{"product_id":"hope-in-dirt-city","title":"Hope in Dirt City","description":"An exciting mix of weird and tough, Canadian rapper Cadence Weapon often sounds like Del the Funky Homosapien if he were a member of G-Unit, but on Hope in Dirt City, he's much more, breaking into a chest-beating, rock ballad scream on the hooky highlight \"Conditioning\" and going full dub poet on the reverb-drenched, reggae-drenched \"Small Deaths.\" A mixed batch of genres like electro (the anti-industry \"(You Can't Stop) The Machine\"), Hot Chip-styled indie funk (the twitchy \"Jukebox\"), and trunk-rumbling hip-hop from the Wu-Tang side of the street (the dark highlight \"Hype Man\") makes this the underground rapper's most musically ambitious album to date, and his superior rhymes don't take a hit at all, even if he's mellowed and slowed his pace a touch, which fits his increased love of introspection. Hook-filled songs are built to be accessible up front, and the album is well-designed as a whole, spacing out its prime numbers all the way to the end where the new wave-inspired title track offers an '80s beat and that rambling wordplay that only exists in the post-Mos Def world. Another solid and easy to recommend effort in a discography that already has a couple, which begs the question as to why Cadence Weapon isn't a bigger name, even among the underground hip-hop faithful? ~ David Jeffries","brand":"InnerSleeve","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41907861618853,"sku":"831707000341","price":23.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/6007\/1077\/files\/2ceb766ce6a3b6669f34b7e865b33a2d.jpg?v=1776955468","url":"https:\/\/www.innersleeve.com\/products\/hope-in-dirt-city","provider":"InnerSleeve","version":"1.0","type":"link"}