In a message dated 5/29/02 12:20:09 AM Eastern Daylight Time, ahorton@vt.edu writes: << I also can't stand EL-P's constant "angry" schtick. Whereas many MC's (such as Gang Starr's Encore) and the guys from People Under the Stairs can deliver violently angry flows while maintaining their composure and tightness (ok, so I suck with adjectives right now), EL-P just turns into a sputtering mess the angrier he gets. >> I guess you've read the lyrics. I haven't even bothered! << I'm no hater or anything- "The cold vein" and Company Flow's "Little johnny from the hospital" are some of my favorite production jobs EVER. But "Fantastic Damage" is just noisy and out of control. >> Alluding to my previous comment-a majority of the raps are either distorted to the level of incomprehensibility or buried so far under the rest of the music that you'd *have* to read the lyrics to know what the hell El-P is so pissed about. About the only thing I've caught unaided is the 217 occurances of the word "fuck". "Noisy and out of control", I'll definitely agree with. It's the main reason I bought it in the first place. Consider it the _Spy vs. Spy_ of hiphop. Crazy crazy shit. -- =dg=