UPDATE: GENERATION X "POLITICS"

on 3/06/2012

It's an experiment in good music that represents Generation X! the Dungeon Family collective of some of the best and brightest in various arts and disciplines which include the culinary, the canvas and, of course, the music.

You've already heard what the musical side of the movement (or to be politically correct "The Groovement") had to offer with their soulful breakout single "Beautiful Blue", and your well aware of what to expect seeing that some of it's standout acts are the likes of Aleon Craft, Mama's Moonshine and Dukes of DeVille. And let's not forget the legendary Backbone for those of you who are still unfamiliar.

To sum it up in few words, a declaration is made at the introduction ("Behold (Generation X)"):

"Music is an art form, I've assembled a coalition of artists, guaranteed to please your mere mortal emotions"

 And then the album begins.

Read more after the jump.




Like any other artist (or group) that works long and hard just to create 1 song, the young and maturing branches of one of the most revered family trees in Hip-Hop history have done their part to collaborate among themselves and bring you 17. 17 tracks worth of that uplifting, head-bobbing eclectic, modern Hip-Hop mixed with electronic soul that you can recall hearing at another place and time. It doesn't get old really, at least not in my book.

Promising to stray not too far from the ideals of the cultural, psychadelic and the real like the 13 before them, the troop of singers and rhyme-slayers stick to their positive and thought-envooking roots in the music.

Such tracks as the alternative sounding "P.U.S.H. (Jus Believe)" and the Blaxploitation-inspired "Politics" keep with positive thinking and a disgust with playing politics respectively.

While songs like "I Only Wanna Know Your Name" and "So Ready" pay their grown-n-sexy respects to the ladies.
For track #15 the group joins forces for the fast-paced, uptempo and intergalactic cut "My Own World" which is an expectation of any fan of the Dungeon.
In between time, and for the most part of the compilation, the crew of elite emcees-in-the-making spit their choice rhymes over back-to-the-basics Hip-Hop tracks like "The Synopsis," "Yeah, Yeah, Yeah," "Peanut Butter, Jelly," "How Durty," alongside Backbone's unapologetic return to mic-checking with "The Streetz Iz Mine," a bar-for-bar ode to Hip-Hop's historic Golden Era. 
My personal favorite was "Lobster Tails," an 808-thumping, candy-colored trunk rattler of a joint meant only for the emcee-at-heart, so is the case when you hear Doski Wo and  Aleon Craft spit their respective verses. As ill as it was I'm still imagining it sounding a whole lot better with a verse from Backbone. All together the perfect joint to take it's place as track # 17.
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