Track Listings (17) - Disc #1| All Artists: Norman Title: Polarity Members Wishing: 0 Total Copies: 0 Label: Under the Needle Original Release Date: 1/1/2003 Re-Release Date: 3/4/2003 Genres: Pop, Rap & Hip-Hop Style: Pop Rap Number of Discs: 1 SwapaCD Credits: 1 UPC: 723724522626 |
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 | Norman Polarity Genres: Pop, Rap & Hip-Hop
Norman, is actually the name of the character both Onry and Barfly (both members of Seattle's colossal Oldominion crew) have cast themselves as. More accurately they each portray polar opposite influences within the mind o... more » |
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Album Description Norman, is actually the name of the character both Onry and Barfly (both members of Seattle's colossal Oldominion crew) have cast themselves as. More accurately they each portray polar opposite influences within the mind of their character. Though conceptual, this duo's debut album, "Polarity" is only loosely conceptual. Current trends in rap music find groups like Anticon brushing off their art textbooks and expounding on the virtues of creative license while at the opposite end of the spectrum you'll find your M.O.P.s exercising a thug's right to be your favorite rapper. Norman credibly fuses modern hip hop's arthouse tendencies with traditional rap's more street oriented themes, while carefully avoiding either extreme. Similarly Requested CDs
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CD ReviewsI 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." |
