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"Right now, I consider myself a soulful house music DJ. Anyone willing to check out my sounds can go to
www.deepvibes.org.
However, before discovering the beauty of true underground house 8 years ago, I was heavily into rap music (from 1984-1996).
Right around the time 2Pac passed, so did my fierce fever for rap, in general.
I am still a rap fan today mind you, but my main passion is house.
I used to listen to everything from Jeru, to Common, WC, Too Short, Point Blank, PE, Ice-T, PSK-13, Willie D, Face, Terrorists, TMT, Big Mello, etc.
Ganksta NIP is (and has always been) one of my all-time faves. He is definitely one-in-a-million.
I also feel that nothing has come close to his first album. Album #2 was very good, but way too short. After that, I couldn't feel his product no more.
I feel that right around the time that NIP's sound got weak, was also the same time that rap, in general, got weak, atleast IMO. I think the rap "sound"nationwide changed altogether. I even sent a 4 page letter to Rap-A-Lot complaining that I thought that their sound really fell off the map (but the letter got returned due to a faulty address..I never bothered to re-send it). That's how pissed I was.
Every album that I was picking up just sounded shit. Rap-A-Lot started to sound shit on every release. Scarface sounded like a priest. 2Pac lost his introspective ways and was now "fucking your bitch". Ice-T was yapping the same ol' same ol', PE dropped off the planet, and Master P was in full force (everything after Ghetto's Tryin to Kill me was weak, save the early TRU albums).
Same thing happened to Scarface. After his first album (which was off the meter), he slowly went south (no pun intended). He even completely changed his delivery, which I couldn't stand (refer to "priest" above). His firey & furious delivery had completely fizzled & waned. Did he mature? Who cares... I was the consumer, and I couldn't stand it. If that was what he wanted to do, I respect him for it(to this day). But, I never bothered again. OK, I'll admit: I did go to my local record shops to atleast sample his albums and give him a chance, but to no avail.
Could the same thing be happening to NIP?? Yes, his sound has fizzled. However, I blame this mostly on the production element of his last 3-4 albums. The music simply SUCKS. His lyrics are still pleasantly "fucked", but the production is horrible. Too much noise, too much happening at the same time, too many of those dorky synths, the beats are real slow and uninspiring. Crackerjack production. How can you complement NIP's psychotic(artistic) nature with such monotonous, mundane weak production. That's like putting ketchup on a salad!!! I mean the man used to record in the dark (does he still?). If I heard this kind of weak production in the dark (no less), I sure wouldn't be inspired. I would either fall asleep, or just go insane cuz I would hate it so much.
What NIP needs is a re-collaboration with the Crazy C of old. He needs to hook up with either Crazy C, or west coast's E-A Ski, or the "old" Dope E/Egypt E sound or even Rino's early sounds. We need that early 90's sound to come back. I mean all of these great albums that everyone is talking about all were released in the early 90's, so then that must be the common denominator. If his production sucks, how can you expect him to get amped enough to deliver the heat. I sure wouldn't be inspired.... So I guess his lyrics & delivery are a testament to the weak production of whoever he is collaborating with now. You can't blame NIP 100% for this. And yes, sometimes we are a slave to our budgets, which is a damned shame.
However, I do feel that as an artist, you should never release sub-par material. That's what your crew is there for: HONESTY. If your crew can't tell you that your final product is weak, then they aren't crew. They aren't family. PERIOD!
Then it ends up on message boards like this.....possibly tarnishing an artist's name forever.
NIP, ........it is deep inside you. You just need to find it again. Unless, you don't desire to find it all. That's your prerogative. You don't have anything to prove to me after "South Park Psycho". You are in my hall of fame. Peace.
PS: but it would be nice to hear some Charles Manson meets Jeffrey Dahmer for some blood-mud wresting inside a dead elephant's trunk-type shit"
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