
Knowledge the Pirate compares his latest plate, the Roc Marciano produced
Round Table, to Elijah Muhammed's dietary instruction book series
How to Eat to Live. I humbly compare it to the reality competition TV series
The Traitors. Knowledge the Pirate is Alan Cumming dressed as Vincent Price in
The Haunted Palace, and Roc Marciano, hopping layers of this half-baked metaphor as once he slid off through a time warp, is Roger Corman. Betrayal lurks around every corner. Each night, a faithful is murdered. Life and death are debated over the table
, and only after the final vote is cast is one's true character revealed. "But Long Island Rap Records, how can a site of such refined standards, lower itself to the level of such dross?" Well, I'll tell you. Much like
The Round Table,
The Traitors is all about game theory. Don't dismiss it as game. It's a matter of mathematics, the application of universal laws to decision making and deceit. There's a certain strange purity in the proceedings, and the ill gothic costuming to match.