Jeru the Damaja might be the most overrated rapper in the history of my brain. I used to think this dude was the most brilliant motherfucker to ever have a crew where dudes wore Chinese rice-picker hats. But as time's waters rubbed my mind back to smooth rocks that could better feel the truth at hand, I realized Jeru is probably the biggest beneficiary there ever was of DJ Premier's mighty mighty beatmaking machines. But here's the thing with Jeru... it was like the perfect storm. He rips a guest spot on "I'm The Man" off Daily Operation by Gang Starr, dropping shit "like Norm Peterson", and his style is off-beat and the newness. Then he has his own record deal, and the first single is "Come Clean", maybe the most amazing disjointed beat ever. I mean, if I had to pick only two instrumentals for the rest of my life, it would be "Come Clean" and "Brooklyn Zoo", which probably shows how fucked my mind is. And his style on "Come Clean" is the hotness mixed with newness. Except that was by far the best track off that tape, and, once you sit through the rest of it, other than a couple more standout songs, you can feel his offbeat pseudo-scientifical style get monotonous like Cliff Clavin. Enter Wrath of the Math... I'm not sure how this finished so high in the tapes battle, but I would expect it had something to do with premiership beats and me enjoying how fake smart Jeru was on wax. I'm a big fan of fake smart people, and can be one of the fake smartest people you'd ever meet, because it takes a certain breed of bullshit artist, who is well-read in a varying scope of trivial crap, to be top-shelf fake smart. We are the type of people who demanded essay contests on SATs because that's our shit right there. Most of the halfway decent songs off the first Jeru tape, he reprises second shittier sequels here, and the rest of the shit is mostly lost to hip hop's mid-card legends status. Jeru still makes part of his living with the rhythmic american poetry from what I understand, so god bless him. I hope him and his crew finally had somebody tell them how to pronounce "Taoist".
Friday, January 12
#23 RAP TAPES: Wrath Of The Math
Jeru the Damaja might be the most overrated rapper in the history of my brain. I used to think this dude was the most brilliant motherfucker to ever have a crew where dudes wore Chinese rice-picker hats. But as time's waters rubbed my mind back to smooth rocks that could better feel the truth at hand, I realized Jeru is probably the biggest beneficiary there ever was of DJ Premier's mighty mighty beatmaking machines. But here's the thing with Jeru... it was like the perfect storm. He rips a guest spot on "I'm The Man" off Daily Operation by Gang Starr, dropping shit "like Norm Peterson", and his style is off-beat and the newness. Then he has his own record deal, and the first single is "Come Clean", maybe the most amazing disjointed beat ever. I mean, if I had to pick only two instrumentals for the rest of my life, it would be "Come Clean" and "Brooklyn Zoo", which probably shows how fucked my mind is. And his style on "Come Clean" is the hotness mixed with newness. Except that was by far the best track off that tape, and, once you sit through the rest of it, other than a couple more standout songs, you can feel his offbeat pseudo-scientifical style get monotonous like Cliff Clavin. Enter Wrath of the Math... I'm not sure how this finished so high in the tapes battle, but I would expect it had something to do with premiership beats and me enjoying how fake smart Jeru was on wax. I'm a big fan of fake smart people, and can be one of the fake smartest people you'd ever meet, because it takes a certain breed of bullshit artist, who is well-read in a varying scope of trivial crap, to be top-shelf fake smart. We are the type of people who demanded essay contests on SATs because that's our shit right there. Most of the halfway decent songs off the first Jeru tape, he reprises second shittier sequels here, and the rest of the shit is mostly lost to hip hop's mid-card legends status. Jeru still makes part of his living with the rhythmic american poetry from what I understand, so god bless him. I hope him and his crew finally had somebody tell them how to pronounce "Taoist".
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