Eight years after the release of “The Failure”, rapper/activist/performance artist/slam poet B. Dolan is back with a new album, “Fallen House Sunken City”. Just like the 2008 re-release of “The Failure” it’s out on Sage Francis’ Strange Famous Records.
It’s not surprising that Sage Francis and B. Dolan hit it off well because both in content and flow, they are not that different from one another. On tracks like “The Reptilian Agenda” and “Fifty Ways To Bleed Your Customer” Dolan isn’t afraid to speak his mind. Lyrically though “Marvin” would have to be my personal favorite with Dolan taking a closer look at the death of Marvin Gaye claiming that ‘his father was a man of the Cross / Who said that his son was a slave to the flesh / When the argument ended, the music had stopped / Marvin was left with a hole in his chest’. Pretty powerful stuff. As is “Fall Of T.R.O.Y.” on which he is assisted by P.O.S. and Cadence Weapon.
The beats on here come courtesy of Anticon producer Alias who provides an enticing and kinda creepy backdrop for B. Dolan to do this thing over. Simply put, “Fallen House Sunken City” is once more proof that underground hiphop has a lot more to offer than its mainstream counterpart where they are too busy sampling 80s hits and counting their money instead of saying something worth being heard.
Score: 8 out of 10
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