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- Summary: The rap duo from Oakland, California releases its latest album on the Gold Dust Media label.
- Record Label: Gold Dust
- Genre(s): Rap
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Positive: 3 out of 7
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Mixed: 4 out of 7
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Negative: 0 out of 7
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The Take Over--a post-modern sonic mash-up for Generation O--is Zion I’s best attempt at turning their underground crusade into an overground movement.
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Zion I--on four songs, at least--maintain their sterling reputation as one of the most underrated acts around.
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Unabashedly upbeat, MC Zumbi compares ghetto life to being a "caged bird," but even when he dismisses haters ("Burning incense, yeah, they tried to call us yoga"), he sounds optimistic.
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Q MagazineTheir quirky, inventive take on hip hop deserve a bigger audience. [Mar 2009, p.98]
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There are certainly worse ways to make party music, but it doesn’t make it any less disappointing, especially if Zion I is going to keep up some of its backpackery, fight-for-change rhetoric.
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Alternative PressThe album as a whole is scattershot; it's easy to appreciate the boundaries that Zion I are pushing, but the best authors have great editors. [Feb 2009, p.107]
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UncutIts wilful eccentricity distracts from the Native Tongues style that's their strongest card. [Mar 2009, p.107]
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Positive: 1 out of 1
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Mixed: 0 out of 1
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Negative: 0 out of 1
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YayoMar 2, 2009They switched it up, but still come correct. Open your mind and don't sleep.
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