![]() Likewise, Mega's ode to hip-hop, "American Beauty," is a continuation of Common's "I Used to Love Her," where his love for the art is evident: "Primo treated her good, made her the queen of my hood." Though the sonic landscape of The Realness is headlined by the Infamous Family members Havoc and Alchemist, it is a handful of upstarts ( Jay Love, Big Ty, Sha Self) who carve out the LP's sound identity. Displaying a gripping range of vocal gifts, "The Saga" and "Fallen Soldiers" offer vivid street mathematics with Kool G. Though the usual live-guy repertoire and topic matter is recycled, Cormega paints with a broader lyrical brush then most hood aficionados, as his articulate verses far surpass the limitations of what the typical halfway crook is capable of expressing. ![]() Yet, it successfully conveys what his aborted Def Jam debut, The Testament, implied three years previously - that Mega is one of the most promising thug poets to emerge in quite sometime. With a fresh batch of new material, Cormega's "official" debut, The Realness, manifests under stealth-like conditions. ![]()
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