Photo courtesy of Atlantic Records.
The Brand New Heavies are Simon Bartholomew, Andrew Levy and Jan Kincaid.
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Brand New Heavies create
funky new sound by blending
rap, 1970s jazz-funk music
Brand New Heavies
“Heavy Rhyme Experience: Vol
ume I”
Delicious Vinyl Inc.
In their second effort, the Brand
New Heavies go hack to the old school
and blend rap music together with
some live jazz-funk to create “Heavy
Rhyme Experience: Volume 1."
Keeping with the tone of their first
album, the Heavies have incorporated
the help of some of rap’s most inspir
ing artists.
Main Source kicks this album off
with a track called “Bonaficd Funk,”
which has a driving jazz-fusion type
of melody to it. The bass guitar, along
with the drums and cymbals, will
remind the listener of late 1970s a la
Earth. Wind and Fin*;
Gang Starr follows with “Getting
Hectic,” which is an old school style
rap dissing fake weak rappers.
The song that epitomises the theme
of the whole LP is “Who Makes the
Loot,” featuring Grand Puba. This
track is a smooth silky sounding funk
rap. Puba is able to flow smoothly
along with the funky base line.
“Death Threat” featuring Kool G.
Rap is the hardest song on this LP.
Kool G. Rap flows hard to a fluid riff.
“State of Yo” featuring Black
Sheep, sounding like Heavy D, is a
hghl-hcartcd rap that talks about going
with the flow.
The funkiest tunc on this LP is
“Soul Flower,” which is a take-off of
James Brown’s song of the same name
and features rap newcomers Pharcyde.
This track, with its lightning quick
raps, grabs the attention of the lis
tener.
One of the best parts of this LP is
the fact that there is virtually no
sampling. In the rap industry, sam
pling has become common practice
and in “Heavy Rhyme Experience,”
there are only two instances. In “Wake
Me When I’m Dead,” featuring Mas
ter Ace, KRS-1 is sampled. In “Do
Whatta I Gotta Do,” featuring Ed
O.G., Bobby Brown is sampled.
The diversity in the styles of music
also makes this LP go. “Jump and
Move,” featuring former Boogie Down
Production member Jamalski, and
“Whatgabouthal,” featuring Tiger, arc
tracks that play up some reggae/hip
hop fusion that is a nice change of
pace within the LP.
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otherwise good LP is that from one
song to another, the base lines start to
sound the same, and thus, after a few
songs they become unoriginal.
Overall this is a good LP.the rap/
hip-hop/jazz-funk/rcggac/fusion style
with which this LP is formatted docs
the job. The Brand New Heavies have
done an excellent job of harnessing
the talents of various rappers.
Incorporating their European style
with the ability of these rappers, the
Heavies have come up with 10 enter
taining tracks.
The style the Heavies use is one to
be admired because it isa switch from
conventional synthesizing music style
to one of old school seventies type
style.
— Anthony D. Speights
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