Thought provoking, and toe tapping, Lie, Cheat & Steal is the kind of hip-hop album that's a throwback to when the music could make your body move while the lyrics simultaneously made you think. It's something very few can accomplish, but Us3 did to perfection with this.
Us3 has that funky edge that I'll always fully endorse, and if they continue to snag primetime talent to highlight their sheer musicality and DJ-ing prowess (courtesy of DJ First rate) there's no reason there can't be eight or eighteen more albums of the same quality.
For decades artists have flirted with the idea of fusing jazz with hip hop, but nobody has ever quite matched the creative innovation of producer Geoff Wilkinson.
Lie, Cheat & Steal is not just a solid hip-hop album featuring two lyricists who are at the top of their game, it's a series of devastating jackhammer blows to a power structure that has been kicking in our collective faces for the past decade.
Lie, Cheat & Steal is a mobile for the young, pissed-off have-nots.
Hiphop Jazz group Us3 do it big. Word up UK.
5th best hip-hop album of 2011.
