Here's something you might be interested in.
Ask a Hipster — Advice you didn't know you needed
Big Screen — Movie commentary
Blurt — Music's inside track
Booze News — San Diego spirits
Classical Music — Immortal beauty
Classifieds — Free and easy
Cover Stories — Front-page features
Drinks All Around — Bartenders' drink recipes
Excerpts — Literary and spiritual excerpts
Feast! — Food & drink reviews
Feature Stories — Local news & stories
Fishing Report — What’s getting hooked from ship and shore
From the Archives — Spotlight on the past
Golden Dreams — Talk of the town
The Gonzo Report — Making the musical scene, or at least reporting from it
Letters — Our inbox
Movies@Home — Local movie buffs share favorites
Movie Reviews — Our critics' picks and pans
Musician Interviews — Up close with local artists
Neighborhood News from Stringers — Hyperlocal news
News Ticker — News & politics
Obermeyer — San Diego politics illustrated
Outdoors — Weekly changes in flora and fauna
Overheard in San Diego — Eavesdropping illustrated
Poetry — The old and the new
Reader Travel — Travel section built by travelers
Reading — The hunt for intellectuals
Roam-O-Rama — SoCal's best hiking/biking trails
San Diego Beer — Inside San Diego suds
SD on the QT — Almost factual news
Sheep and Goats — Places of worship
Special Issues — The best of
Street Style — San Diego streets have style
Surf Diego — Real stories from those braving the waves
Theater — On stage in San Diego this week
Tin Fork — Silver spoon alternative
Under the Radar — Matt Potter's undercover work
Unforgettable — Long-ago San Diego
Unreal Estate — San Diego's priciest pads
Your Week — Daily event picks
The Awakening
The Awakening EP, the newest release from Anti Citizens, comes with all the underground hip-hop bells and whistles that you could ask for from the duo. Grandiose dystopian beats ("Blackout," "2012 Armageddon"), impressive double-time lyrical gymnastics ("Verbal Assassin," "The Awakening"), and an abundance of solid guest features from both national acts (Apathy and Ras Kass on "Effortlessly") and local hip-hop heroes (Black Mikey, Orko Eloheim, and Johaz of Deep Rooted on "Underground Jugganautz"). From here, you could pretty much call it a day. As Phonte once said, "Dope beats, dope rhymes...what more do y'all want?"
But then you hear "All That I Am." Now, this song is by no means a highlight on a highlight-laden record. This gentle guitar-and-piano track feels absolutely limp amidst the rest of the epic production. Actually, when you first hear the song, it sounds so bizarrely out of place that you can't help but take notice. Then the two rappers, Mr. Ridley and Bazerkowitz, do something you don't expect at all — they start waxing philosophical about man's purpose in this world. And you realize this is the only point when either rapper lays down the braggadocio and relates on our level. It's the most human moment on the entire album. Without it, the album is a great display of empty tough talk. But with it, both the album and the artists suddenly gain definition. It's without a doubt the heart of the album.
- Album: The Awakening EP (2010)
- Artist: Anti Citizens
- Label: 2012 Dynasty
- Songs: (1) The Calm Before the Porn (2) Effortlessly (3) S.A.D.R.A.N. (4) Blackout (5) Verbal Assassin (6) All That I Am (7) DJ Artistry Beat Mash (8) Underground Jugganautz (9) 2012 Armageddon (10) The Awakening (11) Goodbye
Here's something you might be interested in.
The Awakening
The Awakening
The Awakening EP, the newest release from Anti Citizens, comes with all the underground hip-hop bells and whistles that you could ask for from the duo. Grandiose dystopian beats ("Blackout," "2012 Armageddon"), impressive double-time lyrical gymnastics ("Verbal Assassin," "The Awakening"), and an abundance of solid guest features from both national acts (Apathy and Ras Kass on "Effortlessly") and local hip-hop heroes (Black Mikey, Orko Eloheim, and Johaz of Deep Rooted on "Underground Jugganautz"). From here, you could pretty much call it a day. As Phonte once said, "Dope beats, dope rhymes...what more do y'all want?"
But then you hear "All That I Am." Now, this song is by no means a highlight on a highlight-laden record. This gentle guitar-and-piano track feels absolutely limp amidst the rest of the epic production. Actually, when you first hear the song, it sounds so bizarrely out of place that you can't help but take notice. Then the two rappers, Mr. Ridley and Bazerkowitz, do something you don't expect at all — they start waxing philosophical about man's purpose in this world. And you realize this is the only point when either rapper lays down the braggadocio and relates on our level. It's the most human moment on the entire album. Without it, the album is a great display of empty tough talk. But with it, both the album and the artists suddenly gain definition. It's without a doubt the heart of the album.
- Album: The Awakening EP (2010)
- Artist: Anti Citizens
- Label: 2012 Dynasty
- Songs: (1) The Calm Before the Porn (2) Effortlessly (3) S.A.D.R.A.N. (4) Blackout (5) Verbal Assassin (6) All That I Am (7) DJ Artistry Beat Mash (8) Underground Jugganautz (9) 2012 Armageddon (10) The Awakening (11) Goodbye