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• Artist: Mr. Dibbs
• Album: The 30th Song
• Label: Rhymesayers
• Year of Release: 2003
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• Reviewed by: hstisgod on 2004-11-13

Thirty songs and one lifetime ago, Mr. Dibbs was gearing up for this album of creamy genre mixing. To be honest, who knows why this 14 track expedition through Jazz, Soul, Hip Hop, Metal, Blues, Break Beats and Industrial is named the 30th song LP. Furthermore, who cares as long as this bald headed, long haired goateed freak of nature keeps scratching records, I'll be more than content. Track six "Rhythmic Soaring" is just about the most wicked, and intentionally schizo song present on this effort. A sick a*s bassline, add in some wind chimes, and don't forget a splash of random vocals intermissions and thoughts. Track seven "Redout Brick Hemmorage 3.5/Mental Herpes", is certainly scary from title alone, so just imagine the crazy beat breakdowns cut into the adhesion of Transformer robots changing into its counterpart machine. Track 10 "Judeas Transmission" might not have befriended my word processor spell check, but it has certainly grabbed my atttention with its hybrid of 70's classic rock intro, and blending of scratched up Blues Rock instrumentals. Intermittent Stevie Ray Vaughn atmospheric guitar lick teasers are prominent also.

Track 11 is crazy-beautiful in many ways as Slug from Dibbs' original formation, Atmosphere, breaks down his frustrations while sounding like he's rhyming into a telephone. "Hold on I got some hell caught in my eyeball. There was a time... a time .. Where this path that I was following, had seemed to wanna swallow me whole. But in my mind, my mind, I was stranded on the corner of third and tomorrow ago". Further he (Slug) goes on to release like a gushing cut in this track named "Thrice". Only a woman can cause this kind of truth and honesty. Dibbs seeps in with an emphasized acoustic guitar, soaked in rainy background feelers.

With the man (Dibbs), at the helm of an influential identity crisis, track 13 "231 ways to fry an egg" features the crazy upbeat rants and ravings of one Brother Ali topped on the surface of an original ground sound guitar layer. But if you think things have gotten weird you haven't heard the encore. Remember way back some years ago I mentioned the presence of Metal on this album? If you thought I would skip out on the eye popping closing track known as "Portablist" you're out of your mind. "Dig bury me underneath, everything that I am rearranging". Sound Familiar? The breakout hit from Mudvayne and their critically acclaimed debut LD 50. Pay attention to the project and the inspiration of this song is without question. This entire album is the rearranging of past present and future genre. Allow yourself the opportunity to open up and you will not be disappointed. Or keep denying your musical schizoprenia the choice is yours.

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