![]() ![]() LCP doesn’t have to worry about declaring allegiance to either camp, because it’s something outside of both. Artists like the late great Keith Elam have always tried to bring them closer together, while artists like the cranky bastard Wynton Marsalis have always tried to push them further apart. Rawls conceived of The Liquid Crystal Project as a way to move further beyond what either hip-hop or jazz is, two arts that he very much loves and respects, which in turn have had a mostly respectful but occasionally contentious relationship with each other. I’m getting ahead of myself though, so let me take you on a journey out of triple stage darkness into the light. You’d think you were listening to a jazzified remix of a hip-hop classic, and in some respects that’s exactly what it is – sans vocals. Rakim isn’t going to bust a rhyme on “Ghetto,” but you wouldn’t be surprised if he did. He’s on some Jazz-Hop shit these days, and I added the capitalization to emphasize what “LCP 3” is not. And here we are, almost 20 years and change later, and it’s clear somebody is just as nostalgic for “In the Ghetto” as I am – and that would be acclaimed hip-hop producer J Rawls. One of my all-time favorite songs, from one of my all-time favorite rappers, on one of my all-time favorite rap albums. Born to be the soul controller, of the universe”
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