Sometimes rules were made to be broken. This is one of those occasions. Although we've moved away from reviewing unreleased tracks, Eternal Life's energetic Since Crush Groove moved me to bring it to light for the masses.

Essentially nothing more than E Life spittin' over Nas' Made You Look, The veteran emcee simply goes full throttle from beginning to end. Hearing this track reminded me of why I fell in love with Hip Hop in the first place. Nothing but heartfelt, unadulterated passion and power. I'm not sayin' that Eternal Life displays mic skillz that leave all others in the dust or that there's even anything extraordinary about the song but I like it for its shear sense of stripped down "love for the game" type slant.

Polished, this ain't. Some things were meant to remain ruff, rugged and raw. This is Hip Hop.

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Review by Funk Wizard Snow
Editor- PhillyHipHop.com
March, 2003