Vinnie Paz drops Season Of The Assassin
Few emcees are quite capable of coherently stringing together bars about The Bible, conspiracies theories and mangling an enemy’s face with the business end of a box-cutter. But that’s pretty much Jedi Mind Tricks/Army of the Pharaohs front-man Vinnie Paz in a nutshell. The metal-mouthed Philadelphia emcee is the reigning impresario of angry independent Rap, establishing perhaps one of the most influential movements in underground Hip Hop since MF DOOM.
Now, after over a decade in the game, Vin Laden is setting out as a ronin with his debut solo LP, Season of the Assassin. The album is an exciting break from the usual JMT formula, with Paz hitting his stride as a lyricist and showing a different and more fully-rounded side to his craft.
Opening the album with a quote from Jim Jarmusch’s Ghost Dog: Way of the Samurai, the Pazmanian Devil leaves no question as to what to expect: to paraphrase Rocky III, he’s a wrecking machine and he hasn’t sounded this hungry since the acclaimed Violent By Design. Although little has changed in with respect to his gruff bar-for-bar approach, Paz sounds reinvigorated. Songs like “Warmonger” and “Righteous Kill” best capture his reinvention, finding him barking out bars like, “I’m a fuckin’ thunderstorm, you’re a light shower / You a bitch, you shoot and miss like Dwight Howard / You can’t battle the God, I’m too precise, coward / That’s like Khalil Muhammad saying he’s white power.”
This is the ALBUM OF THE YEAR!!! Nothing but straight BANGERS… cop yours today from UndergroundHipHop.com and represent the underground until you are under the ground! And for all the REAL deejays cop it on vinyl HERE!
Jedi Mind Tricks Live in Chicago
April 4, 2010 by Jason · Leave a Comment
Nothing too much needed to be said if you watched the video …. Jedi Mind Tricks killed it as always!!! Vinnie Paz and Jus Allah are MONSTERS on the mic and DJ Stoupe the Enemy of Mankind kills the cuts!
Thanks to the entire Jedi Mind Tricks crew for coming to Chicago and doing your thing at Subterranean this past Friday!!!!
Make sure to cop the new Jedi Mind Tricks presents… Army of the Pharaohs “The Unholy Terror“!!!!
Army of the Pharaohs drop The Unholy Terror
March 30, 2010 by Jason · Leave a Comment
Army of the Pharaohs (AOTP or A.O.T.P.) is a hip hop supergroup originating from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, formed by Jedi Mind Tricks MC Vinnie Paz in 1998. From the beginning, Paz had envisioned the group as a loose collaboration between the biggest names in East Coast underground hip hop.
The original incarnation of the group included five MCs: Vinnie Paz, Chief Kamachi, 7L & Esoteric, Trip C and Bahamadia, along with JMT producer Stoupe the Enemy of Mankind.
The new album “The Unholy Terror” drops today!!!!
R.A. the Rugged Man Stanley Kubrick
February 1, 2010 by Jason · Leave a Comment
R.A. Thorburn, better known as R.A. the Rugged Man, is an emcee from Suffolk County, New York on Long Island. Coming from a broken home, R.A.’s father was a Vietnam veteran affected by Agent Orange. His family was forever changed by the potent chemical — his brother Maxx was born handicapped and blind, eventually dying at the age of 10, while his sister Dee Ann couldn’t walk or speak.[citation needed] R.A. tells the story of his father, Staff Sgt. John A. Thorburn, in the Jedi Mind Tricks track “Uncommon Valor: A Vietnam Story”. His verse was given the Quotable of the Month in The Source magazine. In his song “Lessons,” R.A. alluded to suffering from mental illness himself.
A true legend of underground hip hop, R.A. the Rugged Man has all the unpredictable humour and demented charm of a crazy man exploiting his own inflated shortcomings for our twisted pleasure. This monster on the mic worked with Biggie and Mobb Deep in the beginning, has supposedly been homeless and loves horror movies more than most.
