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junclassic
12+ albums
hip hoprapHip-HopUSAgungsta
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Onetime Monsta Island Czars emcee Junclassic [click to read] and the producer- and sometimes rhyme concierge is 18sho are truly a dynamic duo, playing an equally creative role to the madness that is Overqualified. The song, “I Wasn’t Ready” seems to manifest Junclassic’s lyrical credo. In the midst of sampled handclaps and audience noises, rhyming mistakes, flubs and faux pas are prevalent on the menu, but yet Junclassic still keeps rhyming and going like the Duracell Bunny. Whether ready or not, Junclassic is an enigma. His delivery is coddled with anger while he takes any and every opportunity to be silly. He has a rapid-fire delivery that is slow flowing with clarity ala EPMD, but at times his breathing and pacing sounds as if it’s languishing. The simplest way to describe the man from Queens, New York is different yet captivating. This is an emcee composite of KRS-One [click to read], with an equal blending of Trugoy and then in the next minute he’s Zev Love X. The combination is a very strange mixture that manages to work none-the-less and comes off as a positive. Take for instance the song, “Squeaky Clean,” a slower paced flow than Zev Love X utilized, but the lyrical flow and the delivery along with the word play has the feel of a KMD album cut. The interactive ambiance and the simplistic yet funky production on large parts of this album are like a slower rhyming updated version of KMD's first album, Mr. Hood. Now on the De La Soul tip comes two tracks, first up,
