Cancer 4 Cure
Featuring guest spots from Mr. Muthafuckin' eXquire, Danny Brown, and a snarling Killer Mike, El-P's first album since putting Def Jux on hiatus in early 2010 marks a break from the old order and another call to arms.
Cancer For Cure is a triumph of imagination and intelligence in service of a pervasive sense of personal and political unease. Rapper-producer El-P imagines himself as a dot on a radar screen, tracked by unknown hunters, working his way across some surreal bureaucratic hellscape. On “Tougher Colder Killer,” a soldier…
El-P comes out swinging, challenging the world before him to a fistfight on this record of awe-inspiring defiance, both lyrically and sonically.
I wasn’t necessarily _sad_ as much as I was bitterly cynical when Def Jux closed its proverbial doors. High-school boys of…
It's been 5 years since El-P's I'll Sleep When You're Dead. There's not much point prefixing anything the rapper/producer behind Definitive Jux does with 'seminal' – it's all been seminal. Cancer4Cure is no exception, pushing experimental hip-hop remorselessly forward. Full-frontal assault breakbeats underpin glimmering synths and treated guitars on opener Request Denied as William Burroughs instructs us to “storm the studio.”
It's been five years since El-P released his last full-length, the impressive I'll Sleep When You're Dead.
Hip-hop’s favourite red-headed stepchild slaps us in the face with his first non-instrumental album in five years and it’s a doozy.
El-P 'Cure for Cancer' album review on Northern Transmissions. El-P 'Cure For Cancer' is now available on Fat Possum Records.
Former Company Flow man and backpacker hip-hop mainstay El-P keeps up the creative pace on his new album, writes <strong>Paul MacInnes</strong>
El-P - Cancer 4 Cure review: Warning: Massive amounts of hyperbole and nostalgia herein