SLiDERZ
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Album:Parallellmatic
A few years ago when I lived in Chicago I had this idea for an album that I'm going to make one day-- it's 10 rap tracks, each song's beat being made out of samples from the correspondingly-numbered track from ILLMATIC. The lyrics of each song, however, reflect the ILLMATIC that was made in a series of alternate universes where some other film besides Scarface has been used as the basis for that dimenion's version of "gangsta rap." After the explanatory intro track (beamed to us from a universe where Scarface=Back To The Future 2, obvs) we start with a small leap-- a 'NY State of Mind' from the Earth where Frank Serpico, not Tony Montana, sets the ideal for rappers. "Life's a Bitch" is a bitter pro-suicide track on which two rappers spit verses inspired by a pre-Charlie's-intervention Lt. Frank Slade, followed by a version of "The World is Yours" from the dimension where Scarface is replaced by Glengarry Glen Ross.After that, we move out of Al Pacino territory into more fantastical alternate realities.. I haven't fully decided on all the other movies that would be extrapolated from, but I'd like to rapidly get from the Pacino triad into far stranger territory-- Wild at Heart? Brazil? El Topo? Fucking ORDET? Imagine a universe where gangsta rap revolves entirely around an idealization of Benny from Benny's Video! I can't even start on which John Waters flick I'm going to end up using, we'll be here all day.I probably won't start working on this until 2009, though-- clearly my brethren need to ripen just a little bit before they could be expected to handle such a wicked synthesis of Nas, Weird Al, and Isaac Asimov.
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