- Record Label: Stones Throw
- Release Date: May 14, 2013
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May 17, 2013Kool Herc: Fertile Crescent is at its root empowering, challenging and subversive, most strikingly, it’s simply an incredibly rewarding listen.
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Jun 28, 2013He wants to set his people on the right path and keeps thinking up explicit ways to say so. But none of them have gotten near that goal so far, not even theoretically, as they might if his skills included the ability to rise to actual hits, as opposed to pleasurable musicality, and also to sink to them.
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May 17, 2013Though Kool Herc is just eight songs and 27 minutes long, it's plenty challenging and weighty.
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May 17, 2013Fertile Crescent sees Homeboy Sandman adding another project to his growing library, and it's one worth repeated spins.
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May 17, 2013Kool Herc: Fertile Crescent succeeds because it manages to balance Homeboy Sandman's unique delivery with fun, free-wheeling production.