Ian Mathers: Maybe it’s just because I’m recovering from an illness, but I’m finding “9xs Outta Ten” particularly disorienting, especially once the clipped, stuttering female voices come in. Despite what Jay-Z says, it could use some melody and less Beastie Boys influence. Hillary Brown: Not entirely without interest, but this is a little too scaled back in some ways and a little overdone in others.
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But it’s the weird row-your-boat spiral of the refrain and the hiccuping vocal samples that make this more than just a cheap pump of percussive adrenalin, plus the fact that it’s coming from a couple guys who you might expect to still be churning out relaxed ’90s G-funk.Īnthony Miccio: I’d love to get excited about this pleasant if tinny homage to the Clipse, but it mostly makes me want to listen to J-Kwon’s “Tipsy.” Pretty sure that’s Kurupt’s fault, as I could name a dozen or so rappers I’d rather hear over this beat. Rap is rarely better.Īl Shipley: Drums this harsh and prominent are still rare enough in rap that when they come along, there’s a built-in audience of overenthusiastic listeners ready to pile on the “Grindin'” comparisons. The way Kurupt’s rhymes are so thoroughly structured, yet so unconventional in their organization, is exhilarating, especially once filtered through his zealous, stentorian flow. It’s the perfect soundtrack for rapping rings of cacophonous nonsense where popping syllables carry more meaning than definitions, and danger is invoked more by bloodthirsty snarl than direct threat. Like those tracks, “9x’s Outta 10” is built around a hollow drum loop with miles of empty space to reverberate, Quik subtly working in some windchill sighs like the sound a whole deserted city would make just to scare you. Greene: I made the “Oh shit!” face when I heard this. One of the very best hip hop singles I’ve heard this year. I was particularly keen on the fact that the flow barely flows on the chorus, being as percussive as the beats, thereby turning into something more like a riff. Martin Skidmore: Tremendously tense and jittery hip hop from the veteran pair, with minimal clattering beats that got my shoulders working, some choralish backing, and lyrics that mostly stay as minimal as the beats. But when the anger boils up, it briefly loses its footing, so I’m still not positive the experiment fully worked. The production on this track displays far more skill than whatever it takes to find and arrange a simple loop, and I think I finally understand the skill sets behind “flow.”Ĭhuck Eddy: Incrementally shifting minimal mantras over warped operatic sample - strange, obsessive, and somehow threatening for reasons I can’t pinpoint partly because I have no idea what the heck Kurupt’s rapping about, except probability equations. Martin Kavka: If this had been released when I was a teenager, I might be a deeper fan of hip-hop now. By boxing themselves in, the two force each other to become surgeons, and it’s a role that they play perfectly. “9x’s Outta 10” dazzles in its discipline, with Kurupt constructing deliberately stilted verses in order to stick with Quik’s circular and slowly mutating beat.
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BlaQKout features no crossover attempts or ill-advised collaborations instead, it’s full of weird songs like this one that could be called “genre experiments” if it weren’t for the fact that each song basically creates a new genre. Jordan Sargent: Something like “9x’s Outta 10” is rare and special. Michaelangelo Matos: Two old pros with nothing to prove except that they can still go ahead and fucking bang, with a record that flutters as well as stomps. Our top 10 just got ever-so-slightly shook… Donnie Trumpet & the Social Experiment.I LIE HERE BURIED WITH MY RINGS AND MY DRESSES.Email (song suggestions/writer enquiries).
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