Both Sides of the Brain
Del always sounds a little unbalanced to
me. I mean the guy is generally pissed about stuff, but he tends
to lash out at just about everyone in this like funny bouncy
delivery that sounds like not many other rappers out there.
He’s always talking about suckas “flapping your gums” or “flapping
your molars” or some such talkin’-shit analogy. He’s always
railing against some invisible enemy in a tumble of words (interspersed
with his Northern Cali give-away term “hella”) that sounds less
like the bragging we’re used to and more like a crazy person
ranting in an empty room. And like most wacky people yelling
at bus stops and subway cars and wherever, they’re fascinating
folks to listen to, but are at times hard to take and after
a while you need to walk away until the next day when you can
again listen to their tales of aliens stealing gold from Fort
Knox and the government putting mercury implants in your cerebellum.
There are also a bunch of songs about what I can only assume
are folks in his ‘hood that do drugs, drink and drive, shoot
at cops and basically get into shenanigans. While he definitely
has a distinct style, which is admirable, unfortunately – despite
this being a decent album – his patter gets tiresome by track
17 and one needs a rest from him for a while for fear of hemorrhaging
out the ear hole. |
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