I can't believe no one has reviewed this....
Helen Powell | 02/27/2004
(5 out of 5 stars)
"This is pure northwest. I've lived here in Seattle for my entire eighteen years, and the darkness that is all throughout this album fits the city perfectly. This album is a concept album about some guy named Norman, who according to Onry Ozzborn "is the kind of guy who never listened to LL, Godsmack and Alice Cooper are what are in his headphones". The album breaks away from that at points, like on "Hiphop.Ver.1.7 " where Onry and Barfly send out a diss to east coast backpack MCs and everyone else in hip-hop who can't get used to Oldominion's weirdness. It comes full circle, like at the end when Onry and Barfly are rapping to lonely old Norman, telling "him to put the gun down".
This is one of my favorite hip-hop records ever. The only hip-hop album I can think of that has anything like the darkness and emotion in this is Tupac's Makaveli. Cop this now."