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| The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of Niggy Tardust | 
 enlarge | Artist: Saul Williams
Label: Fader Label
Category: Music
List Price: $13.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  11 reviews
Sales Rank: 7473
Format: Explicit Lyrics
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 4.8 x 0.4
MPN: 906
UPC: 829299090628
EAN: 0829299090628
ASIN: B00197U0VM
Release Date: July 8, 2008
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Condition: BRAND NEW Factory Sealed - Ready to be shipped within 24 hrs from California - Average 5 workdays delivery time - Excellent customer service - Buy with confidence!
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| Tracks:
| • | Black History Month | | • | Convict Colony | | • | Tr(n)igger | | • | Sunday Bloody Sunday | | • | Break | | • | Niggy Tardust | | • | DNA | | • | WTF! | | • | Scared Monkey | | • | Raw | | • | Skin of a Drum | | • | No One Ever Does | | • | Banged and Blown Through | | • | Raised to be Lowered | | • | The RitualBonus Tracks: | | • | Pedagogue of Young Gods | | • | Can't Hide Love (Earth Wind and Fire cover) | | • | Gunshots by Computer | | • | Survivalism (Open Heart Clinic Remix) | | • | List of Demands |
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Album Description
Saul Williams with his album, Inevitable Rise & Liberation of Niggy Tardust! The CD contains five exclusive bonus tracks including 'List Of Demands', featured in the massive Nike 'My Better' TV campaign. Also features a cover of U2's 'Sunday Bloody Sunday.' Album produced by Trent Reznor/NIN. First establishing himself as an influential poet, and then as an award-winning screenwriter/actor, Saul Williams then went on to establish himself as an MC. His approach to MCing, though, wasn't exactly in line with the traditional school of Hip-Hop. His rhymes weren't really rhymes but rather his poetry delivered in a frenzied spoken word manner that was more rhythmic than alliterate.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 6 more reviews...
 The Return of the Grippo King July 9, 2008
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
With the invention of the Niggy Tardust persona Saul Williams has escalated his performance far beyond the traditional role of the MC. He's birthed Niggy as some kind of spectral shaman over a ritual of reflection on the past, present, and future of Hip-Hop, but more than that, he makes the ritual fun. Saul's overwhelming live charisma transfers over to disc with little impact lost.
This collaboration with Trent Reznor and CX KiDTRONiK among others pushes genre boundaries while hearkening back to the Bomb Squad production of early Public Enemy proving that, in the right hands, Hip-Hop can still be a tool of liberation.
 Eh July 11, 2008
3 out of 23 found this review helpful
Saul Williams is such a gifted lyricist and interesting artist that I keep hoping his taste in music will improve. I've queued up for all of his releases since Amethyst Rock Star and have been disappointed by every one, and this is no exception.
For those of you like me who were blown away by Williams's minimalist live-wire freewheeling in Slam, I hope you like sludgy industrial that was brewed fresh in 1993. Otherwise, the music will overpower and distract you from start to finish on this LP.
Williams needs to pair with a brilliant hip-hop producer who can lead him out of his rock-and-roll/Industrial pretensions. Is it simply bad taste on Williams's part? Or a badly misguided reach for crossover appeal?
I've waited a long time for Williams to deliver the five-star revolutionary LP I know he's capable of, but I'm getting tired of waiting now. Deeply felt by you, Mr. Williams, does not translate into deeply felt by your audience. That's where craft comes in.
NIGGY IS DOPE July 10, 2008
YOU KNOW I REMEMBER WHEN I 1ST GOT THIS MONTHS BACK AS A FREE DL VIA HIS WEBSITE. AND I WAS INSTANTLY IN LOVE WITH THE DIFFERENT SOUNDS AND WHAT HE WAS SAYING AS WELL AS PRODUCTION ARE SEEMINGLY IN LINE WITH ONE ANOTHER. EVEN THOUGH ALLOT OF THE MATERIAL COMES FROM HIS "DEAD HIP HOP SCROLLS" BOOK IT'S STILL AMAZING FOR THIS TO SOUND SO ILL. HIS STUFF REMINDS OF WHEN RZA STARTED HIS ALT PERSONA AS BOBBY DIGITAL AND NIGGY IS IN LINE WITH BEING ON THE OUTSIDE LOOKING IN.
great. . . the 1st time anyway. July 11, 2008
I bought this album when it was online only and loved it. But then decided I wanted a hard copy. Mistake! I already had 2 of the additional tracks and got nothing by buying it again. If you already have the original realase, don't bother.
 Ehh...Not as good as previous albums July 15, 2008
0 out of 7 found this review helpful
I recently started listening to Saul Williams on the suggestion of a friend. I really liked the self titled Album but this one sounds too much like Nine Inch Nails to me. I have been a huge NIN fan for years and I can't help but feel these songs are Nine Inch Nails songs, with someone other than Trent singing. Songs like Banged and Blowing through simply sound like something that should be on a Nine Inch Nails album. I would rather hear him rap.
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