93 'til Infinity

by

Souls of Mischief

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Anyone who knows hip-hop knows for a fact that this album is one of hip-hop's true gems.

Back in the day, this debut release from SOM helped break me into good hip-hop. From "Let 'em Know" to the Outro, this album contains nothing but pure, untainted hip-hop. SOM (A-Plus, Opio, Phesto & Tajai) posess such talent and chemistry with each other on the mic. Every track is amazing and every track is unique. They can be serious (real), threatening, full of themselves, funny and whatever they rhyme about, they do it to perfection. "93 'til Infinity" is 13 tracks of dirty beats, creative lyrics and flows like you've never heard before. Listening to SOM rap is like a lyrical headbobbing rollercoaster. Nobody can rip a mic like SOM and every crew in the game knows it.

"Anything Can Happen" (track #10) is one of the most captivating storytelling tracks I've ever heard to this day. A story of revenge over a ear chilling beat.

"A Name I Call Myself" (#4) justifies why SOM is the sh*t.

"That's When Ya Lost" (#3) shows you why SOM isn't to be f***ed with.

I'm just showing that each and every track is unique and is actually about something. Each theme is different from the next, this whole album is bursting with creativity. Pretty much, if you liked the groundbreaking single, "93 'til Infinity" (#8) then you'll love the entire album.

Production is done by Hiero crew members Domino, Del, A-Plus, Casual & Jay-Biz. The beats are all so creative and innovative, the dirty beats and the amazing rhyming will blow your mind.

***Mad props to Del Tha Funkee Homosapien; without him Souls of Mischief would not exist. Del gets in on track #9 "Limitations"***

Bottom Line: I've listened to this LP hundreds of times and it keeps getting better. The title is perfect because hip-hop heads will be rockin' this album literally from '93 all the way to infinity. A perfect 5 stars. Peace.

SOM has taken hip-hop back a few steps, to an era whn rap got no respect from Rolling Stone or the radio or the grammys or the NBA or MLB. Then rap moved up and it became part and parcel of popualr music. That's because it got better. Hey, I can respect the keeping of a tradition, but one must have knowledge of why that tradition dies out in the first place. the free-flow era of rap dies out because rap became the arena and progenitor of the most significant musical breakthrough of the current decade: electronic music - studio music. Music that is assembled rather than played. Souls of M misses the point that music propells rap: rap is not spoken word.