Its been a few years now since this gem dropped; I followed the production of rise & rhyme carefully (I produce a little myself & have some studio experience from my days as a musician, mostly blues/stoner/doom type of rock but some hiphop as well, a wide spectrum of genre music can be used for inspiration & sampling except techno, trance & house, worthless, muzak for analphabets), wrote Kamachi a little back & forth & I could tell early that Rise & Rhyme Vol. 1 would mark the beginning of a constructive, aggressive & prophetic era on his behalf. I heard this track first I think, then Chuck D & Rap Whore, Pt. I. It’s the only Kamachi LP that can be considered equal to or a tad sharper than ’04 debut Cult Status on which Mach really exploded on some tracks. Too bad he didn’t include First Warning in R&R btw, diss towards apathy & the other white guys in AOTP, after all, it’s one of his very few non-AOTP tracks to attract some attention. I love AOTP, even discovered Kamachi thanks to his appearance on Violent by Design (2000), but damn the things he said about the “collective”, it didn’t surprise me but Paz knows how to buy & accumulate loyalties & was about to buy the notion of AOTP being friction-free, that the unsigned members mades enough cash on AOTP to eat 3x/day & the signed got PR, a little cash & a chance to attract each others overlappning audiences (fandom by proxy, it makes complete sense to someone like me who can trace back at least five of the more dominating genres, composers, musicians vocalists or concepts in my life to specifik sources, those usually being a common denominator, a producer, a drum tech, a tour-DJ or an ex-member. NEVER advertising or radio, I’m young enough for researching online in my teens, not having to pick up a CD that sucks but old enough to know that the swelling, BLOATING of internet ain’t healthy just because it’s presumably “free”. Corporations, their corrupt politicians, their unofficial allies in fascist paramilitary forces & their tentacles have already started to control & use it for surveillance, information as currency & scary tailored advertising. Marx hoped that the moment a message-bearing medium could be transmitted to (& fro) households all over the earth, when information flow was free, or att least “open”, the people would use simple scientific theories for source critism to weed out reactionary lies about the only movement/idea that can threaten the rotting, old, but pandemic & increasingly dangerous capitalism, in its final imperialistic/usurious stage; marxism-leninism. Revolutionary bolsjevism i.e. a party-led movement w/ armed militia as well as ombudsmn in all the industrial & communal soviet-cells & intellectual leadership & vital in-party democracy. Instead we let our daughters sit there & get groomed by narcissistic, small business-owning middle-aged men who fantisize about crippling women since they don’t know their place & their male cohorts in the unions demand money for their work & have the nerve to point out the destructive in hiring cheap, unprotected & uninsured help from romania while 100k unemployed workers stand in line. I was in other words bitter, angry & the world seemed like an uglier place than ever after both the americans in-command bailed the billionaires who created the crisis out, saw them reward themselves w/ the goldenest of handshakes, hypothetical ofc, except the bonus cash, which was real. They made great profit on tax payer money, all the profits ofc went to the stockholders. This half-escapistic & somewhat dystopic view I had at the time saturated all I heard & saw w/ a grey form of hatred. And, suprisingly, I found that the record had similar koncepts (post-civilization, solidarity & resistance, social stratification, progressive afrocentric mysticism etc.) I loved it beyond comprehension; even Legacy of Blood, Feast or Famine & Ritual of Battle had to take a step back among my favorite aotp-/enemy soil-related joints to make room for Rise & Rhyme. I ordered a copy & a t-shirt, payed just over 10 bucks for it but was still dissappointed when it didn’t show, even AFTER mach said he’d check the returns & send it again if it wasn’t there. I took the fact that I had paid after all as a getoutofjailfree-card & downloaded a good rip of the album w/ no shame whatsoever (already had a wrap sheet & I could give a fuck about docusoap metallica pop fags opinions on immaterial copyright but I wanna support my favorite artists I know are struggling, try to give something back when they struggle to make good music in real studios w/ professional producers, it ain’t free. VK was actually a good group to collab w/ imo, cause even tho they had a birth defect of 21st century american socialism; 1st: they rather target the either non-existant or completely irrelevant urban legend Illuminati almost as much as capitalism itself, maybe they need their antagonists to wear spooky robes & wear black metal makeup to incite agitation & abbetting in the planning of a wildcat strike, the “regular” finance aristocracy is provocative enough for me to hate them. 2. They want to show the army respect for some reason, hail “the boys” when they come marching home, they wants to be patriotic even if its aware of the fact that the US armed forces – even more so CIA – are the ones inciting several conflicts, turn the heat up by letting IMF demand huge cuts in welfare, then escalate the situation to war, & then make contractors w/ friends i high places rich on “rebuilding” what theyve destroyed, or by supplying the military & diplomats w/ security, logistics & whatever. Blackwater (Academic) & criminals like them get blank cheques, its the tax payers money anyway. There we go, not only did I manage to point to why Rise & Rhyme was so amazing 2011, but also how war makes the upper class in USA richer, even w/out oil to exploit.
Did I forget to grade it?! Shiet, my bad. Five mics (stars). And I’ma hiphop purist & boom bap-aficionado – I have some issues w/ production here & there & the adrenaline level panned out on the second half of the LP, plus Mach recycles adlib-oneliners & “catchy” strophes in a sometimes Paz-like manner. He’s far from that predictable though, so it doesnt bother the everyman corner thug or b-boy, only our little breed of cold-hearted opinion-havers (critics). It’s bigger, darker & more autononymous than any earlier Mach shit, & at the same time more personal, less clichs in spite of the illuminati-clich-bringing phoenix turks of vendetta kingz. Back in ’11 I was certain that it would take at least five years to get tired of Rise & Rhyme the first time. I’ma hold myself to that; so far, material AND production have only grown, considering I listen to it in its entirety once a week. Summa summarum: Rise & Rhyme, Vol. I is about as good as underground e.c. hiphop gets. In Kamachi we have the unique presence of a philly street veteran with some celestial knowledge who’s still hungry, still evolving, still out for blood. And I can dig that fo real.
As always a straight banger of a track with KP , KAMACHI, and COLUMBO BLACK. . Don’t forget to check out new stuff from Maze Overlay . MazeOverlay.bandcamp.com and VendettaKingz.bandcamp.com
for all those hiphop connoisseurs. new 2020 music…get it
fuckin awesome
vendetta kingz!!!
VK all MFKN DAY !
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Instant CLASSIC!!!! VK is the future for underground hip-hop.
ALL HAIL THE MIGHTY VK!
heavy line-up! vk all day,get that gospel of kingz album free
This bangs hard
Thanks for all the love and support! Y’all keep hip hop alive. Peace VK
hot shit man get it!!!!
Its been a few years now since this gem dropped; I followed the production of rise & rhyme carefully (I produce a little myself & have some studio experience from my days as a musician, mostly blues/stoner/doom type of rock but some hiphop as well, a wide spectrum of genre music can be used for inspiration & sampling except techno, trance & house, worthless, muzak for analphabets), wrote Kamachi a little back & forth & I could tell early that Rise & Rhyme Vol. 1 would mark the beginning of a constructive, aggressive & prophetic era on his behalf. I heard this track first I think, then Chuck D & Rap Whore, Pt. I. It’s the only Kamachi LP that can be considered equal to or a tad sharper than ’04 debut Cult Status on which Mach really exploded on some tracks. Too bad he didn’t include First Warning in R&R btw, diss towards apathy & the other white guys in AOTP, after all, it’s one of his very few non-AOTP tracks to attract some attention. I love AOTP, even discovered Kamachi thanks to his appearance on Violent by Design (2000), but damn the things he said about the “collective”, it didn’t surprise me but Paz knows how to buy & accumulate loyalties & was about to buy the notion of AOTP being friction-free, that the unsigned members mades enough cash on AOTP to eat 3x/day & the signed got PR, a little cash & a chance to attract each others overlappning audiences (fandom by proxy, it makes complete sense to someone like me who can trace back at least five of the more dominating genres, composers, musicians vocalists or concepts in my life to specifik sources, those usually being a common denominator, a producer, a drum tech, a tour-DJ or an ex-member. NEVER advertising or radio, I’m young enough for researching online in my teens, not having to pick up a CD that sucks but old enough to know that the swelling, BLOATING of internet ain’t healthy just because it’s presumably “free”. Corporations, their corrupt politicians, their unofficial allies in fascist paramilitary forces & their tentacles have already started to control & use it for surveillance, information as currency & scary tailored advertising. Marx hoped that the moment a message-bearing medium could be transmitted to (& fro) households all over the earth, when information flow was free, or att least “open”, the people would use simple scientific theories for source critism to weed out reactionary lies about the only movement/idea that can threaten the rotting, old, but pandemic & increasingly dangerous capitalism, in its final imperialistic/usurious stage; marxism-leninism. Revolutionary bolsjevism i.e. a party-led movement w/ armed militia as well as ombudsmn in all the industrial & communal soviet-cells & intellectual leadership & vital in-party democracy. Instead we let our daughters sit there & get groomed by narcissistic, small business-owning middle-aged men who fantisize about crippling women since they don’t know their place & their male cohorts in the unions demand money for their work & have the nerve to point out the destructive in hiring cheap, unprotected & uninsured help from romania while 100k unemployed workers stand in line. I was in other words bitter, angry & the world seemed like an uglier place than ever after both the americans in-command bailed the billionaires who created the crisis out, saw them reward themselves w/ the goldenest of handshakes, hypothetical ofc, except the bonus cash, which was real. They made great profit on tax payer money, all the profits ofc went to the stockholders. This half-escapistic & somewhat dystopic view I had at the time saturated all I heard & saw w/ a grey form of hatred. And, suprisingly, I found that the record had similar koncepts (post-civilization, solidarity & resistance, social stratification, progressive afrocentric mysticism etc.) I loved it beyond comprehension; even Legacy of Blood, Feast or Famine & Ritual of Battle had to take a step back among my favorite aotp-/enemy soil-related joints to make room for Rise & Rhyme. I ordered a copy & a t-shirt, payed just over 10 bucks for it but was still dissappointed when it didn’t show, even AFTER mach said he’d check the returns & send it again if it wasn’t there. I took the fact that I had paid after all as a getoutofjailfree-card & downloaded a good rip of the album w/ no shame whatsoever (already had a wrap sheet & I could give a fuck about docusoap metallica pop fags opinions on immaterial copyright but I wanna support my favorite artists I know are struggling, try to give something back when they struggle to make good music in real studios w/ professional producers, it ain’t free. VK was actually a good group to collab w/ imo, cause even tho they had a birth defect of 21st century american socialism; 1st: they rather target the either non-existant or completely irrelevant urban legend Illuminati almost as much as capitalism itself, maybe they need their antagonists to wear spooky robes & wear black metal makeup to incite agitation & abbetting in the planning of a wildcat strike, the “regular” finance aristocracy is provocative enough for me to hate them. 2. They want to show the army respect for some reason, hail “the boys” when they come marching home, they wants to be patriotic even if its aware of the fact that the US armed forces – even more so CIA – are the ones inciting several conflicts, turn the heat up by letting IMF demand huge cuts in welfare, then escalate the situation to war, & then make contractors w/ friends i high places rich on “rebuilding” what theyve destroyed, or by supplying the military & diplomats w/ security, logistics & whatever. Blackwater (Academic) & criminals like them get blank cheques, its the tax payers money anyway. There we go, not only did I manage to point to why Rise & Rhyme was so amazing 2011, but also how war makes the upper class in USA richer, even w/out oil to exploit.
Did I forget to grade it?! Shiet, my bad. Five mics (stars). And I’ma hiphop purist & boom bap-aficionado – I have some issues w/ production here & there & the adrenaline level panned out on the second half of the LP, plus Mach recycles adlib-oneliners & “catchy” strophes in a sometimes Paz-like manner. He’s far from that predictable though, so it doesnt bother the everyman corner thug or b-boy, only our little breed of cold-hearted opinion-havers (critics). It’s bigger, darker & more autononymous than any earlier Mach shit, & at the same time more personal, less clichs in spite of the illuminati-clich-bringing phoenix turks of vendetta kingz. Back in ’11 I was certain that it would take at least five years to get tired of Rise & Rhyme the first time. I’ma hold myself to that; so far, material AND production have only grown, considering I listen to it in its entirety once a week. Summa summarum: Rise & Rhyme, Vol. I is about as good as underground e.c. hiphop gets. In Kamachi we have the unique presence of a philly street veteran with some celestial knowledge who’s still hungry, still evolving, still out for blood. And I can dig that fo real.
As always a straight banger of a track with KP , KAMACHI, and COLUMBO BLACK. . Don’t forget to check out new stuff from Maze Overlay . MazeOverlay.bandcamp.com and VendettaKingz.bandcamp.com
for all those hiphop connoisseurs. new 2020 music…get it