DJ JS-1 – Ground Original 3: No One Cares

6/18/11 | By | 6 Comments

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Ground Original: 2011

On paper DJ JS-1’s No One Cares reads like a True Skool head’s rap fantasy. Legends like KRS, G Rap, Sadat X, and Craig G are on the line up, undeniable spittas like Ras, AG, OC, Jeru and Freddie Foxxx make appearances, and younger bearers of the torch like Homeboy Sandman, Guilty Simpson and Joell Ortiz are given space to shine. But like I said, that’s on paper. As easily as one can get excited about the aforementioned names, it’s also glaringly obvious that for many their high-quality record making days are behind them and semi-no names bring their quality down.

Throughout No One Cares guest are obsessively tied to a sound that is redundant and lifeless. The sound doesn’t capture much of the sentiment of a rap world gone astray, or life in the streets that is heard in the lyrics. The sound lumbers along with this chip on its shoulder attitude that doesn’t alienate, but rather attempts to bully listeners into believing its essentialist and traditionalist sound is the only real sound of rap. I acknowledge that my tastes have vastly changed over these years, but when I go into an album knowing that I’m going to hear “Yo! These fags in skinny jeans ruined the game”, and it occurs on many tracks, things can’t be all that enjoyable.

Every clichéd diss or praise that can be tied to this record makes its face shown, but it simply comes down to the fact that No One Cares will have no one caring because this shit is mad long and boring. At 22 songs (11 of which are “posse” cuts), with very little topical diversity, and a sound that is 22 shades of the neglected bastard children of Primo, Showbiz and The Beatminerz; it feels like a relic in a very vibrant time for rap music. I hate to “go-in” on a record that has the best, even if ironic intentions, but outside of a handful of repeatable tracks, DJ JS-1 compiled some of the best at the wrong time in their careers. In the end No One Cares feels like the Tim Boots-N-gats inversion of all those shitty DJ Khaled compilations.

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2 out of 5

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  • Fidelio

    Yo! These fags in skinny jeans ruined the game

  • HankAnchormann

    Yo! These fags in skinny jeans ruined the game

  • Gshook7

    yous a fag in skinny jeans

  • jean

    i cant wait to listen to this in my skinnyjeans

  • J. Hammer

    Sorry, I have to disagree on the “what-was-supposed-to-be-a” constructive criticism about JS-1′s new album, No One Cares.

    The point of this album was explained several weeks ago in JS-1′s appearance in New York’s WBAI’s 99.5 evening show called Underground Railroad, which he explained that the industry is truly an apathetic scenery where people think they know everything. Not that it’s entirely all true, but the majority of it is, and thus is expressed in the songs in this album. Most of the classic spitters make their make their appearance to show their appreciation as well as their love of Hip Hop as a whole. Whether one can say it’s long and boring, their prerogative, not JS-1′s, as he basically brings enough talent to make any set look interesting to say the least.

    Not that all of the songs are true bangers, but they do suffice the hip hop beats of old and new, both old and new talent alike, and give the same message: nobody cares anymore. You can adjust your talent, taste, view, angle, what-have-you from East to West coast and beyond- you won’t find any difference in the music industry. To Quote J-Live in Braggin’ Writes: “Everybody’s rappin and only few can flow.” That means not every rapper can come out and dish the same talent or originality as the next artist, unless they intend to spark out some beef simply for the entertainment of it all and get paid. And, even that can crumble even a four star player out there.

    But, then again, who’s caring about new talent when the 80′s and 90′s can’t be touched? Enter, JS-1 to remind people, in a pessimistic way, to let both old and new hip hop heads, that the industry has changed but is, for the lack of a better term, POLITICALLY INCORRECT.

    Should that change anyone’s view on listening to this then or tomorrow? No one cares. And that’s a fact.

    -J. Hammer (Queens, N.Y) 4/5 turntables for JS-1′s No One Cares.

  • HoekOne

    maybe if lil wayne and eminem were on this album it woulda got a better review, damn, i dont think ive read a more shitty review in my life.