Music Review: Atmosphere “When Life Gives You Lemons, You Paint That Shit Gold”
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- Like The Rest Of Us
- Puppets
- The Skinny
- Dreamer
- Shoulda Know
- You
- Painting
- Your Glasshouse
- Yesterday
- Guarantees
- Me
- Wild Wild Horses
- Can’t Break
- The Waitress
- In Her Music Box
You’ll never catch me ever trying to be some huge rap buff, hell I barely own 20 rap albums, which considering the size of my music collection is saying something. It’s not that I despise the genre it’s just that like most genres is guilty of pushing about 90% crap onto the mainstream audience.
With that in mind, I’d be lying if I said I knew much about Atmosphere’s other discs with the exception of a little bit of Seven’s Travels (Trying to Find a Balance especially). However a few people recommended the disc to me and since he’s had past interactions with Sage Francis (whom I’m guilty of enjoying) I figured why not. Plus the album title sold me too.
As I said, I’d be lying if I told you I had this vast knowledge of rap music, but what I do have a vast knowledge of is crappy half music. That’s exactly what this album is.
I can’t think of only 1-2 songs on the entire disc that can boast solid lyrics and a good beat. The rest suffers from only delivering on 1/2 the equation which hinders your ability to take too much enjoyment out of the experience.
As the trend with these rappers “with something to say” so to speak Atmosphere spits lyrics that can be only described as rap’s equivalent to Emo. Other than that my biggest put down of the album is that it’s barely even a hip hop album in the first place. I mean a slight percussion beat and lines that rhyme don’t make a rap album.
I’ll end this review by paraphrasing a quote from a movie that I think goes with the album title well…”well what do you do when life gives you shit, you can’t make anything with shit.” Unfortunately Atmosphere tried to paint it gold and hope we wouldn’t notice.
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“can be only described as rap’s equivalent to Emo.” is the best line in the history of TMB. HA! I couldn’t have said it better.
I know it sounds elitist, but the fact that this is critically acclaimed really tells me that the internet’s influence on hip hop has taken a major turn for the worse instead of capitalizing on the indie boom during the late nineties. The fact that you hear about this ten times before even one passing mention of say, J-Live’s new joint is absolutely tragic.