Volume One: UnIndian Songs:Pedestrian

Title: Volume One: unIndian Songs

Label: Anticon

Genre: montage hip-hop

Rating: 6 of 7

The sky is falling! The sky is falling! Anticon put out a somewhat accessible album! I’m not hating, I love Anticon, but I am just so surprised, and so proud. It’s like watching your first child graduate from elementary school and progress to middle school… it’s a beautiful thing. Pedestrian creates catchy, broken hip-hop constructed from his montage of different deliveries including spoken, preached, sun, rhymed and unrhymed. He quotes Nas, Flava Flav, Ice-T and Gift of Gab all in the same song. He also has a wide assortment of influence including hip-hop, spoken word, Dylan Thomas, Lorca, Reverend J.M. Gates and the southern “shouter” tradition of preaching, folk music and Biblical imagery. The regular Anticon crew is also on board to help out for beats and back-up vocals. Why?, Jel, Alias, Sixtoo, Matt Chang and Doseone all make appearances at one point or another. It’s definitely a cool album and a great step for Anticon.

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