Fresh to death, profaner ausgedrückt: Perfekt.

Sinnlos, mich hier noch über Flows und Beats, Samples und Scratches auszulassen. A Piece Of Strange ist vollkommen. Absolut eigenständig. Unverwechselbar. Ich habe selten eine Platte gehört, in die man sich derart versenken kann, die einem kaum Luft zum Atmen übrig lässt, dafür umso mehr Platz für die Seele.

“From a cellular phone, to a cell on a phone,
Or trapped in confession seeking blessings trying to atone.
With no more casual pounds with the hands on the clock,
Now locked in city block working Lucifer’s lot.
Down to box for success, is that truth or is it not?
In you room coping with stress,
Smoking Kools from out that box.
Shit ain’t cool, in detention, no flinching that shit ain’t school,
Cold sell for a quick sale, but April Fool?
Now your case is on the docket to face a box of your peers,
And them bars they trying to take you to
Won’t be nothing like Cheers,
Just years upon years, till your last box is near.
Without your participation incarceration ain’t clear.
If the plots you got are flagrant
It’s best that you leave em vacant,
Cause there’s cells in ya mind, that’ll free you everytime.
Even the tales thrown in these bars can’t be confined,
Just be patient, nothing in life is by design.

[...]

I recognize that sadness,
I’m seeing in your eyes.
You wonder if it’s love you feel,
I just comfort till time rolls by.”

01 - “Where Will You Be?”
02 - “Since When?”
03 - “Nothing To Give”
04 - “Caved In” Featuring Cee-Lo
05 - “Hourglass”
06 - “Beautiful Girl”
07 - “Inhale (Interlude)”
08 - “Brain Cell”
09 - “America Loves Gangsters” Featuring Tim Means
10 - “Never Know Why” Featuring Immortal Technique
11 - “The Gates” Featuring Tonedeff
12 - “Damnation (Interlude)”
13 - “Hellfire”
14 - “Remember Me (Abstract/Reality)”
15 - “What’ll You Do?”
16 - “The Light” Featuring Club Dub