If you are not familiar with Nuclear Family then your hip-hop has lost its family ties. Aside from being the home base of such amazing groups as Junk Science and Iller Than Theirs, it is also the same camp that produces those good ole nukkie sounds that have made their way onto other notable albums dropped by acts such as Cool Calm Pete, The Project, and Loer Velocity to name a few. If you need a refresher course you can check the post on MC Killa produced by Snafu or the post on Scott Thorough.
Enter J. Howells Werthman. In his own words he "started off with the goal of making a ‘producer’ record, where one guy makes all the beats and then gets other guys to rap on the beats. Then he remembered that he kinda hates most ‘producer’ records."
I can GUARANTEE that you will not hate this record. No matter what the aim was, J. Howells quietly crafted one of the dopest compilations to drop recently on this indie hip-hop terrain. It requires no bogus cosign, no out of the ordinary sponsorship, nor some pretentious event where everything BUT the music is used to lure you out of $10 in attempts to "support the culture". It only asks you to listen... and do so for free.
Of course we can count on The Great Radio Belly once again for giving us this privilege of a free download. 17 Tracks of production bliss featuring rap juggernauts such as StarPower, Mercury and Cavalier (of course), M.C. K~Swift, SupaNova, King Guttah 1st, Gif, Iller Than Theirs, and Loer Velocity to name a few, not to mention a musical feature by the amazingly talented musicians from Javelin.
And the cover art is brilliant. Life sized cutouts of everyone on the record propped and poised in front of the wall explaining just what has occurred.. we made plans and we executed in rare form. Kudos. Peep my cutout shot, sporting the infamous Con-Everyone T from Cavwins.com/TME Studios.
Album concept by Tone Tank, photos by Vito Fun.DOWNLOAD THIS RECORD. Do this for free. Savor it. Recall what good music sounds like. Then pat yourself on the back, because the plan was easy.. make good music, service the people with something they can truly enjoy. Give thanks for producers like J. Howells Werthman.. this my friends is "doing it for the culture"
Love ya Jesse, well done indeed.
