Ant has such airtight chemistry with slug that your right about the risk element with pairing felt with 9th. It might might turn out classic or it might not. It would be cool to see how such an album would turn out. With everybody’s track records expectations for it would be mad high.

Your on point too about Ant’s musical diversity. He’s an incredible producer and his beats bleed emotions perfectly and he always keeps heads guessing what sound he’s gonna come with next when an atmosphere joint drops.

I personally think that because Ant is so much more musically diverse than 9th Wonder, it would be a risk for Slug to go on a 9th track. Not saying that it couldn’t work, I personally think that’ll be the next step if the Felt trend continues.

I am hard pressed to say that Slug wouldn’t sound great over “And I Love It” or “Nina Ross”, because he really would

3:16 is incredible and Murray’s revenge was a masterpiece. 9th brought the heat as always. walk like a man was flipped ill with the 3 beats and cats could damn near cry off the samples for pain, love and affection and this is for.

Murs touched on a lot of subjects on both as well. Pain, dreamchasers and d.s.w.g. were mad deep while joints like the trevor story had the kid spazzing out laughing, but this joint is just on another level to me.

The little things like the way they had the false start on “and i love it” then brought the beat beat back just hit me on some shit. It was kinda reminicent of old pharcyde joints where the vibe was just spontaneous.

Murs did his thing especially on push. The story on nina ross was wild fly and he brought an ill vibe troughout.

Plus i think 9th came with his usual ill ear for soul while switching up his drum sounds alot more which gave it a fresh sound like you said in the review. Even the way he layered the samples on top of each other on free showed elevation.

Yo it’s peace that your standing up for the other joints cause they still bang. I aint gonna try and convince anyone to change they mind about which joint is their favorite ( i learned that from years of aguements bout is low end theory better than midnight marauders LOL ) but i still feel the way i feel bout it.

Keep up the great reviews.

One

btw outta curiousity do you think murs and slug would sound good together over 9th’s beats?

bold statement Tokyo, by saying this is better than 3:16 and Murray’s revenge, thats a bold statement. No way I can support it, because I do feel that it lacks some of the passion that those first 2 lp’s have

This album just bangs. The other two albums were incredible in they own right but in my opinion this album bangs harder. It combines the first twos best moments and throws some curves. I fuck with his drum programming on this joint too.

I would love to see a felt record with Murs, slug and 9th. I think that would be sick.

Good looking out for hooking up the download for this.

As for all y’all comments about who saved what for who–The Formula beats, Murs’s lyrics on …For President, etc; This album was made two years ago, pretty much right after ‘Revenge’ was released. If you don’t believe me check out Murs and 9th’s website: http://www.mursand9thwonder.com.

So…that should end that dispute.

As for 9th’s recent work, I agree that he seems to have slipped a tad. Maybe he is spreading himself too thin? He has so many projects popping up all the time. But, he may be like Prince and have an entire vault full of gems that he can distribute arbitrarily. I am not saying he is full, I am just saying he should be a little bit more picky in what he eats?

Although The Formula was real, for sure. I cannot knock that album at all. Charlie Murphy in the video kills me! “You should have ducked down, bitch! You need to cut that pony-tail, too, you’re lookin’ effeminate”.

For releases this year, I also recommend Nicolay & Kay - TIME:LINE, Trav Williams - The Trickle Down (http://kevinnottingham.com/myblog/2008/05/13/download-trav-williams-the-trickle-down/), and eMC’s The Show (highly recommended). check out the albums in the What I’m bumpin section in the sidebar.

i remember when the minstrel show 1st came out & supposed fans were turning their backs because 9ths sound wasn’t the same as it was on the listening (what a stupid arguement).

anyway…i digress. de la soul is dead then 3 feet high (again personal choice)

Trapp, I’m still surprised about that. Funny enough, I think critically, Aquemini got the most success from the earlier Outkast albums, but of course Stankonia got the Grammy nom’s. Yeah, you could make the argument for De La Is Dead

No Frillz, I hear you on MM, check the review. But I can’t say the same about 9th. I think production on the first two is more or less what make them so much better.

i’ve always preferred atliens to aquemini (& they are both superb too). in the same way that ive always preferred midnight marauders to low end (have i just opened up a can of worms?)

I’ve been sleeping on Murs…I’m awake now. He almost sounds better over 9th’s production than Pooh and Phonte (I said almost).

I’m fine with the length of the CD….leaves you wanting more IMO.

I’m one of the biggest Little Brother fans in the world, but I think Pooh and Tigga would be the first ones to tell you that is an absurd comparison.

“Little Brother will always sound better as a trio rather than a duo with outside producers”
-Perhaps, thats what they said about De La Soul when Prince Paul left, but if you ask me “Stakes is High” is their best album. But only time will tell.

and well Little Brother still have mad beats from 9th Wonder, so don’t be surprised if you hear Pooh and Tigga on 9th beats for the next few years.