I already know that I’m not gonna like every song on here. He’s made a lot of music that I dislike, but the shit that I do like is fucking fantastic. If he split every album in half and released them separately none of them would feel incomplete. I think that it might’ve been a bad album, but he puts so much music on each project that I still ended up with a decent amount of songs that I liked from it.
TECH N9NE SONGS THAT ARENT ON ALBUMS FULL
The only full project by him that I’ve ever listened to is called Something Else. I haven’t listened to that yet, but the two songs that I have heard from it are dope af. Tech N9ne released a compilation with the rest of Strange Music last year called Strangeulation. Though he’s not exactly the outsider he once was, Tech N9ne fans-the die-hards and the johnny-come-latelys-should really enjoy this album.This album came out on May 4th this year. And do all the tracks fit neatly into the project’s conceptual arc? No, but even attempting something like that is a tall task, and the album as a straight listen certainly exhibits a noted change in musical direction as it plays, which is a commendable. There aren’t any blatantly bad songs, but sure, you might skip a few. The LP has a cornucopia of guests, but they all show up in force and only occasionally detract from the material. Is Something Else a milestone in Tech N9ne’s career, the quintessential album he’s been waiting to make his whole career? Tough to say. A ballsy collaboration like that could have sounded forced, but here it doesn’t, with the Doors stepping more into Tech’s world, sonically, than he into theirs. And then there’s “Strange 2013,” a reworking of The Doors “Strange Days,” produced by Fredwreck and featuring all the members of the band, including Ray Manzarek, who passed away in May. “Believe” is the album’s standout track-an inspiring tune about overcoming racism, and probably a bit more pop-inflected than die-hard Tech N9ne fans have ever heard him before-featuring an incredible vocal performance from local Kansas City vocalist Kortney Leveringston, doing what sounds like the best Beyoncé impression of all time. That said, the final portion of the LP, Earth, which deals more with the idea of hope, is where things take off and show Tech’s artistic growth. And he slips on “See Me,” a generic Wiz Khalifa and B.o.B-assisted cut that might sound at home on one of those artists’ LPs, but comes off woefully out of place here.
Like on “Meant To Happen,” a Scoop Deville-produced cut which never gets off the ground, faltering at the hands of skittering drums and a top line melody that sounds like it isn’t really sure what it wants to do. With its somewhat bloated tracklist (debatable, in a day and age when we can cherry-pick what songs to listen to by just removing a track from a playlist Tech also has a history of releasing long albums), things drag occasionally. “Fragile,” featuring Kendrick Lamar, Kendall Morgan and Mayday! is a brutal ‘fuck you’ letter to music critics, which may dissuade writers from ever saying anything about these guys ever again, lest you hurt their feelings. Then there’s the brazenly unapologetic “With the BS,” about the physical dangers of pushing a person past their limit and “Fortune Force Field,” a poignantly sung-rapped tune about the riches Tech presumably deserves, but somehow can’t grasp. Very crafty.įaced with impending doom from said meteorite, the first act, Fire, features songs like the judgment day-inspired “Straight Out The Gate,” where System of a Down’s Serj Tankian sings: “We are the children of your rivals/Holding guns while reading Bibles/Go ahead and seal your fate.” Deep stuff.
A concept album with the songs slotted in three acts-Fire, Water, and Earth-the LP is framed around the story of a meteorite striking downtown Kansas City. 4 on the Billboard 200 album chart in its first week of release). That’s the question the Strange Music co-founder most likely had to answer when he went in to work on Something Else, his 13th studio album, and first solo project since 2011’s All 6’s and 7’s (which debuted at No.
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