I was never a fan of Rage Against the Machine, but I’m happy to hear my favourite part of the band, vocalist Zack de la Rocha, teaming up with ex-The Mars Volta drummer Jon Theodore on this EP that pretty much begs the question “how long must we wait for a full length album?”
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White rappers tend to fall into three camps these days: Eminem-ish, Beastie Boys-esque, or just plain embarrassing. While not remotely Beastly, Chicago’s Alltruisms makes it clear he’s more Eminem than embarrassment even before he ponders whether martial law is as effective as Marshall Mathers in “Nine-Digit Number.”
An altruistic dude who speaks in truisms galore, Alltru has jam packed Clusterbombs with booksmart, politically-aware rhymes and some fairly dope beats. Sometimes the subject matter leads to too much sharing (I now know way more than I’ll ever need to about his appreciation of Asian women), but for the most part the rhymes are right on target, like when he ponders if he picked up the mark of the beast when Ronald Reagan kissed him as a baby in 1980.
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