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Album Description: Personnel includes: DJ Honda, Roc Raida, Mista Sinista (DJ); De La Soul, Black Attack, Keith Murray & 50 Grand Syndicate, Doe-V, KRS-One, Cuban Link, Ju Ju, A.L., Missin' Linx, The Rawcotiks, Stretch Armstrong, Lord Sear, The Beatnuts, Al Tariq, No I.D., Dug Infinite, Fat Li... read more Personnel includes: DJ Honda, Roc Raida, Mista Sinista (DJ); De La Soul, Black Attack, Keith Murray & 50 Grand Syndicate, Doe-V, KRS-One, Cuban Link, Ju Ju, A.L., Missin' Linx, The Rawcotiks, Stretch Armstrong, Lord Sear, The Beatnuts, Al Tariq, No I.D., Dug Infinite, Fat Lip, Mos Def, S-On, Problemz; CD (keyboards); Early, Kia (background vocals). Producers: DJ Honda, Roc Raida, Mista Sinista, Vic. Engineers: DJ Honda, Chris Conway, Dino Zervos, Kirk Yano. DJ Honda's second album HII is a quantum leap over his debut, largely because he's given himself freedom to cut-and-paste his own backgrounds and he's enlisted a number of collaborators (X-ecutioners, KRS-One, Mos Def) to spice up the mix. He's not a post-modernist like DJ Shadow -- he's a modern hip-hop DJ, reviving the musical adventure of early hip-hop. Occasionally, the tracks collapse under their own ambitions, but much of HII simply tears along, pushing acid-jazz and street-level beats together. It's a fascinating, invigorating listen that more than makes the case that in the late '90s international hip-hop can be more exciting than the homegrown kind. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine minimize Album Information
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