Dan Le Sac Vs. Scroobius Pip – Letter From God To Man
Book marked by a sample from Radiohead’s ‘Planet Telex’ where “everything is broken”, Dan Le Sac and Scroobius Pip stage a philosophically-inclined message from a ranting God to us mere mortals, in which our Lord and Maker explains his actions and his absence. But the original instrumentation here is basic, practically non-existent. Also, despite the rapper’s vocal dexterity, the “insight” here is as deep as a Religious Education argument in which it is established that God gave his creations autonomy and they, predictably, made their own choices – some of them bad! (God says: The last time I sent down a message you nailed it to a cross / My teachings were taken out of context / Religion became a tool for the weak to control the strong / I just laid the groundwork, it was you who you built the towers / It was you that invented bombs and the fear that comes with them / It was you who invented money and corrupt economic systems.”)
By Ryan Daff
