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On his full-length debut on Om Records, the St. Louis MC/producer Black Spade messes with an eclectic mix of samples (from classic jazz and big band to 1960s soul, classic rock, and psychedelic funk) to bring listeners a unique sound that breaks evenly between nostalgic and futuristic. Lyrically, Spade works his smooth voice and stuttering flow--often breaking into tongue-in-cheek melodies--to paint off-kilter love songs and soulful ghetto ballads. TO SERVE WITH LOVE is arguably the hottest hip-hop debut album of '08.The Wire (p.63) - "[W]oozy, unhinged Dilla-like soul-funk, an unpredictable, unpretentious flow, plus enough crack and boom and bap..." Black Spade To Serve With Love Songs | 1. | To Serve With Love (Intro) |
| 2. | To Serve With Love |
| 3. | Her Perfume She Wore |
| 4. | Love's Right Here |
| 5. | She's the One |
| 6. | Evil Love |
| 7. | Lavish Life |
| 8. | Actioneer |
| 9. | Ship Has Sailed, The |
| 10. | Good Crazy |
| 11. | Revolutionary Bullshit |
| 12. | Half That's Never Been Told, The |
| 13. | Tale of 32 |
| 14. | Not For the Bullshit |
| 15. | Enjoy the Experience |
| 16. | True Friends |
| 17. | Genius in You, The |
| 18. | Where I'm Coming From |
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$7.49 Diamond D had quietly provided some exciting production work and made strides within the rap music industry and community throughout the early '90s, but his name didn't become immediately recognizable until his classic guest appearance rapping on A Tribe Called Quest's "Show Business" ("Take it from Diamond/It's like mountain climbing/When it comes to rhyming/You gotta put your time in"), off their masterful second album, The Low End Theory. Even amid vintage verses by such lauded hip-hop company as Tribe's Q-Tip and Phife and Brand Nubian's Lord Jamar and Sadat X, something about Diamond D's forthright and rock-solid, but totally laid-back, style stood out. Hip-hop heads waiting to hear more from him were rewarded with a veritable wealth of treasures when Stunts, Blunts & Hip-Hop, Diamond D's debut album, was released the following year. The album instantly became -- and remains -- something of an underground masterpiece. Stunts is a hugely sprawling, amorphous thing. Nearly 70 minutes would generally seem far too long for a hip-hop album to sustain any ...
| | Beatnuts CD (1994)
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$9.89 The Beatnuts' first full-length album is as pure a document of raw, hardcore hip-hop circa 1994 as is possible to get. No pop hooks, no slick production, no ballads or lyrics about money and girls. The individual cuts don't really stand out, instead flowing seamlessly into a powerful whole. It's almost a period piece, given the way that hip-hop eventually gave way, as the '90s progressed, to the excessive bling-bling of the Puff Daddy era, but it also sounds strikingly minimalist and stark, which prevents it from sounding too dated. In retrospect, with its emphasis on lean, jazzy beats and lyrical flow, it can clearly be viewed as a harbinger of the underground hip-hop of the late '90s (such as Company Flow and the Def Jux crew), all the more ironic since at the time the Beatnuts were widely considered just a half-step removed from the mainstream, which is not to say that it is dry and arch, since any album with cuts like "Lick the Pussy" and "Psycho Dwarfs" isn't attempting to be overly thoughtful or intellectual. Even if the lack of lyrical ...
| | Freestyle Fellowship Innercity Griots CD (1993)
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$8.15 The Underground Railroad Band: Cockney "O" Dire, Archie, Volume 10, Spoon (rap vocals); Marvin McDaniel (acoustic guitar); Rodney Millon (guitar); Randall Willis (flute, saxophone); Jon Williams (trumpet); Tom Ralls (trombone); Onaje Murray (vibraphone); Christy Smith (acoustic & electric bass); Kevin O'Neal (acoustic bass); Robert Harris, Alfred Threats (bass); JMD (bass, drums, tympani, percussion); Don Littleton (percussion).
Contains 9 samples, including "F-Encounter" (Bootsie Collins/R. Ford/R.L. Evans/George Clinton Jr.), "It's A Musical" (C. Small/Bootsie Collins/George Clinton Jr.), "Beaux J. Poo Boo" and "The Lovers" (as recorded by Les McCann) and "Tenor Song" (Dizzy Gillepie).
If success were measured in terms of influence rather than units sold, INNERCITY GRIOTS would truly be ghetto platinum. Not only did ...
| | Pete Rock Petestrumentals CD (2001) (Import) United Kingdom
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$8.99 This is an enhanced audio CD which contains regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files.
PeteStrumentals follows Jay Dee's Welcome 2 Detroit as the second offering in BBE's producer spotlight "Beat Generation" series. If you approach Pete Rock's joint as a song-oriented pop album, you may feel disappointed. Only two tracks ("Cake" and "Nothin' Lesser - Jamie's Mix") feature MCs and the repetitive, consistently mid-tempo beats get somewhat monotonous by the end of most tracks. If you approach the album as a radical work of sonic architecture, you may also feel disappointed, since Rock's relatively old-school sensibility isn't likely to make you hear music in a completely new way. But if you approach PeteStrumentals on its own terms -- as a laid-back collection of atmospheric beats ideal for late-night chilling or freestyling over -- then you may enjoy Pete Rock's soulful funk-jazz grooves, which are first rate for this ...
| | Main Source Breaking Atoms CD (1991)
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$9.55 Main Source's debut album, Breaking Atoms, is one of the quintessential cult classics in hip-hop history. Underappreciated compared to peers like A Tribe Called Quest, Gang Starr, or even Brand Nubian, the album probably doesn't get wider acclaim because it was recorded for the ill-fated Wild Pitch label, and thus remained out of print for much of the time its reputation was spreading. Group focal point the Large Professor is a fine rapper, but the album's legend rests more on his production -- he debuts one of the most influential styles in hip-hop here, popularizing a number of now widely imitated techniques. Luckily, you don't have to know how to operate an SP-1200, or exactly what panning, chopping, and filtered basslines are, to appreciate the vibrant-sounding results. His intricately constructed tracks are filled with jazz and soul samples, layered percussion, off-kilter sampling effects, and an overall sonic richness. That's doubtlessly enhanced by the presence of ...
| | Main Source F*CK What You Think CD (1994)
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$9.59 Even if Main Source's lineup had remained the same for the follow-up to Breaking Atoms, the group would've had trouble following it up. That's not all the group had working against it. Most significantly, in a very gutsy move, K-Cut and Sir Scratch opted to keep Main Source running after the departure of Large Professor, easily their greatest asset as both an MC and a producer. They replaced him with the rougher-sounding Mikey D. and didn't return with F*ck What You Think until a full three years after Breaking Atoms impacted the hip-hop world. Needless to say, the group is much less of a force without their original member; while the in-house production isn't lacking by any stretch, it simply doesn't have the same degree of liveliness as Breaking Atoms, and there's nothing that makes Mikey D. a distinctive MC. Perhaps it's unfair to judge this record against a landmark that has such a different element to it; if this had been a debut by a new group, it probably would've gone down better. But, by retaining the name Main Source, K-Cut and Sir ...
| | Barbra Streisand Greatest Hits CD (1970)
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$8.99 Barbra Streisand made her first album for Columbia Records in ...
| | Polygon Window Surfing On Sine Waves CD (1992)
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| | Todd Stakem CD (2002)
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| | Feargal Sharkey CD (1985)
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| | Freche Maedchen Kein Tanz Kein Kuss CD (2007) (Import)
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| | Jg Mind Of Jason Gilbert CD (2007)
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| | B Shags In Tune CD (2008)
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| | Webbie Savage Life 2 CD (2008)
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| | Marvin Gaye Bits & Pieces About CD (2008) (Import)
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