While most of you were probably printing up "Fuck Imus" T-shirts and collecting the money you betted on Birkhead being the baby daddy, Canibus was carefully plotting his return to hip hop. Step One; make himself look like a spider monkey on the cover to his new album. Step Two; create a complicatedwebsite promoting only one song from the album. Step Three; record the exhaustive "1000 Bars". As the intelligence of the average hip hop fan quickly dwindles, its becoming even harder for a rapper of Canibus' caliber to remain relevant. With that said, why in the hell did he even record this "Poet Laureate Infinity"?! I admire your effort 'Bis but "1000 bars", nobody cares. I'm hip to your jedi mind trick 'Bis. You thought since no one was buying your albums, why not just record an album's worth of material into one track. Sorry I don't think that's gonna work. The song is 50 mins long!! Who in the hell wants to listen to Canibus ramble on about a bunch of shit they don't understand. Seriously, the dude is a beast lyrically but his music never has any feeling. If you can't make listeners have an emotional connection to the record, no one will ever care.
Yeah man. I went to Bus' site a couple days ago. I stopped listening about 2 minutes through then I realized the song was still going 10 minutes later after my coworker said, "what is that nigga talking about". I think my attention span for rap is fading as I get older.
ReplyDeleteI hear ya. Remember his verse on the Lost Boyz "Beasts From the East? That was like 5 minutes long! Could Canibus' first album possibly be the biggest disappointment in Hip Hop the last 15 years? He's been digging out of that hole ever since.
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