Offwhyte ~ The Fifth Sun
G40015 - Release Date November 19, 2002
Offwhyte's new album The Fifth Sun is some serious hip hop. Backed by the
momentum of Galapagos4's incredible stream of releases since the 2000
release of his debut CD Squints, Offwhyte returns with a fourteen track
album that will break the necks of hip hop heads and challenge the
feeble-minded.
The album's first single, "High Fidelity" has gained airplay across the
country and has been heralded by critics as showing a new, 'evolved'
Offwhyte, and the rest of The Fifth Sun is sure to follow in that
tradition.
Delving deeper into his abilities as a songwriter, Offwhyte instantly shows
his skills as a lyricist have gained a greater breadth on the intro track,
a post-apocalyptic fable entitled 'the merchant'. The poetics get even
deeper in the songs that follow, such as the brave new world-inspired "Beta
Alpha" and the confessional "Complex Destiny". Other highlights include
the uptempo crowd-pleaser "Ups" and Offwhyte's collaborations with Typical
Cats emcees Qwel (on "Masonry") and Qwazaar (on "Get a Hold").
The Fifth Sun's production is top-notch, with beats handled by Meaty Ogre ,
Open i, Alias of Anticon, the late Chicago producer Metrognome, and
Offwhyte himself. The album is sprinkled with minimal live instrumentation
and scratching by Dallas Jackson and DJ Norman Rockwell of the Pacifics.
