![]() The production is spacy and atmospheric, often employing weird ambient noises and futuristic synths that clash with the defiantly low-budget production values. Even if this is all highly off-kilter, it’s also a conscious return to hip-hop on its most basic, beats-and-rhymes level hooks or jazz and funk samples aren’t even considerations here. Bigg Jus and El-P’s lyrical technique is so good it’s sometimes nearly impenetrable, assaulting the listener with dense barrages of words that take a few listens to decipher. Musically and lyrically, Funcrusher Plus is abrasive and confrontational, informed by left-wing politics and the punked-out battle cry “independent as f*ck.” It’s intentionally not funky and certainly not danceable the beats are tense and jagged, and often spaced far apart to leave room for the MCs’ complex rhymes. ![]() It was one of the artiest, most abstract hip-hop albums ever recorded, paving the way for a new brand of avant-garde experimentalism that blatantly defied commercial considerations. Featuring material recorded over 1994-1997, Company Flow’s official full-length debut, Funcrusher Plus, had a galvanizing effect on the underground hip-hop scene. ![]()
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