There and Back by Sentence

His skill on stage has been honed by nearly a decade of live performances, including tours to the Northwest at least three times every year. Besides headlining on tours, Sentence has also performed with many of hip hop’s legends, such as KRS One, Aceyalone, Atmosphere, Aesop Rock, Lyrics Born, RJD2, Black Sheep, Mr. Lif, Beat Junkies, Visionaries, Raekwon, Jungle Brothers, Blackalicious, Oldominion, Typical Cats, and many, many more.

Sentence’s track record also includes producing the first track that independent hip hop superstars Slug (of Atmosphere) and Sage Francis ever appeared on together. He has also been featured on multiple compilations, including CD Baby’s “Thick Cuts of Beats,” Radio 1190’s “Local Shakedown,” and Paris, France’s DJ Pray One’s “F*ck the Radio.”

“There and Back,” Sentence’s most recent CD, was met with superb reviews and phenomenal acclaim by the public. The album received praise from sources as high up as URB Magazine, who wrote “His gusto and advocacy for the hip-hop ethos is hard to resist...” College radio was also impressed and “There and Back” reached the Top 40 Hip Hop charts on CMJ.

Learning to be successful in a place like Denver, Sentence acquired guerrilla tactics and has learned to not only adapt to his surroundings, but to make them into as rich an environment as possible. His music is receiving more and more notoriety and doesn’t show any signs of slowing.

----------URB Magazine Review - May 2005/ vol.15 no.126----------

With a snappy delivery that falls somewhere between old-school affinity of PUTS' Double K and Aesop Rock's syllabic fluency, Denver MC Sentence makes an imposing presence for a cat most of us wouldn't know from Paragraph. His gusto and advocacy for the hip-hop ethos is hard to resist, too.

3 1/2 out of 5 stars

----------KaffieneBuzz.com review - 3/25/05----------

Hip-hop and rap are friends again. Sentence reigns from Denver with a

real mix of real turntables, real beats, real samples and real rap.

It's refreshing to hear something so classic.

There and Back is what it says: a trip back to the time when rap was

built in a basement with live scratches (cred to DJ Thought), when

lyrics were intense but weren't afraid of bordering on funny, even

cheesy-in any case summary pronouncements of both the miniscule facts

and the overarching trials of life as the MC knows it.

Funky, jazzy samples and beats as classic as they come, this stuff harks

back to Grandmaster Flash with a notable sharpness that channels

Disposable Heroes. Sentence fearlessly retreads the classic styles that

rap, lately, has almost forgotten; and does it at a time when we could

all use a reminder.

Prevailing poignancy emerges at track eight. "With You" is modern day

underground along the lines of Murs and Slug; and the album reigns on

in modernity.

To top this off, Sentence has enough ferocity in his battle lyrics to

make him a modern threat with a classic knowledge. Take a lesson and

watch your back; Sentence has been smart enough to watch his.

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-Jef Hoskins, March 25, 2005

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