With mic skills in English, Spanish, and
Spanglish two hard boiled, rogue emcees came
together with a whole new spin on the Hispanic
Hip-Hop made popular by Funkdoobiest, Delinquent
Habits, Cypress Hill, and Ozomatli.
After things went sour for a deal with
Ruffhouse/Columbia Records, Gusto, one half of
Raw Text, parted company with his old crew, and
went to work on some solo projects. Meanwhile,
Spits, the other cipher, was doing, more or less,
the same thing: looking for ‘it’.
‘It’ came in the form of jobs working with rapper
Af The King, after they had already hooked up,
and started making the demos that would make up a
chunk of the Raw Text live show, eventually
getting hold of the mic on Lovely from his
excellent Torture Taught Ya’ album. He spins with
almost as much authority as he has on the
microphone, and proves this with his guest cuts
on Gimme Da’ Mic.
Spits and Gusto will "verbally abuse ya like a
white-trash biker kid" on any of the sixteen
tracks on this praiseworthy, highly qualified
debut cd.
The most re-playable tracks here include
Accessory Ta’ Murder, In It For Life, I Love It,
the Open Mic Nite set, My World, Pay Dues, and
What’cha Want? with co-producer Angela Piva’s
sultry vocals. The bonus is the live
instrumentation that gets mixed imperceptibly
with the cut up, funky, hip hop score.
Recommended!
By Jason Thornberry, CanEHdian.com
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