Really dope album. He really took his time with it and it shows. Almost every track is concept driven and it flows smoothly.
I know alot of you dudes in here are really big Lupe stans but I think that El is much, MUCH, more palatable. One of the most under appreciated lyrically dense MCs out there that doesn't have the burning urge to be overly cryptic when crafting his music. He's more Nas than Lupe is. This album will get much more play from me than anything Lupe has put out past the Cool.
Ayo, @NoHalfWay...remember your wristy ass boy @SirBiatch called El a generic, mediocre MC? And then goes on to deify Lil B and Asap Rocky and call them the best MCs of this generation? Remember stuff like that when you go and defend his dirtbag, trolling behavior.
Ayo, @NoHalfWay...remember your wristy ass boy @SirBiatch called El a generic, mediocre MC? And then goes on to deify Lil B and Asap Rocky and call them the best MCs of this generation? Remember stuff like that when you go and defend his dirtbag, trolling behavior.
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Yeah I can see where SirBiatch is coming from most of the time. But I can't take someone seriously if they think Elzhi is a mediocre MC.
Dude an attention seeking coward. 98% of the things he posts on here is designed to get a rise out of posters. He should NEVER be taken seriously. Just look at his thread history. Dude is a fvcking joke.
Tide Run This
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4.5/5 album off 2 listens I'm bump today while I drank this hot toddy I have a cold I need a pick me up Elzhi killed it again
I got a couple PM's regarding the review. It is finished and @LinusCaldwell should be posting it today....
LinusCaldwell
From The Eastside with Love
@Ziggiy reviews make you wanna listen to every album 
Carving The Rosetta Stone
Elzhi's Coronation As A Knight Of The Word
“Writing is an often-painful task that can feel like the death of one’s past. Equally discomfiting is seeing one’s present commitments to truths crumble once one begins to tap away at the keyboard or scar the page with ink. Writing demands a different sort of apprenticeship to ideas than does speaking. It beckons one to revisit over an extended, or at least delayed, period the same material and to revise what one thinks. Revision is reading again and again what one writes so that one can think again and again about what one wants to say and in turn determine if better and deeper things can be said.”
-Michael Eric Dyson
The written word is the most important entity known to society. It is definition, it is emotion, it is a historical record of the past, a testimony of the present and the key to the legend of the future. The written word is our legacy, the one and only elixir of immortality. For the Ancient Egyptians it was Metu Neter, scripted across papyrus or chiseled into the tablets of the pyramids, the great deeds of the Pharaohs and the Gods were recorded into the mythology of the everlasting. Through the ages there have been scribes of whom have expertly crafted the stories of their lives and surroundings into its own sort of lore, drawing inspiration from both the external as well the internal. Introducing characters, kingdoms, heroes and villains. Fleshing out narratives that have inspired generations to come; Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison, Walter Mosley, William Michael Griffin, Ricky Martin Walters, Nasir Bin Olu Dara, Shawn Carter, Dennis Cole, Lonnie Rashid Lynn. Each one of these individuals have served as composers of the most vivid and descriptive works of social and environmental journalism of our time.
Jason Powers would seek to follow this path, blazing his own tale of depression, struggle, redemption, and triumph; Jason, under the pen name Elzhi, uses musical production as the stone with which to carve his own saga into the fabric of Hip Hop's legacy. Leaving behind the chapters of a man whose love for the written word gave birth to a work of superior craftsmanship. His pen is his sword, and he wields it mightily. The album is titled Lead Poison, and just as well, for Elzhi has dipped his quill in his own blood and written from the depths of his soul.
I told my moms one day that I’ll become known
Over any track I’d get dumb on even if it’s a drum and trombone
How could I’ve lost it when I’m inspired
Then keep excuses sounding tired and possibilities exhausted
To everything that’s working out for me
But don’t read me up and down to think you know my story
Cuz even when it was written for me to be poor it wasn’t written poorly
Getting tested by dropouts and old schools who sit and score me
High grades of weed who was willing to die paid
While I stayed harpin’ over how I sharpen my blade
By trade tryin’ to snatch a dream out a nightmare
Reality out a dream even though it seem I’m right where
From the album's first offering dropped in early February entitled Co-sign, Elzhi waxes poetic about the humble beginnings of a boy who would become a poet. It all begins with birth by sleep, a nightmare existing from self doubt. Elzhi snatches a dream, a memory of light, from the clutches of despair and uses it as inspiration for authoring the modification of his destiny. This is a quest that can only be taken alone, for knowledge of self is achieved through the strengthening of one's own spirit. It will not be easy, it will not come without sacrifice, he will certainly not fly to the finish line; but the belief in himself will carry him forth for he needs NO co-signs.
To read the full review check it out here
Carving The Rosetta Stone | FTESWL
Carving The Rosetta Stone
Carving The Rosetta Stone
Elzhi's Coronation As A Knight Of The Word
“Writing is an often-painful task that can feel like the death of one’s past. Equally discomfiting is seeing one’s present commitments to truths crumble once one begins to tap away at the keyboard or scar the page with ink. Writing demands a different sort of apprenticeship to ideas than does speaking. It beckons one to revisit over an extended, or at least delayed, period the same material and to revise what one thinks. Revision is reading again and again what one writes so that one can think again and again about what one wants to say and in turn determine if better and deeper things can be said.”
-Michael Eric Dyson
The written word is the most important entity known to society. It is definition, it is emotion, it is a historical record of the past, a testimony of the present and the key to the legend of the future. The written word is our legacy, the one and only elixir of immortality. For the Ancient Egyptians it was Metu Neter, scripted across papyrus or chiseled into the tablets of the pyramids, the great deeds of the Pharaohs and the Gods were recorded into the mythology of the everlasting. Through the ages there have been scribes of whom have expertly crafted the stories of their lives and surroundings into its own sort of lore, drawing inspiration from both the external as well the internal. Introducing characters, kingdoms, heroes and villains. Fleshing out narratives that have inspired generations to come; Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison, Walter Mosley, William Michael Griffin, Ricky Martin Walters, Nasir Bin Olu Dara, Shawn Carter, Dennis Cole, Lonnie Rashid Lynn. Each one of these individuals have served as composers of the most vivid and descriptive works of social and environmental journalism of our time.
Jason Powers would seek to follow this path, blazing his own tale of depression, struggle, redemption, and triumph; Jason, under the pen name Elzhi, uses musical production as the stone with which to carve his own saga into the fabric of Hip Hop's legacy. Leaving behind the chapters of a man whose love for the written word gave birth to a work of superior craftsmanship. His pen is his sword, and he wields it mightily. The album is titled Lead Poison, and just as well, for Elzhi has dipped his quill in his own blood and written from the depths of his soul.
I told my moms one day that I’ll become known
Over any track I’d get dumb on even if it’s a drum and trombone
How could I’ve lost it when I’m inspired
Then keep excuses sounding tired and possibilities exhausted
To everything that’s working out for me
But don’t read me up and down to think you know my story
Cuz even when it was written for me to be poor it wasn’t written poorly
Getting tested by dropouts and old schools who sit and score me
High grades of weed who was willing to die paid
While I stayed harpin’ over how I sharpen my blade
By trade tryin’ to snatch a dream out a nightmare
Reality out a dream even though it seem I’m right where
From the album's first offering dropped in early February entitled Co-sign, Elzhi waxes poetic about the humble beginnings of a boy who would become a poet. It all begins with birth by sleep, a nightmare existing from self doubt. Elzhi snatches a dream, a memory of light, from the clutches of despair and uses it as inspiration for authoring the modification of his destiny. This is a quest that can only be taken alone, for knowledge of self is achieved through the strengthening of one's own spirit. It will not be easy, it will not come without sacrifice, he will certainly not fly to the finish line; but the belief in himself will carry him forth for he needs NO co-signs.
To read the full review check it out here
Carving The Rosetta Stone | FTESWL
Carving The Rosetta Stone
IllmaticDelta
Veteran
Agreed
IllmaticDelta
Veteran
at my full-time SirBiatch groupie. No job, no girl. Just dikkride SirBiatch 24/7. Wake up in the morning with nowhere to go but thoughts of SirBiatch 
@Ziggiy reviews make you wanna listen to every album
Carving The Rosetta Stone
Elzhi's Coronation As A Knight Of The Word
“Writing is an often-painful task that can feel like the death of one’s past. Equally discomfiting is seeing one’s present commitments to truths crumble once one begins to tap away at the keyboard or scar the page with ink. Writing demands a different sort of apprenticeship to ideas than does speaking. It beckons one to revisit over an extended, or at least delayed, period the same material and to revise what one thinks. Revision is reading again and again what one writes so that one can think again and again about what one wants to say and in turn determine if better and deeper things can be said.”
-Michael Eric Dyson
The written word is the most important entity known to society. It is definition, it is emotion, it is a historical record of the past, a testimony of the present and the key to the legend of the future. The written word is our legacy, the one and only elixir of immortality. For the Ancient Egyptians it was Metu Neter, scripted across papyrus or chiseled into the tablets of the pyramids, the great deeds of the Pharaohs and the Gods were recorded into the mythology of the everlasting. Through the ages there have been scribes of whom have expertly crafted the stories of their lives and surroundings into its own sort of lore, drawing inspiration from both the external as well the internal. Introducing characters, kingdoms, heroes and villains. Fleshing out narratives that have inspired generations to come; Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison, Walter Mosley, William Michael Griffin, Ricky Martin Walters, Nasir Bin Olu Dara, Shawn Carter, Dennis Cole, Lonnie Rashid Lynn. Each one of these individuals have served as composers of the most vivid and descriptive works of social and environmental journalism of our time.
Jason Powers would seek to follow this path, blazing his own tale of depression, struggle, redemption, and triumph; Jason, under the pen name Elzhi, uses musical production as the stone with which to carve his own saga into the fabric of Hip Hop's legacy. Leaving behind the chapters of a man whose love for the written word gave birth to a work of superior craftsmanship. His pen is his sword, and he wields it mightily. The album is titled Lead Poison, and just as well, for Elzhi has dipped his quill in his own blood and written from the depths of his soul.
I told my moms one day that I’ll become known
Over any track I’d get dumb on even if it’s a drum and trombone
How could I’ve lost it when I’m inspired
Then keep excuses sounding tired and possibilities exhausted
To everything that’s working out for me
But don’t read me up and down to think you know my story
Cuz even when it was written for me to be poor it wasn’t written poorly
Getting tested by dropouts and old schools who sit and score me
High grades of weed who was willing to die paid
While I stayed harpin’ over how I sharpen my blade
By trade tryin’ to snatch a dream out a nightmare
Reality out a dream even though it seem I’m right where
From the album's first offering dropped in early February entitled Co-sign, Elzhi waxes poetic about the humble beginnings of a boy who would become a poet. It all begins with birth by sleep, a nightmare existing from self doubt. Elzhi snatches a dream, a memory of light, from the clutches of despair and uses it as inspiration for authoring the modification of his destiny. This is a quest that can only be taken alone, for knowledge of self is achieved through the strengthening of one's own spirit. It will not be easy, it will not come without sacrifice, he will certainly not fly to the finish line; but the belief in himself will carry him forth for he needs NO co-signs.
To read the full review check it out here
Carving The Rosetta Stone | FTESWL
Carving The Rosetta Stone
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