Metabolics Vol. 2: Dawn Of The Dead

Wait a minute. Before you push this CD aside, let me flash some of the album's production credits. Peep the beat alchemy of Prince Paul, Dan the Automator, Scotty Hard (engineered everyone from De La to Tricky to Bjork) and M. Sayyid of Anti Pop Consortium. Mr. Dead and Big Pat (b.k.a. Metabolics) first released the Prince Paul head-turner "The M-Virus." Now, Mr. Dead comes through solo with his expedition of the underground, still turning heads, but this time, it's exorcist-style. He scoops up some of underground's lesser-known MCs and assembles an unbelievable 16-tracker. The album steamrolls sucker MCs with dope lyrics and tracks, but the concoctions of Paul, Dan and M. Sayyid steal the limelight in their production of back-to-back album highlights with "Spit Somethin'," "Dawn Of The Dead" and "Altered States." Don't turn your back on the Metabolic Crew, this sleeper is the hot knife to hip hop's commercial butter. Wordsound.com.