Consumer Guide Album

Lyrics Born: Vision Board [Mobile Home, 2022]
Recording in New Orleans to adjust as opposed to update the no-nonsense Oakland forward march that's been his signature groove for a quarter century, the impressively slimmed-down Tom Shimura has new material ready, as has always been his hard-working practice and commercial ticket. Admittedly, I'm a guy who can't resist someone who rhymes "shuttle bus," "double dutch," "honey bun," and "cummerbund," and also a guy who warms to any rapper I'm sure knows the real meaning of "conjugal" even if the word itself doesn't come up. Will he ever be famous? Not as hip-hop judges such things. But his skills are so real he's still making a career of it as he passes 50, and keeping things conjugal in the process. A-