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| | village voice > music > Drunken Tiger The Great Rebirth by Frank Kogan |
 | | Anyway, Drunken Tiger's hip-hop is the real deal, "real" not necessarily meaning "better" but meaning "sounds like real American hip-hop." Wu-Tang Clan is an obvious influence, with a couple of tracks that use a RZA-style simple eerie piano figure, wide reverberating bass, easy flow. |
 | | Drunken Tiger is a rap duo, DJ Shine and Tiger JK, I think from L.A., where they record—but they rap mostly in Korean and the album's out on a Korean label. |
 | | Probably more than the particular style, though, Drunken Tiger gets from Wu-Tang a general sense both that less-is-more and that more-is-more too—which is in fact the general hip-hop aesthetic, which is that you can use any damn sound you want. |
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