People Under the Stairs

Editor's Review:

The only genre more tired and predictable than garage rock is indie hip-hop. The new genre has all the same trappings of the indie rock movement that spawned it, namely an emphasis on style over substance, weak rhythmic ideas and predictably bad songwriting equaling up to a whole lotta nothing. It must be frustrating for guys like Thes One and Double K, aka People Under The Stairs who have seen their culture crumble to dust. Despite all of the odds, these two just continue churning out one great release after another. Their latest transports hip-hop fans back to the day when the DJ called the shots. The rhymes are unpretentiously old school, the beats swiped straight from Mantronix's MPC, with a pinch of serious knowledge being dropped without every being preachy. "LA Song" is easily the most dead-on portrayal of SoCal since Ice Cube rapped about his hood on "Dead Homiez."
– Sean-Michael Yoder
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Record Label Om Records Released August 2003

Tracks Yield Plunken ‘Em Road Beaters Fly Love Songs Church R&B Drumbox O.S.T. Remix Yo LA Song (sensitive mix) S.F. Knights Remix Take the Fruit Out Run