Sole Ruthless Criticism Of Everything Existing CD

2012 release, Sole's first solo album in seven years. The album is about resistance, power, global revolution and philosophy. The title is lifted from a Marx letter by the same name. This avant-garde hip-hop album takes the rap-as-critical-theory aesthetic that Sole has developed over the past few years on the Nuclear Winter mix tapes to a more concrete and original musical format. Following up on the critical success of Hello Cruel World, a Ruthless Criticism is the next logical step in this development of rap music; it is challenging and sometimes poppy while still pushing things in a more experimental, belligerent and militant direction. Like Sole's previous solo albums, a Ruthless Criticism of Everything Existing has a multitude of collaborations with various producers, and features Bus driver, Alias, Open Mike Eagle, Alias, Ryan Hemsworth, Ausker, Factor, Man Mantis and others.

1. Non Workers of the World 2. Denver Nights 3. The Void Which Binds 4. Assad Is Dead 5. Never Work 6. Lastearth 7. Animal 8. The Untouchables 9. Letter to a Young Rapper 10. The Inferno 11. The Definition of Slave 12. Young Sole 13. Ruthless