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Infinito:2017 and Future Times

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A FutureWhen I first heard "," I think I played it about four times in a row. It's that good. The track takes a ceaseless vibraphone sample that sounds like it's been filtered through a really thick blanket before reaching your ears and is pushed on by the fuzzy bass line. While the production itself sounds incredible, it's pretty clearly a lo-fi product. And while that approach to sound has recently been embraced in the rock world, it might not fly in hip hop - and that would be a bloody shame, seriously.

Infinito: 2017 doesn't cop some futuristic stance like those dudes in Outkast or even like those weirdos on Mush Records (as a disclaimer, I like those folks, they just seem odd). Instead, the emcee/producer/high minded thinker positions himself as a unifier of culture. It seems like a pretty lofty goal, but the rapper's aim is pretty clear even from a brief examination of his newest full length disc entitled - he also apparently enjoys colons. The disc itself, though, is framed by an (imaginary?) interview with a British woman who asks various questions interspersed with the actual songs here. It isn't a distraction, but I gotta say that she gets kind of annoying by the end of the disc.

Growing up in Chicago and being sent back and forth between Memphis and the larger northern city that Infinito called home must have some how colored his outlook on race in the Americas. This disc surely isn't going to be taken away from white folks, but with the overall bent of the lyrical content focusing on black folks and how they're beautiful, it might make some listeners wonder what they're listening for. Of course, the approach to rap in order to raise awareness and cultural pride is one of the original intentions of the genre and should continue. But in his attempt to , Infinito dismisses a portion of the hip hop buying populace, which is intergalactic at this point.

Beyond that, though, just comes off better as he examines the culture of hip hop as opposed to the folks that founded it. In the aforementioned song, "Out with the Old," the emcee deftly name checks a huge number of groups while still being able to weave a loose narrative around them. It isn't Slick Rick, but what is anymore? "Forget Yesterday," while touching on the fact that he moved around as a child, gets into relationship territory and again succeeds pretty effortlessly.

aren't club bangers and really, the biggest possible fan base for this flighty emcee is gonna be the back packer crowd. In addition to those insightful raps, the production here is laid back and smoker friendly. Nothing represented on Divided Souls: Africans in America is gonna change the game, but even in that Infinito pays his respect to the folks that came before him. And really, that's the thesis of his career thus far. As long as the emcee keeps to this track - as well as self producing those videos - we'll hear from him again. Hopefully, soon.

Most High Definition reviews

Jensen @

Marcellous Lovelace, aka INFINITO 2017, was born on the South Side of Chicago but bounced back and forth between there and Memphis, Tennessee through most of his adolescence and early adulthood. His new album, "Most High Definition," is the defining moment in his career. Partly based on the Will Smith movie, "I Am Legend," it melds images of isolation and the future with organic hip-hop.

Dustygroove.com

One of the best sets of blueprint hip hop from Infinito 2017 -- a busy MC who manages to keep the quality level top notch -- this time out featuring a pretty impressive roster of guest producers & MCs! Marcellous succeeds by consistently dropping truth and wisdom without fail -- this time out with soulful beats by Thaione, Ptah, Fatnice of 84, Memo from the Molemen, Count Bass D, Dug Infinite and Insight -- and guest rhymes by some of those cats, plus I Self Divine, Mr Skurge, 9th Scientist & others. Titles include "Forthcoming Expectations" feat Queen Nilaja and Rising Sun, "The Akan", "On My Way Back Home" feat Thaione Davis, "Cornbread" feat 9th Scientist and Trek 19, "My Boom Box". "The Making", "Windows Closed", "Rebirth Of A Nation" feat Truth Universal, Mr Skurge & Thaione Davis, "Bo Deen", "Black Friday Madness", "In Love With The Mic", "Super Duper Nubians".

Blackmusiclovers.Net

Marcellous Lovelace más conocido como Infinito 2017, oriundo de Chicago es reconocido por capacidad creativa. Los inicios de éste Mc fueron gracias a su primo b-boy, el cual le enseño los elementos del Hip-Hop. La carrera de Infinito 2017 comenzó en el año 89, como maestro de ceremonia y al ver su talento uno de su primo decido grabar un disco de Freestyle. Con el tiempo logró darse a conocer, no sólo por su música ya que también se destaca en otros ámbitos, como la literatura Infinito 2017 tiene bajo su brazo cerca de 10 libros, en los cuales habla de diversos temas. Si hablamos de la carrera musical de este artista, ésta sería una reseña demasiado extensa, ya que tiene demasiados trabajos todos están grabados desde sus inicios. Pero haremos poder se síntesis y nos concentraremos en su último trabajo titulado Most High Definition, un álbum que contiene 21 track, el cual mantiene su estilo ya conocido desde sus trabajos anteriores. Sin duda alguna Infinito 2017 nuevamente nos trae un excelente trabajo, de donde se le mire ya que con el contenido en las letras, son realmente buenas tomando temas punzantes de la sociedad y también habla de sus propias experiencias y en lo musical es un rap bien marcado bajo el ritmo de los bombos y cajas. Quizás no es el Hip-Hop que se escucha actualmente ya que éste se asimila a ese rap más clásico. Lo que no deja que éste sea un gran álbum. Bueno como dicen sobre gustos no hay nada escrito y acá los dejo con Infinito 2017 y su álbum llamado Most High Definition.

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Posted on 07/21/2008
Though it's common knowledge that hip-hop is a form of poetry, it's always important to remember that as much as they are the same, they are also different. These differences become clear when we think about free verse poetry that exists without rhyme. Or even when we hang our heads at the lack of success had by spoken word CDs. Or when we hear albums like Infinito 2017's, Most High Definition.

I don't think Infinito even necessarily considers himself a poet, rather than a rapper. That's the issue. As an emcee, unfortunately, you do have boundaries, and techniques necessary to make the music conducive to listening. If not, you get what seems like a poem, or a speech, with music as the backdrop. Two separate entities, neither made with the other in mind, create the dissonant sound that is Most High Definition.

Infinito 2017 has a message though. He tackles topics like self-discovery, police brutality, consumerism, and politics, with an intense, passionate delivery, laid over hard knocking beats. It's just that they are usually laid on the offbeat, and are often free of rhyme and structure. This has worked in the past for emcees like RZA and MF Doom, but it isn't as potent here. But after deciphering what he's trying to convey, I wish it was. I also wish he considered himself a spoken word artist. Then, Most High Definition wouldn't be as disappointing.

- Jason Reynolds

- You and Eye

Beat arranger Unagi and Chicago emcee once again join forces on this 7-song EP. Hip-hop that's political, socially conscious, and adverturous both in the lyrical format and Unagi's challenging compositions. Sweet samples that aren't always just heavy on the bass are looped with funky abandon. You can nod your head or shake your rump to the clever beats. While it's only 17 minutes long, "You and Eye" is powerful hip-hop that will change people's perspectives.

- J-Sin

 


Unagi & Infinito 2017 - You and Eye
Thursday, August 9, 2007
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Have you got your hands on issue 66 of Thick Magazine yet? The 'Producer Issue' has a text book's worth of beat making knowledge. One of the most interesting characters featured is Unagi. This Bay Area cratedigger has our ears' attention over here. In the interview he mentioned a few projects he's been working on, one of which is You and Eye, his new collaboration EP with Chitown's Infinito 2017. All seven tracks here have that feel good early '90's sound that Unagi has mastered. With beats like this you expect some smoothly delivered raps. Not here. The lyrically gifted Infinito's janky flow seems heavily influenced by Kool Keith. Not the Ultra Magnetic flow, the new millennium, awkward, exploring new ground type flow. I guess with the name 2017 you can't expect some regular shit. Songs like Game Winning Moment and On Air Takeover had my head nodding. I could be wrong but it felt like Infinito was freestyling this whole album. It has these moments of dopeness that are similar to when a rapper hits his stride during an off the dome freestyle. My favourite joint on here is A Day That Don't End. This beat really suits Infinito's style and it ends this album on a positive note.

And another from SF indie record spot :

"Over the course of three solid albums, the Bay Area's Unagi has blended traditional hip hop with the smooothest love-you-down r&b and soul. On his latest release, he's joined by Memphis based MC Infinito 2017. Combined, their sound is super loose and laidback (especially on the mildly chaotic track "On Air Takeover"), but exceedingly 'up' vibe-y. Seven tracks addin' up to 17 minutes of good times!"

 

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MP3s: It's A Thug World For Us (Infinito: 2017, Plastic Little)

MP3s: It's A Thug World For Us (Infinito: 2017, Plastic Little)

Posted Mon Apr 21 12:36pm PDT by Ken Micallef in

Thugs get a bad name, no doubt about it. What with every Nelly, Lil Romeo, and Ying Yang Twins stinking up the airwaves, how can a real thug get a break? Gone (well, almost gone) are the days when Snoop could instantly count on platinum album success, and forget about the marvels of majesty that once emanated from the mouths and MPCs of Flavor Flav, Chuck D, RZA and the like. Sure, Busta Rhymes has a new album, Blessed, in the can, but really who cares about Busta Rhymes? When is the last time Busta produced something as brain locking as It Takes A Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back or Fear of a Black Planet? Never, right? I may be mixing apples with oranges, east coast with west, the 80s with the 00s, but talent knows no boundaries.

Today's choice for heroic gangsta/sonic sampling wizardry come courtesy Infinito: 2017 and Plastic Little.

A visit to Infinito: 2017's website doesn't clear up matters as to whether the act is a group or simply 2017 himself. Listing band members as "HERU, INFINITO: 2017, THOTH, Markus Garvey, MA'AT, I AM 720, THE 5%, CHILDREN OF THE SUN," the site instantly links to MySpace, and the artist(s)' fantastic, earth mother drenched, historically learned and sonically sophisticated sounds.

Alluding to buried Biblical messages, Egyptian mystery school wisdom, and the struggle of year's past, "Monday Aneya Aseju" drapes a God oriented tale with crackling piano and beat samples, and what sounds like Odetta or Miriam Makeba singing gospel homilies. The track deepens with some wicked sample riffage, and the slick line, "I thought Indie.Arie was Venus Williams on a budget." It's slow mo, and drop dead slacker sensitive, a behind-the-beat mighty dub drop groove fest. But is it gangsta? (Next up, a beautiful bossa nova scented rap, "Jonah 38," pure sweet symmetry recalling Gil Scott Heron).

Scrolling down the 2017 site, further curiosities appear: calls to join the African revolution starring Haile Selassie, a quiz ("Which Egyptian God or Goddess do you represent?"), and links to further solo works: IT - Low Income Housing,

Infinito:2017 - For The Love Of Naked Black Women,  Roddny Dangrr Fild: Tragedy in Bar Sequences, and A Regular Black Dude Movie Pt. 1.

Who needs Blaxploitation movie comps when you've got tales this interesting?

Infinito: 2017 features, among other things and themes, "the thoughts of Dr. Francis Cress Welsing of the The Isis Papers," discussing the largely secret history of Black America.


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Infinito - Music With Sound Right Reasoning (Birthwrite)
Music With Sound Right Reasoning Change Around Qualified Professional #27 Black Chicago Vocal Capability Chicago, Illinois will never leave the map. A proud representative has spoken again.

While one of the most dedicated hip-hop cradles once mainly was recognized for the old Common Sence, the city of Chicago could very well be looked upon as the most prospering and quality-guaranteed stops in a search for sincere music. There's something about that city, no doubt. The next encounter you should face right now is the up-and-coming independent Birthwrite. With artists like Overflo, Pugslee Atomz & Lord360 - time has now come for Infinito to shine.

 With the lead single "Qualified Professional" hitting stores last summer, I hope some of you have had the chance to peep Infinito already. If not, here's your chance. And you should take it, because "Music With Sound Right Reasoning" gives you a lot back in the terms of an experience. The man's raising the bar, taking a challenge really. Infinito's rhymes are LOADED with explosive emotions, reflections and clear insight. The in-depth "Shadow Hours" (produced by Memo of the Molemen) displays some of that, dedicated love is present in "Lost Energy" and Memo laces another heavy one for Infinito in "Right At 26" while DJ Noble adds important turntable work.

Production wise, it's no doubt that the Molemen beats on "Music With Sound Right Reasoning" may be the most longlasting so to speak. But one of the additional producers, Mixx Massacre, is doing well with original beats on the sureshot "Seeing Is Knowing", the charismatic "Escaping The Turmoil" and most definitely "At Night I Can't Sleep" - on which Infinito addsparanoid, yet very easy related lyrics. Again, the main surplus of this record is the energy of Infinito and the openminded attitude he's presenting. Technically, it feels like he's close to overload on some tracks. And as a whole, "Music With..." is maybe stretching over a too long period of time. Don't really wanna complain on quantity, but 74 minutes without some loss in focus is impossible. But then again, attitude means a lot. Combined with the energy that literally really breathes through Infinito and his lyrical styles makes "Music With Sound Right Reasoning" a great discovery.

Infinito - To Know American EP (M.I.H. / Nephew Of Frank)
Nubians In Devastated Places (144) Dealing With Negativity Locked Inside Rules Conflict Diamonds  New material from Chicago based emcee Marcellous Lovelace, also known as Infinito 2017. Everyone should own a copy of his banger with Memo from last summer titled "Qualified Professional" and hopefully some of you also recognized the man on his recent "Music With Sound Right Reasoning" full length on Birthwrite Records. Staying creative, Infinito is now releasing the "To Know American" EP with 6 new tracks - all of them produced by acknowledged Chitown beatsmith Mixx Massacre. Setting it off right away, "Nubians In Devastated Places (144)" sees Infinito spitting thoughts over this mellow, jazzy beat working well. Styles are flipped for the up tempo efforts in "Dealing With Negativity" and while the interaction between Infinito & Mixx Massacre works great here, it's still the A-side's finishing "Locked Inside Rules" that wins our hearts with its sincere beat and Infinito's humble & creative lyricism. Having his lyrical strength in his ability to handle multiple discussions on the mic, Infinito is joined by Soul Child (of N.M.B. fame) for some straight back-2-back wordplay on the b-side's "The Willimam Lynch Treatment". Theme is continued on the finishing, rowdy "Conflict Diamonds" and what happens on "To Know American" is that we are left with a nice overall experience. Mixx Massacre's assistance breaks ground for Infinito who, as an emcee, always seems to make sure to develop his styles all the time. Still keeping it gritty, Infinito represents with everything that hip-hop music is really about.

Infinito 2017 & Unagi

You and Eye

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US release date: 24 July 2007
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I love what Unagi does. The California beatmaker stitches soul samples and all manner of groovy bits into fine sonic tapestries. I bet he time travels in Doc and Marty McFly's car from Back to the Future, and he goes spelunking through the hollows of the '70s and '80s, mining glorious audio coal to fuel his beat-smithing. But, as I've said before-about last year's It Came from Beneath the SFC and this year's Unagi For Lovers-I don't always love what emcees do to what Unagi does (and that goes for Unagi's own microphone fiendishness too). Things are different this time. For You & Eye, Unagi enlists Chicago, Illinois emcee Infinito 2017 (Marcellous Lovelace) to do the lyrical honors, and the results finally do justice to Unagi's handiwork. The collaboration makes sense, given that Infinito positively rocked It Came from Beneath the SFC's "Expanded & Up to Date".  Here, Infinito breathes fire over this 7-track collaboration, with a barrage of flows that surprise like freestyles but cohere like spoken word. His stream of social consciousness connects nicely with Unagi's curling baslines, soaring horns, and hard knock beats, as well as Unagi's knack for tempo changes that would buck the average emcee with the force of a mechanical bull.

Things I would have loved: (1) "On Air Takeover", the title of the third track, being used as the album title instead of the play on the "U" and "I" in Unagi and Infinito's names; (2) more songs, more songs, more songs-there's only six (excluding the intro but including the 1 minute, 17 second "Use Your Mind Right" and its delightful zippity-do-dah keys); (3) longer songs, 'cause the longest ones only last about three minutes ("Game Winning Moment", "Leave Me Alone"); and (4) more elaboration from Infinito about his Africa-is-for-the-African perspective, as the U.S.'s news coverage has generally been thin when it comes to international issues of indigenous sovereignty and native land title. The "6" I'm giving You & Eye is deceptive because this joint contains material that's better than a "good" rating. But, with a running time of about 17 minutes, it's like trying to be happy with a mere glimpse of your soulmate-it's just enough to convince you of the possibilities, but not enough for you to feel satisfied.

    Infinito - Roddney Dangrr Fild  

 


 
 
 


 
Label: Birthwrite Rec.
Release: 2002

 
 

Infinito 2017 - Music With Sound Right Reasoning


 
 
  1. Alpha The Beginning
2. Music With Sound Right Reasoning
3. Change Around feat. Verbal
4. Qualified Professional #27
5. To Those That Hate
6. Shadow Hours
7. Seeing Is Knowing
8. Lost Energy
9. Right At 26
10. Black Chicago
11. What You Wanted To Know
12. Escaping The Turmoil Of A Twisted Reality
13. Vocal Capability
14. At Night I Can't Sleep
15. Open Space
16. Immeasurable 720
17. Positive Living Pt. II
18. Nubians In Devasted Places (144)
19. The William Lynch Treatment feat. Soulchild
20. Ready For Anything
21. Detrimental To Your Health feat. Cosmos Galactus
22. Instructions At The End Pt. 3
 
 
Finally once new material of Infinito 2017, this time even in the album format. And waiting was quite worthwhile itself - the man from Chicago's of verslumter Southside makes on "Music With sound right Reasoning" exactly the fact that which that well-informed listeners of it expected and proves already with the selection of the producers note (Molemen) and Mixx measure acre (ex-Molemen) good taste. These do not let anything come on itself - dry Beats of moderate speed understood itself as well known with chubby Streichern and tendency-heavy Pianoschleifen always well. Stage freely thus for Infinito and its intelligently gereimten pointingnesses. There are to subordinate many RWSBY gladly the political intentions can and more listener which the usually covered scenarios willingly be swallowed still much - nevertheless genuine and serious opinions resemble the famous needle in heap of hay. There is Infinitio completely different. That the Beats does not overlay the somewhat uncertain flow occasionally does anything to the thing - which sits message. Thus the man with the strange number in the name sketches an attached net from observation and critical Kommentation outgoing from the title TRACK "Music With sound right Reasoning" from social around and bad states of each only erdenklichen design that it down-runs one whether the lyric expression strength already coldly the backs. Thus Infinito topics concerns like pervasive Negativitaet, social cold weather, political failure, goal-missed Religiositaet and - in somewhat more superficial moments - also the unfortunate development of the HipHopkultur. Songs like tendencyful "tons the Those That Hate", "Shadow Hours", "Seeing Is Knowing", "What You Wanted ton of Know" and many different witness from the urgruendigen depth the Infinito's music so particularly make. Which juckt's that or other Song by unsatisfactory clay/tone quality at hearing pleasures loses and also the guests verbal, Soulchild and Cosmic Galactus remain inconspicuous: thus music the steps sounds makes forward. The large Infinito speaks: "Bitch kids should punished for rhyming about emergency-hung/wackness on the mic shouldn't exist - who you frontin?". Convincing conception.
 
 
   



 
Label: Domination Rec.
Release: 2004

 
 
 
 
  1. Get Down People
2. Acknowledge The After
3. Green Card
4. Casual Liberation
5. MK Ultra
6. Some Wise Water
7. You Are Not It
8. Samuel L. Jackson vs. Dolomite
9. Marcellous Dublace
10. My Life Creation #63 (Blues Of Black Music)
11. Bubblegum Artist feat. Cosmo Galactus & Mr. Skurge
12. Low Income Housing
13. 1884 Berlin Conference feat. Fat Nice of 84
14. 3:30 Am On A Monday
15. Equal Opportunity Employement
 
IT (Infinito & Thaione) - Low Incoming housing already in the interviews for ugrap.de announced Infinito 2017 and to Thaione Davis the imminent publication of a jointly brought in album. And the duo of the South Side of Chicago promised not too much - already few months after establishment of the formation in the spring 2004 offer its first Longplayer "Low Income housing" to IT to the sales. All, for which Chi Town's Conscious scene is not a blank sheet and which already stands in the best case a wafer of these remarkable artists in the shelf has, might know which it expected. Once more the extensive music taste of Beatbastler Thaione steps extremely pleasantly to day - here simply everything puts in it which afro American music history to offer in such a way has from radio over Soul and Reggae up to bluesigen and jazzigen internmediate tones. Suitably the Infinito considered on fine-intimate Reime pays us again its overful heart, teaches, informed and maintains us after measure without thereby importunately or wrongly to ever work. The liebenswuerdie Revival of the boom Bap Era starts in "Acknowledge The after" with quaekender harmonica and a Street-story, rather relaxed geht's against it in sachte produced "Green the Card" to the thing, seized from the real life, which would know schmissige "Casual liberation" well and gladly also from ATCQ to come and wird's in the rumpelnden "Bubblegum kindist" also times a little more rueder in the clay/tone if one with Cosmo Galactus and Mr. Skurge than reinforcement a few poison arrows getunkte into painful truths toward the watered Mainstream industry fires somewhat later. But the real intention of the Duos exceeds itself the futilenesses of the maintenance machinery and extremely in its most beautiful form probably in the title TRACK "Low Income housing". In itself resting Mid speed Beats, one pulled Klampfe and tendencyful Samples accompanies slogans like "Black people unite! Black people must fight "and provides in perfect interaction for the best job of the album. Like itself better informed about it to argue whether solcherlei slogans any sense to make (to be able) or not - I let the policy for today the policy be and wait for more materials of IT.
 
 
 
  www.ugrap.de

Nacrobats died. Lastly, not completely. Whereas tentacular the crew chicagoan has periclity the year spent, leaving Windy City orphan of its collective emblématique, some of its most active representatives did not want to return the weapons and continue to maintain the friendly and artistic relations profitable. While Psalm One is on the point of arising its Bio:Chemistry via Birthwrite, Infinito and Thaione occupied the front of the scene this year, being left with the honors the suicide Nacrobats. With his brilliance EP Situation Rebirth, the emcee/productor Thaione Davis will have surprised his world and fact display of the progress achieved since Progress. On its side, the discrete one but prolific Infinito will have in the same time put on the market several projects including one mixtape officializing its association with Molemen. On their impetus, to balance the accounts and to make revive the flame of Nacrobats a little, the 2 colleagues thus had the good idea to join by forming new a combo the speaking name: I.T. [ Infinito & Thaione ]. After 3 months of intesive work, I.T. leaves its first opus on Domination Recordings; in other words that the new structure assembled by the old thinking head of Day By Day Ent ertainment, the one and only DJ Fisher. What to cause curiosity and the desire in our rows. Once posed on the turntable, Low Income Housing reveals its secrecies without being too much made request. In the line of the work achieved on Situation Rebirth, Thaione dealt with the setting in music of this Low Income Housing long format. Infusing its productions of an asserted organic colouring, Thaione arranges beats midtempo with rhythmic worked and the heteroclite influences (soul, jazz, dub and blues inter alia). With much of smoothness, it can build with three ends of strings of the instrus well in place and full with musical quality which slowly diffuse their venom with the wire of measurements. Follower of a pure hip-hop, without ornaments and superfluous pageantries, it works a boom-bap hand made containing samples selected with taste. "Old school rules make my hip-hop the best". Infinito and Thaione thus propose a personal rap to us, of quality, artisanal, not always innovating but indisputably sincere, which will convince of not to doubt the nostalgic ones of the mid-nineties. Upon the departure, the padded keyboard, the low envelope and the surprisingly free harmonica of ' Acknowledge The After' prove that Thaione is a Master of its subject. Its fascinating rate/rhythm nonchalant but gives an image rather right of the environment of Low Income Housing. Between compositions melancholic persons (samples vocal intermingled with the title éponyme), hot productions and intimists (vibrating keyboard of ' Casual Liberation') and beaches more involving (' You Are Not It' and its guitar envoûtante), Thaione draws a hybrid and multicoloured table strewn with some welcome digressions; with the image of these Eastern keys emerged from nowhere on family ' 1884 Berlin Conference'. Apart from two or three a little dull or confused beaches, the member of Linebackers confirms again that it deserves better than the anonymity (relative) in which it currently evolves/moves... Especially that its some microphonic appearances inevitably make assemble the rate of adrenalin. If Infinito 2017 is even less known than its accomplice, the attentive observers of the scene chicagoanne will surely have on their racks one of his albums or one of its innumerable street-cd' S. Fixed on a rate/rhythm of approximately 4 projects per annum, it is necessary to acknowledge that Marcellous Lovelace is a little difficult to follow. With a little chance, the followers will have fallen on the pearl Music With Sound Right Reasoning, left 2 years ago without making the least noise... Before returning in the details of this Low Income Housing, let us be clear for those which unload: Infinito misses charisma. Its clear voice and a little fluette always do not enable him to take control of the beat and to make its toy of it. And, in spite of their many qualities, Infinito is a little less with its ease on the fine clothes industries of Thaione that on the rough instrus of dismantling of Molemen or Mixx Massacre (which decorated its opus the most succeeded). However, the honest and worked texts of Marcellous like its flow living and without turning often gum these small limitations. For example, on the bed of trumpets cherishing of superb ' My Life Creation # 63 ' where it pleads for the valorization and the protection of a negro music plundered without shame since decades, one finds nothing to repeat his service. In addition, it is necessary to acknowledge that the repeated standpoint of the "freelance Word specialist with prominent sound" end up returning this opus attaching. Indeed, for this first exit at the great day, Infinito did not leave its integrity with the wall cupboard, far from there. "Being blindfolded in life? / Infinito, not has fool ". Political activist at his lost hours, this former king of freestyle poses on furrow of the impressed texts of a developed social conscience and a true desire for making move the things. Avoiding the basic didactism and the edutainment school one, it reveals a sensitivity pro-black exceeding the simple caricature. Shocked by the passivity of his brothers letting themselves carry out in boat since years and swallowing grass snakes without stumbling, it calls its v?ux (utopian?) with the unit and an awakening of the consciences: "In year uneducated world of ignoramus and dumb, cold-blooded people walk through the world numb [... ] Unwritten laws tell you when and how to think/I' m not has law-abiding citizen/The law, not for me". Instantaneous of the life in the forgotten ghettos of Chicago and Memphis (its towns of reception); collection of accounts of the daily newspaper between social fracture, black one black crime and reign of the materialism: subjects seen and re-examined but which take life under the honest and inhabited feather number 2017. Launching warnings without expenses with all the go-getters ready with all compromisings to succeed in the rap game (on the sinuous dry guitar of ' Green Card'), Infinito forms part of those which look at the past of the hip-hop with a smile moved and a suspicion by bitterness. Logic after any bus, in its eyes, "Hip-hop was year artform that has brother started/Now big corporations get rich while your family' S starving"... Its sets of themes will be able to appear a little obsolete but Infinito of fout. It further sees than the end from its street and its need to be expressed and say what it has on the c?ur is strongest. For this reason, its declaration of metaphorical love ' Some Wise Water' is the most beautiful reflection. Blow, behind a a little anachronistic frontage, Low Income Housing will not unchain passions but is essential like a first album of character. By proposing the similarities which exist between their musical combat lost in the medium of the large circus of the industry of the disc and the forgotten fights of the black community for the recognition and the unit, Infinito and Thaione mark a point moreover for Chicago and the heritage of Nacrobats. Not inevitably outstanding with the first listening, this first exit of I.T. can convince over the duration, by avoiding the lengths and by revealing best itself when one leaves him time to involve oneself in-depth in our ears. Grant to him a little time and you will see. Best Cuts: ' My Life Creation # 63 ', ' You Are Not It', ' Low Income Housing'.

Cobalt December 2004

http://www.hiphopcore.net/reviews/lowincomehousing.php3

I.T. [Infinito & Thaione]
Low Income Housing
Label : Domination Recordings
Production : Thaione Davis, DJ 5ifth Element.
Année : Octobre 2004

01. Get Down People
02. Acknowledge the After
03. Green Card (feat. Thaione Davis)
04. Casual Liberation
05. MK Ultra
06. Some Wise Water
07. You Are Not It
08. Samuel L. Jackson VS. Dolomite (feat. Thaione Davis)
09. Marcellous Dublace
10. My Life Creation #63 [Blues of Black Music]
11. Bubblegum Artist (feat. Cosmo Galactus & Mr. Skurge)
12. Low Income Housing
13. 1884 Berlin Conference (feat. Fat Nice of 84 & Thaione Davis)
14. 3:30 AM on a Monday
15. Equal Opportunity Employment
16. Some Wise Water [Remix - Bonus Track] www.hiphopcore.net



Infinito 2017
Roddny Dangrr Fild
Domination | 2005

With an average of 5 to 6 released albums in a year, Infinito is one of the hardest working artists in rap music. Not new to the game and with over 35 albums on his sleeve, Infinito 2016 hasn't received the recognition he deserves yet. Because although he might've been droppin albums like a mad man, Infinito aka Marcellous Lovelace never failed to make genuine music from the heart, the mind and the soul.

His latest project 'Roddny Dangrr Fild', which is named after the late comedian Rodney Dangerfield who received less recognition and respect than he had talent, should be a turning-point in Infinito's carreer, a point at where he should get the respect he deserves, as he also claims in the chorus of 'Dixmoor Illinois'. This album shows not only his talent of pouring strong messages in only a few lines, but also his excellent choice of producers, who match those lines with the perfect soundtrack. This album runs 20 tracks deep at a slow, mellow pace, that puts you in a kind of daze that soothes the mind, while the lyrics are fillin it with an opinion. The music is jazzy hip-hop that turns into Blues more than once, not really surprising if you know that the album is recorded in Memphis. Infinito describes a lot of social injustice, but at the same time he adds humour, advice and hope. In 'Proto-Complex', the chorus says 'Today we rise, can we open our eyes, see what's goin on, take pride in life' and 'What Is A System' emphasizes the importancy of learning in order to make it in life 'I came to school to learn, not to chase every set of breasts'.

Like every rapper who respects himself, Infinito likes to brag; in the magnificent, Memo-produced 'I'm Like None Of Yawl', Marcellous chops sucka mc's in pieces with lines like 'Just because you make music, we can never be friends' or 'Don't get ya neck brokin messin with this now, it only took a second to destroy your sound', and on the Mr Mind produced 'Protest-In-Contest' he goes 'We gon' break yo face, get complicated and chase you fools away'. Productionwise, every song has the same slow drums, piano stabs or guitar licks, sounding either dark, gloomy or fresh and exotic (Kenny Keys' 'This Black Girl Bad' and Thaione Davis' 'Respect Anu Art'), arousing a mix of feelings. Most (although that's six out of twenty) of the beats are made by Molemen's Memo while others are done by upcoming talents such as Mr Skurge, Fatnice, Mixx Massacre ('Love Is' also features Rhymesayers recording artist Psalm One), DJ 5th Element and Boston underground household names Insight and Doc West of Single Minded Pros.

'Roddny Dangrr Fild' is a great listening experience on a musical and lyrical level. Infinito won't surprise you with a rigid flow nor a smashing punch line but with his unique high-pitch voice and nonchalant rhyming he tells an intriguing tale of hope and respect, that keeps the listener sharp and attentive throughout the album. Infinito 2017 educates and entertains; he moves and pleases the listener with a tight line-up of producers behind him. Like Otis Redding used to say: r-e-s-p-e-c-t!

posted by: cpf | 10-15-2005 | rated: phat