Speak About the Rucker Posted by dstill808

Mos Def: "Sunshine" (Ricci Rucker Remix) From: As yet unreleased Scratch music don and outspoken web personality Ricci Rucker has the knack for bringing out the crazy in people. Take a trip to his board and there's a bunch of talk about what is and isn't art, what is conceptually superior, and subjectivity vs. objectivity, etc. All of which takes away from the fact that dude really is extremely talented, and has a solid base of work to back it up. Each time you want to join the haters and get into some semantic argument, he drops something like this that shows he really does walk what he talks. This Mos Def remix of the Kanye track off of The New Danger finds Ricci doing a consummate version of the straight forward hip hop he has a (not entirely deserved) reputation for maligning, and the shit holds up. The 45 RPM vocal samples (which he says are a dig, or a comment on the often imitated style) don't even register at first as a dip into the Kanye vocabulary, unlike so many other biters out there. This is the sort of Sunday afternoon hip hop cut of that there aren't enough of right now, despite frequent attempts. Not the most predictable move from one of the boundary pushers of the scratch musician movement, but a nice example of his skill, taste, and restraint.