Babygrande Records
2006
Servants In Heaven, Kings In Hell (Explicit)
About This Album
Vinnie Paz, Jedi Mind Tricks' MC, has always interspersed political statements in his rhymes, but usually he chooses to focus more on his own pain and anger instead of going on specific and directed diatribes. Servants in Heaven, Kings in Hell, however, is the most overtly socially conscious and critical album that the group has ever made. Along with tracks that speak directly about slave labor ("Shadow Business") and the Vietnam War ("Uncommon Valor: A Vietnam Story," which features a great, intricate verse from R.A. the Rugged Man), the entire record is interlaced with references to the conflicts in the Middle East, terrorism, and religion, even in the songs where Paz speaks about his own problems. "When All Light Dies," about violence in America, among other things, contains the line "I'm ready to go to war with [the police] like we Iraqi.../Don't make me...put the flame to them/And slug it out like the Israelis and Iranians," the MC trying to highlight domestic issues (including the ones in himself) as much as the foreign ones. Paz, like always, is obsessed with death, especially his own, but his consciousness of the conditions in the rest of the world seems to have given him the resolve to not give up completely.
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