★★★★★
Unless you're relatively new to hip hop or your tastes in the genre don't run very deep you'd be pretty familiar with the Hieroglyphics collective by now. At the very least names like Del and Souls of Mischief should mean something to you, and if you're a more dedicated hip hop fiend you were already thinking of Casual and Pep Love as soon as you saw the title of this review...
- rapreviews.com
2013-08-29
★★★★★
When most fair weather hip-hop fans think of the West Coast rap scene, names such as Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Tupac, and Ice Cube are among the first that come to mind. In the late 80s and early 90s, these artists laid the foundation for an emerging "gangsta rap" scene coming out of California, which is carried on today by artists such as Game...
- rapreviews.com
2011-05-11
★★★★★
"Over Time" is possibly the most appropriate title of a hip-hop album in a long time. The Oakland-based emcees that comprise the Hieroglyphics have been doing their thing over time, since they dropped their landmark underground album "Third Eye Vision" back in 1998 and even before that...
- rapreviews.com
2009-07-21
★★★★★
When rap historians look back on the 1990's, the rise fall and rebirth of the collective called "Hieroglyphics" will be recorded as among it's most significant events. This irony can't be lost on a crew whose name evokes the image of Egyptian symbolic transcription. Like those ancient scholars, the group sought to preserve their wisdom for future ages, but their method of recording used beats and rhymes instead of paints and chisels...
- rapreviews.com
2009-07-21
★★★★★
No text for this review; see http://robertchristgau.com/xg/bk-cg90/grades-90s.php.
- www.robertchristgau.com
2009-07-10
★★★★★
East Bay Afrocentricity, hold the pikls ("At the Helm," "All Things")
- www.robertchristgau.com
2009-07-10
★★★★★
Back in the early 90s, as a series of classic records from thousands of west coast street linguists were assaulting record stores nationwide, the massive Hieroglyphics collective was busy helping to shape the lyric-intensive west coast underground style and rising to prominence on the independent circuit. More than ten years on from their first recordings, the lineup still intimidates: Casual, Del Tha Funkee Homosapien, Souls of Mischief, Pep Love, and Domino...
- pitchfork.com
2009-06-08
★★★★★
There's no denying that the Hieroglyphics are the epitome of west coast styles and technique reflected in their music. The crew has been releasing laid-back soul and funk infused hip-hop since 1993, with the help of Del The Funkee Homosapien and Souls of Mischief. And back in 1998, Hiero released their first solo album as an eight men crew titled 3rd Eye Vision. The album was spotless in its approach to hip-hop love and passion, flowing like a cold beer on a hot summer day...
- tinymixtapes.com
2009-06-08
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