★★★★★
It's a daily struggle to avoid murdering Drake fans who bump that trash on the train in front of me, cliché Auto-Tune hooks leaking from their Skull Candy and polluting my perimeter. But thanks to the new Jedi Mind Tricks album, I'm finally building up enough courage to shove a tone-deaf shitbag on the tracks. True to its title, Violence Begets Violence is the Philly powerhouse's most aggressive effort yet, a morally polluted playground that no sane unarmed person should dare to frolic in...
- thephoenix.com
2011-11-10
★★★★★
JMT's messages have always been mixed; Vinnie Paz, an Italian (raised Roman Catholic most likely), is presumably a Five-Percenter, with his innumerable god references. Loves to rhyme about his guns in occasionally clever ways but also posits some progressive theories on politics and religion. The persona he portrays seems to have little respect for anyone who doesn't guzzle as much liquor as him or refuses to keep a screwface 24/7. That's the raging heart of Philly for you...
- www.urb.com
2011-10-27
★★★★★
"Serial killers do on a small scale what governments do on a large one. They are products of their times and these are bloodthirsty times." That Jedi Mind Tricks choose to open their seventh studio album by quoting serial killer Richard Ramirez where they might previously have alluded to Gandhi or Malcolm X should tell rap fans nearly all they need to know about the 2011 incarnation of Philadelphia's longest-running underground rap group...
- www.slantmagazine.com
2011-10-24
★★★★★
"Yes, I am evil Not a hundred percent, but I am evil Evil has always existed The perfect world most people seek shall never come to pass And it's gonna get worse..."The introduction may explain the philosophy of Vinnie Paz as well as any song he's done, but it doesn't BEGIN to explain what's going down on Jedi Mind Tricks' "Violence Begets Violence...
- rapreviews.com
2011-09-21
★★★★★
Whether reviewing music, movies, or books, the critic must be acutely aware of two different things: his own preferences, and those of his audience. With this said, while contemplating my review for the Jedi Mind Tricks album, I had to temper my own enthusiasm for the LP with the realization that this music is far from typical hip-hop...
- rapreviews.com
2010-04-10
★★★★★
(Rating = 8, production; 2, lyrics) What a waste. That's the only thing I can say when I hear Legacy of Blood, the latest record by highly-touted underground hip-hop group, Jedi Mind Tricks. What a waste. Why? Because Stoupe has come up with some of the best hip-hop production you're likely to hear this year, and yet we're left listening to a ridiculously homophobic and unimaginative MC named Vinnie Paz who raps in a semi-gravely monotone that barely holds your interest. A waste...
- www.lostatsea.net
2009-10-30
★★★★★
The words "cult following" get thrown around quite liberally these days. When you can apply the same term to the Branch Davidians of David Koresh and the devotees of Paris Hilton, the whole notion of what "cult" is starts to lose meaning. To break it down like an organic compound though, "cult" traditionally refers to any group of people whose beliefs are not accepted by mainstream society...
- rapreviews.com
2009-07-21
★★★★★
"Vinnie ain't a sucker, he doesn't record happily I just black out in the darkness of God's tapestry Boomerang suckers - I throw 'em they come back to me That's why I travel with Gods and four gats on me I don't even listen to y'all, y'all whack to me I don't want that bullshit y'all make attached to me .45 calibre claw, so fall back from me While y'all gradually, get trapped in the Earth's gravity"Some things never change in hip-hop, and that's for the best...
- rapreviews.com
2009-07-21
★★★★★
When Jedi Mind Tricks burst onto the scene in 1997, most heads didn't even blink. Though the Philly-based group put in work on their debut, they remained in relative anonymity. For those who listened, the combination of Vinnie Paz's conceptual rhyming and Stoupe's atmospheric production was a success. Despite the excellence displayed on "The Psycho-Social, Chemical, Biological, And Electro-Magnetic Manipulation Of Human Consciousness," the duo was just getting started. Enter "Violent By Design...
- rapreviews.com
2009-07-21
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