Does Mc Chris Smoke Pot Again

mc chris :: Race Wars :: mc chris LLC
as reviewed by Steve 'Wink' Juon

mc chris has been a warrior for nerdy rap fans since the early 2000'south - and "warrior needs food badly." That's how he caught my attending back in the day - there weren't many rappers flowing to the sounds of Gauntlet or rapping nearly Boba Fett from Star Wars driving around the galaxy in a drop-elevation convertible. He didn't just drop the capitalization of his name, he dropped all the stereotypes of what a rap artist is supposed to exist: tough, streetwise, aggressive, and cutting edge cool. As an example here's mc chris talking near HARRY POTTER in concert.

While his fan base has grown considerably since those early days, thanks in no small office to exposure on [adult swim], his "Race Wars" shows he's staying truthful to his dorky roots. "Nerd Cave" is the quintessential hiphoped-for-square anthem, taking the human being cave concept to its nerdiest extreme, leaving a trail of candy bar wrappers and empty numberless of weed everywhere in the process:

"I know it's wrong, all day long in a blackout
Watchin Troma, eatin powdered donuts
Got a Big Gulp, e'er sip a soda
Can't become upwardly, even though I am a grown up
I like to read, smoke weed, throw upward skit grenades
I got the culdesac cracked, got stickie for days
I got a kid from Mississip', talkin shit in my ear
I'd ask everybody over, but that would be weird
I similar HBO shows, Deadwood and The Wire
Got other bunny hornies from portable pyre
Got the Lego 8080's, Lego actually like grit
All I ask is practise non bear upon, my series of busts
But still my exhibition is a figment of my vision
When I get itchin, hurts beingness a wizard
When I become tore up or someone'due south throw up in the kitchen
that's a kitchenette, you can bet that information technology'southward bitchin"

Like about mc chris albums "Race Wars" appears to be self-produced, though a lack of liner notes in the download version hamper my ability to confirm this fact. From what I empathise though this version may in some respects be preferable though, because CD versions of "Race Wars" did not have any runway listing or vocal names, whereas this does. I vocal has had at to the lowest degree two names though. chris originally leaked "QT" to promote the release of the album, simply subsequently remixing the song to remove some uncleared movie samples, the final version on the album came out equally "Tarantino."

"Hated school - a dirt purse with nerd facts
Dropped out - ripped tickets at a jerk shack
I escaped - Manhattan Beach where they rent tapes
Pontificate new moving ridge and its french babes
Extrapolate all day cause I got raves
Talk store not-stop while I got paid
Wrote a script about Mallory and Mickey
Story's kinda gory, some said sorta sickening
Wrote a rom com 'bout a Elvis quotin beast
Autumn in love at a Sonny Chiba triple feature
Stole a hooker from a pimp, stole coke from The Sopranos
Then he sold it to Joel Silvery before everything goes blammo
1 script in the stack in which I wanted to deed
Fuck rejections by readers in one year they'll retract"

Every bit you tin see it's a loosely autobiographical narrative virtually one of Hollywood's most infamous directors. While some of his songs go over the heads of hardcore rap fans, even his most ardent critics would have to admit an entire poesy most the stars of "Reservoir Dogs" is pretty fucking cool. In fact the ironic truth about mc chris in this decade is that existence nerdy has actually accomplished a cool it never had when I was growing up. Playing video games used to go you beat upwardly by jocks, just now the jocks are playing video games also. Whether mc chris songs work at present is less a cistron of whether the target audience will sympathize than e'er, given an entire genre of like "nerdcore" rap artists has risen upward around him. It'southward more almost whether or not the product works, and for chris this can range from the charmingly simplistic "Popcorn Frog" to the sophisticated resonating piano chords and layered electronics of his track "On the Road":

"Every twelvemonth, for virtually five months
To be very clear, I go out and notice funds
How to collect from the many that are particular about their pennies
They won't spend a cent, unless there's perks and the bennys
So I travel in a van that was downward by the river
Go out into the land sympathize I am the giver
Got my quiver total of raps and I'm gear up to assail
Brought forth some books, in instance I don't desire to nap
Nosotros stay at Super viii'southward dine at Waffle after hours
I similar 'em smothered, fingers covered in biscuit powder
Seldom shower, scare the hoes right out of the lot
All I needs a nap and a bit little pot what you got?
My roadies got a room; falls asleep to slasher flicks
He'south likes Jason over Freddy if he ever had to selection
We rent a Dodge Caravan it got stow-and-go seating
The route might sound redundant but it does bear repeating"

Making cartoons and rap albums may pay the bills, but "On the Road" proves beingness a touring creative person is still as unglamorous as e'er. chris even admits to using the women's bath on tour "because it's e'er make clean," which I'chiliad certain a lot more than guys would attempt to get away with if they were a famous rap star also. (If you lot don't know why, y'all've never been at a order for a concert earlier.) Unfortunately i matter does tend to drag "Race Wars" down, something which happens on nearly all mc chris albums, and that'south a series of lengthy and tedious skits which are probably Really funny if y'all're stoned and/or dedicated enough of a fan to remember the skits from previous albums (they tend to exist incredibly self-referential). On this album they total upward to 26:10 of your life that you'll never become dorsum, which actually balloons to 36:10 if y'all include the intentional 10 minutes of silence at the commencement of the runway "Necronomicon." Subtract the latter out and yous go from an anthology that was 74 minutes long to one that's just under 38, meaning only nearly Half of this anthology is a waste of fourth dimension.

Despite that glaring deficiency I tin still give "Race Wars" high marks because the skits are piece of cake to delete out of your playlist after download, and chris is an incredibly charming and likable guy who is cocky-effacing to an almost alarming caste. At times yous really want to tell him "you're not nearly as nerdy as y'all recall bro" simply that's just part of the shtick y'all air current up going along with. From the drinking anthem "Where Is My 40" to the weed smoking anthem "Jones" (where he near chokes on the smoke) he'due south actually pretty shut to the hip-hop mainstream cliche - but in an incredibly nerd cave dwelling house way. His biggest problem is getting everybody else to pay attending.

Music Vibes: 7 of ten Lyric Vibes: seven.5 of 10 Full Vibes: seven.5 of 10

Originally posted: March 27th, 2012
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