Beck's debut, Mellow Gold, was a glorious sampler of different musical styles, careening from lo-fi hip-hop to folk, moving back through garage rock and arty noise. It was an impressive album, but the parts didn't necessarily stick together. The two albums that followed within months of Mellow Gold -- Stereopathetic Soul Manure and One Foot in the Grave -- were specialist releases that disproved the idea that Beck was simply a one-hit wonder. But Odelay, the much-delayed proper follow-up to Mellow Gold, proves the depth and scope of his talents. Odelay fuses the disparate strands of Beck's music -- folk, country, hip-hop, rock & roll, blues, jazz, easy listening, rap, pop -- into one dense sonic collage. Songs frequently morph from one genre to another, seemingly unrelated genre -- bursts of noise give way to country songs with hip-hop beats, easy listening melodies transform into a weird fusion of pop, jazz, and cinematic strings; it's genre-defying music that refuses to see boundaries.
All of the songs on Odelay are rooted in simple forms -- whether it's blues ("Devil's Haircut"), country ("Lord Only Knows," "Sissyneck"), soul ("Hotwax"), folk ("Ramshackle"), or rap ("High 5 [Rock the Catskills]," "Where It's At") -- but they twist the conventions of the genre. "Where It's At" is peppered with soul, jazz, funk, and rap references, while "Novacane" slams from indie rock to funk and back to white noise. With the aid of the Dust Brothers, Beck has created a dense, endlessly intriguing album overflowing with ideas. Furthermore, it's an album that completely ignores the static, nihilistic trends of the American alternative/independent underground, creating a fluid, creative, and startlingly original work.
1. Devil's Haircut 2. Hotwax 3. Lord Only Knows 4. The New Pollution 5. Derelict 6. Novacane 7. Jack-Ass 8. Where It's At 9. Minus 10. Sissyneck 11. Readymade 12. High 5 (Rock The Catskills) 13. Ramshackle
"Born like this/ Into this/ As the chalk faces smile/ As Mrs Death laughs/ As the elevators break/ As political landscapes dissolve." The first album from Daniel Dumile's latest pseudonym takes its name from Charles Bukowski's poem Dinosauria, We, whose opening lines are sampled here on the B-movie apocalypse of Cellz. The late writer's tale of "hospitals which are so expensive it's cheaper to die... a country where the jails are full and the madhouses closed" functions both as a prophesy of doom and a shadow biography of DOOM.
Although Born Like This is his first album in four years, little has changed. "Same guy, same disguise, sick aim, eye stare," as he says on Rap Ambush, a journey into the heart of a metaphorical insurgent hurling RPGs ("rhyme-propelled grenades"). He still likes to make life difficult. Choruses are a long-standing no-go, tracks veer off at right angles or skid abruptly to a halt. Guests Raekwon and Ghostface are chosen not for their pulling power, but their knack for submerging identity beneath an assumed character. Production duties are mostly split between DOOM and Jake One, fashioning a sound ripe with piercing organs and violins pitched around the point where Frankenstein's monster hauls himself out of his surgical straps.
After a period of workaholism that threatened overkill, followed by a period of hibernation, Born Like This finds DOOM back to his scalpel-tongued, scatter-mouthed best. KMD couldn't have ended worse; Daniel Dumile's renaissance could scarcely have gone better. As the closing lines of Dinosauria, We have it: "Born out of that/ The sun still hidden there/ Awaiting the next chapter."
1. Supervillain Intro 2. Gazillion Ear 3. Ballskin 4. Yessir (ft. Raekwon) 5. Absolutely 6. Rap Ambush 7. Lightworks 8. Batty-Boys 9. Angelz (ft. Tony Starks) 10. Cellz 11. Still Dope (ft. Empress Sharhh) 12. Microwave Mayo 13. More Rhymin' (ft. Kurious) 14. That's That 15. Suppervillainz 16. Bump's Message 17. Thank Ya
"The World Is Yours" is the third single from rapper Nas' debut album Illmatic, released a month after the album. The song was produced by Pete Rock—who also sings the song's chorus—and it samples "I Love Music" by Ahmad Jamal and "It's Yours" by T La Rock. A remix of the song was produced by Q-Tip featuring similar but new lyrics; both it and the original were released by Columbia Records as singles, and promoted with music videos. It reached #13 on the Hot Rap Singles chart in 1994 and is now lauded as one of Nas' best tracks.
The song and the video play homage to Scarface. In which the title is about the lead character Tony Montana seeing a blimp that says "The World Is Yours" and the video is a scene from the movie where Tony gets in to a big argument with his wife and then shortly later his best friend.
A-Side "The World Is Yours" "The World Is Yours" (Instrumental)
B-Side "The World Is Yours" (Tip Mix) "The World Is Yours" (Tip Mix Instrumental)
Notorious is the soundtrack to the 2009 biopic film Notorious based on rapper The Notorious B.I.G. / Biggie Smalls. It features mostly his previously heard songs, inclusively the ones harder to find such as "Party and Bullshit" and "One More Chance (Remix)".
It includes two original songs, "Brooklyn Go Hard" which is also from Jay-Z's album The Blueprint 3 and a tribute to Biggie by Jadakiss and widow Faith Evans called "Letter To B.I.G.", as well as three unreleased demos by Biggie and a song with his son CJ.
I Have one thing to say and one reason why i had to get this "Party And Bullshit". This is a decent complication and a great introduction if your new to The Notorious B.I.G and no doubt far better than the pathetic excuse of a greatest released in 2007.
1. Notorious Thugs (Featuring Bone Thugs-N-Harmony) 2. Hypnotize 3. Notorious B.I.G (Featuring Lil' Kim And Puff Daddy) 4. Juicy 5. Party And Bullshit 6. Warning 7. One More Chance/Stay With Me (Remix) 8. Jay-Z - Brooklyn Go Hard (Featuring Faith Evans) 9. Jadakiss - Letter To B.I.G (Featuring Faith Evans) 10. Kick In The Door 11. What's Beef? 12. The World Is Filled...(Featuring Too Short And Puff Daddy) 13. One More Chance/The Legacy (Remix) (Featuring CJ Wallace And Faith Evans) 14. The Notorious Theme (Composed By Danny Elfman) 15. Microphone Murderer (Demo) 16. Guaranteed Raw (Demo) 17. Love No Hoe (Original Demo Version)
Much like many of the later Wu-Tang albums, Supreme Clientele is not produced entirely by The RZA. He only composed four tracks, while other lesser known producers contributed the remaining beats. However RZA did oversee the overall production and mixing of the songs and skits on the album, being listed as executive producer along with Ghostface. The album's acclaim is notable considering that most of the Wu-Tang's second solo releases were considered disappointments, while several critics consider Supreme Clientele to be superior to Ghostface's debut Ironman.
The album contained a diss toward then-up-and-coming 50 Cent. In the "Clyde Smith" skit Wu-tang member Raekwon, with the use of voice distortion, plays the role of a man named Clyde Smith. Clyde Smith addresses 50 Cent and his 1999 song "How to Rob," in which 50 Cent jokingly rhymes about how he'll rob many popular music artists, including RZA, Raekwon, and Ghostface. The skit drew a response from 50 Cent, who would later dis Wu-tang in an underground mixtape freestyle.
As, one of the greatest solo Wu-Tang efforts, Ghostface would continue to make albums to some acclaim, but Supreme Clientele was considered the best of his works. The RZA's production was highly praised and the lyrical ability of Ghostface at the time was very impressive.
1. Intro 2. Nutmeg - (featuring RZA) 3. One 4. Saturday Nite 5. Ghost Deini - (featuring Superb) 6. Apollo Kids - (featuring Raekwon) 7. Grain, The - (featuring RZA) 8. Buck 50 - (featuring Cappadonna/Method Man/Masta Killah/Redman) 9. Mighty Healthy 10. Woodrow The Base Head - (skit) 11. Stay True - (featuring 60 Second Assassin) 12. We Made It - (featuring Superb) 13. Stroke Of Death 14. Iron's Theme (Intermission) 15. Malcolm 16. Who Would You Fuck - (skit) 17. Child's Play 18. Cherchez LaGhost 19. Wu Banga 101 - (featuring GZA/Cappadonna/Masta Killah/Raekwon) 20. Clyde Smith - (skit) 21. Iron's Theme (Conclusion)
Del Tha Funkee Homosapien may be the cousin of gangsta rap icon Ice Cube, who was the executive producer on this debut, but it would be hard to imagine two more dissimilar artists. Yet, just as Ice Cube helped popularize and legitimize West Coast gangsta rap with NWA, Del helped lay the foundation for what would become California's thriving underground scene with his seminal debut, I Wish My Brother George Was Here.
Predating similarly seminal debuts from like-minded artists like tha Alkaholiks, Souls of Mischief, Freestyle Fellowship, and Pharcyde, Brother George takes the Parliament-Funkadelic-derived G-funk sound popularized by NWA and spins it into exciting new directions, replacing gangsta rap's nihilism with a healthy sense of the absurd.
1. What Is a Booty 2. Mistadobalina 3. The Wacky World of Rapid Transit 4. Pissin' on Your Steps 5. Dark Skin Girls 6. Money for Sex 7. Ahonetwo, Ahonetwo 8. Dr. Bombay 9. Sunny Meadowz 10. Sleepin' on My Couch 11. Hoodz Come in Dozens 12. Same Ol' Thing 13. Ya Lil' Crumbsnatchers
Panacea’s sophomore effort, The Scenic Rout, is a journey. Yes it is a hip hop LP, but more than that, it is a surreal, deeply musical and incredibly unique concept album. From start to finish, the listener is able to follow the evolution of not only the character on the journey, but of Panacea as artists. The result is something so new that its creativity will intrigue even today’s most jaded listeners.
1. Intro 2. The Scenic Route 3. Flashback to Stardom (ft. Raheem DeVaughn) 4. Pops Said 5. Epiphany 6. Between Earth and Sky 7. Bubble 8. Square 1 9. Blue Ice 10. Walk in the Park 11. Aim High 12. Katana 13. One Shine 14. Outro
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