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Lyrics Born - Everywhere At Once
| Billboard | | For his second solo studio record, the Quannum Projects godfather veers left from his sample-centric background and into something that should be highly pleasing to anyone who enjoyed hip-hop in 1988. "Everywhere at Once" isn't the map-jumping free-for-all inferred by its title; rather, this is a focused and thoughtfully crafted party record that finds Lyrics Born employing a live band to work up his newfound love of shimmering, shining pop-funk, even as he expands his hoop-jumping, rat-a-tat rhymes....full text |
| | Pastemagazine | | If Lyrics Born’s music were a soup and you were reading the recipe, it’d be fair to assume the final product might taste downright disgusting, what with all the disparate ingredients: Pointer Sisters synths, Living Colour guitars, Bootsy Collins bass, blaxploitation horns and thoughtful raps in a Tone-Loc growl with a C.L. Smooth cadence. But, in this case, on the Asian-American MC’s fourth solo hip-hop album, the stew is tasty....full text |
| | Nowtoronto | Since redefining lyricism in 1996 on Latyrx with Lateef the Truth Speaker on DJ Shadow’s Quannum Records, Lyrics Born has been secretly slaying small minds worldwide. He’s four solo albums deep already. He joins Chali 2na to scorch the disco-riffic collabo Hott To Deff, while Everywhere At Once tries to be just that.
These 18 selections feel like the intersection where Del tha Funky Homosapien meets Parliament, while Lyrics offers life-affirming couplets in his comedic drawl. He’s still expanding his vocal range, but this hour of soulful, sugary funk will accompany your summer parties quite well....full text |
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