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Black Milk's Tronic Album Review
“It don’t make no sense,” how Black Milk keeps on dropping these hits! Picking up where Popular Demand left off, Curtis “Black Milk” Cross is blazing the Midwest saddle across the world with his sophomore effort, Tronic. Destined to set himself apart from the typical Hip Hop producer, and prove that he can walk alongside the footprints of the late, great J. Dilla, and not behind them, Black knocks another one out of the park like Mark McGwire on the juice. Black switches up the formula for Tronic as he gears away from the soul-sample laced beats which have garnered him critical acclaim from both the underground circuit, and mainstream. Black’s new change of pace is ever prevalent on the album’s forth track, “Without U,” which features the Toronto native, rock crooner Colin Munroe to add the perfect blend of underground Hip Hop with enough Pop power to take over the airways at a 95.5. Perhaps the best track on Tronic, Black further shows his evolution as a producer by incorporating live horns and percussion on, “Give The Drummer Sum.” In fact, Black enlisted the help of live musicians to bring his sonic dream to fruition on several tracks, perfectly blending it all together – as on the Royce Da 5’9” featured banger, “Losing Out.” “Losing Out,” is Black at his lyrical best as he holds down the mic to make sure he’s not overshadowed by the lyrical powerhouse that is Royce Da 5’9”. Picking up where his first single, “Sound The Alarm,” from his debut album Popular Demand left off, Black emphatically puts on for his city as he belts such lines as, “Let’s talk about who’s the most underestimated plus underrated city in this Hip Hop game/Let’s talk about [how] I don’t know if these industry mofo’s overlook us ‘cause they might be afraid… Let’s talk about Auburn, they turn, now it’s De-troit's turn like Barry Gordy came back.” There’s not a weak moment on Tronic, as Black reaches back through the city of Detroit to employ the help of local artists such as the aforementioned Royce Da 5’9”, and: Dwele, Fat Ray, DJ Dez, AB, and Melanie Rutherford. Black, however, not forgetting his underground roots, reaches out to New York for the track, “The Matrix,” which features Hip Hop greats Pharoahe Monch, Sean Price, and the legendary DJ Premier. Carrying the torch that Dilla lit, for Producers-slash-emcees everywhere, Black Milk is leading the pack. You heard it here first: BLACK MILK… IS A BETTER EMCEE… THAN ANY OTHER PRODUCER-SLASH-EMCEE… KANYE WEST INCLUDED. Don’t think about comparing Tronic to another metropolitan area’s producer-slash-emcee’s album, as Tronic is the best album of the year thus far, receiving a perfect rating – only this journalists second such rating of the year. Black Milk’s Tronic is in stores now. For more information on Black Milk, visit: Marcel Friday
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