Alter-Ego We Go

Dead Poets Society
-Don't Quit
-Seize The Day

1999 EYA Recordings



Jemini the Gifted One
-Funk Soul Sensation
-Brooklyn Kids

1995 Mercury/Polygram Records

It's not really a themed post, but this is about as close as I'll get, so I guess I should be proud of it. These two guys decided that it wasn't enough fun to just make records as themselves, so they enlisted the help of a sprinkle or two of that studio magic to transform themselves into two rappers each.

The Dead Poets Society joint was dropped by a man known most of the time as Yeshua Da PoED of Fondle 'Em (w/ Siah) and Wee Bee Foolish fame. Ask me, I'd say he didn't need the gimmicks, but nevertheless he went the Quasimoto-like route of speeding up/slowing down the music during the recording process, or so it seems to my ear. He also handled the beats/production on this one, making it sort of a pet project, I guess. Despite the silliness, the end result is indeed some funky noise.

And these days, most people probably know Jemini the Gifted One from his affiliation with new Gorillaz (oh, and Grey Album) producer Danger Mouse. Back in 1995, he was signed to a major, was all up on Rap City, and apparently couldn't decide whether to be "wild" or "smooth". On Funk Soul Sensation, unlike Yesh, he opts for the more traditional and time-tested method of character creation, which is, um... to just rap different. While not as impressive as Black Thought's renderings of Kane and G Rap on last year's criminally underapreciated Boom!, if I didn't know better, I would've been fooled into thinking there were in fact two emcee's on the track instead of just one bipolar rapper.

He's just rapping as himself on Brooklyn Kids, but it's the b-side, and it's pretty funky fresh, too.