Citizens of Sleep – Sometimes I Just Can’t Get Outraged Over Copyright Law
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Review Date: November 4, 2007
Website: COS Website
Label: Square One Entertainment
Citizens of Sleep “Sometimes I Just Can’t Get Outraged Over Copyright Law” Album Review
I found myself doing Spring cleaning in the Fall. Yeah, at times I can be a pack rat so I was forced to purge a few things. While browsing through my various belongings, of course I had to stop and look through my collection of classic hip-hop music. Most of the cd’s brought back many memories; just by looking at the cover art of some I was able to reminisce on what life was like when I first bought the albums. When listening to Citizens of Sleep’s Sometimes I Just Cant Get Outraged Over Copyright Law I was able to reach back into my adolescent years in hip-hop in the same manner.
I truly believe it takes a lot of soul to create music that people hold tight to for over ten years…shoot, even five years. I was thinking to myself recently, what makes an artist legendary? What makes a song legendary? What characteristics does one need to be remembered over a long period of time? It’s an easy answer: soul, creativity, innovation, originality. Only a small amount of emcees and producers possess these traits. Citizens of Sleep is destined to be apart of this collective with works like their latest. With beats that hit me as Wu-Tang and Beat Nuts inspired, Citizens of Sleep seem to resurrect the golden era of hip-hop on their latest effort.
With jazz layered samples and chops I even hear a bit of DJ Premier’s early production style during the Gangstarr run. Sometimes I Just cant Get Outraged Over Copyright Law definitely stimulates a head-nod reaction with every track.
COS shines on City of Sleep, my favorite on the album, on The Fallen they redirect your attention to those who have fallen to the evil hands of injustice and on Apollo and Tappan they provide you with a bit of a hip-hop love song; creativity at its best.
- ScholarMan
Album Track Listing:
- The Exodus
- Lullaby
- City of Sleep
- Photographs & Letters
- The Holy Ghost
- Neverlove
- The Fallen
- Battle Cry
- What Happens
- By Your Side (Remix)
- Apollo and Tappan
- Breakfast
- Copyright Law
A Few Words on the “Citizens of Sleep” « Beats by Taka 4 U to Rock 2 wrote:
[...] Hiphoplinguistics.com describes CoS as “destined to be apart of [the collective of legendary artists] with works like their latest.” The writer refers to my third track “City of Sleep” as “my favorite on the album” and hears the influence of DJ Premier’s early work, as well as Wu-Tang and the Beatnuts. [...]
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