3 out of 5 stars
eMC is an underground hip-hop wet dream come true. The super-group is comprised of Brooklyn’s legendary Masta Ace, Punchline, Wordsworth and Milwaukee’s Stricklin, some of whom have made their individual ripples in the hip-hop game as far back as the late ‘80s. Throughout their careers, the foursome has guest-starred on each other’s tracks, trading rhymes on classics like Ace’s Disposable Arts and Words’ Mirror Music. They have gone on tour together in recent years, and while on the road announced they would be hitting up the studio to record an epic endeavor. The Show is the fruit of their labor, and although it was put together several years ago, it is finally seeing the light of day with a proper release (and putting an end to endless internet clamor surrounding it).
There is no question that the album is a prominent event in the underground scene, but in listening to the record, one cannot help but feel that The Show is missing something. It is not a matter of skill or musical cohesion: all of the emcees deliver heaps of carefully developed rhymes and the beats are as shiny as ever, with veterans like DJ Premier and Ayatollah manning the boards. The group even ties the record together with a concept, interspersing skits that tell the comedic behind-the-scenes story of what it’s like for the emcees to put on a show. The problem with the record is that no matter the group’s rate of output or marquee producer on the track, they sound equally matched in skill and tone, and because they do not attempt to outdo one another, they often remain undistinguished, regardless of how potently slick or affecting a track is.
But that’s not to say that The Show should not get a spin, or even a couple of listens. The group fills this album to the brim with bundles of top-notch rhymes, succeeding most on tracks like the Nicolay-produced “EMC (What’s It Stand For?)” on which the emcees try to one-up each other in coming up with alternative acronyms for their moniker. They can seamlessly go from emotional and gushy like on the Mom-dedicated “U Let Me Grow” to expounding deep-seated beef on the grungy cut “The Grudge.” The production is top-notch as well, with a sheen backdrop sparking the Little Brother-assisted “Traffic” and the wobbly piano tremors that slither across choppy drums on “Once More.”
Clearly, The Show is not for hip-hop amateurs and will be sure to whet the appetites of the gamut of hungry hip-hop heads, but this would have been a better album if only one of the emcees had penned it. It is difficult for artists that are equally gifted to perform without overpowering one another, and the gentlemen of eMC have too much respect for one another to make the album a competition. Any of the four lyricists are capable of shining in the solo realm, and but instead this album comes off as the work of a faceless (but sharp-tongued) entity. The Show doesn’t live up to the hype, but hip-hop afficionados can rest knowing what a collaboration of this magnitude sounds like.
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