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MH-264 K-The-I??? - Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow  K-The-I??? marks a thunderous return to Mush with his latest full-length, Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow. Production on the album is handled entirely by Thavius Beck, his first project since he finished work on Saul Willaims' Niggy Tardust alongside Trent Reznor. Where his debut, Broken Love Letter, focused on past loves gone wrong, Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow is a collection of songs about the MC's cross country relocation, and trying to come to terms with how his life has changed from that. The result is a work of singular focus that catches K-The-I??? at his strongest, dropping ingenious lyrics over Blade Runner beats. The album features a stellar line-up of guest MCs as High Priest of a newly reunited Antipop Consortium, Busdriver, Subtitle, Scribble Jam winner Nocando, Vyle, and Mestizo all drop in. Thavius Beck even leaves the producer's desk and steps in front of the mic for a track. For fans looking for an album that ties hip-hop's past, present and future, K-The-I???'s Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow delivers. |
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| K's back and kicking - stand clear - NME / Rewards as much as it refuses to compromise - The Wire / Another strong notch on the post of lyrically-progressive hip-hop - Hip-Hop Connection / Go cop this s**t; it's the future of hip-hop - Lost At Sea / Few rappers think to use words like "polyocular"; fewer manage to make them funky. - Q / K-the-I??? has a bright future ahead. - XLR8R |
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| K-The-I??? will vex you with a flow riddled with indignant syllables, honing all of leftfield hip-hop's particulars. Streams of hook-less rhyme bunches scramble over interstellar transmissions, rock superhero knock-ups and electronic interference. A concoction of Redman meets El-P, carrying on the traditions of Vast Aire and Bigg Jus, LA's KTI ploughs through bombastically vast beats set up by Thavius Beck. These include brilliant loops of fury equipped with vicious horsepower such as those on the monstrous "Lead The Floor" and "Before The Session." Like all good alt-rap dogmatics, he can make your head hurt word by word, but the man who over-embellishes himself with punctuation marks is more of a melodic jargon pusher. "Just Listen" shows a cynical knowledge of relationship breakdowns while keeping it mathematical, and his follow up to Broken Love Letters keeps its head out of the textbook long enough to persist with short and sharp psychotherapy, in cahoots with indie blazers like Mestizo and Busdriver. Complexity worth getting caught up in. - iDJ |
