You know I hate to be critical, but the review of B. Sharpa is terrible.
The reviewer starts by asking "Was it (the album) worth the wait?". This question is never answered.
You can't review an album by just describing what a few of the tracks are about! Sure, you can pick up on themes that run through an album, but to state that, "Ben Sharpa points out the wrong-doings of the government in most of his tracks", is just factually incorrect. Maybe 3 or 4 out of 21 tracks have anything to do with the government.
The reviewer also states, "Callin' It Quits (We're Here) is on that boom bap tip as it sets a tone for the rest of the album". Again, factually incorrect!! How can anyone call a track by Milanese 'boom bap'!? If you read this review you'll have no idea what the album is actually like. There's only one track on the album that can be called boom bap.
Cats should really start exposing themselves to some international music reviews and up their game!
i c u D planet ok so my review was terrible cause i c u dont read well, so ill break it down to and how i review albums. 1 i spend days listening to albums, over and over again to the point my girl wants to kill me.2. i did answer if the album was worth waiting for if u read my last line of the review.3.about the boom bap its funny that i spoke to Ben b4 he left for France and he understood what i was speaking about, he called it future sound so he couldnt even discribe it.4. government, lol government well i said socio economics issues which are pointed at who? the government....Ben thought the only thing wrong about my review was i said he took too long well which is a fact.so please read it again and listen to the cd again before you attack me...u guys will never be happy anyway cause u have ur Ben best at heart
Ok...
Point 1. I never claimed that you didn't listen to the album.
Point 2. You didn't answer whether or not you thought the album was worth the wait. In the last line of your review you say the album is "quite well constructed", before saying, "Oh! Kaptin My Kaptain lead the army to victory... a true warrior indeed." Maybe I'm being pedantic, but that doesn't answer the question. Was the album worth the wait? Well was it?...
Point 3. We have found many ways to describe Ben's music (Robot Army Music, Soundsystem Music, Glitch Hop, Dub Hop, Hybrid etc etc). It's all there in the press release if you wanted a few pointers. You're even admitting Ben called it 'Futuresound' yet you still call it 'boom bap'. It's just factually incorrect. Imagine if Mr. C goes to Musica and buys B. Sharpa based on your review... when he gets home and plays it, he's going to be very disappointed that there's only one track that could be described as anything like boom bap. Just look how much people are bitching about Mos Def not doing his normal hip hop shit,,, that's because they were expecting something else.
Point 4. I'm going to ignore the comment about me listening to the CD cause that's just plain stupid. Maybe you should re-read your review though because you mentioned 'socio economic issues' in reference to 'Check the Evidence 08'. You go on to say that you thought the album was 'conceptualised around that (socio-economic issues) and Ben points the wrong-doings of the Government in most of his tracks". He does NOT point out the wrong-doings of the Government in most of his tracks. As I said previously, there are maybe 2 or 3 tracks that are about the Government. Again, you could have just dipped into the press release... "On B. Sharpa, Ben addresses corporate greed, the media, the music industry, politics, the struggle of the downtrodden in the African continent, the ecology and the art of emceeing."
While we're on the subject... Zubz's album got reviewed as "another damn cla**ic!" and "a compelling body of work that deserves cla**ic status". He gets given 5/5 for lyrical content, 4/5 for delivery, 3/5 for production and 4.5/5 overall. Sharpa gets 4/5 for lyrical content, 4/5 for delivery, 4/5 for production and 4/5 overall. How does that work? I mean, the grades average out as the same, yet Zubz's album gets .5 more overall and described as a 'cla**ic'. Sharpa's album is described as 'quite well put together' - how much more luke warm can you be?!
I'm not asking you to give Ben's album a better rating or give it more praise than you did, I'm just asking you to get the facts straight. Your review mis-represents the music which doesn't do the artist or Hype's readers any good.
