The Heritage Tape (Album Review)

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The Heritage Tape
By: "Joint Pusher" 

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 “The Sharp Shooter” is back and has just released a dope project titled “The Heritage Tape”!!!

Available for free on his website - www.pusher.co.za, this classic tale of Hip-Hop’s Heritage will have heads bumping from start to end. 

Dope team ups, mean flows, sick lyricism and rhyming is nicely laid on banging instrumentals, with content and commentary focusing on topics like social ills, personal and external influences to touching on global issues affecting everyone on “I’m an Afrikan” alongside New York based “ThunderLions”.

The tape starts off with J.P (Pic 2) ripping flows that crowds across the globe have come to love him for on “The Heritage Flow 432Mhz” and goes into and relates his life journey, giving away a Boombap feel that carries the whole tape through and like a traditional dance, leads over to a collaboration alongside “The Master builder - Yahkeem” & “Quest” on “Afrika” ending with one of many incantations heard across many cultures across every were the original’s man was found.

  

Joint Pusher (Social Commentary Forum)

“Do what I doez” is the third track and “Don Rodionov” fuses a Dub Step sound with that heart beat feel with J.P dropping  a “Dopium” freestyle straight of the top of the dome. The half way mark sees “The Ill Militant - Shynin Armour” appearing on “Rolling Stone” with the SCF rep’s illustrating the travels and adventures they have been through and are looking forward too. 

“Mothipa” jumps on the fifth joint like a pot-head and delivers some of the gullies’ lyricism with a beautiful symphony sound tracking what would equal a revolutionary speech from the likes of “Robert Sobukwe” reminding their people to keep their head up on “Never Give Up”.

The tape goes international on “I’m an Afrikan” with “ThunderLions” sending us a fresh flavor to bump too reminding us of our ancient influence on the globe and the current world events keeping the melanin tribe in a spiritual prison. 

Is (Gods Plan) comes in and lays some slick flows & ill vocals on the remix to “Trompies’ Madibuseng” accompanied by a funky hook creatively recreating the old school kwaito classic and should have ninjas dancing like it was the 90 all over again. The tape ends with a Joint Pusher solo reminding us where the Heritage of the culture “Hip Hop” comes and will always dwell in” on “Without Boombap”

  “Rhymes are worthless when your mind has no purpose”


(Article written & edited by A.P Mogotsi)