Welcome to My Dream by MC 900 Ft. Jesus

Welcome to My Dream, the second album from MC 900 Ft. Jesus, came out on Nettwerk in 1991, and it sounds like nothing else from that year's hip-hop. The man behind the name is Mark Griffin, a classically trained musician based in Dallas, and he mixes rap with jazz and socially conscious lyrics, murmuring and muttering over prowling, jazzy grooves and loops that feel like they were lifted from a noir soundtrack.

"The City Sleeps" is the creepy, slow-burning centerpiece and the track alternative radio latched onto; U2 even sampled it for "Daddy's Gonna Pay for Your Crashed Car" on Zooropa. "Killer Inside Me" takes its cue from the Jim Thompson pulp novel of the same name, and "Falling Elevators" later showed up in a 1996 Levi's commercial, "Washroom", directed by Tarsem Singh. It followed Hell with the Lid Off, and One Step Ahead of the Spider came next.

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