MASH OUT POSSE - MASH OUT POSSE

In the last ten years, rap and rock hasn’t sounded right together until Rage Against The Machine came along and schooled everyone. Limp Bizkit? Please. They, and all their little baggy-panted frat buddies will hold their tails between their legs when they catch wind of this: Mash Out Posse’s self-titled debut.
Yes, that’s Brooklyn’s finest, M.O.P. And yes, those are reworked M.O.P. classics you hear. But instead of the typical boom-bap to which they usually work over, they’ve hired NYC\'s Shiner Massive to lay a bed of thick, piercing hardcore behind them, thus creating the Mash Out Posse project.
I’ll admit: I don’t know M.O.P.’s back catalog as well as I should. Otherwise, I could tell you which of these retitled tunes are the M.O.P. classics you know and love. But Mash Out Posse makes me want to go back and listen to them more.
\"Conquerors\" starts this rap/rock riot, offering up a perfect first taste of what’s on the next 12 tracks. \"Put It In The Air\", \"Hilltop Flava (No Sleep ‘Til Brooklyn)\", and the almost Bad Brains-tinged \"It’s That Simple\" are where I found my finger flickin\' the \"repeat\" button. It’s fucking furious, ya\'ll. And despite my not being able to memorize their back catalog, I do know that they turned their classic \"Ante Up\" into \"Robbin\' Hoodz\", which closes the album out with as violent a beating as the one \"Conquerors\" gave you.
If you want to hear rap/rock done way better than any of the pop radio darlings are doing it, get this record. It’s Mash Out Posse. Remember that.