Count Bass D & Insight - Risk Takers

CHANCE RANDOM · Post by **CHANCE RANDOM** » Thu May 26, 2011 10:29 pm

Thun wrote:Pretty sure I'm the only one who dissented from the Damu love fest.

Listen to your second rate current favorites with pride, I do.

You da man, Thun.

aeokq · Post by **aeokq** » Mon May 30, 2011 3:48 am

I like this album a lot on the first listen. Nice samples on the beats, they hit. Count Bass D and Insight do complement each other well. I listened to Bass D closely and his style is very steady coming with random thoughts and shit with that distinct voice. "Slow down like yellow, sometimes I rhyme soft sometimes my rhymes bellow/although mellow never below the status quo......still got the record play/ after everything they paid still got betrayed"...Break Suckas is a sick track. He has a unique style. Not a great MC or anything but solid. Dope album top 5 of the year.

unclebengi · Post by **unclebengi** » Mon Jun 20, 2011 9:20 pm

I held out on giving this a good listen until I could get a hard copy, and it was worth the wait. It's weird how much this parallels the Aesop Rock/Rob Sonic album. Two vets come out of nowhere and release a incredibly cohesive group album on which the one better known for rhyming produces the majority of the album and the one better known for beats kills it on the rhyme tip.

I think those two albums are my two favorites of the year and the group dynamic is a big part of it. They feel like albums made by professionals having fun instead of past-their-prime rappers trying to prove they're still relevant.

Insight's performance on the beats and rhymes is something to behold. No weak beats. Gotta be a little disappointed that Count did produce more than one song, but it kinda worked out because he could focus on his rhymes. He's not dope in the traditional sense, but I just love the way he thinks and writes, and its a great contrast to Insight. There's at least a couple beats that have been used somewhere before, but it doesn't bother me because the songs are so good. The first half of the album is real good, but then the second half kicks off with Seem Phoney and Seize The Moment and you know you have a great album.

COOLEHMAGAZINE · Post by **COOLEHMAGAZINE** » Tue Jun 21, 2011 12:40 pm

unclebengi wrote:I held out on giving this a good listen until I could get a hard copy, and it was worth the wait.

Where did you get the CD?

unclebengi · Post by **unclebengi** » Tue Jun 21, 2011 3:59 pm

UGHH...it was somewhere else too, but I'm drawing a blank.

unclebengi · Post by **unclebengi** » Fri Jun 24, 2011 8:22 pm

Anyone else catch on the song with Kool Keith when Count says "now I get emails from DOOM when he drunk"?

Not surprised that they stay in touch, Count's rhyme style is clearly influenced by DOOM and they've always seemed to be good friends. I even remember hearing that DOOM mailed his MPC to Count back in the day.

Neuro · Post by **Neuro** » Fri Jun 24, 2011 11:31 pm

GhostDog · Post by **GhostDog** » Sun Jun 26, 2011 2:05 pm

This album delivers. As dope as I would expect it to be. Was slightly disappointed with the Kool Keith collabo.

GrimeyHippy · Post by **GrimeyHippy** » Sun Jun 26, 2011 9:51 pm

I can listen to In Charge on repeat all day