This is about CrazyBallhead...the new cd titled, Living the Plot of my Life's Novel. To adequately review this album, I first have to say a few things about hip hop as a musical genre. What must be understood is it's elemental quality. The fact that it rose like a strong plant from the streets, breaking through multilevel high rise industrialization. This sense of industry is not meant to be all inclusive. Paradoxically it's meant to build it's state of wealth upon the backs of those who stand to benefit the least. In hip hop, you have a grass roots answer to this dilemna. You have a group of urban poets foreseeing the demise of this course of action. These poets also have the ability to offer insight into a better way. Crazy Ballhead is a hip hop artist who fits this description. I first heard him perfom at Old Ironsides in downtown Sacto. He was called on stage to perform with the band Supaphat. I mistakenly thought he was just someone picked from the audience. I quickly came to recognize him as a unique talent who has the ability to move the crowd and motivate the mind. Even amongst contemporary artist, his work stands out. I see him as a brother to artist such as Jill Scott and Mos Def. Someone who has the ability to paint a scenario with words and at the same time make you want to get up on your feet and shake your best asset. I myself am an artist who appreciates the largess of someone who can open up borders and paint expanding horizons on a canvass that so creatively blends with life that you don't see where it stops and life begins. Livin the Plot is an album that will cause you to reflect on your own life. You may find yourself with a renewed determination to earn your stripes.

Livin' The Plot Of My Life's Novel A Review Of Crazy BallHead Crazy BallHead--beated and rhymed out himself--mastered by Larry Funk, and local contributers from Sacramento, Calif. such as P.Swain, Bizzee B., V-Poetic, Dandruff, Reina, Mosburg, and his wife, Monica Hooper. According to Crazy BallHead, all of the songs on his album were written, produced, performed, recorded, engineered, and mixed by himself in “Bob’s Room” except for a couple songs, So Cold and Mental Groove, recorded at Lasting Impressions, a studio in Sacramento. Crazy BallHead took the idea of a hip-hop album and made a whole organized book, of sorts. The firsts sound on the album is called “Intro,” featuring his wife who introduces him. Then there are four sections entitled, “Welcome to the Battlegrounds,” that is about street living; “Techniques Like Kama Sutra,” seems to be about the systematic process of rapping; “A Stroll Through the Concrete Jungle,” concerns the Concrete Jugle, AKA the city; and lastly, “To My folks,” a section devoted to his peoples. Section, “Techniques like Kama Sutra,” song number seven, appropriately named “Kama Sutra,” takes video gamers to a whole new level. The repeated back sound in this rap sounds like a video game, like you are in a whole new Mario’s World. He raps about reflecting on life, what he is now, and being able to see similarities in himself and other people. The chorus goes like this: the supa dupa/tequniques like kama sutra/my rymes will suit ya’/ and my bass line will boot ya’ bringing real rhythm and word play to a whole new level. By Aaris Schroeder Editor-In-Chief 2001-12-01

Track 18, Im yo Emcee is a good track. All four songs that you put up pretty tight. You keep it real fo show. Overall tizzle. If you wanna hear me Im at www.cdbaby.com/si . Peace....SI