Search - Chief Kamachi :: Cult Status

Incredible

LTSmash | 07/27/2004

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Chief Kamachi's "Cult Status" is an awesome album. Great beats and great lyrics. Definitely worth buying.



Favorite tracks: 1'st lecture, The Best, The Edge and Still Searching."

The Chief is Here!

Joe | way way out there | 08/15/2004

(5 out of 5 stars)

"After hearing Chief Kamachi rhyme on various underground singles over the past six years I was beginning to think his solo LP was never going to actually drop. When I finally found out it was in stores I rushed out to get it, I had no idea however that it would be this good. Lyrically it is one of the most impressive cds I've heard in a long time..Kamachi has the ability to mesh street lyrics with the intellectual and spiritual that reminds me (in content) of two of my favorite mcs, Nas and the Gza. I had a feeling this would be the case with this LP however as every verse I've heard from Kamachi has been way above average...but what really surprised me on this cd is the beats, from the hard street banger "The Edge" to the melodic "Queen" and "This Man" these are far from what the majority of "underground" beats sound like these days....Kamachi has a cd here that really could make noise on the underground and in the mainstream and with the amount of knowledge dropped on these tracks I imagine this album will be remembered for a long time."

Solid debut album

Gozer | New York | 03/09/2006

(4 out of 5 stars)

"The people who panned this album most likely had unrealistic expectations from Kamachi's guest verses, especially his verse on Jedi Mind Tricks' "Deer Hunter."



This is not a Jedi Mind Tricks album, so every track is not going to be about ancient Mayans, Tibetan black magic, caliphates and attacking mastodons. And few artists or groups have a producer as talented as Stoupe behind them.



That said, this album has a good mix of philosophical/horrorcore content, street rhymes and tracks that are just plain knowledge. Kamachi does sound more grimy on a few of these tracks, but he switches up his flow and delivery enough to keep it interesting.



My biggest complaints were the beats -- a few were good, the majority were passable, but some were just disgusting. But there are bangers here -- "Liberated Wax" has a powerful beat that grows on you as it progresses, and Kamachi's presence on this track is perfectly aggressive. "Best" is classic hip hop, the beat is the type to make you fiend for a mic, Guru and Kamachi are butter and the scratching is just dope. "What You Doin'" makes the best use of a shredding guitar for a sample I've heard in hip hop, and "Hating on My Halo" is vintage Kamachi.



This is not a great album, but it's a solid first full solo record and it has the diversity to attract more than just fans of pure underground hip hop."