Spotify ] |
| Recordlabel: | ESeye Music |
| Info: | This album has no inlay.
1. Idiotic Intro by ADeeM
2. Driven - CAS METAH, Motion+, Kaboose,
Mouf Warren, Theory Hazit, Ruffian, JustMe and Wonder
Brown.
Production by Vintage.
3. Move - CAS METAH and JustMe.
4. Theory Hazit (solo)
5. Promise Land - Mouf Warren, CAS METAH, Theory Hazit,
JustMe and Ruffian.
Production by Mattman
6. Wonder Brown (solo)
Production by Fab da Eclectic
7. Seem - CAS METAH, Mouf Warren and JustMe.
8. From The Heart - Mouf Warren and Wonder Brown.
Production by Theory Hazit
9. CAS METAH (solo)
10. Killin' It - Wonder Brown, JustMe, Cash Hollistah,
Theory Hazit, OneLife, Mouf Warren, CAS METAH and
Reconcile.
11. Ruffian (solo)
12. Construction - Mouf Warren and CAS METAH.
Production by Mattman
13. JustMe (solo)
Production by Re:Flex the Architect
14. Puttin' Down Strawng by Deacon The Villain
15. 1, 2, Three, Fore!!! - CAS METAH and Ruffian.
16. Mouf Warren (solo)
17. Scribbles - CAS METAH, JustMe, Wonder Brown, Ruffian and
Mouf Warren. |
| Rating: | Our users rated this release: 6.5 out of 10
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| | Review: | Written by Conduct Lionhardt
Thursday, 17 August 2006
Scribbling Idiots - Idiomatic Mixtape Vol 1
(Indie)
The first thing I'd love to toss out to you about the
Scribbling Idiots "Idiomatic Mixtape" is that it left me
thinking one thing:
THESE KIDS CAN RAP!
The mixtape opens with an intro by Adeem (of Glue and a
former Scribble Jam champ) who cuts up on the title of the
disc. From there things begin in earnest with a monstrous
track called "Driven" featuring a good majority of the
Scribbling Idiots and their affiliates. The track
immediately grabs your attention with some deft production
from Vintage that made this listener think of something one
of the 90's New York emcees would've blazed over. Another
"pick-me up" by emcee Tonedef and then we're tossed into,
"Move" a nice lil ditty between CAS METAH and JustMe. This
one is followed by the first solo from the S.I. boys boys,
by emcee/ Dj Theory Hazit who bust some cool wordplay on his
nom de guerre.
"Promised Land" is another crew cut on a Mattman beat;
focusing the emcees rhymes on paradise passed the world
we're in now. On this track, Ruffian and JustMe's verses
seem to hit the hardest. The next solo ends up being from
Wonder Brown over a Fab da Eclectic beat, where he flexes
over what he's here to do saying, "Truth to reach the
streets necessary by any means".
Next comes one of my personal favorites on the mixtape, when
CAS METAH, Mouf Warren and JustMe rock over a No I.D. beat
from one of Common's classics, on "Seem". "If living in
green pastures is that blasphemous/ how can pastor do it and
package it as non-hazardous?" CAS METAH asks and, I don't
wanna ruin the rest of the track cause, from there, Mouf
Warren and JustMe continue killing the jazzy loop.
After a brief shout out from Sev Statik, we go into another
banger on this mixtape that is one of the best two man
tracks I've heard in sometime from Mouf Warren and Wonder
Brown on, "From the Heart". These two fellas go back and
for the with some serious rhyme fury all over this thing.
The third verse they go line for line tossing it back and
forth with ease, as if they've been a duo for years. The
thing that stabs me the most to the heart about this track
is the ill lyricism of both these guys. It left me really
begging to get more from Mouf Warren. The beats also by
Theory Hazit, which keeps it a family affair.
Next up comes CAS METAH's turn on a solo track as he bust a
quick ditty over 4th Avenue Jones "Respect" beat. Look out
for plenty references in this one.
Once I got to this track, I had forgotten that there were
features outside of the crew on the disc. "Killin' It"
comes on with a few words from Reconcile of Mass Reality and
you realize, "oh…features on this track. Cool." Wonder
Brown opens then JustMe comes on with the greatest opening
line, "This be food for thought for the people's survival/
so don't disconnect like Michael Schiavo." Next up, ON THE
SAME TRACK, Cash Hollistah who busts, "Bunk bombs, I'm
dumpin' sonic booms/ half of these rappers deserving a spot
up on Comic View/ these funny lyrics, acting like they
murderous clowns/ ya want beef, dawg, go ahead and murder a
cow." Theory Hazit continues the trend with this killer
line, "I think its funny / to see ya'll play each other
for money/ sly, shifty cunning, I saw it coming/ check my
biography "give bars for dummies." OneLife holds it down
as another guest then after that comes Mouf Warren, then
CAS, and closing it out…Reconcile. YEP, it's that ill.
Ruffian gets on his solo and spits what I thought was a
confusing verse but ends up being a very creative twisting
of lyrics. I can't do justice by telling you how it works,
but I really enjoyed listening to this unique emcee's flow.
Mattman makes a pretty dope audio setting for Mouf Warren
and CAS METAH to do another deft track, "Construction".
Its personal fav mine as they literally speak on what their
music will build in this very culture.
Man-of-War drops a pick-me up for the mixtape that is
honestly one of the funniest things I've heard. That's my
take on it, of course.
My man Re:Flex the Architect makes a great beat for JustMe
to do his solo magic on as he gives us a glimpse on what his
upcoming ILLECT Recordings album, "One Man's Trash" is
gonna sound like.
Deacon the Villain (of Cunninglynguists) does a nice shout
out for his good buddy CAS METAH imploring repeated listens,
while over the Slum Village classic beat, "Tainted."
"1,2, three, FORE!!!" ends up being one of those classic
duo tracks between CAS METAH and Ruffian, who pulls of a
very 2Mex vocal tone, at a slower pace though. The
instrumental is familiar but I couldn't figure out where
I've heard this funky Latin-guitar inspired beat from.
Finally, Mouf Warren gets his solo track on an instrumental.
I love how he goes about doubling up his vocals with a
slightly altered octave. It's weird and yet adds so much to
his rapid-fire delivery.
"Scribbles" is the final track that has the crew re-unite
together and is almost the anthem for the Idiomatic mixtape.
Everyone comes fresh on this one making it probably the best
full crew track. It really showcasing what makes everyone
the individual they are and how this crew is definitely
unique in a sea of crews dropping mixtapes. Even Ruffian's
wild verse from a few different personalities fits the
track…and is hilarious.
The overall vibe of the album shows promise from the
official release of this crew and is a great showcase of
them both collectively and individually. The beats they
selected both original and borrowed were spot on for the
tracks rhymed to them and, with the small exception of a few
emcees not coming quite as hard as they could have in the
all group tracks, this is a top notch effort in the mixtape
arena for the S.I. family and they really didn't even need
Deacon the Villain to get me to repeat it.
For fans of: Scribbling Idiots, JustMe, Deepspace5, Tunnel
Rats, Sintax,the.terrific, Sev Statik, Stu Dent, Mars ILL,
Theory Hazit
4 of 5 stars | | source: Sphereofhiphop.com, added: Aug 17, 2006 |  |
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