What do you do when every aspect of entertainment has become artificial? The music is generated artificially. The videos for the music are generated artificially. The reviews of the albums\u2026 you get it. Human beings have been removed from the equation. Actually it might be more accurate to say they\u2019ve been removed from controlling the output. Human beings were still involved at some level, but their data was scraped up and amalgamated into a homunculus AI, one fed human data and told to act how a human would act. The problem is you can tell when you listen to it, watch it or read about it that no actual soul of a real person was involved. It all feels synthetic and plastic.<\/p>\n
The intro of \u201cFire & Brimstone<\/a>\u201d is definitely not artificial. Cappadonna isn\u2019t even reading from a script he wrote down for it. He\u2019s coming off the dome and he trips over himself trying to deliver his message. \u201cThat heat, that lava, that acid, on top of your head. Let that shit melt into your cee, soo, uhh, cerebral Gore-Tex, and leak down into your neck.\u201d I\u2019m sure he meant cerebral cortex<\/a> but I rewound this a dozen times and I\u2019m convinced he said Gore-Tex<\/a>. If he got it right and I\u2019m hearing it wrong, he was still flustered and sputtering trying to spit it out either way. That\u2019s authentic. I\u2019m not going to argue that it\u2019s GOOD but at least when I hear him speak I know it\u2019s not a machine talking.<\/p>\n \u201cGas, ass or grass\/nah, nobody ride for free.\u201d<\/p>\n In a discography littered with strange albums and weird artistic choices, Darryl Hill has always been a one of one in all the best and worst ways. I look forward to Cappadonna because he\u2019s an auteur in a world of robots. That makes \u201cFire & Brimstone<\/a>\u201d unintentionally disappointing because despite the packaging \u201cThe Package\u201d is the only solo Cappadonna song on this 31 minute album. Let me be clear and say that doesn\u2019t mean he\u2019s not appearing on the other seven songs. You know who is though? Warren Degraffinreaidt and Addiemak. The title track features Warren. \u201cWinning Team\u201d features Addie. The other five songs feature both \u2014 and frankly the entire album feels like a vehicle to market both instead of a collaboration between a-alikes.<\/p>\n