Name: Evolve or Be Extinct
Brand: Big Dada
SKU: 23004356
Price: 263 HKD
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Evolve or Be Extinct

By Wiley (British MC)

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Format

Vinyl (1 Disc); Stereo

Release Date

23 January 2012

Album: Evolve or Be Extinct
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Welcome to Zion
2)	Evolve or Be Extinct
3)	Link Up
4)	Boom Blast
5)	I'm Skanking
6)	Weirdo
7)	Scar
8)	Can I Have a Taxi Please?
1)	Miss You
2)	Money Man
3)	Customs
4)	Immigration
5)	Only Human
6)	This Is Just an Album
7)	Ya Win Some, Ya Lose Some
1)	Fire
2)	No Love Lost
3)	Cheer Up, It's Christmas
4)	Life at Sea
5)	Daiquiris
6)	Confused
7)	Highs and Lows

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Album: Evolve or Be Extinct
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Welcome to Zion
2)	Evolve or Be Extinct
3)	Link Up
4)	Boom Blast
5)	I'm Skanking
6)	Weirdo
7)	Scar
8)	Can I Have a Taxi Please?
1)	Miss You
2)	Money Man
3)	Customs
4)	Immigration
5)	Only Human
6)	This Is Just an Album
7)	Ya Win Some, Ya Lose Some
1)	Fire
2)	No Love Lost
3)	Cheer Up, It's Christmas
4)	Life at Sea
5)	Daiquiris
6)	Confused
7)	Highs and Lows

EAN

5021392187860

Writer

Wiley (British MC)

Country

USA

Label

Big Dada

Performer Notes

In late 2011, Wiley dropped the very good 100% Publishing, and less than six months later, he topped it with the excellent Evolve or Be Extinct. The British rapper continues to slowly kill the child he helped create -- grime -- by expanding its boundaries and rethinking its parameters to the point that the term is slowly ceasing to have much real meaning. His roots still show, of course: the sharp, double-time rapping on "The Door to Zion" and the title track are juxtaposed with dark, lurching beats that will be comforting to anyone adept with the genre. But a couple of these tracks swing in a way that is quite unusual: "I'm a Weirdo" is uniquely funky and jazzy (and offers the timeless couplet "I'm a weirdo/But I'm not a bipolar") and "Miss You" incorporates a soca feel that also comes from out of left field. "Link Up" and "Boom Blast" are the tracks slated for release as singles, but while both are excellent, "Money Man" could turn out to be the break-out hit. The album sags a bit in the middle, with the rhythmically blocky "Scar" and the rather self-indulgent "Can I Have a Taxi Please?," and the extended "Customs" sketch (in which our hero's urine is tested during a drug search in the airport) seems a bit pointless until you realize that it leads into the excellent "Immigration," another of the album's high points. Warts and all, this is one of the strongest albums in Wiley's already impressive catalog. ~ Rick Anderson

Professional Reviews

Pitchfork (Website) - "[I]t's one of his best, a mostly single-minded return to the on-the-mic fierceness and computers-go-tribal rhythms that first made his name."

Uncut (magazine) (p.106) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "Wiley's stream-of-consciousness rapping cast atop a flurry of alien synth melodies and snappy beats."