Amiri - Vinyl Ritchie (Audio CD)
Check out how my man handles his biz proper. You're a sucker cat like me at the book shop, record shop, wherever and you totally be making decisions about what you're gonna read or listen to based on either the title or the cover design. Yeah you do, you know you do the majority of the time. Whatever. I've found some of my favourite books and music this way.
Going through the UGHH.com store I come across this joint here. I'm vaguely familiar with Amiri and I'm pretty familiar with Hip Nott Records joints so it wasn't like I was totally blind. What really got at me about this joint is the title "Vinyl Ritchie". For real.
Alright, the title's gonna have your brain scanning the many possibilities about what this album, so audaciously titled, is gonna sound like. If you don't know, it's a nod to Lionel Ritchie. Hello! No pun intended.
In actuality, I don't have any preconceived notions before checking it out, I'm really just looking to be surprised even though I have a feeling I won't be. And I was right. Not surprised at all, it's a straight burner from top to bottom.
Vinyl Ritchie is a very carefully crafted album. The beats are great, the rhymes are tight and easy to get into and you're getting a lot of joints to keep you till his next drop which he doesn't have to worry about for a few years cuz this drop is timeless.
To sum it up, you just heard some Urkel, hipster cat pumpin' the latest Brittney Spears joint, cuz that"s what they do, makes 'em think they're eclectic, she's rappin' on it and Kanye and all them other media cats are saying it's like the best rap verse of all time, cuz that's what the media does to demean real hip hop, and you're like man, hip hop's dead man, and then you listen to this and everything's better again.
Iz.
