The Taste of Rain... Why Kneel | |
Type: | studio |
Artist: | Deep Puddle Dynamics |
Cover: | Dpd-tasteofrain.jpg |
Released: | 1999 |
Recorded: | 1998–1999 |
Genre: | Underground hip hop |
Label: | Anticon |
Producer: | DJ Abilities, Moodswing9, Jel, Ant, DJ Mayonnaise, Alias |
Next Title: | We Ain't Fessin' (Double Quotes) |
Next Year: | 2002 |
The Taste of Rain... Why Kneel (sometimes stylized as The Taste of Rain...Why Kneel[1]) is the only studio album by Deep Puddle Dynamics, a collaboration between Sole, Doseone, Alias, and Slug. It was released on Anticon in 1999. The title of the album comes from a "western haiku" by Jack Kerouac.[2]
The album received a favorable coverage from URB, Spin, CMJ, and The Wire.[3] It is part of Cokemachineglows Top 60 Albums of the 2000s, appearing in the "Honorable Mentions" section.[4] Michael Endelman of CMJ New Music Monthly said, "these cerebral MCs turn their emotional hang-ups (dejection, alienation, disaffection, etc.) into their calling card."[5] Dave Segal of The Stranger called it "one of underground hiphop's most understatedly adventurous documents, both sonically and lyrically".[6]
Credits adapted from liner notes.