Status Ain’t Hood has a very interesting review of an Atmosphere show in NYC last night. I have to say I agree with his assesment of the group — Slug and Ant are both quite talented, and have long been the bright lights in the overly sincere white rapper firmament, but something seems to have gone missing since their earlier days. He writes:
Slug didn’t do much rapping last night, delivering his lyrics in a sort of cocky-ironic spoken-word singsong cadence instead. It was weird and dissonant seeing this guy do heavy confessional stuff for a group of rabid kids and coming dangerously close to self-consciously half-assing everything.