Dennehy

Serengeti brings a sharp satirical bent to Dennehy -- adopting a few personalities throughout the album -- easily making himself one of the most distinctive lyricists on the Chicago scene! Our favorite voice (of several) that Serengeti adopts is a quintessential southsider with a deez-and-dose delivery and a propensity to wheeze neighborhood institutions with a dead on precision that you might not fully appreciate if you haven't lived south of 26th St -- but there's much to love for anyone who digs unique, lyrically-centered hip hop. The set features production by Midas Wells, DJ Crucial, Emynd and others -- a bunch of guys that somehow find a way to match strong beats to eccentric rhymes about Brian Dennehy, the movie Critters, Tom Skilling, Tom Berenger, Minute Rice, Joey Cora (and other non-Cubbie Chicago sports figures you've never heard of), naval-gazing emo kids, O'Doul's and Ricobene's.