From BigKumquat Sent Thu, May 27th 1999, 21:49
From BigKumquat Sent Thu, May 27th 1999, 21:49
<< oh, he's got flow. but his lyrics are quite cheesy, & his backing tracks, as you've noticed, are not just a bit dull. his first few albums at least had some originality, but starting from after "prose combat" it went down the drain >> Well, I honestly haven't kept up beyond "Prose Combat," so I s'pose if you'd said that solaar sucks *now*, I wouldn't have risen for the bait so readily. But that album was a fav of mine for a certain period of time, so I felt compelled to defend his flow... ...another all-time flowmaster is Wise Intelligent from Poor Righteous Teachers...anyone know what became of them? Did they cheez out and go r&b as well? - Fred Church xxxxxxxxxx@xxx.xxx & i believe that most french hip-hop happening nowadays kicks solaar's ass with 2 feet up in the air. that said, said french hip-hop tends to follow the exact same formulae as u.s. hip-hop: music for would-be gangsters & their would-be big-breasted girlfriends in their would-be convertible cadillac. all this to say that solaar is more or less the equivalent to <insert the name of whatever classic rapper who hasn't really done anything worthwhile lately> for the u.s.: he "started it", true, but let's just say he's not very interesting nowadays, at least from what i heard. -- david turgeon at http://www.notype.com >>