I felt that the a wise choice was made on The Martyr to make the album collaboration-heavy, because despite being a fan of Tech's I feel that sometimes he doesn't move far enough from the same tried and tested methods.
Easily, this could have been another preachy collection of tracks with Tech calling out a variety of political regimes and over-excessively spewing the terms 'revolution' and 'conspiracy'
However, I think because of the different styles used by co-artists on some of the tracks it avoids being more of the same, and dare I say innovative when compared to some of his past work.
Would have to also agree with Pete's above point about Tech focusing less upon mutli-syllable words and more upon trying to actually create some sort of flow with his rhymes, which again helps differentiate his latest effort from past issues.
However, in stating this, I didn't feel there were any stand-out tracks as opposed to his previous Revolutionary Volumes and Third World releases.
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