Kinkynasti [Explicit Lyrics]

1. Wonderful Place

2. Kinkynasti

3. Boostin Jam

4. Another Love Affair

5. Four Black Dudes

6. Funky

7. Ocean

8. Tonight

9. Kissy Face

10. Sextraterrestrial

11. Hey Young World

12. We Rock On

13. Rain

14. B Girl

15. I Like It

Tracks:

A Wonderful Place
Kinkynasti
The Boostin Jam
Another Love Affair
Four Black Dudes
Funky
The Ocean
Tonight
Kissy Face
Sextraterrestrial
Hey Young World
We Rock On
The Rain
B Girl
I Like It

Album Description

Cincinnati becomes Kinkynasti as Five Deez transform their unassuming Midwestern hometown into a space-age hip-hop dance party. Producer/MCs Fat Jon and Pase Rock along with Sonic and Kyle David have been together since 1999, releasing the acclaimed Koolmotor and sought-after Japanese import Slow Children Playing albums. The release of Kinkynasti should surprise and delight fans of their previous outings as well as a hip-hop heads across the globe.

Nonchalantly blending classic hip-hop elements with jazz and electronics , Five Deez have set off on a musical journey along the path of street soul, but never forget to look over their shoulders. A piano-led intro featuring Stones Throw crooner Dudley Perkins gives way to bangin' party starters like "Funky" and "Kinkynasti" which exist alongside ethereal instrumentals like "The Ocean" and "The Rain" exemplifying the range of sounds present on the album.

Clearly focused, but bitingly sharp around the edges, Kinkynasti is not your average throwaway backpack hip-hop album. Five Deez satisfyingly refrain from skills based fisticuffs. The vibe is the difference. The lyrics are never short on clear statements, but Five Deez still allow themselves the luxury, from time to time, of having nothing more than the next block party in their sights.

Customer Reviews:

4+* for producer, 2* for MCs.......2004-12-10

There is an unfortunate mismatch of styles and talent levels going on with this album. The MCs are like decent short-order cooks with potential. They cook up some clever lines and can put together a story acceptably well, but they rap without distinguishing themselves much in terms of style, content, and personality. Fat Jon on the other hand is a beat chef who, on his best cuts, makes it sound like a symphony is trying to break its way out of the platters he serves up.

The partnership works well enough when it sounds like Fat Jon has crafted a track just for these MCs as in the case of "Hey Young World," a song which is catchy enough to have you singing the chorus after a couple listens and which echoes Nas' inspiring "The World Is Yours" without ever attaining the lyrical flow, imagery, or emotional force of one of Illmatic's B sides. Fat Jon's backing track in "Four Black Dudes" also supports the MCs well with an anthemic progression that carries them along with it enough that their unmemorable lyrics don't have a chance to detract too much from the song's overall energy. Jon is versatile enough that he can make banging tracks of a sort digestible by relatively unexceptional rappers like Five Deez without it sounding like he's dumbing himself down.

The best song on the album is the beautifully-composed "Another Love Affair," which succeeds due to well-integrated singing, symphonic instrumentation, funky vibes, and a bouyant bass line, and in spite of mostly bland lyrics. Next best effort is the dance-floor-friendly and jazzy "Tonight." Again on this track we have creative and energetic production, and this time with a decent story-telling effort by the MCs. (I would buy this album just for these two tracks, but then again I am a track hunter who throws more money at music than a McDonalds clerk slings fries at a drive-thru window. If you are a more conservative buyer and want good beats, get the instrumental album by Fat Jon as Maurice Galactica "Humanoid Erotica." If you want more interesting lyrical content get Talib Kweli & Mos Def's "Black Star" for something older or Dizzie Rascal's "Boy In Da Corner" for something newer.)

There are also a couple somewhat original or at least rare concept songs here: We have "The Boostin Jam" the only hip hop song I can think of which is devoted entirely to the shoplifting lifestyle. Then there's the "B Girl" tribute song. And finally there's "Sextraterrestrial," a date-with-an-alien tune that is fun and probably the cleverest effort on the album in terms of lyrics and concept, but which still mostly makes me want to put away this CD in favor of Bahamadia's cut "Transcend" in which she handles similar material infinitely more profoundly and eloquently.

The absence of vocals on two inadequately-named instrumental-only tracks, "The Ocean" and "The Rain," serves both as a nod to producer Fat Jon's exceptional art and as an acknowledgement that these MCs can't hang with where Jon is headed when he cuts loose and delivers his most emotive, far-out tracks. Five Deez should get a more conventional producer for now and Fat Jon should hook up with some rappers who have spent way more time in the woodshed crafting intelligent, substantial flows than these cats. Overall Kinkynasti makes me feel like I'm listening to something akin to LL Cool J rhyming over beats by Shaheed Muhammad of A Tribe Called Quest. Think of the lyrics of "They're Jingling Baby" runnin over the horns of "Jazz." It's great when the chocolate falls in the peanut butter, but not when it falls in the tuna fish sandwich.
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only 5 stars?.......2004-01-07

This stands as one of the most engrossing Hip Hop albums of 2003, appeasing the more enlightened listener with its imaginative musical assemblage and riveting rhyme schemes, but also containing enough ear-yanking, yet non-pandering hooks (often via buoyant vocal choruses) to lure in the most casual Hip Hop buff. At once cerebral and good-naturedly playful, Five Deez shuns gimmickry to tackle Hip Hop as an art form. If 'Funky' doesn't get the party started, get the hell outta there!

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