Come and step in brother’s temple, see what’s happenin’. Gather ’round the fire for the scroll that I deliver. Come into my oven, devils, come and you burn. Chilly and Magilla. Chocolate and vanilla. How could polar bears swing on vines with the gorillas? Please. Deeper than the sea floor traveled by the mantis. What’s the higher level if your shit ain’t real? It’s like cookies in the oven — if I wanna burn a batch, you just burn. Thutmosis, Malcolm, and Huey are back.

X-Clan hit it out of the park with their 1990 debut. I love this kind of group — where the members are 100% committed to a fully realized worldview that I cannot fully grasp no matter how hard I try. They remind me of British Sea Power (I know that’s a fashionable thing to say right now, but it’s true).

God bless you, Grand Verbalizer Funkin’ Lesson Brother J. And rest in peace, Professor X.

X-Clan - Grand Verbalizer, What Time Is It? from the vastly underappreciated To The East. Blackwards (insound / amazon)

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