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I’ve been incognito for a grip-span longer then Shaggy’s dreads used to be, but now I’m back with one installment of three. July first marked the time of the N9ne, this time for sure if not before. This was the release date of “The hardest Tech N9ne album to date!” (-Tech in Psychumentary), Killer! This album has seen it’s fair share of hype of the last year and half or maybe even longer. A few months after M.L.K.’s release on the Strange Noize Tour we started to slowly hear about a new album that was in the works. Everything was used; from the Internet, to shameless promotions on DVDs, ‘We Are Your Future’, and the Tech/Prozak sampler the word rapidly spread about this monstrous project coming into form.

Two discs, thirty-two tracks of treacherous Tech! That’s what you get when you make the purchase to obtain this addition to Arron’s artistic endeavor. Looking at this album like he should, with a ‘fuck you attitude’ and that he’s at a pinnacle in his career to reach those Tech N9cians who haven’t been found yet. From the cover looking like Michael Jackson’s’ ‘Thriller’ to flows that will leave you captivated to start disc1 back over when disc2 is finished you can’t go wrong. As said on the secret track “Killer” released off of his website Tech isn’t lying “All Killer no filler”.

Of course on this album hitting the production team Strange Production vet. Robert Rebeck, Michael “seven” Summers, David Sanders II, Matic Lee, Wyshmaster, Matic Lee, and on behalf of Lost Koast Productions came Aaron Abeyta, and Jeff “Heffe” Simmons. We can’t forget about the MC/producer making as much noise for himself as well as his record label, Sub. Noize, UnderRated.

Like I said a few short paragraphs above Tech approached this with a ‘fuck you attitude’ to get off his chest what need to be gotten off. Taking the microphone and completely obliterating it, N9ne spits on anyone who doubted, anything that slowed his career down, on himself, and what his pain is. His rhymes are still grimey, hard, and quick as fuck. Then to flip it around his taking his style and adding what makes the mainstream shit spin on the radio and in a way slowly incorporating the ‘club scene’ to his lyrics. Possibly attract more of a ‘black audience’ something he feels he lacks.

Disc 1 opens up with Tech in a Psychologist’s office there on the suggestion of Travis O’Guin following a metronome slowly falling into hypnosis. Bursting out with bangers right off of the bat like “Like Yeah”, “Wheaties”, “Everybody Move”, and “Get the Fuck Outta Here”. It then takes a turn for what some of us who bump the wicked shit crave, the dark side. “Psycho Bitch 2”, “Paint a Dark Picture”, and “Poisonous” piant scenes so vivid you can’t help but see them played out in your mind, just listen closer then the beat. To bring the first half to an end is the track “Too Much” ft. Kutt Calhoun. This track gives me the feel similar to that of “Message to the Black Man” with the beat and how it has an epic feel to it. It’s a driving beat that makes you feel that it’s all building up to something, the time of the Strange Dynasty has arrived and doesn’t look like it’s going to end anytime soon.

Disc 2 opens with a message to his ‘so called friends’, ‘so called fans’, and a prevalent subject, his wife in the track “I Love You but Fuck You”. Following right along with that ‘fuck you attitude’ he drops bombs like “Beat You Up”, “Let’s Go”, and “Drill Team”. After telling his wife how he feels torn between love and hate busts out the track “One Good Time” showing us, his fan base, how much he hurts but can’t let one tear shed. How all he wants to do is have one good cry to let the pain leak away then let him take his family and just disappear into solitude. What kind of Tech N9ne CD would this be if we didn’t hear him rap about his love for the female species or his love for the parties? In “The Sextion” part of disc2, serenading the bitches with “Seven Words”, “Enjoy”, and “I Am Everything” ft. (Hed)pe and Kottonmouth Kings.

To close the entire project is one of my more favorite Tech N9ne tracks, up there in the top 5, right after “Turn”, “Last Words”. This is Tech in his session in Dr. Fraziers’s Office, which started this whole thing off. I like that part about it a lot, open a project one way and close it with the conclusion of the opening scene. I’m sure if you have heard anything off this you want it, and if you’ve got it you can’t put it down. I know I can’t. This is Tech N9ne at some of his finest, lyrically, worst, personally. Get up, get this, get lit, and listen to it.

Tracklisting

Disc 1

01. Dr. Frazier’s Office (Intro Skit)
02. Like Yeah
03. Wheaties – (featuring Shawnna)
04. Everybody Move
05. Get The F**k Outta Here – (featuring Paul Wall/The Popper)
06. Waitress, The
07. Crybaby
08. S**t Is Real
09. Blackboy – (featuring Ice Cube/Krizz Kaliko/Brother J)
10. Pillow Talkin’ – (featuring Scarface)
11. Paint A Dark Picture – (featuring Dirtball)
12. Hope For A Higher Power
13. Worst Case Scenario (Skit)
14. Psycho B**h II – (featuring Liquid Assassin)
15. Poisonous – (featuring Liz Suwandi)
16. Too Much – (featuring Kutt Calhoun)

Disc 2

01. I Love You But F**k You
02. One Good Time
03. Drill Team – (featuring Krizz Kaliko/Snug Brim/B.G. Bulletwound)
04. Beat You Up – (featuring Lebowski/The Weapon)
05. Let’s Go – (featuring Kutt Calhoun/Mistah F.A.B.)
06. Why You Ain’t Call Me
07. Seven Words – (featuring Krizz Kaliko/Skatterman)
08. Sexorcist, The (Infomercial) – (featuring Krizz Kaliko)
09. Killa Call (Skit)
10. Enjoy – (featuring Krizz Kaliko/Bosko)
11. Elbow Macaroni (Skit)
12. I Am Everything – (featuring Hed P.E./Kottonmouth Kings)
13. Happy Ending
14. Can’t Shake It – (featuring Krizz Kaliko/Robert Rebeck)
15. Holier Than Thou – (featuring Strange Lane Choir/Krizz Kaliko)
16. Last Words

Websites

TheRealTechN9ne.com
MySpace.com/TechN9ne
StrangeMusicInc.com

Record Label:

• Strange Music Inc.

Release Date:

• 07/01/2008

Reviewer:

• Whipstick