Tech N9ne-He's a Mental Giant review by John M. Ellison IV

http://ghettopunkrocker.com/blog/2011/06/14/tech-n9ne-hes-a-mental-...

Hey folks, I’m going to share my thoughts on the “He’s a Mental Giant” track off of Tech N9ne’s new album “All 6’s and 7’s.”

Lyrically, Tech N9ne revisits the theme of intellectual bravado with lyrics referring to him as being like “Shaq on stilts” and also a Robert Klein reference.  It’s kind of like an updated version of "Einstein" off of the "Anghellic" album.  Production wise, you have a solid track from Michael "Seven" Summers.  Interesting fact is that the hook for "He's a Mental Giant" is sampled from the 1939 cartoon "Boy Meets Dog" by Walter Lantz.  For anybody that has really paid attention to tracks by “Seven”, this shouldn't be a surprise that he would sample something like "Boy Meets Dog."  For example, on "Welcome to the Midwest" off of the 2006 release “Everready: The Religion”, Seven used a sample of "Sway" by Dean Martin to give the song a kind of Mafioso kind of vibe and on “Bout Ta Bubble” he sampled “Beatbox” by Art of Noise.

Another interesting point about this song is that there has been a video made for this and it premiered on MTV2 on May 28^th, 2011.

In the video, Tech finds himself walking on a brick road through a forest with talking trees.  While on this road, he comes across a more disheveled drunken version of the "Clown", after passing a whorehouse he's accompanied by "King" and the "G" is just standing there looking cool.  While running through the fields, he's stalked by the flying logos.  Unlike his alter egos, Tech is granted access to "Scarlet City" which is a desolate cave that he runs through.  At the end of the tunnel, Tech sees the curtain and pulls it back and sees nothing behind the curtain but a brick wall and backs into a hot air balloon resembling Tech N9ne's "spiky” hair.  Tech realizes that he was in control this whole time and leaves Scarlet City and his egos behind.  Or in other words, it’s pretty much a Strange Music reinterpretation of the "Wizard of Oz."

In closing as a long time Tech N9ne fan, I see the video as a sign of personal growth.  Tech N9ne’s “All 6’s and 7’s” is available now at Best Buy, iTunes and Wal Mart.