MC 900ft Jesus – Welcome to my dream
What a mixed bag of tricks this is. Starting by “…taking the name MC 900 Ft. Jesus from an Oral Roberts’ sermon, the Dallas native Mark Griffin began recording in the late ’80s.”
In his records he mixes hip-hop, jazz, funk, ambient, industrial effects and…humour. And this album it’s his best out of the three he published. For some “The problem is tracks like “Killer Inside Me” and “Adventures in Failure”: the backing tracks are killer and the delivery of the rhymes are top-notch, but they’re ultimately a bit silly, which makes it a bit hard to take the rest of the album seriously. That’s a shame because there are some great tracks here, like “The City Sleeps’” and “Falling Elevators.” As before, DJ Zero scratches with aplomb.”
But I agree when said that “Welcome to My Dream was a precursor to trip-hop, layering hip-hop beats over jazzy breaks and dream-like instrumentation. “ it was 1991 same year Massive Attack published their debut album called … Blue Lines. 1991 was a pretty good year indeed
and btw… “while the city sleeps” is just one of my favourite songs from the 90′s.
…Adventures in Failure, with a sample from a Stevie Wonder tune
