non phixion the future is now album download

DJ Premier's 'Rock Star' even boasts the best Primo track since the last Gang Starr album.

The album is loaded with great production work by the likes of Pete Rock, Large Professor, and Necro. Technically, Ill Bill and Sabec Red are decent emcees they stay on the beat and their flows are effective. It really is a shame that Non Phixion comes across as being so juvenile.

Perhaps in their quest to be the perpetually fashionable, anti-everything group of the month, Non Phixion merely adopted some of the more sensationalistic rhetoric of political radicalism. It sounds as though somewhere along the way Non Phixion mastermind Ill Bill pawned his Chomsky books for baggies of cocaine and began drifting thematically closer to the crackhead comic relief of Flavor Flav than to the anti-capitalist stance of Chuck D.Įven the titles are contradictory, corny, and unimaginative: The Future Is Now, 'Futurama' (where 'cyborgs will kill your mamma!'), 'There Is No Future,' and 'We Are the Future.' And the lyrics are even more so: 'Jews, Muslims, Christians/ What the fuck's the difference?/ We all want money, drugs and bitches/ Anybody that doesn't rubs me suspicious.' I'm trying not to say that political dissent has to be intellectually polished, and I'm certainly not trying to be some moral watchdog, but when lines like this are spewed by some snarling, white emcee mugging for the camera with a shotgun, I have to question not only his intelligence, but also his initial motivation for adopting a political stance.

Instead of the scathing socio-political critique I'd expected, Non Phixion has released an album that is perhaps the first example of inadvertent post-apocalyptic Marxist kitsch. Now, as I'm listening to the 2002 version of The Future Is Now, I'm beginning to wish that it had never been released, and I'm starting to think that the heads at Matador were just more discerning than fraidycat.

Non phixion the future is now album download