Raise your hand if you’ve ever heard anything off this album before. Ok, now lower your hand if the only songs you can remember are the huge hits like ‘Tennessee’ or ‘Mr. Wendal’. Now lower your hand if you don’t remember what any of the songs were actually about. Anyone left? This is where I was at until recently. I owned the album a long time ago, when I was 11 or so, and my memory of it wasn’t real good. Listening to it at this point, I noticed how political, and really amazingly radical it was for it’s time. As a kid I didn’t pick up on a lot of the messages and it’s pretty awesome to see how much they were really saying, and how little I understood it.

Songs like ‘People Everyday’, ‘Mr. Wendal’, ‘Fishin’ 4 Religion’, ‘Give a Man a Fish’, and ‘Tennessee’ are powerful statements that address issues not just from 1992 when the album came out, but from today as well. Anyone who likes modern political Hip-Hop should pick this one up to hear one of the places it came from.