Main Source – F*ck What You Think (CD) (1994) (FLAC + 320 kbps)

Even if Main Source’s lineup had remained the same for the follow-up to Breaking Atoms, the group would’ve had trouble following it up. That’s not all the group had working against it. Most significantly, in a very gutsy move, K-Cut and Sir Scratch opted to keep Main Source running after the departure of Large Professor, easily their greatest asset as both an MC and a producer. They replaced him with the rougher-sounding Mikey D. and didn’t return with F*ck What You Think until a full three years after Breaking Atoms impacted the hip-hop world. Needless to say, the group is much less of a force without their original member; while the in-house production isn’t lacking by any stretch, it simply doesn’t have the same degree of liveliness as Breaking Atoms, and there’s nothing that makes Mikey D. a distinctive MC. Perhaps it’s unfair to judge this record against a landmark that has such a different element to it; if this had been a debut by a new group, it probably would’ve gone down better. But, by retaining the name Main Source, K-Cut and Sir Scratch left themselves completely open. Regardless of the circumstances, F*ck What You Think does not sound like the work of a group. It sounds like the work of two remaining group members struggling to maintain completely lost momentum for all the wrong reasons.

Tracklist:

01 Diary Of A Hit Man
02 Only The Real Survive
03 What You Need
04 Merrick Bwlevard
05 Dawn Low
06 Intermission
07 Where We’re Coming From
08 Hellavision
09 Fuck What You Think
10 Set It Off
11 Scratch & Kot ’94

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FLAC – Wayshare

320 kbps – Wayshare