{"id":2124,"date":"2016-03-02T10:02:42","date_gmt":"2016-03-02T16:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/?p=2124"},"modified":"2016-03-01T10:17:27","modified_gmt":"2016-03-01T16:17:27","slug":"xl-and-dbd-the-offensive-truth-volume-1-and-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/xl-and-dbd-the-offensive-truth-volume-1-and-2\/","title":{"rendered":"XL and DBD – The Offensive Truth Volume 1 and 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nXL and DBD return with it’s best release to date! Sodom and America<\/em> is a personal classic for me. I loved the early days of what became Rapcore – it had yet to become THE\u00a0big thing, ruined by over saturation by the MTV beast. Todd Stevens is one gifted individual, handling the bulk of the instruments on the album: crazy good lead guitar work, massive rhythms, Golden Age Rap flows that remind me of Big Daddy Kane and Ice Cube, as well as great vocals and harmonies reminiscent of King’s X and Fishbone. These albums are in line and a step up from the prior XL and DBD albums! Great guest spots from Jesse Sprinkle, Jim Chaffin, Oz Fox, Jimmy Brown, Rex Carroll and more. GET BOTH ALBUMS! Each volume is as good as the other, lyrics are honest and challenging with a few fun songs for good measure. Wide range of subjects covered on here from addiction, to rape, to spiritual warfare, greed, politics, being a man, and really all these things are more linked than most tend to realize. Both albums are focused on Biblical truths. Production is huge! An excellent return, will easily be on my best of 2016 list!
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\n[2016 Independent | Purchase: Volume 1<\/a> and\/or Volume 2<\/a>]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

XL and DBD return with it’s best release to date! Sodom and America is a personal classic for me. I loved the early days of what became Rapcore – it had yet to become THE\u00a0big thing, ruined by over saturation … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":2125,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[24,429],"tags":[98,442],"class_list":["post-2124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music-review","category-september-2016","tag-independent","tag-xl-and-dbd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2124"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2127,"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2124\/revisions\/2127"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}