Lords Of Underground HERE COME THE LORDS

Lords Of The Underground: Doitall [Dupre Kelly], Mr. Funky [Al'terik Wardrick], DJ Lord Jazz [Bruce Colston].Additional personnel: Denton Evans (drums), Sah-B, Jam-C.Engineers: George Karras, Frank Heller, Everett "Boggee" Ramos.Recorded at Marley's House Of Hits, New York.Lords of the Underground rattled off five great singles in a row between 1992-1994, all of which helped make Here Come the Lords one of the best rap debuts of 1993. "Psycho," "Chief Rocka," "Flow On," "Here Come the Lords," and "Funky Child" (with that wildly searing horn line) feature spare productions with crisp drum breaks and bone-rattling basslines, most of which glean from the catalogs of Blue Note and James Brown. "Flow On" boasts the inimitable touch of Marley Marl and assistant K-Def, and yet it's hardly the most infectious of the batch. There's nothing lacking about the actual production -- it's just that MCs Dupre "Doitall" Kelly and Mr. Funke are on top of their game when they're at their most uninhibited