Multiple Personality Disorder

AMG Review of Multiple Personality Disorder

Alex Henderson
All Music Guide

Multiple Personality Disorder is an appropriate title for this CD because it finds Los Angeles resident Zane wearing two different hats. One minute, he's a hardcore West Coast rapper whose influences range from Eazy-E and DJ Quik to Cypress Hill and House of Pain. But the next minute, he has no problem turning around and getting into a ap-metal groove a la Rage Against the Machine or Limp Bizkit. And the rapper/singer is equally convincing in both areas; Multiple Personality Disorder never sounds forced or contrived, and Zane comes across as someone who really does hold hardcore rap and ap-metal in equally high regard. Zane, of course, is hardly the first person to combine ap and metal, but very few of the headbangers who jumped on the ap-metal bandwagon in the late 1990s or early 2000s have the sort of rapping technique that Zane brings to "Who Got Tha Throne," "New Shit," and the single "Falling Down" (which are among the tracks that are pure L.A. hip-hop and don't have the metal influence). Zane isn't merely a ock singer who also raps; he's a hip-hop MC who happens to like ap-metal a lot. Zane, in fact, is a better rapper than singer, although he manages to get his points across when he sings. A very promising effort, Multiple Personality Disorder is easily recommended to both hip-hop and ap-metal enthusiasts.