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| And yet Controversy not only
gets passed over on those VH-1 “Top 100 Albums of All Time”
round-table discussions -- it never gets mentioned anywhere by
anybody. This stinks of conspiracy and I don’t mind saying
so. The beats are still fresh, twelve years later; Dee’s rapping
barrels ahead like a tank, never pretending to know anything about
lagging behind the beat or running ahead of it, unlike all these poseurs
who pass for artists in 2002, who talk real fast and hope that clueless
critics will waste big words like “polyrhythms” trying to
look like they know what they’re talking about: which is exactly
what will usually happen; the songs are practically all aces until
the album runs out of steam, which, admittedly, isn’t toward
the end of it but less than halfway through (on the song “Trip
Across From Mexico,” to be precise, of which no sense can be
made by anyone, anywhere, ever), at which point the going gets pretty
difficult -- I challenge all but the sturdiest of men to make it through
“Bald Headed Hoes,” an anti-hair-extension song, without
wincing visibly. |
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