2K8 B-Ball Zombie War and My Kitchen Sink
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Album:2K8 B-Ball Zombie War
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Track:Lightworking - (with Q-Tip/Talib Kweli/J Dilla)
Oh man, so much to say, so little time. Last Saturday afternoon I threw on Peanut Butter Wolf’s new compilation 2K8 B-Ball Zombie War (a great title after you get done with the album). 
And I have to tell you first — I’ve got a thing for Saturday afternoon records. They’re great albums to work to, like The Allman Brothers Eat a Peach or Mountain’s Climbing!From the opening track, Madlib’s “See (Suite),” it was apparent what I had — the newest member of my Saturday afternoon collection. Beats enough to clean my way from the kitchen sink all the way past my living room couch. The late J Dilla's "Lightworking (featuring Q-Tip and Talib Kweli) powered me through the laundry with verse after verse of the nice flow. I swept the floor to the frantic “Break It Down” by M.E.D and sorted mail to Madlib’s laid back, far out “Wigflip.” The rhythm skipping and flipping through the bills with me. I stopped a second when the second J Dilla track, Mash’s Revenge (featuring MF DOOM and Guilty Simpson) came on. Half the apartment was clean. 
Doom’s flow jumps in and out of some crazy ass worlds for the 30 seconds we meet him. But are we on the street with Doom, wreaking havoc with the metal-fingered terrorist, or is it just Dum [Doom], Dumile himself, pulling the strings from above and dropping the monotonous flow. Guilty Simpson rounds out the track with a nice verse, storming through the piano underlay.The album is scysophrenic like the characters that appear under Peanut Butter Wolf’s watch. Koushik, CX KidTRONiK and Quasimoto — Madlib’s speed-freak alterego — all show up with some of their best work. And Arabian Prince? Professor X sounds like a guy I need to meet. Jesus. Hypnotic break beats thundering between pulses of intergalactic lasers. How do you become a professional at that? Somewhere in the middle of evil video game bosses and 80’s break beat MCs is the Bass Creator’s Groove by Jonathon Brown. It’s all gravy. So I’m not going to give 2K8 a number reading. I’m not sure how many people that’s going to drive crazy but, you can’t polish a turnip. What can I say?Give this album a listen some day. It’s worth the time, and these days, free time comes at a premium.
And I have to tell you first — I’ve got a thing for Saturday afternoon records. They’re great albums to work to, like The Allman Brothers Eat a Peach or Mountain’s Climbing!From the opening track, Madlib’s “See (Suite),” it was apparent what I had — the newest member of my Saturday afternoon collection. Beats enough to clean my way from the kitchen sink all the way past my living room couch. The late J Dilla's "Lightworking (featuring Q-Tip and Talib Kweli) powered me through the laundry with verse after verse of the nice flow. I swept the floor to the frantic “Break It Down” by M.E.D and sorted mail to Madlib’s laid back, far out “Wigflip.” The rhythm skipping and flipping through the bills with me. I stopped a second when the second J Dilla track, Mash’s Revenge (featuring MF DOOM and Guilty Simpson) came on. Half the apartment was clean. Doom’s flow jumps in and out of some crazy ass worlds for the 30 seconds we meet him. But are we on the street with Doom, wreaking havoc with the metal-fingered terrorist, or is it just Dum [Doom], Dumile himself, pulling the strings from above and dropping the monotonous flow. Guilty Simpson rounds out the track with a nice verse, storming through the piano underlay.The album is scysophrenic like the characters that appear under Peanut Butter Wolf’s watch. Koushik, CX KidTRONiK and Quasimoto — Madlib’s speed-freak alterego — all show up with some of their best work. And Arabian Prince? Professor X sounds like a guy I need to meet. Jesus. Hypnotic break beats thundering between pulses of intergalactic lasers. How do you become a professional at that? Somewhere in the middle of evil video game bosses and 80’s break beat MCs is the Bass Creator’s Groove by Jonathon Brown. It’s all gravy. So I’m not going to give 2K8 a number reading. I’m not sure how many people that’s going to drive crazy but, you can’t polish a turnip. What can I say?Give this album a listen some day. It’s worth the time, and these days, free time comes at a premium.
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