Get To Know H.E.R.

First and foremost, my apologies for the lack of updates lately. Life’s been busy. That being said, I realize that this album is no longer “new” anymore, especially in the fickle hip hop culture of today but fuck it.

Hits: King Of The Decks (ft Sean Price and Tash), The DJ (ft KRS-One), Do Your Thing (ft Guilty Simpson and Royce Da 5’9”), Funky Piano (ft Bishop Lamont, Crooked I, Styliztik Jones), Start The Revolution (ft Bootcamp Clik), Invaders From The Planet Sqratch (ft DJ Qbert), EY (ft Joell Ortiz and Termanology), Casualties Of Tour (ft Rakaa Iriscience), Damage (ft Blaq Poet and Bumpy Knucks), Blow Da Spot (ft Strong Arm Steady), Pro’s & Cons (ft Evidence), The Re Match (ft DJ Spinbad), Raided R (ft DJ Raid)

Strikes: N/A

Balls: Intro (ft Jazzy Jeff), LA DJ (ft Tony G), The Big Top (ft Special Teams), Scratch Nerds, Willie Lynch (ft Styliztik Jones and KBimean), The Biggest Up (ft DJ Premier), DJ Revolution (ft Planet Asia), Spit Ridiculous (ft Defari), Calling HAUL, Man Or Machine (ft KBimean), The Set Up (ft Sway and King Tech)

The sound of scratching is fucking majestic to me, so any time there’s a DJ album featuring actual DJ-ing and not just screaming random bullshit over someone else’s tracks I get a bit excited. I mean shit, I nearly fell off my chair when Invaders From The Planet Sqratch came on and freaking The Re Match was on a whole other level. The album is a bit guest heavy, but then again what did you expect from a project like this (just as long as he’s not rapping on his own tracks ala Black Milk it’s all good). Besides, the guests on here are pretty varied as they range from the well known (relative to blogverse of course) such as Royce, to the unknown, such as Styliztik Jones, and from established legends, such as KRS, to rising newcomers, such as Joell Ortiz. Most of the featured rappers held their own weight, but I couldn’t really get into KBimean. I mean, Man Or Machine would’ve been a no question hit if it weren’t for that one verse KBimean dropped. I’m serious.

The one problem I had with some of the tracks on this album was that it got a bit too preachy for my taste sometimes. I can’t stand much of current day hip hop either, but I’m of the opinion that rapping complaints about it in an album such as this one is like preaching to the fucking choir right? I wanna hear some you spit some nice shit instead of complaining that the rest of hip hop isn’t. Or, you can opt to go the KRS route and instead of simply complaining, lead the way and teach the young’ns a thing or two. But..I digress.

You may be thinking that that’s a whole lot of solid tracks for one album, but keep in mind that most of them are skits. Some of them could’ve been taken out, for sure, but some (The Biggest Up in particular for earning Rev the “DJ with the biggest fucking ego award”) add to the album pretty nicely. Also, considering that this whole thing was 24 tracks long, no strikes is a hell of an achievement. So, at the end of it all, I will honestly say I enjoyed the whole thing very much and would recommend you give it a try as well because any DJ that actually scratches on a fucking record these days have to deserve something right?

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