Dice Raw, Reclaiming the Dead - 1h 1m 30s

Tracks & Durations

1. The End of Your World	3:45
2. Lava	2:47
3. Five Stages of Death	2:04
4. Thin Line (Between Raw & Jiggy)	4:48
5. Lockdown	4:56
6. I Don't Think	3:15
7. Raw Sex	2:55
8. Go Dice Raw	3:17
9. You Not The One	3:58
10. If You Want It	4:16
11. Forget What They Say	3:55
12. Retreat To This	2:51
13. Brain Softener	3:57
14. If I Only Had Words	7:26
15. Data Track 15	7:10

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Review

Astute heads will remember Dice Raw as the pugnacious wunderkind MC who debuted wrecking the mic on The Roots' beatbox-propelled "The Lesson Part 1," from 1994's Do You Want More?!!!??!. After appearing on all of the Illadelph crew's subsequent releases, Reclaiming the Dead is the manifestation of Dice Raw's purist ethos. An attempt to "bring it back to old-school rap," as the single "Thin Line (Between Raw & Jiggy)" forcefully expresses, Reclaiming the Dead proves an uneven ride. The beats, which oscillate between often tiresome roughneck territory ("Go Dice Raw") and the markedly better melodic dabblings of longtime Roots collaborator Scott Storch ("Forget What They Say") unfortunately fail to rouse significant innovation in Dice Raw's delivery. While his energy on the mic is unquestionable and occasionally triumphs ("Lockdown"), Dice Raw's technique, to his detriment, rarely changes up. While Raw gains kudos for his desire to show reverence for microphone fiends of the past, his own chops, on this showing, barely escape the mediocrity he so obviously abhors. --Del F. Cowie

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Reclaiming the Dead

Tracks: 14 (-1 tracks), Disk length: 51m 49s (-10m 19s)

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