Company Flow, Funcrusher Plus (1997) Image via Respect Mag Label: Rawkus Records 'And once again, in one verse, we have proven, we can rip all these signed, big-budget motherfuckers,' said El-P. Contents • • • • • • Critical reception [ ] Professional ratings Review scores Source Rating 10/10 7/10 9.0/10 9/10 8/10 gave the album a perfect 5 star rating, and writer Steve Huey stated: '[ Funcrusher Plus] demands intense concentration, but also rewards it, and its advancement of hip-hop as an art form is still being felt. It's difficult, challenging music, to be sure, and it's equally far ahead of its time.' Jon Dolan of noted '[Company Flow's] evincing a confrontational critique of 'those signed, big-budget muthafuckas' like none hip hop has attempted since 's.' Andrew Hultkrans of gave the album 8 stars out of 10, commenting that '[the album] deconstructed hip-hop conventions and rebuilt them into a spare, murky, sputtering soundscape.' Jeff Weiss of felt that 'El-P conjured an apocalyptic minimalism -- the sublimated sound of clanging and cluttered train cars, city grime buried beneath cuticles, and the ghostly smoke of burning blunts.' Nate Patrin of said: 'With the exception of the nocturnal crystalline funk of the Bigg Jus-produced 'Lune TNS' and the frequent scratch contributions from secret weapon DJ Mr. Len, Funcrusher Plus ' beats bear the mark of El-P's dusty-but-digital aesthetic, which even back then had the same sort of beautiful-dystopia feel that informed 's and his own a few years later.' Brian Coleman of called it 'the most important release of 1997 thus far.' Joseph Schafer of said, ' Funcrusher Plus made for a hell of an opening salvo, and most emcee/producers would envy having such a record in their discography, but El mostly improved upon his work here later.' On October 4, 2011, 'Lune TNS' was chosen by as the Song of the Day. In 2003, Funcrusher Plus ranked at number 84 on Pitchfork 's Top 100 Albums of the 1990s list. In 2014, listed the album at number 86 on the 90 Best Rap Albums of the 90s. In 2015, it was chosen by as number 4 on the 100 Best Indie Hip-Hop Records of All Time. Track listing [ ] No. Title Lyrics Music Length 1. 'Bad Touch Example', El-P 3:26 2. '8 Steps to Perfection' Bigg Jus, El-P El-P 4:43 3. 'Collude/Intrude' El-P, J-Treds El-P 5:25 4. Paper jamz pro series download. 'Blind' Bigg Jus, El-P El-P 3:42 5. 'Silence' Bigg Jus El-P 3:33 6. 'Legends' El-P El-P 4:02 7. 'Help Wanted' El-P 2:13 8. 'Population Control' El-P, Bigg Jus, El-P 4:26 9. 'Lune TNS' Bigg Jus Bigg Jus 3:39 10. 'Definitive' El-P El-P 5:47 11. 'Lencorcism' 0:36 12. '89.9 Detrimental' El-P El-P 1:03 13. 'Vital Nerve' El-P, BMS El-P 5:01 14. 'Tragedy of War (in III Parts)' Bigg Jus, El-P El-P 3:49 15. 'The Fire in Which You Burn', J-Treds, El-P, Bigg Jus El-P 5:02 16.
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