Micranots are an American hip-hop duo from Atlanta, Georgia, formed by rapper Chaka "I Self Divine" Mkali, originally from Los Angeles, California and DJ / producer Kool Akiem Allah, former DJ of MF DOOM. Later I Self Divine will also be part of the group The Dynospectrum together with Slug of Atmosphere, among others. Micranots was originally formed in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1991 and also includes a third member, rapper Truth Maze, then they moved to Atlanta in 1994 when Truth Maze left the group.
In 1996 (other sources indicate 1997) the duo releases what is their first studio work, an independent cassette for Mental Madness Wreckords with notes giving various definitions of this curious duo name, including a couple of acronyms. Around 2000, Big Jus of Company Flow agreed with the group to release their second album and a few years later, the boys arrive at a third effort released under Slug's Rhymesayers Entertainment. The same label re-released Micranots' debut in the early days of 2003 by pressing a CD and meeting the niche audience that I Self Divine and Kool Akiem Allah had managed to create after "Obelisk Movements".
The album could also be released on Chopped Herring Records in 2016 from a series of live sessions for Bobbito & Garcia's show in 1993 and you might not notice a difference, because these fifty-six minutes of material divided into fifteen songs (intro + three skits) are freestyles over jazz rhythms. The rapper's delivery style is average, it's not bad nor good, the rap is on a bland production, several tracks are enjoyable and there are no particularly weak points, nevertheless, the songs are similar and cannot stand out either from each other on the CD or in comparison with the tracks of other artists released in the same period.
[This set of beats] would have been subdued no matter when it came out: these jazz loops and simple rhythms are too soft for the mid nineties, tenuous for the early 2000s when Rhymesayers put them on CD and tiring in case some label reissues this thing thirty years after the original recordings. Non-essential listening, 5/10.
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