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RHYMEFEST - Blue Collar
| AV Club | | When Kanye West and Rhymefest brought Jesus to the Grammys and the pop charts with "Jesus Walks," they made labels like "pop," "underground," "conscious," "mainstream," "backpacker," and "political" seem even more irrelevant than usual. In the post-Kanye West world, it's become thrillingly apparent that with enough talent, conviction, and drive, rappers can sell millions without selling their souls or compromising their vision....full text |
| | Popmatters | | Kanye West’s debut album The College Dropout may have been a hit because of its consistantly brilliant production, but what made it an instant classic and a critical success was Kanye’s believable but contradictory everyman persona. He was the rare rapper who could name-drop designer clothes, welfare, Jesus, and strippers all in the same breath, blending morality, amorality, arrogance, humility, and raw ambition into a mix that was, in the end, more human than anything else....full text |
| | Slant Magazine | | Rhymefest, the imposing yet immensely personable rapper from Chicago's South side, proclaims that his new album Blue Collar is intended to "fight the wackness that rap has become." Not a moment too soon, if you ask me. Eschewing the pimp persona that permeates much of mainstream hip-hop, Blue Collar is a paean to the working-class, hard scrabble folks—particularly minorities—who buy rap albums rather than record them....full text |
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