In listening to the vivid assault, we’re all witness to his powers of musical mutilation. When Monch raps about whipping the beat, changing its religion and cutting off its feet, you can’t help but believe him: his vicious snarl, fuelled by audible contempt, is tantamount to the threats themselves.
Their subject was the rap game and the rap game alone, dismembering so-called threats and self-proclaimed competitors with their furious fusion of anxious instrumentals and lofty lyrics. Organized Konfusion––that’s producer/emcees Pharoahe Monch and Prince Po––never wanted to destroy the earth. The nightly news is so dire, it’s easy to forget that The Extinction Agenda has been in effect for a whole 25 years. It’s a comment you could level at any era in history, but there’s something particularly apocalyptic about this modern age, one seemingly defined by inescapable conflict, economic collapse and unprecedented environmental crisis. The new millennium hasn’t been an easy one. Not only is it one of the greatest underground hip-hop records of all time, it’s a crowning achievement of the genre’s richest decade.
It’s been 25 years since Organized Konfusion––that’s Prince Po and Pharoahe Monch––released their sophomore record, “Stress: The Extinction Agenda”.
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