★★★★★
The cloud era of hip-hop has been a blessing and a curse. On one hand, the Internet is the proliferation of DIY, allowing anyone with a computer and a connection to share their music with the world. Those who might otherwise go unheard can garner exposure. However, the sea of SoundClouds can also bury true talent, with hip-hop and electronic music suffering most from the dilution...
- consequenceofsound.net
2013-07-02
★★★★★
Serengeti: The Kenny Dennis LP (Anticon) Moving and comic new insights into David Cohn's most beloved character, with the skits precious and the rapping per se provided by KDz?-including a bootleg tape by the younger Kenny's House of Pain answer group Tha Grimm Teachaz, which plays faintly behind a traffic stop (luckily, the officer at the window is Kenny's best friend Curtis), and the incomprehensible home recording "Punks...
- social.entertainment.msn.com
2013-07-03
★★★★★
Going off last year's Kenny Dennis EP, it was easy enough to explain Serengeti's alter ego: a simultaneous parody of/homage to the 1990s hardcore rap also-ran now at middle-age, a grizzled blue-collar Chicago guy who's dealing with a workaday existence but hasn't really given up rapping. It was an appealing concept-- a fictional persona who's actually less badass or supernatural than the MC who came up with him...
- pitchfork.com
2013-06-25
★★★★★
Dismiss the Kenny Dennis LP as a comedy side-project and you'll end up missing the joke. The big one, I mean, the one that starts out with a guy walking into someplace and ends in the human condition. In this go-round, Chicago undie rapper Serengeti--as in "un-heralded, un-bought, un-known"--plasters a Shih-poo above his lip and channels a bizarro alter-id. Andy, did you hear about this one? Yeah, Andy heard it--Shock G too...
- www.pastemagazine.com
2013-06-26
★★★★★
Bang, bang. That onomatopoeic pairing has two meanings in Chicago, the interrelatedness of which depends primarily upon the emphasis one places on various socio-cultural/socio-economic factors in regards to artistic expression; namely, does art inspire, perpetuate, and/or glorify violence, or merely reflect it...
- www.thelineofbestfit.com
2013-06-25
★★★★★
Bang, bang. That onomatopoeic pairing has two meanings in Chicago, the interrelatedness of which depends primarily upon the emphasis one places on various socio-cultural/socio-economic factors in regards to artistic expression; namely, does art inspire, perpetuate, and/or glorify violence, or merely reflect it...
- thelineofbestfit.com
2013-08-05
★★★★★
What do a former coach of the Chicago Bears, American Gladiators, hot toddy, non-alcoholic beer and Burn Notice Season 3 all have in common? If your answer is Serengeti's character creation Kenny Dennis, then you're on the right track. If that wasn't your first thought, then here's some backstory for the uninitiated. Kenny Dennis, (AKA:KDz, AKA:The Deacon) is a white, fifty-something Chicagoan rapper with a Ron Swanson-esque moustache and a love of sports trivia...
- drownedinsound.com
2013-06-20
★★★★★
Serengeti has often tended towards extreme sadness in his music-- on his last record C.A.R., David Cohn ended one song by desperately screaming, "We're not immortal" over and over again-- but it's possible that his new album Saal is his most despairing yet. Sometimes that despair is dressed up in the stories of other people or in a brittle sarcasm. Sometimes it's just lain bare over the track, raw as hell and occasionally downright uncomfortable...
- pitchfork.com
2013-04-01
★★★★★
Try and imagine listening to a completely unique artist, with no expectations and knowing nothing about his before hand. The first time you heard a rapper like MF Doom, you probably heard about how brilliant, albeit off kilter he was. Being an eccentric rapper is a bit of a double-edged sword. My first interaction with Serengeti came a little over a year ago when I was assigned to review his album "Family & Friends...
- rapreviews.com
2012-08-16
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