ADMIRAL CRUMPLE Album review... better late then never!!

I have to apologize to the Admiral , I got his cd personaly sent to my home and I have been so busy I have not had time to review it.

So here we go...

First off,  I have heard the term "HIP HOP IS DEAD" quite a bit, passed around on message boards and on t-shirts. I do not believe it is dead, I think it is diseased. I have been listening since 84 when it was far from commercial. It grew, it grew, it became a unstopbale monster... now it is a unstable monster.
I cant get into hip hop like I use to, I love grimy, dirty, nasty shit which I see once in a blue moon. Plus being as busy as I am, I do not have hours to find music like I use to.
I use to run a blog for artist, actors, musicians, bands, models who were strictly from Ontario Canada and this is how I came across Admiral Crumple.

I have not heard all his albums, but I did some research and came across a lot of his music uploaded on youtube. Not only did I come across his music, I came across a few other things...
Apparently Copywrite from Megahertz and Crumple had some beef, this is old news and it is done and over with. Thing is, that is exposure... good or bad the name is heard.
Vice magazine which I use to read, I love the "Do's and Don'ts"gave him a shit rating. You take the good with the bad and not everyone is going to rant and rave about what you do. Still his album got a review in a very popular magazine... some of you are pushing wack albums in shopping malls. Stopping me while I am carrying bags of groceries and tell me any amount will do...
As for Vice... lots and lots of Ads and it is nothing more but a hipster magazine.
Dude catches a lot of heat, but what I admire about him is that he keeps going and does not stop. Some message boards are pretty unforgiving and nasty... just opinions in my eyes. All the negativity, vulgar words are just long winded nonsence. If you do not like his stuff do you really need to carry on and on about it?
Lets focus on the positive here...
He has worked with Kool Keith, Jus Allah from jedi mind tricks, Cage, Sean Strange, Lord Lhus,  and Babylon Warchild.
He even had the chance to get on stage to rock the mic along side one of my favs the Legendary KRS-1


Not to mention, this guy has a cult like following in Toronto... as much as some of you hate, he has people paying money to see his shows and his latest CD "Dark sentences" sold out at underground hiphop.com.
Hate all you want... some of you can't give away your shit for free.

Ok album review...

No club hits, no R&B singers, no songs about rims and bling... this is grime. I am sure he catches a lot of cheap shots just because his music does not contain such things. His style is dark and paints a picture of life's ups and downs.
I would say if you were a fan of Cage you would like this album, similarities in topics and mood not as in style of rapping.
As for his style of flowing on the mic it is different, he is differently not trying to sound like the next man. I admire and respect that, it shows he has balls and believes in what he does... it works.
Production, it is not a big polished album... which I like. When I say it is "Not polished" I mean it does not sound like a big over produced album. The beats almost sound like themes for Jason Voorhees or Pinhead.
My favorite songs off the CD is Visionaries, Haunted and City life featuring Jus Allah.

With the good comes the bad...
I do not like the song "Hot chick" only because the song that was sampled. I grew up with Nazareth played in the house, but I disliked "Love hurts" very much. Nothing to do with the song "Hot chick", just the sample.
I think the scratching needs some work also. I will say this... a lot of Hip Hop today has zero scratching on a album, at least he has some.
That is it, I really do not like rating albums, 8 out 10, 2 thumbs up... blaa blaa blaa... it depends on my mood and where I am at.
If I could suggest one more thing... focus on doing a video done professionally. A million other people are doing the same thing and just ramming youtube with them. A well made video will get you noticed...
Get at me.. I got the hook ups.

His album may not be your cup of tea... I liked it, check it out.

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Aaron Freeman aka GENE WEEN closes the door on ween... sad, sad day!

From Aaron Freemans facebook page...

"I want to thank each and every one of you for all of your kind words and support. It means a lot. My decision to leave Ween, however interpreted, was absolutely not made in haste. It's involved over a decade's worth of internal and external struggle. Know that I am extremely proud of all that Ween created, and want to leave it that way. I need to now move on for myself, and for my family. Many new roads to travel, bridges to cross... Love to you All, -Aaron"


Together since grade 8...Dean and Gene Ween.

How sad is this, I absolutely love WEEN, I was introduced to them by some pot head social retard roughly about 15 years ago. He was siting on this hand me down couch, all shifty eyed and leaned over to me. "Ehh man... you into Ween?" I gave it a chance and I was pretty much hooked.
The 1st Ween album I bought was "The mullusk" which seemed to have a water theme to it. Songs like "Ocean man" and "The blarney stone" grabbed me instantly. 
15 years ago I was really into smoking large amounts of pot and drinking for hours on end and the whole time listening to Ween. It grew on me, and the stranger the music was the more I was loving it.
The album Pure Guava was a true test, I tried to listen to it now and it just does not fly with me. At the time I was on my own spaced out planet, trippin and wanted to push the limits of strangeness. We had lots of strange music to bug out to, but the main 3 was the "invisible skratch picklz", "Kool Keith" or Ween.

My hip hop friends despised Ween greatly, and I do not blame them, it is miles away from what they were listening to.
However when you are a big pot smoker, you do meet a lot of interesting people and Ween was always a great ice breaker. Whether it be fellow listeners or people just introduced , it could carry on forever.
It is just sad to see the end of this, I thought they would just go on forever... like they say, nothing is forever.
Well the amount of brain cells I killed listening to these guy smoking bongs all night is forever.
Peace homies!








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Jacky Jasper diss to Kool Keith... and on his birthday!

1st off I got love for both of these artist, strait up on that.
2nd I love hip hop battles, as long as it stays with in music. I hate when the shit gets physical and people get hurt and in some cases killed.
3rd... I am a big fan of Kool Keith, I have been listening for years, "Sex styles", "Dr. Dooom", and "Spankmaster" are some of my favorite albums. But.. I have not heard much from him lately, except for a diss thrown at Jacky Jasper.
I asked Jacky Jasper via facebook what was up...

NOW ITS ON!!

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