Some Words on Sean Price's Imperius Rex
Duck Down Records In the mid-90s, I was a high schooler. I feel a certain way about the hip hop I allow myself to consume. Summer 1996, Heltah Skeltah released Nocturnal, an album unlike anything I had heard to that time and I was a fan. At the time, I thought Rockness was the better lyricist of the two but they were both entertaining enough as a collective to hold my attention. I HAD to have listened to that album every day senior year. Things happened, the duo split for a while and Sean Price started making solo albums... Great. Fucking. Solo. Albums. He was new to many, but simply getting better at his craft to the ones who remembered. Unfortunately, on August 8, 2015 Sean passed in his sleep. On the second anniversary of his passing, we get his second posthumous release, titled Imperius Rex. The conventional album release day used to be Tuesdays but that was abandoned by most a couple of years ago. I am going to go with the coincidence of the release da