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“Widely considered one of the best, if not the very best, MC working today, late of the duo Organized Konfusion and the man behind the underground classic “Internal Affairs”, this Queens-bred New York rapper PHAROAHE MONCH will make a early awaited return to our shores this summer so get yourself up to speed for his tongue-twisting, fast paced rap.
From his early days in Organized Konfusion to the Rawkus records era, PHAROAHE MONCH has stayed a vital, relevant artist. Whatever your rap flavour, Monch will make you bounce hard to his high-energy beats, or make you sit quietly, trying to digest his liquid flow of lyrics as they sail through philosophical narratives, crazy metaphors, sex stories and some of the best rhymes you've ever heard. When those horns start layin' that nasty loop for "Simon Says," you KNOW it's on!.As Stylus Magazine noted about Monch “the mark of a great rapper isn’t what he does with a banging beat, it’s what he does with a mediocre one.”
Monch has worked with a diverse array of artists from Mos Def to Common to Talib Kweli to Busta Rhymes to Linkin Park to M.O.P and more recently with our own Hilltop Hoods on the track “Classic Example” off their latest album.
PHAROAHE MONCH’s live shows encapsulate his obvious talent with words and beats and he was recently part of the Rock The Bells tour. Some of the comments in the live reviews of PHAROAHE MONCH’s 2008 Australian tour with the Good Vibrations Festival included:
“Monch will be immortalized as one of the greatest emcees of all-time.”
“Once the track hit it was pandemonium with fans chanting along to every verse and the now infamous chorus”
“Pharoahe absolutely smashed it”
“On his every command, hands shot up in the air and Monch left the crowd simply begging for more.”
“The crowd erupted as Monch closed with his biggest hit to date, Simon Says”.
Long known as one of hip hop’s most technically skilled and all-around developed MCs you won’t want to miss PHAROAHE MONCH this December when this highly respected hip hop performer comes to Australian to celebrate the much anticipated release of his new album W.A.R. (We Are Renegades).
