Maybe it's just the phonics of Rodney Smith's rap handle, but listening to Slime & Reason, I keep coming back to the word 'ruminative.' Though 'I'm not a rapper' has been mostly co-opted in the post-Jigga era by young turks who place T-shirt design and 'the grind' (i.e. Fallbuch Innere Medizin Pdf Viewer here. Adobe Photoshop Cs3 Extended Authorization Code Generator Free Download more. Openfiledialog Multiple Files C on this page. , selling/annoying you with their demo on the streets) above working on their rhyme skills, it sorta fits the bill in a non-pejorative way for Roots Manuva's thoughtful, almost didactic slow flow. He talks in a manner where he either says the first thing on his mind or he plays with it internally for far too long, a frustrating combination of writer's block and an overactive brain. Not surprisingly, Roots' output has more in common with Wu-Tang than Weezy-- just four albums since 1999. As such, Slime & Reason tends to work best when it's straying far from a typical rap record. 'The Show Must Go On' should be a sonically harrowing account of a radioactive nuclear family, the narrator watching his wife and child evacuating the premises as he drunkenly stews in his own piss.

But in between long stretches of pained R&B vocals, Roots sounds like a specter hovering above the situation, still shellshocked at how far gone things are. The same goes for '2 Much 2 Soon', which breaks down his ambiguous role in hip-hop with the bemusement of a bored kingpin: 'Bouregouis hippies wanna fight my flow/ I'm wishin' I was a Trustafarian/ I wouldn't have to hustle and I wouldn't have to swear at them,' he moans. Beyond the expository tracks, the most successful parts of Slime & Reason are those that break completely from a rap template.

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There's always been a dubby influence on Roots Manuva records, but here, there's a distinct bhangra/dancehall vibe coming from 2-step producer Toddla T that's reminiscent of So Addictive. 'Do Nah Bodda Mi' in particular works with a very Timbaland-ish earworm hook, while 'Buff Nuff' surprisingly turns out to be something other than a rewrite of 'Fit But You Know It'-- taken in context of its Benny Hill-summoning video, it's a welcome reprieve from what is usually an oppressive stoneface. But while Manuva's unorthodox style is a unique pleasure, too often his flow can be laconic to the point of being subliminal-- a good portion of Slime & Reason's midsection demands attention, but doesn't necessarily deserve it, not when the beats that support his rhymes are just-below-scale like the budget g-funk of 'Kick Up Ya Foot'.