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An Oft Overlooked Hip Hop Gem – Atmosphere

// July 17th, 2009 // General

Now like many others I like a bit of the old hippety hop every now and again, especially anything with an “old-skool” taste to it, none of this autotune R&B nonsense.

Whilst randomly browsing the A’s in my iTunes I rediscovered the Atmosphere album “When Life Gives You Lemons You Paint That Shit Gold”. This album was originally sent to me last year to contemplate and in all honesty I’d have probably passed it by hadn’t it had such a wonderful title. Anyway back in last year I gave it a chance and quite liked it, finding myself enamoured particularly by the handclap synthy sound of “Shoulda Known” and the silky feel of “Puppets”.

Listening to it again tonight gave me a new appreciation for the overall slickness of this album and I would recommend it to any other hip hop listeners out there. Any purveyors of hip hop who can convince Tom Waits to beat box for them are worthy of mention just for that in fact.

As a side note, iTunes genius threw up another hip hop fave of mine from recent years, K-Os -Elektrik Heat, The Seekwill. This little Canadian born ditty of recent years makes me yearn for the old days of proper rap music. Have a listen.