Here To Save You All Music Cd

Chino Xl - Here To Save You All

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Here to Save You All      Artist : Chino XL      List Price : $9.98 USD        ProductGroup: Music      Release Date : 1996-04-09      Studio : Warner Bros / Wea      Label : Warner Bros / Wea      Avg. Customer Rating : (55 reviews)

Reviews Customer Reviews for Here To Save You All      Supper ill      Rating:      Now I can hype my man up all day, but you just got to hear this man for yourself. Granted He does use lots of similes, but he has great metaphors as well and is punch lines are vicious. Then man is creative and in a world where not to many hispanics can shine (hip hop)he is one of the few to hold it down. Chino has a unique east coast, west coast style in this album and it is hard to not be attracted to it. He might not be the illest under ground Kat, but he is right up there with Tech, and Termanology etc. It is great and you will thank me after u buy.     Customer Reviews for Here To Save You All Cd      Weak Production!?!      Rating:      I just had to give my two cents after reading so many reviews saying this album was good lyrically, but the beats were not that great. I must be listening to a different "Here to Save You All" then these other people, because the beats are your typical, loud, east coast, mid 90's ones, which is a good thing. Editorial Reviews for Here To Save You All Audio Cd      Amazon.com      Too often rap isn't about rapping at all, and it seems a shame that in exchange for a fat beat and hook many hip-hoppers forsake the vocals on which the genre bases itself. Not so former Art of Origin frontman Chino XL. The East Orange, New Jersey, rapper is a fully dedicated lyricist, and a good one at that. So good, in fact, his music suffers by comparison. The weak link in Here To Save You All, Chino's debut solo album, is no doubt its flat beats and rote backing tracks. Except for the swinging "Feelin' Evil Again" and stirring "Rise," there's a dullness that keeps the album a notch away from great hip-hop. Chino does his part, however, to keep the craft of the MC alive. With relentless, lightning-fast delivery he drops pop culture references like a ghetto Dennis Miller, naming everyone from Eazy E and LaMaze to Donna Karan and Pearl Jam with witty, outrageous insight. Into the jokes he mixes substance whether he's tackling status and materialism in rap ("No Complex") or the identity crisis of growing up half-black/half-Puerto Rican in a white neighborhood ("What I Am?"). Then, where most rappers make empty claims authenticity, Chino lets his imagination take control. He recounts lives and loves he's never had ("It's All Bad" and "Kreep"), then muses over fallen angels ("Ghetto Vampire") and the afterlife ("Rise"). Part monologuist, part short story author, Chino is an uncommon reminder of all a rapper can be. --Roni Sarig