This leads us in to “Behind Closed Doors” which is self-produced and a perfect showcase of his wordplay. I appreciate it because I know Monch will deliver. Five lines in, he lays out what fans can (continue) to expect: “What you about to hear is undoubtedly the most incredible MC of the year” and that’s just the beginning of many lines that speak to his own greatness. This is fairly fast paced overall, so it is a great way to start the album. DJ Scratch is to thank for production on this, the beat is cinematic and comes with a high energy feel and Monch’s delivery keeps up. Monch starts his solo debut with a 3-minute intro, which serves as an actual track. Let’s take a look at the tracks that stand out. The hour long, 15 track album gives us an experience that is more raw, more lyrical and just as consistent as his previous work. This would begin the solo career of Pharoahe Monch, so let’s take a look at the album that would kick this off: his “Internal Affairs” album. Up until that point, Monch hadn’t hit the mainstream, he had 3 released albums as part of OK, which they produced themselves, as they seemed to enjoyed the underground circuit.ġ997 would see the end of the duo’s reign in the underground scene and by 1999, after several guests appearances on other albums, Monch would sign to Rawkus Records. His discography isn’t as extensive as other rappers and his acclaim was founded with his involvement in the duo Organized Konfusion with Prince Po, but towards the end of the 90’s, he would go on to record his first solo studio album. I discovered Monch fairly recently personally, and it was like discovering a diamond mine. I was pleasantly surprised to hear the lyrical excellence, the ease of listen and his consistency. Actually, there’s only one other rapper I’ve done this with, but the first was Pharoahe Monch, and truthfully, I’m very glad I did. The Archive Team Panic Downloads are full pulldowns of currently extant websites, meant to serve as emergency backups for needed sites that are in danger of closing, or which will be missed dearly if suddenly lost due to hard drive crashes or server failures.( Republished from , By Pharoahe Monch – Internal AffairsĪs much as I love rap and lyrical delivery, it usually takes me quite a few listens before I can form enough of an opinion on a rapper to the point where I would buy their album “blind”. Otherwise, you are free to dig into the stacks to see what you may find. If you are seeking to browse the contents of these collections, the Wayback Machine is the best first stop. Our collection has grown to the point of having sub-collections for the type of data we acquire. Thanks to the generous providing of disk space by the Internet Archive, multi-terabyte datasets can be made available, as well as in use by the Wayback Machine, providing a path back to lost websites and work. This collection contains the output of many Archive Team projects, both ongoing and completed. The main site for Archive Team is at and contains up to the date information on various projects, manifestos, plans and walkthroughs. Our projects have ranged in size from a single volunteer downloading the data to a small-but-critical site, to over 100 volunteers stepping forward to acquire terabytes of user-created data to save for future generations. Archive Team believes that by duplicated condemned data, the conversation and debate can continue, as well as the richness and insight gained by keeping the materials. With the original point of contention destroyed, the debates would fall to the wayside. History is littered with hundreds of conflicts over the future of a community, group, location or business that were "resolved" when one of the parties stepped ahead and destroyed what was there. The group is 100% composed of volunteers and interested parties, and has expanded into a large amount of related projects for saving online and digital history. Formed in 2009, the Archive Team (not to be confused with the Archive-It Team) is a rogue archivist collective dedicated to saving copies of rapidly dying or deleted websites for the sake of history and digital heritage.
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