The Family Sign

Slug returns, stripping some of the more larger-than-life traits of misspent youth away from his approach and tilting more towards plainspoken sincerity.

As hip-hop is revitalized by an influx of youthful aggressors, Atmosphere has started getting interesting again just as the anger fades from its music. The shift began with 2008’s When Life Gives You Lemons, You Paint That Shit Gold, as Slug’s undeniable gift for pathos evolved into a sympathetic, storytelling…

Rapper Slug and producer Ant continue to evolve with their 2011 effort The Family Sign, a conceptual effort dealing with the family unit.

Atmosphere - The Family Sign review: The Family Sign is essentially the audible recording of the element of Family, in all of its beauty and rage, and one could not ask for anything more.