April 17, 2008 @ 8:00 am

Sheek Louch, "Silverback Gorilla"

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­An aging grunt not quite done with the life.

An inelegant rapper, The LOX’s Sheek Louch has long favored ­c­­onv­ersational brusqueness to slick wordplay. But veteran stature becomes h­im: On Sil­verba­ck Gorilla, his third solo LP, Sheek sounds as comfortable analyzing the relationship between his profession and society as he does rehashing thug tropes. The Streetrunner-produced “Danga Zone”—which morphs from Capleton’s stormy original to a club-friendly reprise—bemoans “AIDS, drugs, and homeless kids.” And while “Don’t Be Them”—where he raps, “Drinking, smoking, jumping on planes / Trying to be careful of what chick gives me brains”—isn’t a terribly convincing argument against hip hop celebrity, Silverback Gorilla is a fascinating portrait of an aging grunt not quite done with the life.

Silverback Gorilla

Sheek Louch

Silverback Gorilla

Genre: Hip-Hop/Rap
Released Mar 18, 2008

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