While Target rightfully gets the business of trust-fundless hipsters, Isaac Mizrahi-lovers, and anyone with a sound eye for a bargain, K-Mart is usually seen as an afterthought. No longer. According to the K-Mart website, right now, on-sale for $254.99, one can pick up a copy of Philadelphia underground rappers Jedi Mind Tricks' "Legacy of Blood." Granted, this seems a tad excessive, but it's actually an amazing bargain considering the record is marked down from its original price of $849.99. For those unfamiliar with the gruff, science-fiction laced work of the Babygrande recording artists, K-Mart is also helpful enough to provide a description.
"With violent imagery so rampant in the past decade of hip-hop, the fact that Jedi Mind Tricks' third album manages a cover shot that actually succeeds in shocking is either impressive or disturbing, depending on your disposition. Same goes for Vinnie Paz's tougher-than-leather flow that hollers down faggots and paints pictures of ultra-violence in a way that would make -A Clockwork Orange seem almost friendly by comparison."
Ever wise to the vagaries of the recording industry, an ever-vigilant K-Mart is attuned to the buying needs of every intensively homophobic, ultraviolent millionaire in America. Somewhere, Dick Cheney has added a little something special to his shopping cart.









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As I suspected, that blurb came from the AMG review. (Helpfully omitted from the K-Mart site: "But after five years, Paz should have found at least one more subject to rhyme about.")
(a less-helpful omission: the quotation marks around "faggots".)
It's a shame that Vinny Paz is such a rampant homophobe, because the beats on those first three JMT albums are brilliant, and the rhyming is that above-competent, battle flow that's monotonous in large doses, but can be pretty enthralling a couple tracks at a time. But every five minutes or so... well shit. I don't think Jerry Falwell hates homosexuals as much as that guy.
I'm not very clear on why the album is retailing for $850.
@Charles A. Hohman: Clearly K-Mart is trying to get into the whole "random rap" racket.
Website prices thing wrong, news at 11.
Out of stock. Sad face.
It's $17.98 at Amazon and free at a few online sites - I'm not sure whether the album is worth listening to at any price.
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