Well people it's time for a new Canibus album. For some that is great news and for many others it's a new time to be greatly annoyed or not interested at all. You might enjoy Canibus's superb lyricism and ability to ramble about some of the most random things ever. Get your dictionaries out, stay close to Wikipedia and prepare to get educated or fucked in the ears by Canibus's voice. Here is the review:
First off let me start by saying Canibus tends to to just talk about the most irrelevant and stupifying subjects. Half the time he makes absolutely no sense, the other half he's just boring you to death with the most dull and lame subjects that he probably made up himself. I can't say he has a lack of subjects because it ranges all over the place but it's just a lack of subjects that we give a fuck about. I mean just why? Why does he talk about these subjects? I get it Canibus, you're smart, we're not as informed but if I catch you on the street I'm going to slap you upside your head for talking about alien abduction, probing, conspiracy theories and just in general being one of the lamest nerds in history. Now this isn't to say Canibus can't be dope, I enjoyed both Rip The Jacker and Mic Club for the most part. He's still very hit or miss and usually he misses. None the less let us move on. So this album starts off as typical Canibus, it's track after track of random topics and talking down upon the industry. The usually sporatic flow is there along with the good lyricism. It's everything you are used to with Canibus. The song "Hip Hop Black Ops" is a song in which Canibus retruns to his battle rap roots and talks about reclaiming hip hop for whatever self righteous reason.
Two interesting songs are "The Dragon Of Judah" and "Post Traumatic Warlab Stress". Both attacking the industry and the backstabbers Canibus has met, not really dropping names but he does drop clues. He talks about the "Beef" DVD and how he never got paid for it. As a matter of fact, judging from most of the things Canibus says in these songs he seems to get fucked over quite a bit. Seems a little sore about it. A rapper named DZK (A fellow labelmate) comes in with a good verse on "Post Traumatic Warlab Stress". So basically what we've evaluated is Canibus is pissy about not blowing up.
One very very notable track that you may have heard already is the Eminem diss, "Air Strike (Pop Killer)". This is a well made diss directed straight at Eminem and his antics throughout his career. DZK gets on the track along with D12 (Not really how they wanted, but D12 appears on the song against D12's wishes I believe)So the diss is actually not that bad, very methodical as you can expect from Canibus. However it's completely irrelevant and lame. Where was all of this years ago when they were actually beefing? Now because he's even more of a nobody he's gonna go at Eminem when Eminems career is virtually over? What does he expect to gain.? He's just mad that Eminem spanked him hard and now 10 years later he wants to release a diss. It's fairly disgusting. So Canibus takes another fail.
The album is pretty much uneventful and the same old same old from Canibus. It's boring, it's random, the production is lackluster, other than the no named DZK the features don't blow you away with their verses. The Canibus stans will probably love this because it's no different from his other efforts outside of Mic Club and Rip The Jacker. A weak album that doesn't reinvent Canibus as an artist and if you didn't like him before you wont like him now.
RATING:
2 Out Of 5
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