| | Ill Bill: What's Wrong with Bill?: Pitchfork Record Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) |
 | | The de facto leader of underground luminaries Non-Phixion, Ill Bill has steadily gained notoriety over the span of the last decade, and with this release, is the first of his crew to unleash a solo record. |
 | | Ill Bill seems to have two major precursors: Nas, and early Eminem, the latter of which is evident in his gruesome subject matter and aggressive, multi-syllabic lyrical style-- even his punchlines are macabre ("hotter than a crematorium"). |
 | | Additionally (and ironically), it seems Ill Bill's most creative song concepts fare the worst: "Alien Workshop" is a painfully rehashed X-Files rerun and "The Anatomy of a School Shooting" fails not due to its expected tastelessness, but in the way it refuses to expound on its tired subject matter. |
| www.pitchforkmedia.com /article/record_review/18774/Ill_Bill_Whats_Wrong_with_Bill (679 words) |