This won’t be a musical analysis, this is a declaration of love. It’s all about feeling, mood, atmosphere, euphoria, it’s about all that is triggered by this album. And it is about the bold attempt to describe these unorganised psychophysiological explosions of emotion and overflowing endorphines with words, that happen in my body when I listen to this album. It’s almost twenty years, since Imani, Slimkid3, Booty Brown and Fatlip aka The Pharcyde released their debut »Bizarre Ride II« in November 1992, and still – two decades and a new millenium later, the feeling has not changed. The album was then released on Delicious Vinyl Records, and the name of the label hits the core: pure enjoyment! The secret recipe are the incredibly smooth and jazzy Drum- and Piano basslines, a spectrum of samples that reaches from old Funk- and Soul classics to Public Enemy or Black Sheep and which is combined with playful Rap and the necessary head-nodding-factor. The cherry on top is the self-depreciating touch, which the gentlemen add to their songs and which makes the lyric-lover grin every once in a while. Especially driving for my blood-pump are the tracks »Otha Fish«, »On the DL« and of course »Passing Me By«, which are smoother than tunes like »Pack The Pipe« or »I’m the Type of N*gga«. When I heard Slimkid3’s passionate purring on a Quincy-Jones-Sample in »Passing Me By« for the first time, my heart was definitely lost to the four guys from Los Angeles.
Carmike
Comin’ At Yo Ass
Now-Again