X Clan - To the East, Blackwards
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Free Music Review: Tops among Afrocentric hip-hop
Hit: 5 Stars
This is the #1 CD I'd recommend when it comes to Afrocentric hip-hop all the way across the board.Free Music Review: Real hip-hop at its best
Hit: 5 Stars
Funking Lesson Brother J lyrically and delivery wise one the best and underrated MCs of all times. The beats were slammin' and the material was thought provoking unlike the bling, a, and shootouts lyrics of today. All modern rappers need to go back to this as a blue print to what a slammin' album sounds like.Free Music Review: Should Be In Everyone's Top Ten!!!!!
Hit: 5 Stars
X-Clan were an important group on so many levels: *they were really the ones who ushered in the G-Funk era (and yes- they're from BROOKLYN).
*they were EXTREMELY politically active outside of the music they made (no perpetrating for this crew, in this case the political truly was personal), so all the 'heed the word of the brother' sentiment was from the heart.
*brother j remains to this day one of the deepest and most lyrically complex MCs of all time, plus his flow is always on point. He is definitely in my top 6.
*they spoke to all people- yorubans, five percenters, masons, black panthers, gangbangers, pimps and white people, too!
*Having said all this, I must add that it's sad that the movement died, X-Clan split and fans are left with a gaping hole where, for a few short years, intellectually stimulating concious music with dope-@$$ beats once existed.
To all the Commons, Badus and them out there now, here's a quote from Brother J:
"What's the higher level if your $#!% ain't real?"
Free Music Review: One of the best of all Time..
Hit: 5 Stars
They might be one hit(one Album) Wonders but this is hip hop at it's finest. Although Exodus (2nd album)is a fair attempt. This Album surpases any new hip hop today period. They just don't make em like this anymore.Free Music Review: Haven't heard it since high school
Hit: 5 Stars
I first heard "To the East Blackwards" when I was a senior in high school, and it was X-Clan who got me into the Afrocentric movement that was very strong back in 1990-1991. Yet I haven't heard "Blackwards" SINCE I was in high school and only recently got the CD. Listening to it for the first time in nearly ten years brought back memories, and I remembered the lyrics as if I had heard them yesterday. I bought "Exodus" back in 1992 and only started listening that one recently again as well, and forgot how deep both the lyrics and the bass is (some of those tracks make the floor vibrate) - I loved it. I must agree with the other posting that said that X-Clan is REAL hip hop, and not the fluff, hyper-meterialistic gawdiness, and artificial glamour you see today in the genre. Perhaps it's just I'm getting a little older and my perspectives are changing about popular music. No doubt that X-Clan was unique then, and STILL IS unique today. I don't know what they're doing today, but I wouldn't mind hearing the Grand Verbalizer and Professor X's views on Y2K in a new album myself.Well anyway - let me say that "Exodus" IS a better CD in my opinion, but it's VERY hard to find. If you CAN find it - BUY IT! . And if any one out there knows the name of X-Clan's OTHER CD album (I think there was a another one) post what you know up here.