First of all, I’m extremely honored that you watched my video! Wow. Seriously makes my weekend. Secondly, thank you so much for the clarification on the production credits. I stream on Tidal and for some reason your name is not listed as “producer” on a bunch of the tracks. Composer, but not producer. That was where the confusion came from. Sorry about that!

@@professorskye all good man I just needed to say it for the record. worked for 2 years straight on it and im proud of it that's all. ❤️ el

@@PRODUCTOMART this is your best work. The production is amazing.

That's so f*cking crazy to me that El jumped in here to fact ✔ 🤣🤣🤣 I am a 42 year old father in St Louis, MO. I am white. I knew about El from the CoFlo days and Mike from when he got in with BigBoi and 3 stacks. I had the good fortune in 1998 to meet a woman that helped me change my prejudice ways. I didn't think I was racist. I got a new pair of Jordan's every year and I loved yo MTV raps. See... as a kid I lived about 20 minutes outside St Louis in a small town that was about 98% white. At 18, I moved to south St Louis which was crazy diverse. So back to that woman I met at 18. She had a 8 month old, but I didn't care, I had to get to know her. I used to say a lot of dumb sh#t back then. Example, "I don't have any slaves, nor do I know any, so why can't we just move on". Oh yeah, forgot to mention, she also happens to be black. This next part I am about to say now is very important. She took the time to EDUCATE me when I misspoke instead of CANCELING me! That is what we ALL need to do now more than ever. What we have done to an entire group of people over the last 500 years is terrible. Racism exists, and it must be destroyed. Our combined future depends on it. One last thing. I married the woman I met in 98. She is a teacher, she will tell you that reading, or people still not being able to, is a huge problem. So she has dedicated her life to teaching the world to read, she is just starting with 3rd graders in south St Louis. She holds 3 degrees, and is about to get her PHD in education. She probably won't be able to finish her dissertation until next year due to Covid, but she'll get there. My son is a corporal in the Marines. He is in avionics. He likes to draw and also build working robots at a small scale. I can tell that both my wife and son would be very sad at the thought of you not liking them 😔 due to their color. They just want to help people. Why don't you like them?!?! I know that last sentence cut ✂️ you. It was supposed to. Ok, now that a couple of us have wiped our tears...what do we do??? How do fix all the ugly we see??? Well, this...what I am doing now. Having real conversations about what you see and sharing experiences about what you lived. That is what changes hearts and minds. Listen for understanding, speak to be understood Black Lives Matter

Love your presence on yt el-p, seeing you on these smaller channels warms my heart. Great album once again, AOTY guaranteed no question, probably too early to call but imma do it anyway, Album of the Decade

Code I don’t think the majority of people will know it’s takin a shit on Ayn Rand. And I agree . Kind of a Marxist myself

Matt Pfarr hell yeah friend. They may say Marxism is dead, but you and I still kicking around. And I feel like we do need radical change and soon. I think a lot of people feel that way, although there are disagreements on what sort of radical change

Yeah, a smart jab against ancaps from a socialist perspective.

That's the first time I've heard any rapper drop Vonnegut (my favorite author) in a bar. Big ups to El-P 👍✊✌️

Yeah I fucking lost it when I heard that line hahaha

lol right

XD this would be one of the only classes i would have happily overpaid my college to be in

PREACH!

Well thanks!

That is very nice of you to say, thanks.

I feel Fetch The Bolt Cutters represents this time too

@@davidcremin3837 Fetch The Bolt Cutters is the collective anger of the 2010s combined.

@@davidcremin3837 Fiona's never cut it for me...personally Charli n AG bring it down tho fa sho -Brain ticklin' bastads-

END - Splinters From An Ever-Changing Face Dropped the same day as RTJ4 and those two albums are my albums of the year along with The Black Dahlia Murder - Verminous. All albums represent this difficult time in history.

Thanks! I’m happy it was consistently entertaining.

Yeah, I think that I should revisit ratm.

I generally don’t hold back much, but encouragement like this is appreciated.

Thanks!

I think it’s because although ratm songs have some real deep lyrics they don’t have a lot of lyrics. A lot of songs repeat the same 3-5 sentences over and over. I love em though, but I also love metal and rap.

@@DynamiteProd Totally disagree. S/T for sure does that a lot but that's the *only* album where that happens. You have to remember Zach was in a LAHC band before RATM so I think the short, poignant & on the nose lyrics bled a lot into the first release, not so much everything after.

F this guy, you're right to hate him

Will do.

I think you are right, thanks.

For real, man - I have never seen anyone with a head and a heart hate on Rage. Someone much cleverer than me (by half) once said, "Zach was woke before they set the alarm clock", and I've always held that to be true. I could go into a LONG screed about why Zach is incredibly intelligent and passionate and an unbelievably important voice (no pun intended) in politically-charged musical discourse, but...shit, man - he rolled with (and had the respect of) Chuck D; what more do you want?

@@FesterSilently yeah

Thanks for the kind words. Honestly, I never thought that I'd make it to 100 subs, so 3k feels like I've already blown up!

If I didn’t try to stay away from swears on my channel I’d adopt “comprehensive as fuck” as my official slogan. 😀

Thank you!

I will keep making these reviews, 3 a week every week!

thanks!

Thanks for checking it out. I bought that Digable Planets album, too. I try to make all of my reviews "thinking" pieces, though some are more thinky than others.

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Zack f**king rules!

I will revisit RATM over the next few weeks.

Not only is Zack amazing, influential across multiple genres of music, and one of very few rapping Marxists (his voice was like the lone voice of radicalism in popular music for a good long time), but his featured verses on RTJ3 & 4 are amazing, his flow is on point and he has some truly dope, dense lines. I cant even imagine loving RTJ musically & politically & intellectually, but not liking de la Rocha, who is absolutely an influence on RTJ as a project. And "hating" Rage? Phew, I dunno. Zack was rapping about Frantz Fanon w Rage when popular rap was just money, drug dealing & murder and alternative/metal was varying flavors of existential angst.

I can understand disliking overzealous RATM fans, but they're indisputably influential, and Zach is still remarkably relevant after a quarter century of rebellious rabble-rousing with vicious, seditious rock-rap riffs, so vociferous the shit's ridiculous.

The Rock He doesn’t drive a BMW. Nice try though.

Thanks!

Thanks for the kind words. My way of thinking hasn’t changed a ton since I was 16, but the added knowledge that came from education and the wisdom that came from time and experience helped me to put my thinking to better use.