Before one even listened to the record, Reid’s image served as an introduction to the left-of-center urgency of the group. Sharing rack space beside scores of eye-catching rap covers, including Daniel Hastings’ disturbing cover shots for Gang Starr (Hard to Earn) and Jeru the Damaja (The Sun Rises in the East), the far out beauty of Stress stood out. Yet it’s virtually impossible to talk about Organized Konfusion’s genre-busting album without waxing poetic about Matt Reid’s bold mix of graphic design, comic books, collage, sci-fi, animation and surrealism. Praised by then-leading hip hop publication The Source, who described the rappers as “verbal contortionists, creating moving molecules of syllables and sounds,” the album solidified the legacy of these b-boy innovators. Anchored by the brash verbal density of rappers Pharoahe Monch and Prince Poetry (Po), the soulfully jazzy and often dark Stress: The Extinction Agenda has made a lasting aural impression.
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