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MH-235 Busdriver - Fear Of A Black Tangent  With the most cohesive work of his career, Busdriver turns his razor sharp wit on his place in the music industry with his new full-length release, Fear Of A Black Tangent. It is the follow-up to his career establishing release, Temporary Forever. Songs covering small club touring, independent music promotion, and the barrage of uninspired hip-hop releases on the market all contribute to the album's theme of trying to break as a emerging artist. Busdriver has taken a year's worth of material and trimmed it down to thirteen impressive tracks that range from lightning fast Project Blowed style raps to sing-song pop. The album features production by Daedelus, Danger Mouse, Thavius Beck, Omid, and Paris Zax and has guest appearances by fellow Project Blowed MCs Abstract Rude, Ellay Khule, Mikah-9, and 2Mex. |
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| Reviews Summary |
| Outstanding - Urb / Genius - BBC / Experimental and fresh - Hip-Hop Connection / Intoxicating - Straight No Chaser / Decidedly cool and deadly - XLR8R / Treads where most wouldn't dare - DJ / Busdriver straight kills it - Hour / Certainly the best I've heard in a long time - Indigo Flow |
| Ladies and Gentlemen, please welcome the return of Busdriver. This time the LA native memorably described by The Independent as sounding "like some street crazy" casts himself in a role he knows well - an uncelebrated underdog of the indie rap circuit. Rather than bolstering his usual freewheeling poetic rant, his new record , Fear of a Black Tangent (named as a kind of spoof/tribute to Public Enemy), focuses more on the ins-and-outs of the underground rapper's lifestyle. Filled with anecdotes dealing with touring, an unfailingly fickle fanbase, groupies, wack popular acts, racial-bias and just plain old-fashioned self-doubt, the record successfully pokes fun at the scene that birthed it. Having recently toured Europe with Beans, Mike Ladd and Rob Sonic, where he stunned audiences with his verbal pyrotechnics, Busdriver is well acquainted with the joys of indie rap on both sides of the pond. A record packed with cutting humour, hard-won insights and, yes, a little babbling like a street crazy is the wonderful result. - Music Remedy |
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