"Buy real estate in an imaginary place" says 32 year old abstract MC Regan John Farquhar, more commonly referred to as Busdriver. I have been really meaning to check out this guy for a long time. I have heard a bunch of tracks that he was featured on, but they all need to bow to his 2002 album. There are so many layers to the greatness of this album. Is the lyrics? The flow? The jazz samples? The super intricate record scratching? It is everything. Out of all of his albums, friends of mine who are obsessive fans of Busdriver say that this album is the most solid. You won't need to skip a track. Everything is crafted in its own way. His lyrics go between beautiful vignettes to rhythmically glued together words. His humor makes my cheeks gleefully smile like his rap at a fast food window on "Stylin' Under Pressure".
If you enjoy: Aesop Rock, Deltron 3030, The Roots, Black Star, and/or Handsome Boy Modeling School.
Recommended tracks: Imaginary Places, Somethingness (feat. Radioinactive and Rhetoric, produced by Edit), and Along Came a Biter
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpP-8tJ-9Js
-Chakrah.
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