Ultramagnetic MC's - Critical Beatdown CD

 Hip Hop Classic
Up there with the best classic Hip Hop like PE's Takes a Nation album and De La Souls' 3 Feet High this is one of the defining albums of the genre. Trust me, you can't do without this album.
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 Critical Classic!!
This album set the stage for the new school point blank!! Ced-Gee was the first producer besides his competitor Marley Marl to chop groove samples and drum breaks on the sp-12 sampler and add absract noise sounds to create a hardcore funk sound!! He and lyrical wizard Kool Keith took lyrical complexity to the next level with big word technology, and off beat delivery but keeping the bronx street flavor on every track!! DJ Moe Love scratching up every thing from military spoken word records to Michael Jackson on the hooks. Critical Beatdown is straight up Bronx B-Boy hip hop in it's purist form!! Peep the many subliminal lyrical diss lines to everyone from LL, Run DMC, and even the God Rakim!!
Submitted by asrxpro2001 (Chicago)
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 A rap hurricane!
The lyricism of Keith and Ced G is so 2008 and the beats are just disgustingly solid and funky. Man, this album is loud at low volumes and DJ Screw(may his soul RIP) couldnt slow it down, it is scientifical madness!
Submitted by chronwell (Washington DC)
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 Everyone is doin' the ULTRAMAGNETIC thing now
Nobody gave them respect,nobody liked the earth-shattering beats. Nobody liked their witty-wicked word play. Nobody saw what very few saw in KOOL KEITH,CED-GEE,MOE LOVE & T.R. LOVE better known as the ULTRAMAGNETIC MC'S. CRITICAL BEATDOWN is an overlooked hip-hop wonderland. Duplicated by today's MC's and producers. But this album originated in 1988. Go figure? No. ULTRAMAGNETIC is the future,even though they are a group no more,anything released nowadays by new comers revolve around this almost 20 year old album,alone.
Submitted by draughnwill (Morristown,NJ)
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