JORUN PMC
By
Jorun Bombay &
Phill Most Chill
Album Review
To say that this Album has been highly anticipated is
probably an understatement. Originally due for release at the tail end of last
year the album finally saw its release on AE Productions in April this year.
These two have been working together on and off for a number
of years and have dropped a number of releases across a few labels including AE
Productions and Diggers With Gratitude (who released the first single to
feature the duo, Smash as a b-side to the 7” Neva Stop Diggin’). So, you will
be familiar with a couple of the tracks on here.
If you know the vibe these guys deliver, then you know it’s
all about wicked beats and the kinda rhymes that can take out any wack rapper.
This is that golden era Hip Hop vibe and for these guys to bring that sound to
a long player is kinda thing that some of us only dream about.
So, I’m not gonna waste anymore time right here but, just
jump straight into the album and give you the low down on what I got from every
track. Let’s do this...
The album gets you
tuned into the pure golden style with the bongo heavy funkiness of Check Out This. Phill’s rhymes flow
like water with effortless ease and if you cap this off Jorun’s classic cut’s
it’s one hell of a way to kick things off and you just you’re gonna want to
check out this with as little disruption as possible. There is no let up as a
proper dope beat hits with that B-Boy beat feel to it, Stay Back (Keep Your Distance) keeps you rocking to the beats,
rhyme’s and scratches.
For anyone who grew up with Hip Hop back in the days, you
will know all about wack rappers who would bite (that’s stealing to the rest of
you) and that’s what Yum is all
about, the biters out there and this track has a solid pounding beat, slick
rhyming from PMC and plenty of turntable sampling fun to keep you entertained.
One thing that rappers and crews did back in the day was to tell everyone who
they were and why they were the best emcee, DJ, B-Boy and so on and Jorun It (Live On Air) does just that
to a heavy beat with PMC displaying his skills on the mic and Jorun dropping
his turntable skills for all to hear. Lower
Your Expectations is a light-hearted look at those who only look skin deep.
It might be light-hearted but, the lesson here is very true as true beauty
comes from the inside. It’s a nice horn heavy track that keeps you moving, and
even smiling, as you groove to the beat. Now I know I have said this before in
reviews but, I’m gonna say it again, back in the days there was always a track
that was all about the DJ and Down With
Jorun is that track for the album. More funky that a dead skunk this one
might just have you outta your seat or displaying your air scratch skills (you
know like the Hip Hop version of the air guitar).
From a track all about the DJ to the track that is just the
DJ and here is Jorun taking us back to the glory days of 83 on Funky Fresh for 83 by cutting up some
of the best tracks from that era. So, get your air scratch fingers ready for
this one and I wanna hear somebody, anybody, everybody scream and if that takes
you back to the time of gigs and block parties that this next one is for you. Rock The Party has that classic party
vibe with a proper disco vibe that will definitely have you outta your seat and
if your already out your seat that you’ll be movin’ and goovin’ to this one for
sure. Time to break out the heavy banger with a proper battle vibe beat and
vibe on The Truth is Forever, this
track features Jay Quan and will quite simply take your breath away, damn.
An emcee always had to have skills and be able to freestyle
on the MIC and MDM Freestyle (Live at
Echo Park) has Jorun slapping on a beat and scratching to his heart’s
content while Phill emcee just rocks your ears with some freestyle, this is
what it’s all about y’all, word up. If your gonna take it back then there is
better way that to drop an Electro style track and here Can’t Hang With Us has PMC dropping some wicked rhymes over a real
def beat that had me wanting to grab a fresh tracksuit break into some body
poppin’ moves (which I wasn’t really that good at but, this track had me
dreaming right)...
Now it time to drop more names than the Who’s Who of Hip Hop
on Q.S. as the beat keeps you
bouncin’ along and PMC’s lyrics take you back, way back and it’s like that and
that’s the way it is. I can’t believe we are into the last track already and
what a track it is, a more simplistic beat that comes alive with Jorun’s
turntable skill’s as PMC pays homage to the one thing we all had back in the
day, the Boombox. Anyone who was anyone back in the days carried their box with
them playing the latest dope tracks at volume’s way past 10...
Oh my, I had so much fun listening to this album its unreal.
The whole vibe of this album was 100% the vibe that got me to love the Hip Hop
sound of the early 1980’s. There are so many classic lines and samples in here
it’s off the charts.
This album embodies the feel good party vibe that was at the
heart of Hip Hop in the 80’s. When I hear music like this I know that the heart
of Hip Hop music is still out there. Even though the Hip Hop sound has evolved
and transformed in more modern times and, in some cases, may well have lost the
heart of what it was all about. There is still a huge underground, urban
movement that keeps the soul of true Hip Hop alive and Jorun Bombay and Phill
Most Chill have taken that soul of true Hip Hop and brought back alive across
13 tracks of pure Hip Hop gold.
Jorun Bombay has expertly given new live to the beating
heart of golden age of Hip Hop throughout his production across this album and
match with that his scratch wizardry brings the true sound of Hip Hop back for
a new generation.
Phill Most Chill is now, for me at least, one of the best
stateside Emcees rocking the mic at this time. His work with Fabreeze Brothers
was superb but, in going back to the golden era vibe he has taken it to a new
dimension of the Rap emcee.
If you take the album as a whole and look at the stunning
artwork from Dan Lish and even the design and layout from Mr Krum this album is
both visually and audibly a complete package for old and new Hip Hop heads
alike. You can’t fail to feel the good vibes this album exudes and it will have
you feeling Funky Fresh in no time. In fact, it’s time to break out the street
dictionary and speak the way we did back then because Word, this album is Def.
The album is available from AE Productions on 2 x Coloured
Vinyl, Limited CD & Limited Cassette.
Huge thanks to Mr Fantastic at AE Productions for sending
this one over.
On that note, I’m out cos I need to go listen to the album
again...
Steve
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