Search - Ultramagnetic Mc's :: Best Kept Secret

Whack reunion of the once futuristic ULTRAMAGS

capaBILLity | Somewhere Out There, NJ USA | 01/10/2007

(1 out of 5 stars)

"Unlike The JUNGLE BROTHERS 2nd album DONE BY THE FORCES OF NATURE where they gave props to past and present rappers, MC's and DJ's in a grouping. They mentioned only one rap group as the FUTURE of hip-hop: Ultramagnetic. Well guess what JB's. Future No More.



The album is trash. Nothing at all like the 3 studio albums made over a decade ago. But don't take my word for it, sample for yourself.

Once ahead of their time. Time zoom past Ultramagnetic and they didn't see it coming. FAITH, NO MORE should be the title of this rubbish. What can I say about this album without my review getting kicked off Amazon.com? I'll use no profanity or content of explicit nature to describe it but this album highly does. 1988's CRITICAL BEATDOWN never, ever gave that kind of deliverance. That maybe one reason why that album is a classic and THE BEST KEPT SECRET is a bargin bin passer-by, by any means (vocally, production, lyrically, concept). Can I get a witness? Please? Aw c'mon!



DJ MOE LUV is the only producer on the album trying to keep that old Ultramagnetic sound alive here on "Vibrato" and "Mechanism Nice (Born Twice)" the album's 1st single. CED-GEE just wrecks the album in a terrible way, verbally and lyrically, bragging of 16 bars in almsot every track and being very explicit and obscene (never heard that on CRITICAL BEATDOWN by CED). KOOL KEITH does fine on solo track "Late Nite Rumble" but KOOL KEITH is goin' nowhere with his lyricism and on most of the other songs, HIS delivery is sounding just like CED's towards the end of the album. T.R. LOVE? M.I.A. You see him in photos, you hear silence from him, he doesn't even produce a track. Production by CED, MOE and 2 others and the other 2 sound like KUTMASTA KURT producing (producer for most of KOOL KEITH solo stuff). I do not mean that in a good way. The beats of "Nottz" is bangin', the lyrics by both KEITH and CED should raise eyebrows on what's next to come for THE BEST KEPT SECRET being the B-side to the 1st single "Mechanism Nice (Born Twice)".



Songs like "Ain't It Good 2 U" (2007) and "Party Started" are for gentleman's clubs for the girls to dance to. Now do you see what direction this album is goin'? If you're lookin' for Ultramagnetic to comback with a reunion album with the same spacey super dope production and/or the masterful, brainiac, monkey wrench lyricism as CRITICAL BEATDOWN; FUNK YOUR HEAD UP and THE FOUR HORSEMEN albums gave you over a decade ago, you will not find it here. Maybe in the next 14 years. Right Ultramag? JB's don't count on it."

So so sorry

flexxxor | cleveland | 07/22/2007

(1 out of 5 stars)

"yo, ced, keith, tr and mo love.........what the hell is this?? some things are just better left in the past. ultra is a hip hop hall of fame group and just disregard this latest thing as.....an incident of human error. i will stick to the other 3 cds. the ones i grew up with when things were right in the world."

Could have been better or worse

MikeGibbons | Orleans, MA | 03/15/2007

(3 out of 5 stars)

"This is a just okay reunion album for the legendary Ultramags. It could have been much better, when you take "Critical Beatdown", "Funk Your Head Up", "Four Horseman" etc in to account. It also could have been much worse. Ced Gee sounds horrible on the mic. Keith sounds good on most tracks, but overall, the magic just isn't there on alot of the tracks. There are about 6 real bangers on here, but for Ultramagnetic, every song should be dope. I think it would have been better if TR and Moe Love had produced more tracks and if Ced had only rapped on a couple of tracks."