| My dad would often say, "He's got the power where the buses don't run" and I'd immediately think of someone unplugging a Greyhound and ghost riding it into a ravine. Now it's Busdriver who comes to mind and leaves it in a better place though harder to find. A synaptic flare could be just shorting out. On "Cool Band Buzz" he asks, "Why do I choose to do weird shit? / I steered my career off a cliff in a flaming stunt car." Irked and bitter but not pretentious, Busddriver makes sure everyone gets it, hammering a riposte right between the ears. Hippies, ducksters in truck hats, Pilates, himself, LA people drinking green smoothies. Amid the loose-leaf twister sits the word "Leimert," the South Central park where Mikah-9 once slept ("Sphinx's Coonery"), across from the Project Blowed where Ellay Khule ("Map Your Psyche") snuffed light bulbs. Handling beats are Daedelus, Omid, Prefuse, Nobody, Paris Zax, Thavius Beck and Danger Mouse, from crazed tap dancing on "Befriend the Friendless Friendster" or the wan guitar and strings of "Unemployed Black Astronaut." Bus asks, why do you hate me? "Is it because I'm the indecent Mr. Coon who occasionally takes trips to the moon?" And occasionally he'll take a breath, sucker punch it and stop everything just to say fuck it. "Love is not enough." -The Wire |
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