Customer Reviews

Balance

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YO THIS CD IS WHAT REAL UNDERGROUND HIP-HOP IS ABOUT, I DIDNT EXPECT THAT FROM SOME CANADIANS BUT MAN ARE THEY DOPE, I LOVE THE LYRICS ALONG WITH THE BEATS AS WELL, MADCHILD JUST RIPS IT WHEN HES ON THE MIC. WITH HIS DEEP SYNICAL LYRICS, AND PREVAIL WITH HIS UP-BEAT RHYME SCHEME. ITS DEFINATELY SWOLLEN MEMBERS BEST WORK OF ALL TIME, ITS A MUST BUY.. ONE!

Every hiphop head's dream is to obtain an album containing gem after gem. Release after release, we're let down. Balance wont let you down! This is the dopest overall hiphop album put out in a long time. Has collaborations with Dilated Peoples,Aceyalone,DeL,Everlast and many others. The first track is very pleasing and sort of sets the tone for the rest of the album. Track by track you're blessed with the lyrical wizardry of MadChild. He's very deep. Prevail also packs a strong punch. Overall.. I recommend this album for any listener of underground hip hop.. real hip hop. Thanks MadChild and Prevail for blessing the earth with such a great album.

aaron g

Swollen Members is inneed a phat crew and they prove so with their album, 'Balance'. Madchild & Prevail deliever fast and furious battle rhymes that reminded me a bit of a cross between Evidence from Dilated and Prodigy from the Infamous Mobb Deep, while creating some dark, medieval imagery. Some of the Left Coast underground scene's finest drop a few verses on the record such as Del, Dilated, Everlast,MixMaster Mike, KutMasta Kurt, Divine Styler, Son Doobie of FunkDoobiest and Aceyalone of the world famous Freestyle Fellowship. The production is tight, although the tracks produced by the Alchemist give the group a more 'thuggish' and darker tone to their lyrics. Stand out tracks include: 'Lady Venom', 'Out of Range', 'Bottle Rocket', 'Counter Parts', 'Committed', 'Left Field', & 'Assault & Battery'

I totally prefer this CD over their new release (although "Bad Dreams" is also an amazing piece of work). Every song on this disc throws you deeper into a seduction. Don't ask me why or how, but it does. I was grabbed by this CD right away and I have a hard time going a day without listening to it. Another reason I prefer this CD is because it was in fact their first release, and I think Mad Child and Prevail had a lot more creative freedom with this disc. I feel the new one was written with pleasing the general public in mind. So anyways, if you're looking for a trip, this disc will do what you need it to. Be prepared to be seduced, assaulted, offended, empowered, and all around messed up all over...

Best Tracks: "Lady Venom," "Assault + Battery," "Out of Range," "Valentine's Day Massacre," "Horrified Nights," "Battleaxe Experiment," and "Consumption."

The mix of underground hip hop and the dark, menacing imagery are engrossing and infatuating. It's really remarkable. Listen to it.

If Edgar Allan Poe had mic skills this is probably what he would have come up with.The chilling imagery concocted by prevail and madchild will leave your head noddin and your nightlight on.Check the poison madchild spits on 'lady venom;'"drenched/venting tensions-adrenaline rush/pain stains the carpet when you run into us/an effortless task-cold hearts and iron masks/nightmares have been implanted that you shouldnt try and grasp."Guest appearances by Del,Dilated Peoples keep the album spiced up properly and of course there is the instant-classic 'bottlerocket'featuring Evidence,Divine Styler and Everlast.This is an very solid album...just listen in the daytime

hello and alright you mother fluckers. this is the only Swollen Members cd you need to have if you like them. it is quite excepshanal in the world of rap and in the rhelem of what they do. their other albums suck. let me tell you. THEY SUCK. but this one is GOOD, despite a little ego. they rymem and flow tight. tighter then your little *sshole was the first time you ever took a nice hard compacted flesh expanding sh*t, baby! get it while it's hot or try to find it somewhere for cheaper. oh yeah! it aint the typocal hype you dumb f*ck so listen up! get it get it get it get it now!!!!!! yeah!