Aknu Media CDs. Fifteen years after a teenaged Esham made his recorded debut, he continues to spin some of the darkest, most twisted street stories, on his 2005 release A-1 YOLA. Long before Eminem and Insane Clown Posse started selling millions of records, ...

Aknu Media music. Dead Flowerz finds the prolific Detroit rapper Esham honing his self-described acid rap style, leaving behind many of his more disturbing lyrical themes in favor of more traditional themes. Many who have come to expect the usual shocks will loathe ...

Aknu Media music. As the follow-up to his as-disturbing-as-possible Judgement Day double album, Kill the Fetus isn't too much of a divergence, still finding Esham practicing his morbid rapping and his grimey production. Here, he manages to cram 23 songs onto the album ...

Aknu Media CDs. With each album in the 1990s, Natas moved their music forward both as MCs and in terms of production, evolving from a juvenile exploitation group into an earnest group serious about changing the rap game with their increasingly realized rap ...

Aknu Media Records. After two grimy albums of lo-fi production driven by P-Funk and classic rock samples, Natas returned with Doubelievengod, a much more mature album in terms of both production and rapping. Most obviously, the platter of samples is gone; for whatever ...

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Aknu Media CDs. If there was ever a moment in time when Esham seemed positioned to break out of the Midwest and expand his small cult audience, the summer of 2001 stood as that golden moment. Primarily thanks to Eminem's enormous success the ...

Aknu Media music. As his final solo album of the 1990s, Esham's Mail Dominance finds few traces of the morbid themes that populated the rapper's early-'90s work. At this point in his career, the Detroit artist opted for a more respectable route, rapping ...

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Aknu Media Records. First released in 1990, a few years before gangsta rap took over the rap genre and nearly a decade before heavy metal-influenced rap rose from the underground, Esham's debut deserves recognition merely for its aims if not also for its ...