Hypocrisy Is The Greatest Luxury

Generic 90s hip hop. Not my style

Hypocrisy Is The Greatest Luxury is an ok album that speaks to many issues of the time, and unfortunately still to a degree speaks to today's plights faced by many not just in the US but around the world. Best: The Winter of the Long Hot Summer Worst: Water Pistol Man

Did not really like this. Very political, however.

whomegalul

Never had heard of this artist but enjoyed the sound. Kind of a tough listen at times because I felt you really had to concentrate on lyrics to get full impact of music. Appreciate it for what it is. 2.5/5

I like Franti’s solo stuff so I hoped I would enjoy this. But I just found it dated and heavy handed, with none of the power that, say, Public Enemy’s early stuff still carries.

I'm not really a fan of this. I think I liked one song, maybe.

Maso

I actually didn't mind it that much but I can't see myself really listening ever again.

2/5

Far too righteous. I love rap, i love Michael Franti & Spearhead, but this is just too heavy without any relief or excitement.

Not for me. More like spoken word poetry with some beats in the background. They didn't necessarily seemed like they went together, although some of the messages were really interesting.

Political hip hop very similar to Public Enemy in terms of both production and MCing. The problem with this particular album is that the political messaging takes precedence over the music, making the lyrics as dense as possible that it sacrifices any excitement found in Public Enemy's music. Production is also a snoozefest, though it's hard to top Terminator X.

Not my style. Good message bad execution.

Not my cup of tea.

Twas ok

Solid beats and production with good socially conscious lyrics. Just hard for me to listen to a whole album of it

Some old school rap here, for sure. Seemed a bit dated and tame to me, I dunno, just ok...

A rather drawn out prospectus some of which resonates today. Not really a style that lends itself to repeated listening.

Czlowiek doczekal sie czasow gdzie z dnia na dzien dwa murzynskie albumy lista zatosuje, o ile MBDTF to album znany raczej kazdemu kto siedzi w czarnej muzycie, tak dzisiejszy hypocrisy is the greatest luxury, to jak na standardy listy prawdziwie podziemny krazek, bo samemu pierwszy raz slysze na jego temat, banda i jej czlonkowie sa mi rowniez nieznani, tylko 19 wersji wyszlo na przestrzeni lat, a sama plyta jest z 92, gatunkowo jest to takze ciekawy przypadek, bo wiki glosi, ze jest to industrialny hip hop, wiec rap ktory swoje beaty opiera na elektronicznych brzmieniach, a czasem nawet na halasach, bo nie wiem jak to lepiej okreslic, ale oczywiscie nie brakuje bardziej tradycyjnego samplowania, ale i tak jest sporo zywych instrumentow, bo wikia podaje sporo ludzi zamieszanych w tworzenie albumu, gdyby mnie wiki nie zbaisowalo, to raczej upatrywalbym gatunkowo tutaj politycznego rapu, co juz zapowiada sam tytul czy nazwa bandy, liryka skupia sie na obnazaniu tej wszechobecnej hipokryzji w zyciu czleka, zwlaszcza czarnego w bialym swiecie hameryki, wiec nie obejdzie sie bez narracji meczensko mniejszosciowej, ale sporo jest tez o zyciu politycznym, balansowaniu interesowania sie sprawami na skale panstwowa i lokalna, jakkolwiek by to dziwnie nie brzmialo, hipokryzje spoleczenstwa i jego norm, czy przyjetego establiszmentu politycznego, hipokryzji w mediach czy w samej rapowej grze, mozna by wypisywac i wypisywac gdzie pan Michael Franti, ktory jest liderem i ojcem projektu, bo zarowno liryka i wokale, jak i producerka to jego udzial, dlatego tez pewnie znajduje sie na okladce, wiec banda tylko z nazwy, a bardziej projekt jednego czlowieka, ktory chcial stworzyc cos jeszcze bardziej politycznego niz public enemy i musze przyznac, ze mu sie udalo, ale za jaka cene, o ile lirycznie jest to przepakowana do granic mozliwosci godzina i szesc minut cedeka, to jednak ta liryka jest recytowana bardziej niz rapowana, chociaz w niektorych momentach brzmi faktycznie jak pan Chuck D, ktorym musial sie z pewnoscia inspirowac, chociaz niekiedy kalibrem swoich przemyslen bardziej pasuje tu porownanie z X clanem, chociaz nie czuc tak bardzo afrocentryzmu, tak czy inaczej ciekawy pick, zwlaszcza ze nie sadzilem, ze uslysze cos rapowego czego bym nie znam juz wczesniej, wiec po ponad 300 pickach lista zaskoczyla, na plejke wrzuce songa na temat otumianiana spoleczenstwa przy uzyciu tv, television the drug of the nation, temat jak zawsze aktualny

Not all of the songs from this album were on Spotify, but I didn’t seek out the rest on YouTube b/c I think I get the gyst: socially conscious lyrics a la public enemy and RATM, with choruses which repeat like mantras, poetic refrains, like a new age Gil Scott Heron. At first I was excited, then I realized how repetitive it was and it wasn’t necessarily a nuanced take. College Sophomore Matt would’ve loved this. 2

Vissa roliga låter men inge vidare

I appreciate the sentiment but a bit samey.

La mezcla está muy bien cuidada, muchos detalles en el fondo y buena métrica generan canciones pegajosas. Mi problema es que quitando un par de canciones en el medio, es básicamente una gran canción de una hora. Quizá sea que no es mi género y aunque las canciones no son malas per sé, se sienten de repente como relleno. Songs: Language of Violence, Music and Politics

“Hypocrisy Is the Greatest Luxury” by The Disposable Heroes of Hiphopistry (1992) This album is not so much recorded music as it is a collection of lengthy poems which can be characterized as politically motivated doggerel, with very occasional highlights of cleverness and thought provoking synthetic connections. Lyricist/MC Michael Franti’s political claims are too frequently unsubtle, confused, and governed by a tendentious selectivity that amounts to cookie-cutter left wing radicalism. This criticism applies as well to his positions with which I personally agree (such as “Television, the Drug of the Nation”). But Franti’s politics lack both internal consistency and nuance. For example, although television as a ‘cathode ray nipple’ is a powerful metaphor, it is spoiled by confusion with previous line “imagination is sucked out of children”, where the sucking goes the opposite direction. It’s incoherent. The one grand exception to this admittedly grim assessment is the masterful “Music and Politics”, where we get a glimpse of humility, transparency, and a healthy dose of self deprecation, almost turning the rest of the album on its head. But the most potent passages of this track are too obscene to use here as illustrations. It is both curious and nice, however, to simply note that humility and obscenity are not mutually exclusive. There are some powerful grooves, but once they start, they are unrelentingly repetitive and monotonously unmusical. Talented performances of jazz electric guitar (especially “Music and Politics”), bass, and drums are the only good musical features on this otherwise lamentable record (although it is relatively well produced). In a recording such as this, diction is essential, and Franti’s diction could stand much improvement. Performed poetry loses potency when consonants are swallowed by gluttonous vowels. While there is so much that could be improved, given the political impetus, one must ask “Should it?” 2/5

It's not necessarily bad, just a bit too intense.

Muito tempo ouvindo rap não é pra mim. Pelo menos tem um sample de California über Alles

This is an emigma, its technically a decent album. Good instrumentals and voice, and would be best suited playing at night, but just couldn't get into it. Felt bored after the first half and got a bit repetitive. It's a 5 but as I didn't enjoy it, 2 stars.

Political hip hop is not really my jam. Spoken word at an open mic night - sure.

This is hardly music, sounds more like a sermon or ted talk

I didn’t care for the music, but the message is great and still very relevant.

not all songs available on Apple Music. not my kind of music

Not great

Very old style rapping. Not particularly aged well. The songs drag on and are a bit boring, some are 8 min and the same flow all through gets a bit bland. no doubt an important record in its time.

Interesting lyrics and was especially interesting to hear about the issues that were being faced in 1992. Especially since so many of them are sadly still problems 30 years later. That one song about television being bad for you, interesting how it's just become so much more part of our society and we're worried about smart phone and social media these days. However, I didn't really enjoy listening to it. The rapping didn't ever really change flow or tempo and it was all a bit repetitive

derivative as shit

JLAC giveth with the Smiths. JLAC taketh away with hip hop. Its alright. Very of its time- like an edgy Will Smith. Some interesting samples and lyrics but i wasn't blown away by it. 2/5

Coñazo, como todo el hip hop?

Not for me.

Just not a big fan.

There's some good production here, but I'm sorry, this is some of the corniest rapping I've ever heard. Maybe back in the day it was better received, but the years have made the lyrics really surface level. Maybe you had to be there.

This intrigued me at first. And then I realised who was behind this. And it's Michael Franti. There is something I didn't like about him, and digging a bit deeper, and checking out his other musical ventures. I just think he's a bit annoying. And also he groomed a woman. Didn't get much further than about 6 songs. Will listen to some other new music now. Thanks Mike!

Trying to say a lot while meaning very little

Boring.

Chato e repetitivo.

A while back, I listened to It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back by Public Enemy, and this album reminded me heavily of that. I didn't like that album at first, but after revisiting it several times, I've grown to appreciate it. This album tackles similar themes with a similar vocal delivery, but it has all the subtlety of a flying mallet. Its social commentary is so on the nose that there's nothing left for the listener to unpack once it's over. Instead, I was left thinking about how unbelievably long, repetitive, and dull most of the tracks here were. Some songs are outright awful, too, particularly "Music and Politics" and the cover of "California Über Alles", which drained the life out of what is a political punk classic. Overall, this is an album so consumed by its messages that it forgets to be engaging musically. Worse still, I found the messages to be too obvious and unengaging to sustain its runtime, and by the end, I couldn't wait for it to be over.

pffft

Never heard of this album but why should I when I have an acute dislike to all that is hip hop rap. I refer to my previous diatribes, of which there are now many, due to the frequency of this genre on this list. 1/5 18/6/26

>"Well, I can stand a little cold and I can stand a little dog shit, but when it comes to losing a toe from frost bite, I might have to wear the only pair of shoes I own: my Havaianna flip-flops with a pair of socks". Genuinely repulsive

Vad mycket prat.

No, thanks!

I'm not a rap guy, but I did try and listen to this. I found this to be boring and while some may like his style I didn't at all.

The Good: We get taught a life’s lesson. The Bad: I am not paying attention… The Ugly: Fucking politics. Back in the ‘90s, there was a lot of screaming about how bad the government/society was treating those who live in the inner-cities, or proyects, or ‘hoods’… We got bombarded by nothing but bitching and complaining, affirmative action, and down with the slave-masters. The ‘90s… it had a gulf war. I had friends who were deployed there, and none of them were black or brown… they were just trying to honor their GI bills, which was the way most tried to pay for their college education. So, excuse me if I don’t stand in line and chant along. I saw reversed discrimination via affirmative action, I saw how little effort was being made for people to adapt to others… If you behave like you come from the hood, good luck getting into a frat party. If you listen to hip-hop because the color of your skin, and hate rock for the same reasons… well, good for you. Morgan Freeman said it best “want to end racism, stop talking about it” Also, oddly enough, I did not hear this music back in the ‘90s, and I was at a very fucking liberal university… 1* for wasting my time. Please keep walking, nothing to see here...

nothing here.

Das einzige Studioalbum der US-amerikanischen Formation aus San Francisco vereint Industrial, Spoken-Word-Dichte und Hip-Hop zu einem Werk von bemerkenswerter Konsequenz. Aufgenommen in den Razor's Edge- und Komotion-Studios in San Francisco und erschienen auf 4th & B'way, einem Sublabel von Island Records, verbindet das Duo Michael Franti und Rono Tse – unterstützt von Produzent und Programmierer Mark Pistel – chaotische Sample-Collagen im Stile der Bomb Squad mit der kühlen Maschinenhärte des Industrial. Franti, der zuvor mit den Beatnigs im Umfeld des Punk-Labels Alternative Tentacles aktiv war, übertrug jene Politisierung in ein breiteres Hip-Hop-Format. Die Texte kreisen um Medienmacht („Television, the Drug of the Nation"), strukturellen Rassismus („Socio-Genetic Experiment"), Homophobie („Language of Violence") und den Golf-Krieg – thematisch verdichtet, im Ton eher nachdenklich-anklagend als agitatorisch. Die Übernahme von Jello Biafras „California Über Alles" markiert dabei weniger eine stilistische Referenz als eine ideologische Kontinuität zur Punk-Linken. Klanglich bewegt sich das Album in einem Niemandsland, das 1992 kaum besetzt war: zu kantig für den Mainstream-Rap, zu rhythmusorientiert für den Industrial-Rock, zu konsistent politisch für die Nische des Alternative Hip-Hop. Eben diese Uneinordenbarkeit ist seine Stärke – und erklärt, warum das Werk trotz kritischer Anerkennung kommerziell folgenlos blieb. Ein Album, das seiner Zeit voraus war und dessen Unbequemlichkeit nichts von ihrer Dringlichkeit verloren hat.

Boring flows about topics that don't matter to me.

What a miserable experience of an album. The constant lectures and immovable points of view suck every drop of art out of this album.

Pretty groovy, nice bars. Fav song is ‘Famous And Dandy’.

Thing screams out loud 90s... but in a bad way for my taste. Didn't like it, had to stop listening to it.

jj

I probably can't give this album a proper review because not all of the songs are available on Spotify. But I probably wouldn't like the missing songs anyway. I'm sure this is on the list because it is thought-provoking, but I didn't like it.

The Detestable Hoodlums Of Hipleprosy. It starts off not so awful as the main rapping guy sounds like Chuck D if a lot more stiff and the grooves are somewhat jazzier and less headachey than typical Public Enemy. Problem is that all the tracks tend to get dull, plodding n preachy very quickly yet usually tap in painfully at about 6 minutes. Winter Of The Long Hot Summer is like the winter of the long hot discontent as it goes on for even longer and has the most excruciatingly boring, unchanging groove. It is sort of a catastrophic Hiphophernobyl event for the album because it was so terrible and I basically didn’t want to continue after that. Maybe the band should have recruited Hiphoppapotamus to add a bit more spice to these rhymes.

Yet another example of the terrible choices these critics made regarding rap and hip-hop in this list. Holy hot garbage... A poor man's Public Enemy that deserves to be forgotten, not enshrined as a 'must listen' album.

Rap made by people who just finished their first semester of college and have all the answers, man.

Certainement le meilleur album 1⭐️ qu’on a eu à date. 1.49 étoiles

If you've got some important shit to say but your beats are THIS wack, you should just write a book instead.

i hate this

Not for me. Poor mans Gil Scott Heron. Found it just not listenable

Sounds more like an audiobook. Quite annoying

No me interesa

Not my style. Music is alright

Hell no

i love socially conscious hip hop but the industrial sounds and rhythm aren't for me.

No thanks

Sånn gammal politisk rap jeg ikke synes er bra.

They got the disposable part right…

One of the worst pieces of crap I have ever listened to. Almost every song was veeeery repetitive, just saying the same lines over and over. And there was no flow to the singer’s voice. It was also musically awful. Industrial noise and jazz. Just no. Hated every minute of this.

Disposable it is indeed. Tedious, unaffecting, "man shouts at cloud" nonsense. I couldn't care less if the lyrics are forward thinking or socially conscious, the music does literally nothing for me.

This not my kind of Music

Not my thing!

I like the lyrics but Jesus this absolutely sucks to listen to lmao. I feel like the whole album is a “socio genetic experiment”

I had already heard this album. Wasn't really moved by it.

Sometimes something with a good message can be awful.

1/5

hated it simply because of the opening

Nicht meins

Aren't rappers supposed to rap? 'American' is my least favourite genre

What a waste

nah

Sure, if you're evil.

Du boom bap engagé un peu weird

Incredibly dated and irritating.

The Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy is not only a fucking mouthful of a name for this side project from Michael Franti, but is is also the name of the artist behind the album I got for my 1001 albums to hear before dying challenge. Today I got this odd project's one and only project, Hypocrisy Is The Greatest Luxury. I am all for Political Hip Hop or some lyrically dense shit, but god damn do the beats and Michael's half-assed rapping/slam poetry voice really not do it at all for me here. This album tries to be more serious than it even takes itself by having some utter goofy beats over some really intense commentary on media as a whole. He just doesn't sell this new side at all and just comes off as very ill-suited for this kind of music. Again I respect everything this album is bringing to the table but this just did not work for me whatsoever and really rubbed me the wrong way in almost everything I tried digging at. I really tried here but man did this just not hold up, I don't even think it even sounds all that great for a 90s Hip Hop album either if I am being honest...

Crap

I really couldn't get past the first song...

Dud.

Not really great just another rapper. Dont like his flow althougj he speaks clearly and calmly which can be understood. Tracks are ok some good one with jazz sampling but overall very monotone the whole album. Too much good rap albums in the early 90s to even consider this

Preachy garbage.

just not my thing

Not for me one little bit. Bad Hip-Hop meets weird Jazz.

The focus on lyrics and a message over the beats and mixing doesn't work for me with this album. I get that the message is powerful and important, music as a way of conveying that message is a good idea but this almost feels more like spoken word poetry than music a lot of the time.

ohcrap

i get the message, fair enough, but this was boring to listen to, i wouldn’t see myself going back to this again, the songs are extremely long and they lack engagement. 1/5

1992! Ben benieuwd. | Ok I tried maar er is echt heel veel wat ik liever luister dan Rap, dus aan het eind van nummer 2 heb ik iets anders opgezet.

This is ahead of it's time in it's preachiness and repetitiveness. There's a world where this is particularly cutting and incisive but that world has come and the TV bad stuff just isn't hitting the same. It would be another thing if the flows or production was doing anything interesting but it doesn't. The emphasis is on the content and the content just isn't all that interesting.

Not my thing, only listened to a few tracks

Hip Hop. Pass. 1/5

Ikke for meg

Hippetyhop

Well, that was quick today. I listened to the first three tracks briefly. That's just hip hop. Even if the rap isn't quite as aggressive as so often in this genre, I wasn't interested. The community of my streaming provider seemed to be of a similar opinion. The viewing figures for "Television, the Drug of the Nation" are in the low seven-digit range (which is not much for a over 30 years old song), those for the other first three tracks in the low six-digit range. All others are in the low four-digit range. A silly album cover, by the way. 1/5

Its so mid- too much " deepness" but not done right .... I would not listen to this

Songs sounded similar

Wow, this is bad.

Good message clouded by the same rhythms and tones. Maybe a 1.5

Not gonna lie I gave up barely half way into song 1. The style just isn't for me.

Seems pretty pointless.

Potentially interesting themes, but no interest musically.

Get this Diet Public Enemy out of here

ei lauleta vaab puhutaan... lauluja kuitenkin tultu kuuntelemaan... eli hiivattiin tämmöset heh... lauleskekuabseuraava kiitos..

This is definitely not for me. First one star. It sounds like that whole “lyrical, miracle, spiritual” rap or a rock critic’s version of what good hip hop is.

A bit too boring for my liking

Subtlety is an art that is very much absent from this

Shit shit shit

*Mo music here, mostly repetitive noises and rap

At first it was annoying and I even wanted to turn it off, but towards the end there was some variety and therefore 2 out of 10.

Second group after Shack that I've never heard of. This is pretty bad. No fun whatsoever.

Schizorap

Not for me.

Disposable.

How typical. I get using music as a vehicle to get across a political message at times, but that’s all this whole album is. Just like a big rap political statement. Give off and rap about something else for abit

Terrible

Nix für mich.

Não deu pra terminar...

Finding the full album link on YouTube was frustrating. I ended up listening to just nine tracks. It wasn't necessarily the album's fault, but I couldn't focus at all.

Beyond dated (even for its release date) and not as good as other artists in the same era.

Nope

Sounds like a lot of the early 90s socially conscious rap. It is just not nearly as good. More spoken word than rap.

Meh

I had never heard of this group before going through the book the first time and never heard of them outside of that context since then either. While I applaud this list for highlighting what is seemingly an underground act, this sort of preachy hip-hop is definitely for me. Key tracks: Satanic Reverses

i hate political stuff 1/5

This album is a very bland take on political hip-hop. Excluding a few key tracks (see: "Key tracks"), none of the songs are memorable in any way, whether in terms of harmony, instruments, melody (there's a distinct lack of melody throughout the album), or even rhythm/backing percussion, which is normally a cornerstone of "good" 90s hip-hop music. The sound is generic, dull, and repetitive. The lyrics, while easy to understand and politically agree with, are almost too much so. There's no nuance, no wordplay, no cleverness that separates The Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy from their contemporaries. In fact, nearly all tracks involve a chorus that consists of monotone repetition of the song title. It's a glaringly obvious sign of poor songwriting ability. I'm not surprised at all that this didn't receive much airplay upon its release, nor has it since then. Okay, maybe there is one example of a lyric whose meaning isn't immediately clear: "Medical racist social statistics Has everyday life become a health risk" The more I ponder this one, the less sense it makes. Other reviewers seem confused as well. Not a good sign. The soft, laid-back guitar in Music And Politics is pretty sick, though. "If ever I would stop thinking about music and politics I would tell you that I pooped in my own dog dish" 1/5 Key tracks: Music And Politics, Television The Drug Of The Nation, Satanic Reverses

The first song is called satanic reverses. Not an indictment, just an observation. 0/10

Really hardcore rap that isnt my cup of tea. However not the worst album that I have ever listened to. That belongs to Yes.

Boring, trash

Dnf

P.U. What stinks? This album.

I don’t know man, maybe I’m just not hip to 90’s television sounds and slam poetry rap. Those things alone are all pretty cool, but combined… pass.

i would imagine that my politics align fairly closely with Michael Franti's, but so much of this album just made me laugh because it's so dated?? Like setting aside that I don't even know if it ever gets away from spoken word and into hip hop very often, there is a lot of very (by today's standards) softy lefty ideas here, couched weirdly on the title track within the boomers' near-satanic panic about their grandkids watching too much tv and i don't know how i'm supposed to take it seriously. I know that the line "well, the only soda I that support would be a union C.O.L.A. cost of living allowance" probably hit some people like a ton of bricks in 1992, but it did not land for me in 2024, and around the time he made the "military intelligence is an oxymoron" joke i really lost the will to continue. the instrumentation and sampling was great, though

Groupe totalement inconnu. Aucun intérêt, les morceaux sont terriblement répétitifs, très longs et inintéressants. Je ne suis pas allé au bout. =>1/5

An hour of anaemic, monotonous vocals narrating surface level social commentary over the most boring beats you've ever heard AND also having the gall to be so preachy about it. Uhhh I mean: holy fvckkkkk bros... society is... le bad...

wtf was that

spoken word poetry about "we live in a society" bullshit over beats that sound like every tribe called quest song was thrown into a hole and left to go bad in the sun and turn into mush

phone bad >:(

I really wanted to enjoy this album. It's samples and production remind me of the backing tracks used by Del The Homosapien. It's lyrics and message remind me of Rage Against the Machine. However the delivery is not appeasing, it doesn't really complement the music. I appreciate the effort and am glad I got to listen to it. Note: A friend mentioned this was Michael Franti and he has more recent projects with reggae and vocal-guitars. This new genre fits his voice and delivery a lot better than his early works in my opinion.

Not a chance

I’m finding it very difficult to evaluate this album musically, since most of this album is quasi-industrial hip-hop beats with Michael Franti rambling over them, often not rhyming or delivering his lines in rhythm. And his lyrics are just that: Rambling. With the exceptions of ”Language Of Violence” and ”Socio-Genetic Experiment”, which follow a narrative with some emotional or personal potency, Franti is just listing off societal issues one after another. Among the most surface level socially-conscious rap I’ve ever come across, frankly. The instrumentals are better, but not particularly noteworthy besides stray moments and the jazzy anomaly ”Music & Politics”. More than being bad, this is just very lame. And more than being lame, it’s just bizarre. Damn!

Sick public enemy cover band. Perhaps the real “hiphopcracy” is making a painfully earnest social justice album while completely ripping off the originators of conscious hip hop.

Musically, it was surprising to find out Michael Franti was behind The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy, as the industrial-ish sound is not what I know him for. Lyrically, it was no surprise at all, as Franti's whole bag is cramming as many political talking points into a song as possible without elaborating or illuminating with a defined point-of-view. I imagine any music videos from this album involved Franti in a lecture hall, tapping a pointer at every proper noun he's written on the board and relentlessly unrolling map after map. Sorry, I just don't like this guy. I first heard of him at Sasquatch '08, when I was forced to sit through his set while waiting for the Mars Volta. Franti's set brought out all the parents and their kids; toddlers were made to dance and families gleefully engaged in the call-and-response of "Taxi Radio, oh-ay-oh!" The music's politicism was an aesthetic, the genre squarely under the anglo-centric umbrella of "World." Michael Franti is the kind of guy whose wikipedia entry boasts that he never wears shoes, but also that he carries a pair of thin flip-flops for boarding planes. He's emblematic of a certain aggressive chill which my PDX heart despises: the kind of person who is so focused on positivity they impose their singular perspective on their environment and, in fact, oppress people with an obstinance which makes dissent messy and unwelcome. Back to the album at hand: who is putting this on for any listening value? You enjoy Public Enemy but find the music too adventurous and the messaging too oblique? You're trying to reach across generations to your kid who likes rap, but you can't help characterizing the popular rappers as "thugs?" You want to evince the appearance of a "book reader," but don't have a book to carry around in public?

Nop3

The title was the hardest part of the album.

Vad jag tycker om det här? Ja, man kan säga att det rimmar på majs.

Nej nej nej. Detta har inte åldrats bra. Låter mest som spoken word. Som en kristen pastor som ska rappa för att locka unga till kyrkan. -92 fanns det mycket bättre hiphop. Denna skivan kan knappast haft någon "impact" så jag förstås verkligen inte hur den får vara med på denna lista. Ville inte ens lyssna klart.... Låtarna låter likadana. Att texterna har nåt slags politiskt innehåll räcker inte. Ens lite.

I hated this, his soapbox rambling is super annoying. Charlie hunters playing on here is sick but everything else I found really obnoxious

Interesting

Garbage. I know in this day and age you are compelled to ram down our throats the so called “music” of the 12.7% of the population. Please stop.

Not for me

Not a fan

I appreciate music for melody, harmonic progression, emotional expression, rhythm, and lyrics - pretty much in that order. This has zero melody and zero harmonic progression. In terms of emotional expression, the backing tracks are (literally) robotic and the sample collage lacks integrity. Vocally it comes across like a watered down Chuck D. And lyrically, it's like going back and reading 30 year old political Op-Eds. They may touch on themes that remain salient. But they were written very much as a comment on the moment.

One Album Band, HipHop definitively not my taste. I think, there are more influent artists for the 1001-List.

„Language of Violence“ - Das Album lässt sich nicht besser umschreiben als mit diesem Songtitel. Grimmiger Rap mit HipHop und Jazz Elementen führten zum regelmäßigen Einsatz der Skip-Taste und dem großen Wunsch diese Platte nie wieder zu hören.

This is early 90s (1991) rap. I don’t like rap music.

No me gusta este tipo de música

Un álbum que, si bien se puede considerar importante en tanto a su mensaje político en la época en la que se estrenó, deja bastante que desear en tanto a la producción de sonido y el flow de su rap. Sufre, a la vez, de ser demasiado largo en momentos en que no necesita serlo y está lejos de ser uno de los discos más destacables del género. En mi opinión, no merece estar en esta lista.

No man, who put this on the list?

Bad album. Just throwing political ideas without being musically touching or intresting.

The sentiment is good but execution not.

we live in a bad society and we are all trapped blah blah blah stfu

I really didn't like this album. The almost abstract repetitive jazz-infused hip-hop/rap didn't really work for me and I found it more grating than satisfying or power in overthrowing the system. The songs felt overly long and I couldn't wait for this album to be over.

This is pretty much just off-brand Public Enemy.

1. zatanic reverzez - 1 2. famouz and dandy - 1 3. televizion - 1 4. language of violence - 0 5. health rizk - 0 6. green card - 1 7. genetic ezperiment - 0 8.muzic and politicz - 0 9. financial leprozy - 1 10. uber allez - 11. uuater piztol man -

Just way too preachy.

As subtle as a brick lyrically, and more like spoken word imho. The beats bored me senseless too

חרא

I could not get past the first three songs. This is like a schizophrenic nightmare of hiphop; random sounds combined with a generic beat, awful instrument playing, sub-par rapping and lyrics that are a caricature of meaningful. Atrocious.

Odpuściłem po dwóch piosenkach

When you teacher does an informative rap to be down with the kids

I lost an hour of my life just to be told that phones and TV and whole world is bad and deceptive. With half-rap, half-declamation... Maybe one, out of the thirteen songs, had anything close to an interesting beat. The rest is pretty bad. Man... 1.5/5.

All the 'songs' sound the same. Not like songs

While I know this is a valuable message, this is just exhausting. The beats are fine, but like.... it really feels like slam poetry. Great lyrically, but I didn't enjoy the listening experience.

Hier heb ik helemaal niks mee. Continu een wijzend vingertje want alles is slecht. Vervelende herrie-beats, matige productie, ontzettend 90's, vermoeiend. Te lange nummers, teveel nummers. Huismerk Public Enemy en die gaf ik al een 1. Dan weet je het wel. Ik heb niet alle nummers volledig geluisterd want ik gun mezelf beter. 1 ster.

nah

Would honestly just rather read the poetry. So jarring and honestly exhausting.

Sounds like public enemy but less so

Just another poser trying to sound edgy and be contemporary while being "outraged". Yawn.

Too woke for me I guess. The flows just never connected.

No thanks.

nope

Is this Chuck D of Public Enemy? Actually, this is a little better than Public Enemy because you don't have that annoying Flavor Ice dude in the background. Biggest shout out I can give is they did California Uber Alles. Ok grooves at time. That's all I got. Not impressed. Not my thing and didn't really enjoy. Won't revisit 1

The vocal style could have made this uniquely interesting for a hip-hop album for me. However, the beats were repetitive and uninteresting and the message unnuanced enough to feel more like a condescending lecture -- for music with a message I feel like it's more impactful to be moved emotionally rather than hit over the head

Really?

Ugggh...Public Enemy did it better. I liked the voice but then I realized it was the guy from Spearhead. Not much else to say.

Political ranting—like—too much ranting

I don't like rap. Couldn't really get myself to listen to much of this. Although the overall vibe seems to not be that bad, just not my cup of tea.

Opinions on societal issues, all set to a beat. No thanks.

Para amantes del hip-hop. No lo considero un disco tan relevante como para ser catalogado de los mejores.

Terrible!

This was the debut album from hip hop group The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy released in 1992. The album contains views on every major political issue from the early 90's - which got old to me very quick. The album was less about music/hip hop and instead focused more on talking about the issues with rhymes. The beats were good, but the rhyming got stale since it was similar topics over and over again. Perhaps this album was critically acclaimed at release because hip hop was still sorta new, but to me this album was boring.

Trash

Jesus christ this got exhausting fast. I can't keep up with the laundry list of complaints

Hip Hop + Critical Social... ok, tiene su mérito, pero este ha sido uno de los álbumes más aburridos y tediosos que han tocado. -_-

Can't say i liked it. Usually conscious hiphop is exactly my bag, this however, wasn't it. The rapper had the charisma and flows of a piece of wood. His subject matter, politics, felt forced, boring, his analysis very much just pointing out the bad with no real point, as i don't understand how this would inspire anybody. I completely agree with pretty much every point he makes, it's just so boringly made. Beats were decent though, but not enough to put this above 1 star.

Lyrics are respectable, but this was not the way to share these words. The music is dreadful and I can’t justify anything more than a single star rating.

Very much of its time, early 90s but late 80s and early 90s influenced. Nation of Islam, racial tensions and the likes of Public enemy and Gil Scott Heron are all over this album but just not executed with their skill. This album sounds like public enemy if there was no chuck D and they let flava flav do all the vocals. \"Bail out the banks Loan art to the churches Satanic Reverses\" is one line I could hear people saying today in music or in a protest but still the song is not great. Television, the Drug of the Nation is a worse the revolution will not be televised. \"Faggot, sissy, punk, queen, queer Although he'd never had sex in his 15 years\" but again a pretty bad song overall. The rapping is bizzare, it is like he is not really rhyming at all deliberately I assume or like jean ralphio I dunno. \"I give the rich a giant tax loophole I leave the poor living in a poophole\" just terrible. \"1 - terrible, can't stand. 2 - not for me but doesn't hurt my ears. 3 - decent, could stick on again. 4 - enjoyed it, will listen again. 5 - absolute belter\" 1 - terrible, can't stand

Having never heard of this group, I cautiously hoped it would be a hidden gem of early 90’s rap/rock cross over à la RATM because i) a non black member suggested a move away from solely rap/hip hop ii) based on the name I assumed it would be a political/social commentary driven record. What I did find, but wasn’t overly surprised, was a pile of contrived political and social bolloxology that isn’t really relevant anymore. The “rap” or “hip hop” that could have saved this album is more in line with an amateur midweek poetry slam night. Lyrics such as “Before the world went Completely blind When people grew bald naturally No mutations Unlike Skinheads And chemo-therapy patients” are truly inspirational. “Music and Politics” caught me by surprise with some jazzy upbeat grooves. This album is totally un-listenable for me. The highlight of the album was when I chuckled to myself thinking the main guy reminded me of Fur-Q from Brasseye. “You gotta kill people to respect people...but eh...you can’t kill everybody eh...because you wouldn’t have anybody left to respect if you did”

disco genérico de rap

This genre is not for me, especially from this era, but wanted to give it the benefit of the doubt and give it a fair listen. These guys are taking about some interesting issues but they are not doing it in an entertaining or skilful way. Some songs are straight up history lessons, all are very preachy. Overall I found it monotonous, apart from the musical song "music & politics" which was different but still awful. There were some attempts of humour throughout but much more needed to make it less of a tirade. "Why most people think Central America means Kansas". Self righteous, unpoetic.

Dreadful. This is just noise, not music. No redeeming features.

Bad, did not find one song that was enjoyable on the whole album.

1/5

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