Okay this is the new Canibus record the newest solo album since For Whom The Beat Tolls. (Im not counting the undergods album with keith murray)
Now I love Canibus, I think hes one of the greatest lyrical MCs to ever grace the microphone. hes one of those super lyrical demons like big pun or eminem or umm o ya black thought and the such. MCs in a league of their own really and at a level above all other rappers in the game. Even though i a natural fan im not reviewing this record with a biased view. I love hip hop and know what good hip hop is.
Okay first here is the track listing of the album
- 1. Melatonin Magik Intro
- 2. Melatonin Magik - (featuring DJ Immortal/Professor Griff)
- 3. Kriminal Kindness - (featuring Professor Griff)
- 4. Hip-Hop Black Ops - (featuring Professor Griff)
- 5. Dragon Of Judah, The - (featuring Professor Griff)
- 6. Post Traumatic Warlab Stress - (featuring DZK/Warbux)
- 7. Air Strike [Pop Killer] - (featuring D12/DZK/DJ Immortal)
- 8. Fraternity of The Impoverished - (featuring Professor Griff)
- 9. Dead By Design - (featuring Professor Griff)
- 10. Only Slaves D.R.E.A.M. - (featuring DJ Immortal)
- 11. Ripperland - (featuring The Goddess Psalm One/Johanna Blackstone)
- 12. Stomp On Ya Brain - (featuring Journalist)
- 13. Beat Butcha Get Em' - (featuring Son One/Jaecyn Bayne/DJ Immortal/Chopp Devize/Rock "Heltah Skeltah")
- 14. Do It Live! - (featuring Skarlit Rose/Blaq Poet)
- 15. Sharpshootaz Blastin' Caps - (featuring Born Sun/Willie Dynamite/K-Solo/Maintain)
- 16. Gold & Bronze Magik - (featuring Copywrite/Bronze Nazareth)
The introduction is like a lot of Canibus albums and starts with some sientist and people talking about the chemical melatonin and goes into a cool lil beat. just chill and pretty cool.
It's just blabber and goes into track 2 called Melatonin Magik starting with a army horn and opening verse "This is Melatonin Magik! Humarian, Chinese Egyptian, Latin, nobody can match Canibus when I'm rappin" which is fucking savage to start a track with. The beat is great. with a real interesting sound you would never hear from artists like lil wayne or 50cent. it feels like a canibus rhyme but its fucking bangin! not weird like some of his older beats where the lyrics were the only good thing about the song. tthis is a perfect start to a great album. 4 1/2 stars
Track 3 Kriminal Kindness starts with a piano and i looove piano beats. this again has a real good beat and Canibus kills it talking about how he killed mixtapes and says "I don't give a fuck if i sell one unit, that's not the reason i do it!" the beat though is fucking savagery yo, im dying to find the instrumental. the piano in the beat is beautiful and theres not one bad verse in the song. 5 stars
Track 4 Hip Hop Black Ops has an average but cool dark beat and Canibus kills it spittin rhymes about hip with a military spec ops kind of theme which isnt a surprise since Canibus was a spec ops soldier for like 4 years and got honorably discharged for a dirty urine test(for ganja lol) but the lyrics are killer. 3 stars
Track 5 The Dragon of Judah is an AMAAAAZING track really a canibus masterpiece. Just check out the youtube video below and read the lyrics for yourself. I was lovin it when i first heard it. 5 stars +1 lol
Track 6 Post Traumatic Warlab Stress (Feat. DZK & Warbux) is an average beat with savage lyrics, its still a dope track but not one of the best on the album. The beat is just nothing special. DZK and Warbux do a great job on the track though as well. Theres not much to say about the track besides its a dope track but I believe the beat to be dope but not savage. 3 stars
Track 7 Air Strike (Pop Killer) (Feat. D12 & DZK) Now THIS IS A FUCKIN DISS TRACK! I am an Eminem fan do not get me wrong everyone but they smash on Em in this track. I had no idea D12 was not on good terms and i don't think they are I just now found this on some forum it may be tru or not who knows. Regardless 4 1/2 stars
***D12's own Swifty McVay explains how the Eminem diss, included verses from D12. "That was us but the guy set us up," Swift said of DZK (who is also featured on the song). "He asked us to do a track with him when he already was teamed up with Canibus without us knowin. They dissed Em, took our verses an added them to the song so they can bring traffic and make it seem like we turning on em...***
Track 8 Fraternity of The Impoverished - (featuring Professor Griff) has a cool beat and semmes to be Canibus rappin about his lyrical fitness and opinions on the industry and wack MCs. shit about how the government lies andkeeps secrets and about prophecy and the usual savage crazy Canibus stuff. "This is the season of Hip Hop, I aligned it with the Planets equinox" this is a great hip hop track with ill lyrics. I love it. I give it 4 stars
Track 9 Dead By Design has a beautiful beat with a pino in the background and as is aid im a sucker for piano beats. The lyrics are dope with great metaphors describing how ill he is and how he says fuck the industry he will always do what the fuck he wants and continue doing it no matter what. Which in this fan and artists opinion is what everyone calling themselves an MC should believe. Just like IMmortal Technique not accepting rcord deals because they told him to change what he wrote. Never give away freedom of speech for any price. The entire track Canibus spits on these kind of subjects and how he is over the LL bullshit and ppl still ask about it 12yrs later and how he doesn't have the props he really does deserve. I wish I could write this one verse that was insane ill just google it and here it is:
So if you don't care, fine then, I dont care either But I aint spineless like you, I'm a true believer In the metaphysical ether, you listening to the lyrical reaper The spiritual teacher, empirical speaker After this album they gonna call me a leader
Now that is what i call fucking savage lyrical fitness. i want wayne to spit something close to that. The day that happens God will appear and kick Arsenio hall in the balls.
Track 10 Only Slaves D.R.E.A.M. is his first single to come out and even has a music video that you can see down below. this is a great song for a single. great lyrics with a dope message. Has a very very nice beat. dope shit about how hip hops coming back and shit like this is above the level of the average block hustla as Canibus says in the song. man this is the song caqnibus fan or not you will enjoy. This is proof Hip Hop never died and is coming back with a fury. soon these faggot rappers are gonna get K.O.ed by real MCs like Canibus and Slaughterhouse and the like. 5 STARS +1
Track 11 Ripperland (featuring The Goddess Psalm One/Johanna Blackstone) is a story type of track and Canibus raps a little slower. When i saw the title I was thinking it would be a track of Canibus in his Rip the Jacker persona. its a cool song, cool beat just nothing special. 2 stars
Track 12 Stomp On Ya Brain (featuring Journalist) Starts off with a dope dj scratching into a cool beat with what sounds like some type of horn intrument in the back. Canibus natural is lyrically sick with it but Journalist is someone i never heard before and does not do a bad job. He is not even close to the super lyricist level like Bis or Big Pun but does not dissapoint. this is a dope track and i think people will like it and love the lyrics Canibus spits. Great hip hop track but not one of the albums Heavy hitters like the earlier 4 and 5 star tracks. 3 stars
Track 13 Beat Butcha Get Em' (featuring Son One/Jaecyn Bayne/DJ Immortal/Chopp Devize/Rock "Heltah Skeltah") Now this is a dope hip hop track. the beats savage and has this quick sound i cant describe but it gives the beat a great sound. Everyone featured on the track does not dissapoint and a few do a damn good job with Canibus, usually rappers don't match up with Bis when they are on a track with him. Even Common said himself on the song he did with Canibus, when he heard the verse Canibus spit he was like "damn it made me you know feel like going back and rewriting my rhymes" and Canibus is the king of the hill on this track but the featured artists arent far below. 5 stars
Track 15 Do It Live! (featuring Skarlit Rose/Blaq Poet) This is a good track with an average beat but Blaq Poet is savage spitting one verse "Like Kanye i snatch ya mic for thinkin that you so swift" very clever i loved it haha. Skarlit Rose is lame in my opinion, bottom line. Canibus murders the track though 4 stars
Track 16 Gold & Bronze Magik (featuring Copywrite/Bronze Nazareth) FINLALLy we hit the end. This tracks got a simple old school hip ho beat, something you could freestyle to real easy and the featured artist do a damn good job and the chorus sample is sick, im wondering what it is and will find it. Canibus spits the truth. I LOVE his lyrics here perfect end to a great album spittin how he ill rap forever and always spit what he wants to spit. 5 stars
BOTTOM LINE
you love hip hop? i mean really love real hip hop. buy the album. or hell download it ill even give a link and if you enjoy my review and the album do the right thing and buy the album for $8 on amazon.com. This is the best Canibus album since 2000 BC, Canibus came back with better beats which is one thing that stopped him back in the day because he had the words but not the beats to match his skill. well this is all changes and Canibus still raps like a lyrical Demon.
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5 star album without a doubt
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