NehruvianDoom (Bishop Nehru and MF Doom) - Nehruviandoom (2014) - A collaboration between veteran MF Doom & 18 year old newcomer Bishop Nehru. Nehru is really, really skilled rapper good at riding beats and complex rhyme schemes. But - maybe it's because of his age - he doesn't seem to have a unique voice or a varied reportoire or really unique things to say. I really like Joey Bada$$, another young rapper who is maybe two years Nehru's senior and what's interesting over his mixtapes his how much style develops over the course of releases, it feels really intentional, he goes out of his way to switch up styles and topics. Nehru has a really calm delivery with no real bark to it - neither swagger, nor comical nonchalance like Doom, nor the ferocity of some other rappers. At best he sounds like he's doing an MF Grimm impression on a lot of tracks here. But, he's good, really really good and putting words together, finding internal rhyme schemes and twisty wordplay, breaking down words into smaller homonyms for puns. This is probably the most high profile album Nehru has released, I think his previous releases were mixtapes. Doom's production is great, the first song "OM" is a funky, swaying Doom track as good as anything on any Doom album. Other tracks like "Coming for you" have cartoon-y beats with quasimodo style vocal samples that sound like tracks for Danger Doom. "Darkness(HBU" has a more DJ Premier style beat with a blaring horn as Nehru raps wisdom in a style reminiscent of GZA. The BPM is pretty steady throughout the record giving it a coherent chillness. Doom doesn't rap on every track, as an MC he takes the backseat to Nehru here. But Doom gets the last word on the record "it's miraculous, it's nothing short of disastrious, that's it, nothing comes after this".
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