J-Carter – Take Hip-Hop Back
J-Carter sculpts an epic journey with the ambitious sprawling narratives of “Take Hip-Hop Back”. With an unparalleled storytelling ability J-Carter explores religion, materialism, pride, and relationships in such a graceful fashion. Production positively shimmers and shines. Usage of samples from a wide variety of styles, from jazz to electro to classical. Beats too show off this diversity going from trap to big beat. Layer upon layer of sound is applied with a painterly quality ensuring that everything has a hazy, dazed spirit behind it. Best taken in as a singular whole J-Carter creates a virtual novel within these tracks presenting a series of character studies that feels so real and raw.
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A stately blurred melody opens the album up with the majestic scope of “Ain’t Trap Enough”. On “Babylon Da Great” J-Carter shows off an impressive knowledge of religion proving the self-interest of religion in trying to support itself. With “Frontin” J-Carter takes those who try to put on airs, mocking the idea of materialism and how it drives people mad in that constant pursuit of more. Eerie to its very core the melted sample of “I’m Staying Winning” at times touches upon the ominous foreboding moods of Boards of Canada. Hope defines the powerful defiance of “Keeps on Raining”. Going for a playful quality is the Sisqo-referencing “R.S.V.P”. Delicate patterns adorn the whole of the title track “Take Hip-Hop Back”. Everything about the track stuns from J-Carter’s fiery flow to the anxious melodies it all simply works. The blurred beauty of “Wanna Fall in Love” demands volume for the song is best felt as much as heard. Nicely bringing the entire album to a close is the celebratory “You’re the One”.
“Take Hip-Hop Back” shows off the undeniable talent in J-Carter in creating a vast sea of sound one that is so easy to get lost in, letting the whole of the album feel akin to a vast labyrinth.
