Multiple Personality Disorder is an appropriate title for this CD because it finds Los Angeles resident
Zane wearing two different hats. One minute, he's a hardcore West Coast rapper whose influences range from Eazy-E and
DJ Quik to
Cypress Hill and
House of Pain. But the next minute, he has no problem turning around and getting into a rap-metal groove a la
Rage Against the Machine or
Limp Bizkit. And the rapper/singer is equally convincing in both areas;
Multiple Personality Disorder never sounds forced or contrived, and
Zane comes across as someone who really does hold hardcore rap and rap-metal in equally high regard.
Zane, of course, is hardly the first person to combine rap and metal, but very few of the headbangers who jumped on the rap-metal bandwagon in the late 1990s or early 2000s have the sort of rapping technique that
Zane brings to "Who Got Tha Throne," "New Shit," and the single "Falling Down" (which are among the tracks that are pure L.A. hip-hop and don't have the metal influence).
Zane isn't merely a rock singer who also raps; he's a hip-hop MC who happens to like rap-metal a lot.
Zane, in fact, is a better rapper than singer, although he manages to get his points across when he sings. A very promising effort,
Multiple Personality Disorder is easily recommended to both hip-hop and rap-metal enthusiasts. ~ Alex Henderson