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Everready

Tech N9ne

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Despite the fact that its author is Kansas City’s most respected rap veteran, Everready has an attitude that is more heavy metal than hip-hop. Tech N9NE’s ultra-aggressive, uproarious approach is epitomized in “Riot Maker": “I don't give a damn about nuthin’! / I'm a sly drinker / I'm a skyscraper / Riot maker!” N9NE’s music may be the perfect accompaniment for a UFC cage match, but Everready still embraces the unpredictable and the individualistic. After all, how many rap albums have the audacity to sample Hall and Oates (“No Can Do”), Art of Noise (“Bout Ta Bubble”) and even Dean Martin (“Welcome To the Midwest”)? Regardless of the source material, N9NE always reforms the music in his own image, creating a torrential storm of heavy rhythms and shout-along choruses. Iconoclastic Bay Area producer Rick Rock provides two of the album’s standout cuts, “My Wife, My Bitch, My Girl” and “Jellysickle,” the latter of which references N9NE’s bizarre hairdo. With the adrenalized theatricality of a WWF wrestler and the pulverizing technique of a mixed martial artist, Tech N9NE might just be this generation’s perfect spokesman.

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Absolutely Incredible

Tech N9ne is the most talented, and most grossly underrated emcee in the game today. This album proves it. A lot of people have criticized the production value of his previous work, and although I still love it, I think most would agree that the beats on Everready blow Tech's other tracks out of the water (Jellysickle, produced by Rick Rock, is off the goddamn chain). The rhymes are also deffinitely on par with anything he's done to date, and in fact surpass them in their cleverness. The lyrics are great, from the classic psycho-schizo rants and brooding meditations to straight up b*tches and ho's and gansta sh*t, Everready is Tech N9ne at his finest. If you've been a fan since Anghellic, the old Tech is still here, and if you're a newcomer, these tracks are hotter than any of that Young Joc bullsh*t on the radio right now. For all of you who say he's sold out, or has softened, you should give this a listen. Tightest n***ga movin'. Period.

Everready

With Aaron D. Yates, aka Tech N9ne, you never know which man will emerge on the track. He explains this as three different personas, the Clown, the G, and the King. When he first made his splash on the Gang Related soundtrack he showed the world that he was more than just a one-trick pony in the vein of Twista and Bone Thugs. Once he released Anghellic, after two huge region hit albums The Calm Before the Storm and The Worst, it was evident Tech was set to blow up outside of his Midwest region. Then came the label problems and with that came promotion problems and being able to find Tech's music outside of KC and the neighboring regions. Then came Strange Music and the arrival of Absolute Power. Full of big boasts and strong strip-club style hits, it was a commercial success as well as promoting Tech's hate for the Industry (he offered his entire album as a free download at his website). And now, Everready. As it is with rappers that scream of talent, his flow and breath control only gets more polished with every track. The album opens with a recreation of an incident that gave him a new outlook on life as a whole. The first half is full of hits and club worthy music such as Flash, Bout Ta Bubble, and Jellysickle. But where Tech shines is when he gets past the club and into his life and home. Tracks "Come Gangsta" and "The Rain" show Tech being his gritty and real persona. The production value of this album overachieves as whole. Compared to the hit and miss production of his past albums, this album stands head and shoulders above the rest. Tech is geared for a worldwide explosion, he just needs to find worldwide appealing production to go with his in your face charisma and rap style.

The greatest rapper ever.

It blows my mind how (in my opinion) the best rapper alive today is so under rated that he can hardly book shows on the east coast. Tech brings the fire on this album just as I expected him to. Any real Technician or Juggalo already knows whats up with Tech's music. But for the rest of the world.....Stop sleepin on him. Yukmouth put a million dollar bet that Tech N9ne can beat anyone in rapping, and he was right. I'd put a million on that too.

Biography

Born: November 8, 1971 in Kansas City, MO

Genre: Hip-Hop/Rap

Years Active: '90s, '00s, '10s

Like many underground rappers in the Midwest, Tech N9ne specialized in bizarre hardcore rap and stood as one of the few recognized rappers based in Kansas City when he debuted in the late '90s. He made the major-label jump with Anghellic (2001), which JCOR Entertainment released with the backing of Interscope Records. The album didn't find a large audience, though, and Tech N9ne returned to the underground and prepared his next album, Absolute Power (2002). A year later Tech N9ne's new label, Strange...
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