The Sun Rises in the East

In the 90s with the invention of the CDs, every artist had the fetish of filling the media with as much music as they oculd fit, often time ending up with albums that go for 70 minutes with only 20–30 minutes of material that's realistically of passable quality. I'd say hip hop was the biggest victim of this, but most genres realistically were.

The Sun Rises in the East reverts back to the "vinyl days" and gives us 39 minutes of nectar, filled with rugged beats from DJ Primo and a respectable flow from Jeru, whose style of philosophical delivery and down to Earth rapping is a great contrast to the gritty boastful nature of other East Coast releases.

In its entirety, a very simple album, which can go either way depending on what kind of person you are. I like it this way. It allows bot parties to make use of what little they have. A forgotten gem.

Beats ain’t bad- flow feels pretty boring and amateur.

Like the east coast boom bap vibe but just boring comparatively to others of its time.

Very solid east coast 90s boom bap. Jeru is often overlooked when discussing artists from the golden age

I didn't know this at all but I liked it. Like a few reviewers are adding it probably sounded a little dated, a little late 80s, when it came out. But so what? From this distance who cares? A bit of non gangster 90s hiphop is always welcome.

This is fucking corny as shit. The first half of the album is the guy rapping about how good of a rapper he is. And he's not, actually. Erik B and Rakim had four whole albums before this. He should know what a good rapper sounds like.

This got buried in the 1994 charts because there were other rappers out there ACTUALLY breaking ground, instead of corny and tired boom-bap. To this album's credit, there are a couple of tracks toward the end that don't necessarily sound like what I just described, but it was too little too late for me to be very impressed. Even then, just a guy talking about how awesome he is. Tired. Lame. Was never cool. I can listen to sub-par performers brag unjustifiably about their capabilities at work. What I can't do at work is skip tracks halfway through so I don't have to endure the contempt I have for the braggart.

Feeling generous: ⭐⭐

Some great tunes in here. Other than that, good background noise #4

aged like fine wine

Moja najszczersza reakcja to rząd znaków zapytania, bo nie wiem. co zrobić z tą płytą. Ale dało mi wrażenie ciemnej, pustej nowojorskiej ulicy w latach 90., mam nadzieję, że się nie mylę. Chyba wrócę?

Decent 90s rap, but there’s better stuff from the same time and some of the views uhh don’t exactly hold up

I expected to hate every second of this, but I have to admit that the beat is pretty good. Good flow, good rhymes, good rhythm, good sounds. Even the misogynistic songs, to my dismay, are fun to listen to.

I guess the advantage this album has over other hip-hop albums (in my very limited experience with hip-hop) is that if you remove the rap, the music still slaps.

"Control the mic like Fidel Castro locked Cuba"

I enjoy hip hop, and east coast 90s hip hop especially so, with some top artists of mine including Nas, Wu Tang, Mos Def, Big L, and other similar legends from that time and place. So needless to say I was excited to discover another legendary 90s east coast hip hop group.

I was left quite a bit disappointed, however. Although the album does largely hit the same vibes and flows as the other artists do, there was just a lack of any standout tracks, with each one largely flowing into the next without much uniqueness in their melodic flow or their samples. One potential exception to this was the track "My Mind Spray," which really hits a nice vocal sample akin to Nas, with a flow similar to GZA from Wu Tang.

Otherwise, an uneventful album that will dissolve into the sea of all the other 90's hip hop artists,

☀️☀️☀️

Remember: if a man feels the need to say "I'm not a misogynist", it's probably because he just said something misogynistic.

3/5. Solid album, though it definitely doesn’t rank among the best east coast hip-hop records of the 90’s for me. The beats are pretty simple but I honestly thought they were pretty good overall! Theres a hypnotic quality to them. Lyrically Jeru is alright, though there are some clunky ass bars here. Like on the song “Da Bichez” with the line “But you can’t obtain this, poppin’ that coochie for Gucci” which is so dumb that it loops back around to being hilarious. But there are still strong lyrical showings here like on the closer “Statik.” Will I revisit this one in full? Probably not, but I’m glad I listened to it regardless.

iskreno uopće mi nije bilo loše? naprotiv. svi nešto seruckaju i serendaju a meni se dopao, i to dosta više od suvremenika mu koje glazbeni kritičari izdižu u nebesa. možda mi se sviđa i jer je kratak i jasan; očekivao sam, budući da je riječ o albumu iz devedesetih, neko prenatrpano sranje od sat i deset minuta. dobar album sve u svemu

I dig any rap that sounds like this, as it evokes the NYC of my childhood. This isn’t quite Wu Tang, but it’s still pretty cool.

I've heard a lot of essential 90s hip-hop on this list - this is not one of them. Jeru's flow is pretty mod, and his rhymes are simple and not that interesting. The beats are pretty weak, and resort to heavy repetition and cutting the sound entirely in moments. Not for me, unfortunately. 2/5

Like most 90s Hip Hop, it feels dated, but comfortably so. Rap has changed a lot in the last 30 years, and Hip Hop is nothing if not a time capsule. So even though it definitely sounds its age, it's still damned good for what it is. Could I see myself getting the urge to pop this on in my car on a random Tuesday? Not really, but I'm quite glad it popped up on the list today.

This wasn’t bad but for me it pales in comparison to the more well known East Coast hip hop from this era.

First listen. It was alright. It’s got the NY 93-97 vibe. Jeru’s flow is good but the content has not aged well. DJ Premier’s production is wonderful and is the standout of this album.

If you don't like Jeru then you're Ignorant, simple as. Also that DJ Premier production, this is that Science.