Sensational - Loaded With Power C/D

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One of the most fucked-up hip-hop records ever, released in 1998 on WordSound to general bafflement. LWP is totally stripped-down, slathered with oozing, rumbling bass and creepy almost horror-movie keyboards. The beats are not funky; the snares echo away into the fog that permeates the whole disc. His rhyming is weird, having almost nothing to do with the beat - he's just rambling and ranting, and occasionally his own overdubbed voice comes in, disturbingly loud, serving as his own hypeman. He keeps talking about getting played in discos and having hits, but come on. He did two or three more albums for them, each one a little glossier, until he wound up on Ipecac where he did one that was almost as good as this, but not quite. Apparently, he was also briefly a member of the Jungle Brothers under the name "Torture," but his tracks were excised from the released version of J.Beez Wit The Remedy, or something - in any case, I don't remember him on that album. I say classic. What say you? Am I the only one around here who's even heard this damn record, let alone been obsessed with it for a decade (not as obsessed as I am with New Kingdom's Paradise Don't Come Cheap, but still)?

― unperson, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 15:08 (eighteen years ago)

I dled it from biffhop the other day, and have only listened to it once so far, but I'm not detecting the charm to it. I'll give it another try pretty soon, but I'm honestly not hopeful. As you know, I tend to like by rap to be pretty straightforward and to honor the rules of the genre.

― Oilyrags, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 15:23 (eighteen years ago)

two years pass...

a) "this is sensational/FBI disguised/we dressed up as phone guys/we devilish, we hip to that"

b) this dude's still putting out records! i can't believe i didn't know.

c) look for the crazy wisdom masters stuff, the unreleased tracks from j-beez with the remedy.

http://www.cocaineblunts.com/blunts/?p=2589

― YAWNN 0))) (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 24 May 2009 16:47 (sixteen years ago)

three years pass...

Crazy Wisdom Masters

unbelievable

you can honestly say that the history of hip hop would have been very different if this had come out

― Milton Parker, Tuesday, 12 March 2013 22:50 (twelve years ago)

ra ra caper
i got somemorewickedrhymes
on the paper

Really wish someone would issue that album officially. So ridiculous the way labels treat rappers.

― The Jacket Bastard (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 13 March 2013 04:11 (twelve years ago)

Also sometimes I feel like Shabazz Palaces is the, well, not son, but nephew of Sensational.

― The Jacket Bastard (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 13 March 2013 04:11 (twelve years ago)

Musically speaking.

― The Jacket Bastard (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 13 March 2013 04:11 (twelve years ago)

Amazingly, I still have my CD copy of Loaded With Power. Haven't played it in years, but I just pulled it off the shelf for playage soon. (Might have others by him, which I remember being not as good, in a box in the closet; if I still like this one, I may even open them up to check.)

― xhuxk, Wednesday, 13 March 2013 04:44 (twelve years ago)

I have a fifteen-track FLAC of CWM: this what you're listening to Milton?

― Call the Cops, Wednesday, 13 March 2013 16:29 (twelve years ago)

fifteen! send track listing?

my first post was based entirely on the youtubes from this: http://www.discogs.com/Crazy-Wisdom-Masters-The-Payback-EP/release/193657

http://www.theunheardmusic.org/2012/01/09/david-williams-talks-about-the-jungle-brothers-and-crazy-wisdom-masters-and-how-you-can-help-originally-posted-august-6th-2011/

― Milton Parker, Wednesday, 13 March 2013 17:53 (twelve years ago)

Jungle Brothers - [Crazy Wisdom Masters #01] Simple As That
Jungle Brothers - [Crazy Wisdom Masters #02] Good Ole Hype Shit
Jungle Brothers - [Crazy Wisdom Masters #03] Book Of Rhyme Pages
Jungle Brothers - [Crazy Wisdom Masters #04] JB's Comin' Through
Jungle Brothers - [Crazy Wisdom Masters #05] Spittin' Wicked Randomness
Jungle Brothers - [Crazy Wisdom Masters #06] Spark A New Flame
Jungle Brothers - [Crazy Wisdom Masters #07] Mysterious Monkey
Jungle Brothers - [Crazy Wisdom Masters #08] Battle Show
Jungle Brothers - [Crazy Wisdom Masters #09] I'm In Love With Indica
Jungle Brothers - [Crazy Wisdom Masters #10] Ra Ra Kid
Jungle Brothers - [Crazy Wisdom Masters #11] Peace Ahki
Jungle Brothers - [Crazy Wisdom Masters #12] Trials Of An Era
Jungle Brothers - [Crazy Wisdom Masters #13] Book Of Rhyme Pages (Remix)
Jungle Brothers - [Crazy Wisdom Masters #14] Troopin' On The Down Low
Jungle Brothers - [Crazy Wisdom Masters #15] Hedz At Company Z

― r|t|c, Wednesday, 13 March 2013 18:00 (twelve years ago)

yeah, well, there you go

are all those different mixes from the J Beez versions?

the difference between the J Beez mix of 'Simple As That' and the original is about an entire album's worth of music in 5 minutes

― Milton Parker, Wednesday, 13 March 2013 18:05 (twelve years ago)

Yeah, they're different. What's the best way to move files around in this neighbourhood?

― Call the Cops, Thursday, 14 March 2013 09:51 (twelve years ago)

Um maybe s3ndspace?

If you can up that I know Milton and I would both appreciate it greatly. I've been looking for the longer version for a while now and had no luck at all.

Should we redirect this to Leonardo?

― The Jacket Bastard (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 15 March 2013 05:45 (twelve years ago)

I would LOVE to hear that. I can message you with my email address for a link...

― 誤訳侮辱, Friday, 15 March 2013 12:07 (twelve years ago)

Me four (?) Only heard the Payback EP which is great.

― One bad call from barely losing to (Alex in SF), Friday, 15 March 2013 12:34 (twelve years ago)

Me five. Although a long time Sensational fan, didn't know about this.

― Wandering Boy Poet, Friday, 15 March 2013 13:17 (twelve years ago)

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