Truth Rising - Reviews and thoughts

yeah, they do not force you to listen about the Truth Movement, the lyrics can fit wider topics, and this is realy great!

And i aggre on the point, that the hip hop thacks that were included in the album, could have been dropped completely Why make half-assed attempts at hip hop, even dirty as fuck, when you can replace them with decent punk metal ones?
Or try, at least, to write lyrics we all know you are capable of.
It just looks like he didn't even try...
Other lyrics are OK, but i wouldn't call them great.


They had a decent dirty hip hop song - crazy legs was very good

he said that song is immature..lmao

Definitely agree that the lyrics are the weakest aspect of the album. There is absolutely nothing original, inventive, or creative about the lyrics at all on this album. Jahred has gotten to the point where he just recycles lyrics from song to song, and not even good ones, and it gets extremely repetitive, not only hearing things you just heard in previous songs, but on other albums several times already. He used to be such a good lyricist. I don't know what the fuck happened. They're lucky the songwriting is so tight this time around or this could've been a disaster.

Yes but that happens to a lot of bands....look at Soulfly, Slayer...or to the bands, that have a few miles of playing and a few records for them.

Agreed Geduliss. The lyrics (especially in self-titled) far outweigh the lyrical substance that is thrown about now.

Also, Bucky Lasek - had a great rhyme, but was cut short and made a bonus song... then why not put greater rhymes on the instrumentals you like? I don't see the logic in this... hwy do they do that, when they clearly have the ability not to?

Most lyrics are not great but I like them much more than on Insomnia and even a few tracks from NWO.

It's good that they sound more universal, you don't neccessarily have to relate them tio the truth movement if you're not into it, might as well be about everyday life.

There is a lot of energy in them, I mean positive energy, not just aggression.

I also noticed a refernce to a Bob Marley song in Takeover "get up, stand up, don't give up the fight" which is really cool as I am a huge fan of Marley

However, I have a question - do you guys notice any differences between the remixed and unmixed versions of the tracks?
Because I don't see any, apart from the guests.

There's only 2 remixes, and I dont see any either. On Takeover it seems as if its just the extra guests.

And on No More Secrets, Jahred gets more into the extra verse, and I notice the guitars in that remix part are added, but other than that, nothing.

i loved the raps, if they werent there it woulndt be (hed)

i love (hed)!

Yeah i agree jahred is a great lyrics-writer. I havent really read the lyrics on this album but previous albums have all been great i think. B2bx has some great lyrics! And they are always catchy and you learn them in notime!

this whole album made me sad
...the lyrics are killing me
theres a few tracks that i like to hear what he says
but its all littered around shit i dont wanna hear at all
i at this point i hate the truth movement theme its corrupted alot of the great things jah has to say

forgive george bush, dont blame obama

that damn bush line gets under my skin everytime hahaahah

fun fact: have you noticed that on the song truth rising, almost every song title of the album is mentioned?

i do agree. i dont no why he didnt open up the raps he got

Truth Rising Live
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmXTKJRo77o&hd=1

@ Ivan yeah i noticed that! Kinda cool. Hes like introducing the whole album there.

MADMANNe wrote:

@ Ivan yeah i noticed that! Kinda cool. Hes like introducing the whole album there.

I also noticed, it makes a really nice intro. And a good track as well, wish it was longer.

what a load of bullshit

i was checking billboard to see how truth rising did, here are the numbers:

Billboard 200: 98

Rock Albums: 26

Independent Albums: 13

Alternative Albums: 14

Hard Rock Albums: 7

How come Truth Rising didn't do better than N. W. O.????? I don't get it

problly cuz there wasnt 3 different versions of truth rising

Gray Fox wrote:

problly cuz there wasnt 3 different versions of truth rising

yeah, i thought the same thing at first, but was there really that many people that bought the 3 versions??? im sure that hed's popularity has grown since the release of n.w.o., and it really shocked me to see those numbers. oh well, fuck billboard.

But it's just the first week, there's a chance it'll get better.
Wonder why there are no other hed albums on billboard charts. Or maybe I just can't find them...?
http://www.billboard.com/#/album/hed-p-e/truth-rising/1445467

edit: billboard website is crap, I get an error every time I want to see something!

They marketed the shit out of NWO, plus the 3 different versions. Lots of people preordered and got all 3 (I know I did).

did the number ever work for nwo? (people that got all three no what i am talking about)

im pretty sure it did i didnt ever actuallly call it but i remember people on here talking about it

i thought those messeges that people left on that number would end up on a cd?

i never called