The Risk Takers (2011)

Hip-Hop, Underground, Collaboration

          I know I've been slacking lately so I'm gonna try and post a bunch of shit between tonight and tomorrow.  This is a collaboration between two well known underground MC's and Producers Chuck Bass D and Insight. Most of the new music I post here I know nothing about. Usually I see and album cover I like and read the first paragraph of the review beneath it. So here's part of the review I read. The album is great.

"The Risk Takers" celebrates the style of two MC's & Producers, in a mood of positive emulation. "The Risk Takers" doesn't care about mainstream as much as underground. "Those terms are both overworked. They are the reverses of the same piece. Underground is doing the same calculation than the mainstream with its scenes, tags, clichés. We wanted to escape from that. Escape from the revival Rap Jazzy as well as academic Boom Bap which copies the 95-96 years or the muscular ''white trash'' underground rap. For the last, it might have been difficult, since we are both black..."

So, exit the classic formulas, Count Bass D & Insight have favoured a more subtle universe. The tracks are mixed and self-sufficients, showing on different strokes various atmospheres and moods. We can find here what made us thrill on the first Pharcyde or Deltron 3030. An innocence and a certain Hip-Hop classicism which paradoxically get the agreement of all and overtake the divides of the genre. Maybe this is what means having style and brio.

Count Bass D & Insight - Seize The Moment