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"Without Warning can be viewed as a portrait of a man whose surroundings are so hopelessly blighted that the cultivation of a paranoid, overactive imagination proves to be liberating ? even empowering. While [it] might sound and feel somewhat dated by now, especially in comparison to Poet?s recent work as a soloist and as a member of Screwball, it is essential listening for fans of the QB sub-genre/movement and stands out as a brutally honest, if eccentric, depiction of inner city strife." - OHWORD.COM Poet takes his listeners on a comical yet convincing tour of a QB landscape that is cartoonishly violent, while producer Hot Day?s beats are hard, deeply funky, and swing just enough to sound strangely jubilant underneath Poet?s venomous verbiage. With the unsmiling, measured coldness of Parrish Smith and the colloquial clarity of rival KRS-One, Poet obliterates lesser emcees, corrupt cops and all of his detractors in concise verses devoid of mystical jargon or superscientifical abstraction. Contains "Tell It Like It Is," Poet?s front-stoop political commentary that quickly assumes the shapelessness of wonderfully unapologetic drunken digression. Cuts like the murderous LP version of "I?m Flippin?" and the viciously apocalyptic "Pandemonium" build vividly on themes and concerns related to daily survival.