Product description No Description Available.Genre: Rap, Hip-HopMedia Format: Compact DiskRating: PARelease Date: 10-DEC-2002 Amazon.com Rock & roll has grabbed Common by the neck and given him a good shake. With its heavy, multilayered sound, Electric Circus is steeped in the Chicago-born and Brooklyn-based rappers newfound love for Pink Floyd, Traffic, and, above all, Jimi Hendrix. But, like many new converts to anything, Common goes a little off the deep end. His ambitious quest to expand the boundaries of hip-hop is crammed to the gills with a thousand motifs and is a little too busy to be a complete success. Perhaps not surprisingly, Commons rhymes (sample lyric: "my mind screams like Al Green to stay together!") take a distant second place to the complex musical landscape hes fashioned. In addition, a sidereal array of vocalists (including Stereolabs Laetitia Sadier, Mary J. Blige, Jill Scott, Cee-Lo, Bilal, and Commons main squeeze, Erykah Badu) and musicians (Prince, Bobbi Humphrey, Nicholas Payton) add to the sonic density. All in all, Electric Circus mightnt strike the universal chord that Common sought, but its a bold, elaborate project that's definitely worth a listen. --Rebecca Levine
