- by Kate Maidens
- Wednesday, October 26, 2005
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With no bitches or hunny's thrusting their asses in your face, or guns'n'bling in sight, 'Nicci Cheek presents...' is a masterpiece of jazz married with hip-hop that gives birth to a mongrel sound so laid back, it's pratically horizontal. This package is more accessible than your average drivel and clichés. Oozing a more mature sound, the result shows that this baby has been cared for and carefully crafted. Indeed it has, as many UK and US big guns such as Dave Dar have been roped in to bring this jazz fusion to a new, younger audience, and to re-ignite the flame that started this relationship that first sexualy fused back in the 90s. Yet it's still kept underground. Fresh faces such as J Rawls push forward the new skool massive. The jazz ethos shines through as the beats are saxed up to the max and piano tinged. But as hip-hop generally goes, the vocalists sound the
With no bitches or hunny's thrusting their asses in your face, or guns'n'bling in sight, 'Nicci Cheek presents...' is a masterpiece of jazz married with hip-hop that gives birth to a mongrel sound so laid back, it's pratically horizontal. This package is more accessible than your average drivel and clichés. Oozing a more mature sound, the result shows that this baby has been cared for and carefully crafted. Indeed it has, as many UK and US big guns such as Dave Dar have been roped in to bring this jazz fusion to a new, younger audience, and to re-ignite the flame that started this relationship that first sexualy fused back in the 90s. Yet it's still kept underground. Fresh faces such as J Rawls push forward the new skool massive. The jazz ethos shines through as the beats are saxed up to the max and piano tinged. But as hip-hop generally goes, the vocalists sound the same, letting down the individuality of the record. Shame.
Stand out tracks include 'Miss January' which follows the fashion of Akon to include noises that sound like they came from a small animal thats getting its fur waxed! 'Nutshell', sung by the original Black Eyed Peas vocalist Kim Hull, is a mellow slice of bare soul with funky electro back beats with a pure sun-setter feel. 'Quasimodo' lives up to its' roots, kicking off with church bells perhaps those of Notre Dame where the hunchback himself resides frim. The french influences don't end there, as this blues infused track bleeds typicals french sounding beats.
This album tries so hard to be old skool hip-hop, but to be blunt, it's not. However, it still manages to shit on that commercial light weight hip-hop. But this album would be best suited to and enjoyed in a smokey underground joint.
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