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MH-239 Bigg Jus - Poor People's Day  Bigg Jus and DJ Gman present Poor People's Day, possibly the most relevant hip-hop record of the year. After working together on the key track from Jus' Black Mamba Serums, the duo conspired to create a release that would pay tribute to the oppressed people of the world and at the same time document what they see as an era of media control and significant global crisis. Bigg Jus fuses the indelible burners of his past with a deep political consciousness, proving himself a true aspirant to the Edutainment title. His art and politics coexist as he couches messages and exhortations in fly rhyme schemes, dropped over bumpin' beats. Those beats are provided by DJ Gman, who is sure to establish himself as one of the top producers in hip-hop with this release. The album destroys the sonic limitations of typical boom-bap and is nothing short of a revelation. |
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| Powerful messages on top of amazing beats is what this album is about - Ghetto Blaster / Built on the imagination and intellect which made Company Flow one of the most farsighted hip-hop acts - Q / This is one of the best albums of 2005 - IGN / The poetry of Jus’ critiques is, in a word, unmatched - Okayplayer |
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| Before I heard Bigg Jus's new album, Poor People's Day (Mush Records), I assumed it would suck-I knew that El-P, his onetime partner in Company Flow, had spent the years since then building the Def Jux label into an indie behemoth, but I hadn't heard much of anything from Jus. It turns out I'm the one who sucks, because his skills haven't atrophied at all-on the new one he's still a bristling, bellicose rabble-rouser with a cryptic streak. (At one point he raps, "Besieged with fanatical cherub Enochs at the coronation of King James pontificating / Sistine Chapel look like Hieronymus Bosch paintings." Um, what? Luckily there are plenty of relatively transparent lyrics that indict the powers that be and exalt the world's poor, and they give you some hint of how to read his dense metaphors. Jus often defies the beat, letting his voice spill over accents and bar ends. He's also a graffiti artist-under the name Lune TNS-and the album's production, by DJ Gman, suggests the untidy explosiveness of an end-to-end burner on a subway car. Occasionally Gman settles into a gentler groove, but the album's most inspired moments are its most raucous-Jus and Gman can make confusion and dissonance sound dope as hell. - Chicago Reader |
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