Four Horsemen

Umc's (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 22, 2008)
• Original Release Date: 1993
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Wild Pitch Records
• ASIN: B001675SW6
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #248,860 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Explicit Version. 2008 reissue of the Ultramagnetic MC's final album, originally released in 1993. Led by rapper Kool Keith, the quartet were often compared to other East Coast contemporaries like Gang Starr and EPMD.

Customer Reviews

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5.0 out of 5 stars This Ain't No Flintstone and No Bedrock Type Stuff, June 1, 2011

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John Wraith "Studio Gangsta" (Rural Virginia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Four Horsemen (Audio CD)

This is Sunday morning in church, and Kool Keith is the messiah. Sure, he runs circles around the rest of his crew, but Ced Gee and TR Love have their moments and do add a certain South Bronx charm to the proceedings, and to be fair, Kool Keith could run circles around anyone rapping in 1993 who wasn't named Nasir Jones. And it's also fair to note that it's 2011 when I'm writing this and no one has caught up with him yet (listen to "One Two, One Two" and tell me that his style originates on planet Earth).

This record has that early-mid-90s jazz sound that New York couldn't get enough of, with good reason. Godfather Don produces most of the real gems here but the boys in Ultramag also come up with some pretty sick tracks on their own.

Ultramagnetic MCs remain the most underrated group in the history of hip-hop. "Raise It Up" and "Checkin' My Style" should be in the Smithsonian American Art Museum in DC. Kool Keith's game is dropping doo-doo lyrics, and they need to be preserved for the next generations of Americans.

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5.0 out of 5 stars why i was buying hip hop in the 90's, December 16, 2008

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Michael Vergez "radio mike" (bay area, ca) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Four Horsemen (Audio CD)

the only way youd ever hear ultra is possibly college or pirate radio, though now ultra in my eyes is never truly in the hearts of youre average backpackers, i still bump funk your head up, the group was is and will always be phenominal, ced g, moe love, tr love, and last but not least kool keith are kings of kings, while most people think hip hop to be one monolithic subject, true identity speaks out through each artists style, i cant listen to the radio and if i purchase hip hop it better be somewhat unknown/underground. the four horsemen as with all of the ultramagnetic mc's albums are below the radar, obviously kool keiths career is already legendary in the hip hop community, and ultramagnetic is no exception, every song they ever did is great to me, a lesson in what true hip hop remains to be to this day, some of you will want a track by track lowdown, to each his own, i will suggest though that since they re-issued the four horsemen they might have done one better by re-issuing funk your head up, other then that see for yourselves