Odds & Evens

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Total Tracks: 16   Total Length: 55:49

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Yancey Strickler

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04.22.11
Defari, Odds & Evens
2004 | Label: High Times / The Orchard

Jacking Dre synth squiggles and delivering rhymes with an auctioneer's ease, Los Angeles rapper Defari certainly has the skills to succeed in hip-hop — if he could only decide whether to spit for major-label cheddar or preach to indie sweaters. His debut, Focused Daily, dropped on Tommy Boy in 1999, and generated barely a ripple. Trapped in an unknown-but-not-underground purgatory, Defari lashed out with this collection, released in 2003, which finds him angry and determined, his upper lip curled as he slays his doubters with each syllable.

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