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Bottle of Humans was an amazing album, immediately hailed as a classic. Selling Live Water improves upon that album in every identifiable category.
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SpinEmo kids, hold your heads: An Eminem you can call your own is on line one. [Apr 2003, p.107]
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UncutA worthy West Coast counterpart to El-P's superb Fantastic Damage. [Apr 2003, p.108]
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The production is progressive, but not difficult; the mixture of sampled melodies and live instrumentation gives the whole record a submarine clarity and (as with many Anticon releases) the more listens the listener gives, the more content the album returns.
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Unfortunately, his spiels can deteriorate into what sounds like unedited 4 a.m. caffeine babble.
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Certainly he understands things about this society that his better-adjusted contemporaries don't. But he's woefully short on not just empathy but humorous self-deprecation.
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UrbAn emo-rap fan's wet dream. [Feb 2003, p.93]
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Alternative PressSole's willingness to bust lyrical caps in the asses of the left as well as the right make him a fairly revolutionary revolutionary--one whose musical journal keeping, for all its excesses, is worth deciphering. [Apr 2003, p.85]
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Selling Live Water follows the Anticon party line (double-timed, singsongy half-sensical ramblings countering slow, lumbering beats) through to conscious hip-hop's most logical dead end.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 3 out of 4
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Negative: 1 out of 4
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chrisJan 27, 2005
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TheIncredibleHullksMar 19, 2003