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Check out Himalayan Project's Music
Genre: Hip Hop
Wince at the Sun is the latest full throttle release by the hip-hop duo MCs Chee Malabar and Rainman of the Himalayan Project. Wince at the Sun is an eloquent discourse on the oft oppressed and dismissed concerns of those who have borne the legacy of Western European imperialism.
Chee and Rainman take hip-hop back to its social core adding a modern edge that is both intellectual and provoking:
Fearless and unrelenting Chee and Rainman forcefully challenge "accepted" history with lyrics and styles that speak volumes about a historical dialogue that is long over due:
Follow the stark stench of human's fuming disease where my people get by simply on ritual beliefs It's steeped deep in what the British did before they fled Left more than just English liquor, cricket, whiskey and tea Psychological damage, famines, but we manage cause even a rose grows through cracks in concrete and a lotus floats hope in the stream of the Ganges-Postcards from ParadiseAlthough Wince at the Sun is primarily political, Chee and Malabar show off their mainstream interface with material that would put many established MCs to shame:
Pac's for the thugs and Hova's for the clubs I'm the one you forgot while you were lickin they nuts Fuck, don't get it twisted, I list em' as favorites too but radio's killin' my patience like Jack Kervokian-The PassionIn the end Wince at the Sun suffered from one major flaw: poor beats. While clearly innovative lyrically, the producers who orchestrated the tracks on Wince at the Sun did very little justice to Chee and Rainman's sharp, witty, and intellectual messages. The music on most tracks sounded the same and where songs end and began was difficult to discern. Suggestion, a REMIX album! Wince at the Sun deserves this honor!
Nevertheless, Wince at the Sun, is a much welcomed and overdue album lyrically, socially, and politically. Chee and Rainman are two men, who if given their well-deserved platform, would reinvigorate a nation about its history and ignite the belated racial/ethnic healing of America.
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