The first album by long-running Philadelphia hip-hop collective Jedi Mind Tricks since 2008's A History of Violence is also their first outing without production by founding member Stoupe the Enemy of Mankind.
Stoupe's production helped mold the group's sound, and offered a gruff, hard-edged background for rage-spewing rhymes that approached horror movie levels of violence from MCs Vinnie Paz and off-and-on member Jus Allah.
Violence Begets Violence is no less intense without Stoupe's input, with an overwhelming amount of gory rhymes and enormous buzzsaw beats on standout tracks like "When Crows Descend Upon You" and "F**k Ya Life." The scratchy prog rock sample that "Target Practice" is built around makes the song and adds fire to Paz's fervent delivery.
The tone of the album is hateful by nature, but its over the top qualities lose their charm and character quickly.
The lyrical mass murders and ultraviolent crime sprees never quite make it on either side of cartoonish or believable, but sit somewhere in the middle, quickly becoming more ignorable than anything.
The lack of production ideas really starts to shine through by the time the laughably reggae-flavored beat of "Chalice" shows up.
Jamaican rhythms, dancehall vocal hooks, and hellish horrorcore raps apparently don't mix after all.
| Title/Composers | Performer | Listen | Time | Size | Size | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Intro | Jedi Mind Tricks | Play | 02:05 | 4 MB | 11 MB |
| 2 | Burning the MirrorJ. Bostick, C. Lanciani, V. Luviner | Jedi Mind Tricks, Demoz | Play | 03:33 | 8 MB | 28 MB |
| 3 | Target PracticeJ. Bostick, V. Luviner | Jedi Mind Tricks | Play | 02:39 | 6 MB | 18 MB |
| 4 | Willing a Destruction Onto HumanityJ. Bostick, C. Lanciani, V. Luviner | Jedi Mind Tricks | Play | 02:54 | 6 MB | 20 MB |
| 5 | Bloodborn EnemyJ. Bostick, V. Luviner | Jedi Mind Tricks | Play | 02:50 | 6 MB | 18 MB |
| 6 | The Sacrilege of Fatal ArmsJ. Bostick, C. Lanciani, V. Luviner | Jedi Mind Tricks | Play | 02:43 | 6 MB | 19 MB |
| 7 | Street LightsJ. Bostick, V. Luviner | Jedi Mind Tricks | Play | 03:24 | 7 MB | 23 MB |
| 8 | When Crows Descend Upon You (ft. Demoz) | Jedi Mind Tricks | Play | 03:55 | 8 MB | 28 MB |
| 9 | Fuck Ya Life (ft. Blacastan) | Jedi Mind Tricks | Play | 03:59 | 9 MB | 26 MB |
| 10 | Imperial Tyranny (ft. King Magnetic) | Jedi Mind Tricks | Play | 03:41 | 8 MB | 24 MB |
| 11 | Design In Malice (ft. Young Zee & Pacewon) | Jedi Mind Tricks | Play | 03:38 | 8 MB | 23 MB |
| 12 | Chalice (ft. Chip Fu) | Jedi Mind Tricks | Play | 03:46 | 8 MB | 25 MB |
| 39 mins | 89 MB | |||||
| 39 mins | 269 MB | |||||
| Artist | Job | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | C. Bauss | Composer |
| 2 | Blacastan | Primary Artist |
| 3 | J. Bostick | Composer |
| 4 | Dan Bradley | Design, Layout |
| 5 | C-Lance | Producer |
| 6 | Demoz | Primary Artist |
| 7 | DJ Kwestion | Cut |
| 8 | J. Faust | Composer |
| 9 | Chip Fu | Primary Artist |
| 10 | Grand Finale | Producer |
| 11 | A. Green | Composer |
| 12 | Pete Humphreys | Mastering |
| 13 | Hypnotist Beats | Producer |
| 14 | Illinformed | Producer |
| 15 | Ira Osu | Composer |
| 16 | Jedi Mind Tricks | Primary Artist |
| 17 | King Magnetic | Primary Artist |
| 18 | C. Lanciani | Composer |
| 19 | V. Luviner | Composer |
| 20 | Junior Makhno | Producer |
| 21 | Nero | Producer |
| 22 | Pacewon | Primary Artist |
| 23 | Scott Stallone | Additional Production, Engineer, Mixing, Producer |
| 24 | J. Vargas | Composer |
| 25 | Young Zee | Primary Artist |
Jedi Mind Tricks
2002 - 17 tracks
The Psycho-Social, Chemical, Biological & Electro-Magnetic Manipulation Of Human Consci - Jedi Mind Tricks
| Quality | Format | Encoding | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Standard | MP3 | 320kps 44.1kHz | MP3 is an audio coding format which uses a form of lossy data compression. The highest bitrate of this format is 320kbps (kbit/s). MP3 Digital audio takes less amount of space (up to 90% reduction in size) and the quality is not as good as the original one. |
| CD Quality | FLAC | 16bit 44.1kHz | FLAC is an audio coding format which uses lossless compression. Digital audio in FLAC format has a smaller size and retains the same quality of the original Compact Disc (CD). |