Edan - C or D?

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As an addendum to the underground hip hop thread where this guy didn't seem to get too many mentions despite his profile. He seems really popular among the underground hip hop fanbase - ppl are always asking for his records in Mr Bongo, and I went to a midweek gig of his last night and it was rammed.

So:

positives: some of his production really nice, Fast Rap an excellent mix, that song with the japanese kid....

negatives: he's on Def Jux, awful rapping voice - in paul barman territory as far as irritation is concerned, nasty cover art...

― Jacob, Wednesday, 13 November 2002 16:21 (twenty-one years ago) link

Fast Rap is classic. It didn't leave my discman for a month. I do agree with you on his voice though.

― S, Wednesday, 13 November 2002 16:56 (twenty-one years ago) link

I like his recent album. Search: Run that Shit! and the one with the Japanese sample. Yet some of it is a little grating. Can't say why. I guess he's just a really great version of Eminem.

― dog latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 13 November 2002 17:27 (twenty-one years ago) link

"primitive plus" is good... but...

?
m.

― msp, Wednesday, 13 November 2002 18:16 (twenty-one years ago) link

he's the shit. All of his stuff is quality. beats are killer prime 89 updated for the future. more innovative than 99% of under and pop.
I will buy everything he puts out. He's not on Def Jux. He knows his shit. Paul Barmuan is wack.

― catman, Wednesday, 13 November 2002 18:41 (twenty-one years ago) link

what's wrong with being on def jux? seriously. i usually don't get into hip hop that's too wordy and nerdy (old company flow, anti pop), but i've been blown away by the recent def jux releases

aesop rock is amazing. the el-p solo album is one of the best hip hop albums of the year. canibal ox kicks ass (could have better mcs, but the beats are beautiful), rjd2 is pretty ok.

i've heard lots of ilxers dissing def jux. why?

― JasonD (JasonD), Wednesday, 13 November 2002 18:46 (twenty-one years ago) link

Because they're afraid of El-P starring in a film about a struggling young hip-hopper trying to make it called Tri-State Area.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 13 November 2002 19:14 (twenty-one years ago) link

Directed by Jim Jarmusch!

Back to Edan: "You Suck" made me laugh the first time I heard it, probably because the beat is so damned goofy. I still like it all right.

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Wednesday, 13 November 2002 19:19 (twenty-one years ago) link

Back to Edan

East of Edan?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 13 November 2002 19:28 (twenty-one years ago) link

def jux rox... don't hate the playa...

back to edan..."emcees smoke crack"... it's tracks like this that sorta remind me of beck in his silly modes...

Travel at velocities that avalanche your property
I promptly open arm the potent pathways
To crack eggs on your catch phrase
Pourin rotten milk in the face is how I'm doin em
MC smoke crack, I smoke aluminum

he's just hilarious.
m.

― msp, Wednesday, 13 November 2002 22:58 (twenty-one years ago) link

Actually he's gotten a lot of comparisons to Kool Keith, and those lines are pretty much along those lines.

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Wednesday, 13 November 2002 23:29 (twenty-one years ago) link

to compare edan to kool keith is to just miss every point there has ever been ever

― bob zemko (bob), Thursday, 14 November 2002 01:16 (twenty-one years ago) link

mr bongo = completely irrelevant

― bob zemko (bob), Thursday, 14 November 2002 01:18 (twenty-one years ago) link

The only reason for that comparison is to mention his UMCs imitation. Edan's like this really well-built formalist throwback to the 80s, I mostly hear him as a style flourish. I don't mind the voice but I also can't imagine sitting an entire album by him at once.

― Honda (Honda), Thursday, 14 November 2002 02:07 (twenty-one years ago) link

ten years pass...

i don't know why i never listened to beauty & the beat before but this is fucking great

― ums (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 3 April 2013 15:57 (eleven years ago) link

eight months pass...

I just discovered beauty & the beat and his other stuff as well, really like this. Kind of takes me back to the feeling of first discovering "underground hip-hop" via college radio.

― signed, J.P. Morgan CEO (Hurting 2), Friday, 27 December 2013 17:51 (ten years ago) link

Beauty and the beat has aged horribly imo

― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Friday, 27 December 2013 19:50 (ten years ago) link

Its been a while since I've played Beauty and the Beat but the idea that it has aged horribly sounded ridiculous to me until I realized that, holy shit, the album is nearly a decade old.

― a fifth of misty beethoven (cryptosicko), Friday, 27 December 2013 20:49 (ten years ago) link

I think the opposite, I think it's the kind of thing I might have overlooked at the time but now sounds fresh again bc it's not aesthetically similar to that much of what's out right now (whereas in 2005 I have a feeling it was on the far tail end of that aesthetic being popular).

― signed, J.P. Morgan CEO (Hurting 2), Friday, 27 December 2013 20:53 (ten years ago) link

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