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Back in 1997, Capone-N-Noreaga released the heated album, The War Report, amidst the flaring egos of the east coast/west coast feud. By harnessing the controversial imagery of rocking desert fatigues and drawing connections between Lefraq and Iraq, CNN garnered enough media hype to distance themselves from the rest of the rapping riff raff.

Images of the falling towers behind what I can only describe as a Taliban member wrapped in the American flag dawn the cover. With the use of Arabic characters littered throughout the inserts and track listings, The Lost Children of Babylon make it abundantly clear that they are…angry?

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The Lost Children of Babylon are by no means supporters of Al Qaeda nor are they supporters of the Bush administration. As best as I could tell from the eighteen tracks on this conspiracy theorist delight, The Lost Children of Babylon are backpack cipher emcees with an affinity for… complaining. Not once is there a solution proposed.

The 911 Report speaks on the "governmentalities" and smoke screen tactics of the most famous red herring of all time – a man who goes by the name, "The Man." Had I the patience to sit through this album more than once, I probably could have taken a tally of how many times I heard certain buzz words like GW Bush, Dick Cheney, Enron and of course the most prolific word on the album – conspiracy. It is in the title after all, but at times it felt like an episode of Pee Wee’s Playhouse.

I can appreciate the fervor with which they wield their constitutional right to free speech; however, when you release an album with the intent of making a profit, the product must be slightly entertaining. As a listener, why should I pay to hear someone speak for free?

Opting to ramble rather than flow over otherwise decent beats, The 911 Report regurgitates the same back alley trash fire conspiracy theories you might hear from the homeless and schizophrenic. Unfortunately, this demographic can not buy the album to appreciate it little less a system to play it on.

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