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Keep it moving hi tek12/8/2023 ![]() There’s plenty of ground to cover from North to South, East to West, and Tek digs into it all with this album. Hi-Tek uses “Hi-Teknology 2” to redefine your expectations about who he is as a producer and what hip-hop itself really is. You’d expect Hi-Tek to link up with Talib Kweli on “Can We Go Back,” but would you expect him to get down with The Game on “1-800-Homicide?” Did you ever imagine that combination? Hi-Tek did and it works beautifully, with Dion singing on the hook while Tip vows they’ll “stand out like the sound of a clarinet.” He’s right – this subtle and jazzy track reimagines what hip-hop can be and brings harmony in more ways than one. Hi-Tek goes East to west on “Keep it Moving” by bringing Q-Tip and Kurupt together on the same track. As a result “Hi-Teknology 2” is a broad swath of hip-hop cloth with a lot of different styles sewn into the fabric. Babygrande put no limitations on Hi-Tek to link up with the best of the best, and Hi-Tek put no limitations on himself in what kind of beats they would lace him with. That’s a fair argument to make considering Hi-Tek has moved on to Babygrande Records, and isn’t necessarily as limited to working strictly with underground artists or those in the grasp of his label. To him this isn’t just a sequel, it’s an upgrade. Therefore to be fair to the man we should note that even though online vendors and CD rippers don’t recognize it as such, the “2” in the title of “Hi-Teknology 2” is actually a RAISED 2, meaning it’s Hi-Teknology SQUARED or if you prefer Hi-Teknology to the second power. I suppose that’s why when Hi-Tek finally released a new sequel five years after the original “Hi-Teknology” album, he realized he might be perceived as being a little bit behind the curve. I remember when 2400 baud was considered blazing fast for a dial-up connection, nowadays even 56K seems like a dinosaur and if you’re not rolling with high speed broadband internet connections you’re being left behind on the information superhighway. These days even a small MP3 can be anywhere from 4-10 times that size. Bill Gates is reputed to have said back in the 1980’s that 640K would be enough memory for everybody. Technology accelerates at a rate none of us can anticipate.
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