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versionJBT
It's kinda....whatever, I guess? I dunno, as far as modern afrobeat goes it's just sorta flat-sounding and most songs never really go anywhere. Femi Kuti, Fela Kuti, Tony Allen and the Budos Band are catchier and more inventive but that's just imo
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movie-screen
I don't want to say I was disappointed with them in concert, not remotely. Maybe slightly underwhelmed over the fact that Shabaka doesn't sing in concert. (or does he and I saw an atypical performance?). The show was still phenomenal, hearing Shabaka sing still would have elevated it even more.
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R-Mac
Other thoughts: (I'm only speaking for myself here) when I think "jazz rap" I usually went to A Tribe Called Quest, which is jazz sample-based loops, and To Pimp a Butterfly, which is probably the best mainstream representation of "jazz rap" ever. Also, please correct me if TPaB = best mainstream jazz rap album is a hot take. I'd like to be proven wrong because I always have thought it was a touch overrated. Anyway, with Avantdale Bowling Club and now these guys, it really flips what I think of as "jazz rap" on its head. I guess you could also throw BadBadNotGood into that conversation, and I'd go out on a limb to say that they kind of started this recent jazz + rap movement in the underground scene.
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burton449ryo
If you want to listen to something else that can be labelled jazz rap, try Alfa Mist
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R-Mac
i've been stuck on the first song of Your Queen is a Reptile because it's one of the densest worlds of sounds i've ever heard. i came in blind to this band, didn't read a bio, didn't know where they were from, listened on name alone basically. i was content on it just being jazz but when the rapping came in, i was floored. it's pulled off so well
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