I started listening to Tzarizm’s “Dirty Work” about a month a go. When I began this CD I really wasn’t anticipating anything to special, debut album by an unknown Southern artist, I thought I would be knee deep in shit. Boy was I wrong. It took me at least three full spins of the album before I started feeling Tzarizm but by my fourth listen, I was like ‘this mans thoughts are on point.’
If I have any real hip hop fans reading this review, I ask you to remember one of the better MC’s of this past decade, Jeru da Damaja. On several tracks off Dirty Work I was left in the wake of flashbacks from “Wrath of the Math.” Tzarizm defends the fate of hip hop on a few tracks battling the villain “Commercialism” much like Jeru’s lyrical battles against his arch nemesis “Ignorance.” That is what made me a fan of this CD, the lyrical content and Tzarizm’s command of dialect. Too many times I was left nodding my head after hearing a solid thought backed up by a real flow, this man has some skills.
It’s hard for many new MC’s to fill an entire album with quality. This would be my only real complaint with this CD. Four or Five songs are pretty suspect and on a couple of tracks I was left wondering what came first, the lyrics or the forced beat.
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From bad to good again, this CD is worth its money. Let me explain why. I really felt satisfied every time I finished this CD not because of the quantity of tracks but because, from the 15 that I thought were quality, at least 5 of those tracks were sick, worth listening to again and again. All going back to content I guess. It’s always nice to hear an artist trying to express real thoughts and real shit, far beyond the filthy materialistic vomit spewing from top 40’s these days.
Times are changing and if hip hop music is going to take a step in the right direction it will be through conscious MC’s like Jeru, Talib and now in my opinion Tzarizm. This is pretty high company I’m associating with this new MC but I anticipate that in less than five years you’ll be hearing Tzarizm’s name again.
As for now I’m going to take this “Dirty Work” for what it’s worth a good album with a hand full of sick songs. Although some of the beats on this album are lacking in my opinion Tzarism’s lyrical attacks are on point. The man can flow and he has something to say, as a listener I don’t need much more.
