Necro - Hip Hop's Nastiest Piece of Work (Necro in general)

Member Name: Sugar Matty O

Product:	Necro in general
Date:	12/01/02 (734 review reads)
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Advantages: Actually a superb rhymer, Alarming amount of conviction, Entertaining, if slightly for the wrong reasons

Disadvantages: What do you think? Demonic subject matter of course, 1-trick pony theorists will have a field day, Unlikely to ever make a top 40 spot

NECRO – ‘Gory Days’ album promo – Psycho + Logical Records 2001

Perverse. There’s no other word for it. The way you’ll be chuckling along to Necro’s deluge of the disgusting should make you take a long look at yourself rather than the X certificate explanations this filth-phile gives to unassuming tracks such as Dead Body Disposal and Bury You With Satan. Even on this seven track promo there’s enough uncompromising insights into the darker side of life to fill a morgue. There are sick tracks and there are the kind of straightjacketed jolts to the system Necro has no fear of feeding.

The obligatory argument with the Gory Days designer seems to be Eminem comparisons. They may come across as duplicates but really each is their own artist. There certainly appears to be no novelty value in Necro’s tales of manual decapitation; where Eminem can take on a role-player mantle when conceptualising and plotting his rhymes, Necro seems genuinely interested in obliterating orifices and discussing the dissection of discharge.

The flow Necro possesses is absolutely delicious; the rapid-fire moulding of horror stories made to sound so easy it’s alarming. The man doesn’t get pressing issues off his chest, he makes an anaesthetic-lacking incision and pulls out handfuls of innards just so everyone knows what exactly runs through his veins. It’s evidently some strong stuff in keeping things relatively light-hearted – if that’s the right phrase - in interpolating The Doors on Light My Fire; there’s lighting and there’s blatant arson, not doing too much for female relations and probably not penned with Jim Morrison in mind either. World Gone Mad is probably the only track where its backing attempts to match the sinister death sermons, quickly battered into submission as various forms of torture become the poetry pin cushion of choice.

Salt n Pepa get transl
ated on Dead Body Disposal, a step by step guide to covering your tracks for the meat cleaver generation; and of course Bruce Springsteen is the obvious influence to the title track that gives a whole new meaning to the phrase ‘picking brains.’ It would be easy to dismiss the obvious shock tactics like those ruthlessly ripped on the misogynist’s heaven One Way Or Another if the rap skills weren’t so downright talented. B.I.G.’s 10 Crack Commandments gets a half tribute in the form of 12 King Pimp Commandments in a blood-suckingly chauvinistic tirade, and Bury You With Satan can’t really be taken any other way than what it goes by, so draw your own conclusions, although all told Necro certainly knows his biology and anatomy in predicting imminent doom with a little of his own assistance. All of which are performed to a gentle, inoffensive pattern of rolling piano loops, good-time horns and mild drums acting as the perfectly innocuous canvas to Necro’s artistic bloodshed.

Necro’s intention of making listeners laugh is presumably not the objective of his work, yet it’s mighty difficult to stifle a chuckle when the eardrum cops a load of the audacious claims he vividly has every intent of carrying out. Naturally there will be the politics of pessimism questioning how far Necro can go with just one style in mind; but for now it’s only right for Necro to bask in the gore-drowned glory as the ranks of anti-socialists may just have found their hip hop holy grail…

More info: www.necrohiphop.com


01 - Bury You With Satan
02 - Light My Fire
03 - World Gone Mad
04 - 12 King Pimp Commandments
05 - Dead Body Disposal
06 - Gory Days
07 - One Way Or Another

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