Man, if ever there was someone who made a career off one hit, it was Jeru and that wicked "Come Clean" song, which was the perfect Premier selection of a beat - all disjointed and shit - to complement Jeru's staggered style on the mic. On a lot of his other songs, Jeru can sound like shit. Plus, he comes across as one of those "I'm intellectual for intellectualment's sake" type rappers. I mean, he pronounces Taoist tay-o-ist, which is fine, but he does it like seven times. You might want to be get the shit you're using to refer to your style pronounced halfway right.
Whatever... I dug this tape a lot when it came out because I was all up on the jock of that "Come Clean" song, but there's just too much garbage common black academic devil battling stereotypical metaphors. I hope Jeru gives parts of whatever royalty checks he might still get to Premier, because his career was propped up on Premo's sampler.
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