NEW JERSEY REPRESENTATIVE RASHEED CHAPPELL IS ANOTHER ARTIST WHO FIRST COME TO OUR ATTENTION IN 2010 THANKS TO A WELL CRAFTED MIXTAPE "THE CHAPPELL SHOW... THE LOST EPISODES V2" BUT NOTHING COULD HAVE PREPARED US FOR HIS 2011 DEBUT "FUTURE BEFORE NOSTALGIA"
THIS COLLABORATION BETWEEN CHAPPELL & LEGENDARY NEW YORK DJ KENNY DOPE GONZALEZ WAS EASILY THE SURPRISE HIT OF 2011! SINCE DOPE HAS BEEN RELATIVELY QUIET OVER THE PAST FEW YEARS IT WAS A PLEASANT SURPRISE TO SEE HIM HANDLING THE PRODUCTION FOR A WHOLE PROJECT WITH AN ALMOST UNKNOWN EMCEE!! UNKNOWN HE CERTAINLY ISN'T ANYMORE THANKS TO "FUTURE BEFORE NOSTALGIA" WHICH WAS A TRUE NOD TO THE OLD SCHOOL BOOM BAP SOUND WHICH WE ALL KNOW & LOVE. THE PERFECT EXAMPLE OF THIS WOULD BE THE DJ SCRATCH FEATURED "BREAK LOOSE" DON'T GET IT TWISTED THOUGH THIS AIN'T JUST A REMINDER OF HOW THINGS USED TO BE, COULD BE & SHOULD BE IT'S MUCH BIGGER THAN THAT CHAPPELL DEALS FOR THE MOST PART ON THE SOCIAL ILL'S WE ALL FACE BUT WITH POSSIBLY A MORE POSTIVE OUTLOOK!! ON "THEOLOGY OF WAR" FEATURING MISHAL MOORE CHAPPELL SPITS:
“Man made death/Man made religion/
Cuz’ man needs steps/Man made Adam/
Said man made Eve/But man split the atom so that can’t be/
Man made law/From manmade order/
Man claimed land/Then man made borders.”
WHILST NOT SHARING THE SAME WEALTH OF MATERIAL IN 2011 AS THE MAJORITY OF THE OTHER EMCEES TO BE FEATURED IN THIS LIST, THE 16 TRACKS PROVIDED ON HIS DEBUT "FUTURE BEFORE NOSTALGIA" EARNS HIM OUR TRUE TOP EMCEES IN THE GAME EIGHTH PLACE, BECAUSE HE MANAGED TO PUT OUT AN ALBUM THAT CAN BE APPRECIATED FROM BEGINNING TO END WITHOUT SKIPPING (JUST BECAUSE WE GOT THE TECHNOLOGY TO DO SO NOW, IT DOES NOT MEAN WE WANT TO) ALL KILLER NO FILLER!!!
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