From the moment their self-titled debut album hit stores in
1992 Organized Konfusion has been, and will always be, one of the best groups
in rap history. Conceptually adventurous, casually groundbreaking in their
flows, and criminally underrated in their beats, Organized Konfusion came out
of the gate fully formed and ready to claim their spot in the hip-hop pantheon.
They pushed on through to new heights on their second album Stress: The Extinction Agenda in 1994,
and 1997’s The Equinox, while
definitely the least of their albums, is still better than what most of their
contemporaries were doing that year.
As exciting as it was to hear either Pharoahe Monch or
Prince Po rap, knowing that the other was right around the corner made things
that much sweeter. So while both have had great solo albums since Organized
Konfusion first split up in 1997, most notably Monch’s Internal Affairs from 1999, they haven’t quite reached the level
that they did as a group. Unfortunately,
the two haven’t appeared on a song together since “God Send” from Internal Affairs.
Marco Polo, a good but slightly generic Canadian producer
managed to somehow wrangle everyone from Kool G Rap and Large Professor to
Masta Ace and Copywrite for his first Port
Authority album in 2007. He even managed to pull together a Beatnuts/Brand
Nubian/D.I.T.C. posse cut by getting Ju-Ju, Sadat X, and A.G. on the same song.
For his upcoming PA2: The Director’s Cut,
due out November 12, he’s outdone himself in every conceivable way. And among
the insane list of guest features, he managed to pull off a miracle. Right there,
track one, it says “featuring Organized Konfusion.” The Prince and the Pharoahe
on record together for the first time in fourteen years.
Not only does it sound like they never spent any time apart,
it actually seems like the two aged in reverse the second Marco Polo turned the
beat on. Any group of this caliber reuniting after so long has to battle sky
high expectations, and Organized Konfusion has barreled right through all of
them.
Let’s hope they choose to stick around for a while.
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