Fatbeats
2006
Act Your Waist Size
About This Album
Count Bass D is the quintessential underground hip-hopper: he produces and plays the instruments on almost all of his tracks, he sings and rhymes, and he's been making records for the past ten years without getting much recognition, something he's very much aware of. He bookends his fourth solo album, Act Your Waist Side, with a lecture on injustice in "What's Wrong" and the quasi dis track, "No Comp," a perfect underground mixture of poppy synth and braggadocio, in which the Count calls himself "the Sam Cooke of this independent rap s**t/The Marvin Gaye of this backpacker rap s**t" and criticizes rappers and producers "who can't play instruments." The beat, like many on the record, is filtered and muffled, making it sound very much in the Stones Throw (meaning Madlib) style, despite the fact that Act Your Waist Size was released on Fat Beats. Count Bass D is a fan of slightly quirky soulful Southern grooves, heard in the circling guitar of "Brasilian Landing Strip," the various xylophone and keyboard frills of "Pot/Liquor," and the siren-looped synths (like something the Bomb Squad would have sampled from) of "Tradin' Whore Stories.
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