rich and don one good time (REVIEW)

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experimental hip-hop is the in grace in mainstream latley. if its not rappers trying to be rockers its backpackers messing with autone and electronica samples. some artist this can mean killing there mainstream credibility for some possitve reviews (lil waynes rebirth) (lupe fiasco solar midnite) some it can mean destroyin critical aclaim for the sake of keeping up with the music industry (kanye west p. didy) and others keep it orignal from the start and suceed at being diffent (outkast, pharyce kid cudi) and some artist are inspired by these legends and use there styling as there base. witch gets me to a local act out of my home town phillipsburg, new jersey rich and don consting of rich rubel and don mills. they have the perfect mix of meaningfull good vibe rap mixed with non- auto-tune r and b vocals blended over space aged instrmentals reminicate of old pharcyde and newer kid cudi. recently they have released there debute album one good time. and the release of the album in todays society couldnt be any better for the hip-hop music scene where expermental is in even on gangsta rap labels (b.o.b is a experemental rapper mixing classical and eletronica and is signed to ti's grand hustle witch before his enquirment was strictly gangsta rappers. even though there a good band they don't seem to stray away from the cliches of hip-hop there may not be sex and fassion but partying and getting high is also a constant theme in maintream trash. luckily ron and don can be catchy and lyrical at the same time witch is present on there lead singer mr. officer featuring solution another phillipsburg emcee. orignallity is lost at other times though skies of nature sounds like a scrapped track from cudi's man on the moon:end of the day that would of featured a auto-tuned kanye on it. same goes for space age love. the albums strong point would be the title track witch has a nice vibing beat with a vivd description of there struggles without rappping out the usual selling drug hustle struggle you see in music now adays. overall this album is a refreshing release out of my local scene compared to the trash that has been released latley overall 7.5 out of 10