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  STH2243CD  £7.00

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Stones Throw

Guilty Simpson

OJ Simpson

Hip Hop oj simpson that's the name of the album no bloody gloves no ford broncos these are some 12 hardhitting straight fromthegutter hiphop tracks featuring guilty's inimitable baritone and an equal number of madlib's signature albumassoundtrack radio sideshow arrangements where the beat and sequence is as important as the rap this with a couple nononsense guest appearances some cuts by j rocc and a whole bunch of attitude makes up one of our favourite projects in a while interspersed with beat interludes laced with vocals sourced from places only madlib could find this intricately puzzled together project plays like a hazy movie dreamt up in the beat konducta's basement having been introduced to the stones throw camp by j dilla himself guilty simpson has since worked his way through reams of classic guest appearances mixtapes and world tours and some where in the middle managed to fit in the now classic 'ode to the ghetto' lp the charisma that detroit's heavy hitting mc guilty simpson and the los angeles based madlib share testifies to a musical kinship that is rare in today's rapperasanaccessory marketplace going back to guilty's first appearance on wax jaylib's 'strapped' 2003 guilty over a madlib beat to us is like hearing guru over premier circa daily operation or cl over pete around the time of 'straighten it out' sometimes a rapper and a producer just work well together