Kill My Landlord

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Product Details

• Audio CD (April 22, 2008)
• Original Release Date: 1993
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Wild Pitch Records
• ASIN: B001675SQW
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #179,916 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best., August 1, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Kill My Landlord (Audio CD)

Whenever I listen to this album, I think "This is the funkiest stuff ever." Boots creates irresistably groovy compositions that rely on no more than a live bass line, some drums, and some on-point piano stabs. If this album was simply instrumental, I'd buy it. But the lyrics are as impressive as the music. Boots' lazy drawl only makes his biting social commentary stand out more, as it's obvious he's fed up with society and ready for revolution. Throw in the competant E-Roc and the aptly named Pam the Funkstress, and you have an all-time, unknown hip-hop classic. Wild Pitch was such a great record label.

6 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Absolute Classic - Get this for yourself, please., March 2, 2000

By 

James Roche "cooljames" (Seattle, WA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Kill My Landlord (Audio CD)

This is the slickest hip-hop record I own. The rhymes are so smooth, they leave you singing all day. The commentary is beyond astute. Biting apathetic accounts of life flow from someone who seems to understand the reasons for the destitution of a people at the hands of a mindless machine.

The essential drive to this group is the analysis of desparation. Their dramatization of destructive behavior in poor culture cuts to the very core of its nature. Each song paints a different picture of what authority, meaning drugs, jobs, government and economics, have to do with the situation that they see in their hometown of Oakland. The album was released in the season prior to the LA/Rodney King riots, and the applicable philosophy hits you like a stone. The name of the album itself, and the final song on the album (which is absolutely excellent by the way) is pulled from a very depressing metaphor that sums up the rest of the work as a whole. I'll leave the rest of my admiration and respect for this group for the rest of you to discover.

5.0 out of 5 stars the roots of hip-hop, January 10, 2012

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motlalekhotso (cupertino, usa) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Kill My Landlord (Audio CD)

Much of what's good about modern urban music can trace its roots to what was going on in socially-concious music of a couple decades ago.

This album is undeniable funky, indescribably funny, and beyond thoughtful. Boots and the rest were poets that took current events and challenges and put them to music. What's amazing is how well this stuff has aged! A listen to this music today is not just a blast from the past but also a shout to the future.