Lil Sci "Hit Me" (12")

In the thankless world of independent hip-hop, Lil Sci (aka John Robinson) is one of the few artists who has been able to continue to put out praise worthy music.  From his first record with his group Science of Life (put out by Bobbito’s famed Fondle Em label), to his releases with the talented Stacy Epps (Sol Uprising), and to the present with his collaboration with MF DOOM (the John Robinson Project) about to drop, Sci has earned his reputation as a consistently dope MC.  While Sci has made much noise in his home state of New York and his second home of Atlanta, it was during his time in L.A. that led him and his occasional collaborator, Detroit’s own Ta’Raach, to record the tracks that are on this record: “Hit Me” and “C.U.”. The A-Side, “Hit Me” comes bouncing in with a warm bass line and a busy guitar line before the drums shuffle in to create the pace for Sci’s rhymes about his constant hustle.  The “MC/Entrepreneur” (Sci is the president of Atlanta based label Shaman Works) we