Surreal & The Sound Providers - True Indeed
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Artist: Surreal & The Sound ProvidersEdition: Music CD
Format: Explicit Lyrics
CD Release Date: 2006-11-14
Music Label: Abb Records
Soundtracks:
- Intro
- Just Gettin Started
- The Lesson
- Push On
- Truth Be Told
- Place to Be
- Night to Remember
- Walk in the Park
- Gifted
- They Call Me...
- Life & Rhymes
- True Indeed
- The Rundown
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Free Music Review: SP's totally slick, But Surreal drags it down
Hit: 3 Stars
I give The Sound Providers 4 stars and Surreal 2. "An Evening with the Sound Providers" Is one of my favourite hip-hop albums, and the slick production that made it so awesome is present here as well, but I feel that their skills have taken a backseat to Surreal, who is nothing more than a mediocre rapper. His content is not varied enough, and he sticks to a pretty monotone delivery. Pretty much every rapper introduces himself and does a bit of macho posturing, but the best rappers DEMONSTRATE their skills, rather than just rapping about them. To me the whole album feels like an intro track, with Surreal going on about how he was going to take over, how he's this top mc, joining his skills with the established SPs. By the album I was thinking, "Ok, so...let's go then! Show me how good you are, dont just tell me." It is only track 4 when Surreal has a song that isnt entirely about himself.
The reason I didnt give the production 5 out of 5 (which I think the SOund Providers are capable of) is because they seem to have toned down their tracks to accomodate the rapper. "An Evening..." was clearly about the producers, the guest rappers were secondary, and thus the tracks spoke for themselves. These tracks are good, but feel like they have been held back to let the rapper fill up the song. Surreal fails to do this. I think of great producer/rapper relationships, like Kno and Deacon of the Cunninlynguists, Eminem and Dre, Kanye and Jay-Z, where a good track and a good mc work together to make magic, and here they arent doing that.
So, if youre into jazzy hiphop, theres no better producer than the Sound Providers, but get "An Evening...", its got their best stuff on it.
Peace
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