Atmosphere, Murs

Editor's Review:

If you’re any kind of follower of underground hip-hop happenings, then you already know that Slug and Murs’ second installment of their Felt tribute albums is out, and without much thought you can probably imagine that the album is heat. Well, your assumptions are correct, and if you thought the first was cool, then go get yourself a neck brace for this one.
The biggest factor to A Tribute to Lisa Bonet is producer ANT. Plain and simple, dude kills it on so many levels, with a variety of sounds like the electro “Life Vegas,” to the chipmunk-y soul on “Dirty Girl” down to the straight buttery “Women Tonight.” His array of beats gives Slug and Murs free range for their creativity to run around and touch on all types of topics. As the listener, it seems like the purpose of these albums is just to have fun and rap about whatever, and that I can dig. They’re half as serious as they are laughing, but they still break through with the occasional introspective jewel. It’s these types of things that separate great MCs like Slug and Murs from everyone else clinging to an underground identity.
In a free-minded society, this album would be gold. The originality of its simplicity is like a 2005 Slick Rick, with capitivating stories and to-the-point word play, while the production sticks to finely chopped samples and chords. To hate on this album, you’d have to be a real pessimistic fucker, and girls don’t like that. Chills.
– Corey Bloom
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Record Label RHYMESAYERS Released August 2005

Tracks Reintroduction Employees of the Year Your Mans And Them Lisa (Never Easty On My Nextel) Morris Day Dirty Girl Early Mornin Tony Breaker Down Like A Shotgun Marvin Gaye Life Vegas Boney (Cement Angels) Woman Tonight Gangster Ass Anthony The Biggest Lie I Shot A Warhol

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