BY ANDREW PRYOR
Staff Writer
3 stars
Strangeulation is the fourteenth studio album from Aaron Dante Yates, better known as Tech N9ne, and the fifth of his Collabos series, in which Tech N9ne works with anybody and everybody to make music. Every fourth song in the album is named “Strangeulation,” with each having the same beat and featuring a range of artists from Tech N9ne’s record label Strange Music, including more recent additions such as Murs and Ces Cru. Tech N9ne takes a few songs on this album to talk about his personal life, and as always he is not afraid to get a little dark. The song “Fear” talks about a dream that Tech N9ne had of Jesus, and his mother’s psychosis and epilepsy; at the end Tech N9ne says he continues to search for the true higher power. Still, the inclusion of multiple songs about the typical drugs, sex, and money topics drags the album down a bit.
