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The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of Niggy Tardust | 
| Artist: Saul Williams
Label: Fader Label
List Price: $13.98
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Rating:  15 reviews
Sales Rank: 11927
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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| 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 10 more reviews...
 The Return of the Grippo King July 9, 2008
Marcos F. Hernandez (Chicago, Illinois)
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.
 Sounds exactly like what you'd expect July 21, 2008
E. Hannibal (Owings Mills, MD United States)
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
If you like the idea of a bunch of nine inch nails tracks with Saul Williams as the vocalist, then you will love this cd.
I have great affection and respect for Saul Williams and Trent Reznor, but the best parts of each one's style are muddied and lost collaboratively. There are songs where you can't tell if its Williams or Reznor singing, but then you realize it doesn't really make a difference.
I loved Saul Williams self titled album, and Amethyst Rockstar was good, but this isn't even in the same class.
The final verdict: if you want another Nine Inch Nails album, this is another fine addition to the collection.
Ehh...Not as good as previous albums July 15, 2008
Derek Jones
1 out of 8 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.
 Overreaching ambitions November 8, 2008
OneLove (so fla)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
2 1/2
This alternative hip hop project offers little more then the indulgent, experimental vibe present throughout these rap canvases. Unfortunately, Williams seems too preoccupied with fleshing out these tracks into full-fledged songs instead of embracing the chaotic fury his best freestyling indicates. In the end, aside from a few tracks which indicate how powerful this potential coupling could have been, the album plays out as Reznor's hip hop side project.
NIGGY IS DOPE July 10, 2008
TECHWON (SYRACUSE, NY)
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.
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