Jeru the Damaja "The Sun Rises in the East" (1994)
Jeru had worked with Gang Starr, and that group's DJ Premier produced this, Jeru's first solo album.
The production and beats are probably
the most interesting part of this album for me. It almost seems to
lean into trip-hop territory with moody instrumental samples backed with
drum-machine loops.
The book talks about how Jeru calls out various other rap artists of the
time for various perceived offences, but then I don't generally pay
attention to lyrics. Whatever is pissing off Jeru it goes past me, and
musically the album doesn't really stand out for me above and beyond
other albums or even other hip hop albums of the time.
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