The Taste of Rain... Why Kneel (sometimes stylized as The Taste of Rain...Why Kneel[1]) is the only studio album by Deep Puddle Dynamics, a collaboration between Sole, Doseone, Alias, and Slug.

[2] The album received a favorable coverage from URB, Spin, CMJ, and The Wire.

[5] It is part of Cokemachineglow's Top 60 Albums of the 2000s, appearing in the "Honorable Mentions" section.

[6] Michael Endelman of CMJ New Music Monthly said, "these cerebral MCs turn their emotional hang-ups (dejection, alienation, disaffection, etc.)

"[7] Dave Segal of The Stranger called it "one of underground hiphop's most understatedly adventurous documents, both sonically and lyrically".