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Sunday Roast #2 - Old Hilltop Hoods
How many people remember the other Hilltop Hoods? Not the the chart topping, commercially viable, hip hop success story they have become today. But the last-millenium, pre-radio, zombie-Organised Konfusion version of the Hilltop Hoods?
Now we love the Hoods, but we also love Organised Konfusion. Obviously so did the boys from the City of Churchs when they took local hip hop to an alarming new low back in 1997. It was then that a couple of then unknown Adelaide boys with the monikers Pressure and Suffa, armed to the teeth with gusto, decided to get into the studio booth and do their best Pharoahe Monch and Prince Po impersonations. It was like something out of a twisted Australian hip hop Simpons halloween special and the outcome of this tomfuckery is the somewhat forgotten (thankfully) EPBack Once Again.
Back Once Again is the EP that should have been created in some Freaky Friday parallell universe, but unfortunatly for the Hoods and hip hop fans everywhere it wasn’t. It exists here. Theres no Jamie-Lee Curtis, this isn’t a parallel universe and not even John Farhnam can take the pressure down.
Luckily Pressure has the deep and rugged barotone to almost pull it off, but while biting so much style I’m amazed his mouth even had enough real-estate left to breathe and vocalise audible sounds. Listening to Suffa is where things get bad. Seriously, hand the man a fucking bottle of robotussin and punch me the fuck out cause I can’t take it anymore. Thankfully we suspect Suffa’s vocal strain is the one saving grace that limited this release to an EP and not a full blown album of disasterous proportions. Thank fuck he has long since realised his smooth polished flow should be just that and left the Organised Konfusion act in a box hopefully never to be re-opened.
So here is to the Hilltop Hoods and being able to delete your back catalog, but not our record shelves or youtube….
Back Once Again Remix (with Flak)
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