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Remedy – “It All Comes Down To This”

Pizzo — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 23:06:05 +0000

UPDATE: It’s back…. Label wanted to hold off on this release until today. DL links are updated and ready to go.

Wu-Tang affiliate Remedy delivers a new street LP to close out the year. Guest shots from Trife Diesel, Jojo Pellegrino, King Just, Lounge Lo, R.A. The Rugged Man, Shawn Wigs, AC, Killah Priest, Solomon Childs, and Blaq Poet.

01. Hip Hop’s Holiest
02. Streets Are Watchin
03. Saturday Night (feat. Trife Diesel)
04. You Ain’t A Hustler
05. Transporting (feat. JoJo Pellegrino)
*06. 2010 Re-Emergence (feat. King Just)
07. Black and White Millionaires (feat. Lounge Lo & King Just)
08. Mob Pirates
09. Sinnin (feat. Shawn Wigs & JoJo Pellegrino)
10. Tonites Still The Nite
11. Behind Those Eyes (feat. AC)
12. Testimony (feat. Killah Priest)
13. Never Again – Flashback
14. I Love My Land
15. All A Dream
16. StupidDumbRetarded (feat. King Just & Lounge Lo)
17. Startin Something (feat. King Just, Solomon Childs)
18. Posse Cut [Remix] (feat. RA the Rugged Man, Hell Razah, JoJo Pellegrino & Blaq Poet)
19. Ambush Revisited
20. The Duelist
21. Danger Outro

Remedy – “It All Comes Down To This”

Remedy – “Black & White Millionaires” (feat. King Just & Lounge Lo)

Pizzo — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 02:21:52 +0000

In promotion for Remedy’s free mixtape It All Comes Down To This which drops next (Wu) Wednesday (12.29), comes the project’s second leak, “Black & White Millionaires” featuring King Just & Lounge Lo. This RZA produced track was originally featured as the backdrop to “In The Hood” off Wu-Tang’s fourth studio LP, Iron Flag which dropped exactly nine years ago this week.

Remedy – “Black & White Millionaires” (feat. King Just & Lounge Lo)

Remedy – “Hip Hop’s Holiest”(Video)/ “2010 Re-Emergence” feat. King Just (MP3)

The_N — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 18:04:24 +0000

Remedy teams up with King Just for a freestyle over Ghostdini’s “Fish” instrumental as featured on Rem’s forthcoming Free EP It All Comes Down To This which drops on Wed, Dec. 29th.Also here’s some bonus footage of “Hip Hop’s Holiest”, which is the intro track off It All Comes Down To This.

Remedy feat. King Just – “2010 Re-Emergence” (MP3)

Remedy – Code Red

Mike Devine — Tue, 22 Apr 2003 07:00:00 +0000

As the old saying goes, you can’t judge an album by its cover. The cartoon image of a white MC on the cover of Remedy’s Code:Red in a sweatshirt that says “HIP HOP” isn’t shocking or even interesting anymore. Yes, Remedy is white, Jewish, and Wu-Affiliated, but is he more than that? Does his artwork have more depth than the two-dimensional sketch on the cover? Actually, Code:Red can be summed up in two tracks, the best and the worst.

Code:Red’s biggest failure is a shameful remake of Redman’s “Tonight’s Da Night”. Aside from the beat, a faulty forgery of the original that sounds like the speakers did pop, the lyrics are just embarrassing. Instead of basing “Tonight’s Da Night” on the original or doing a straight cover, Remedy tweaks all Redman’s lines so he’s talking about himself. This goes way beyond avoiding a white rapper saying the unspeakable n-word, which would be understandable (well maybe not, but it is that bad). He takes what might have been a tribute and descends into nonsensical vanity. To break it down XXL style, Redman’s original “b-b-b-black by popular demand” becomes Remedy’s “w-w-w-white by supply and demand,” and another classic is bitten. Fingers will go from head-scratching to the eject button before the track is over.

Bullshit like this is completely offset by the genuine “Never Again”, a poetic chronicle of the Holocaust. The title’s sentiment echoes literally in the chorus and emotionally in the verses as Remedy documents millions of Jews headed off for slaughter. The images are vivid, horrifying, and ultimately personal. However, Remedy puts the overwhelming hate into perspective so it is relevant to all people. He also humbly acknowledges that he can’t fully express the pain. You can almost taste the blood, sweat, and tears.

If the rest of the album was anything like this song, Code:Red would be a meaningful album, but there simply isn’t much to say about the other 15 tracks. There’s a whole ot of apocalyptic chicken(little) shit that people got tired of hearing from Method Man and Busta Rhymes years ago, unconvincing life-is-hard whining, and tracks with names like “Remedy Who?” and “R.E.M.E.D.Y.” As for the beats, they make a laughable attempt at ominousness, coming off as the sonic equivalent of a scout leader holding a flashlight under his chin. Spooooky!

On one hand, Remedy is expressing the feelings and history of himself and his people through music, something anyone can and should respect. On the other, Remedy sounds like the awkward white boy wannabe image that comedians like Steve Martin and Jamie Kennedy are making millions off of in Hollywood, except they’re not taking themselves so damn seriously. Unfortunately, the majority of Code:Red is the latter. The emotional weight of “Never Again” is outmatched by the sheer volume of manure, and it makes for a frustrating listen from start to finish.