EL-P is one of the driving forces of alternative hip hop. After his esteemed work with the group Company Flow, he founded the label Definitive Jux, which is now the home of underground rappers like Del The Funky Homosapien and Murs. With a jazz pianist as a father, it is not surprising that the rapper has music in his blood. On his third official album Cancer 4 Cure we hear a technical and gifted
… musician who seems to be at peace with a regular, obscure fan base. The connoisseur will appreciate the dark, paranoid metaphors on this album and the fact that EL-P with its productions ignores the 'rules' of hip-hop in an old-fashioned way will also please the fan. The average hip hop fan will have some difficulty with the electronics and rock influences, but perhaps EL-P will achieve its goal and people will start to think broader than a defined vision allows. (GL)more
