Cunninlynguists - Dirty Acres (2007)

Some laid back Southern shit. Took me a long time to even give this group a chance (the name is BULLSHIT!). But this is worth it. Some ol' sit on the porch in the country during the hot ass summer drinkin a beer muzik.

1 - Never featuring Big Rube
2 - Valley of Death
3 - Dirty Acres
4 - Kentucky (Interlude)
5 - K.K.K.Y.
6 - Wonderful featuring Devin The Dude
7 - Yellow Lines featuring Phonte and Witchdoctor
8 - The Park (Fresh Air)
9 - Summer's Gone
10 - They Call Me (Interlude)
11 - Gun featuring Sheisty Khrist
12 - Dance For Me
13 - Georgia
14 - Things I Dream
15 - Mexico featuring Club Dub

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Radio 4 - Gotham! (2002)

Dance punk band from Brooklyn with some serious Gang of Four worship going on here.

1. Radio 4 - Our town (3:42)
2. Radio 4 - Start a fire (3:33)
3. Radio 4 - Eyes wide open (3:42)
4. Radio 4 - Dance to the underground (4:52)
5. Radio 4 - Struggle (3:13)
6. Radio 4 - Calling all enthusiasts (3:06)
7. Radio 4 - Save your city (3:08)
8. Radio 4 - Speaking in codes (4:14)
9. Radio 4 - Certain tragedy (3:30)
10. Radio 4 - The movies (4:03)
11. Radio 4 - End of the rope (3:04)
12. Radio 4 - Pipe bombs (6:25)
13. Radio 4 - New disco (2:49)

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Max Roach - We Insist! Max Roach's Freedom Now Suite (1960)

This is powerful music. A civil rights jazz album. YEAH!

01 Driva' Man - Brown, Roach - 5:10
02 Freedom Day - Brown, Roach - 6:02
03 Triptych: Prayer/Protest/Peace - Roach - 7:58
04 All Africa - Brown, Roach - 7:57
05 Tears for Johannesburg - Roach - 9:36

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Scarface - Dopeman Music (2010)

Another one of them 'It's a mixtape not an album' deals (BULLSHIT). If you release it to stores to buy for $10 or whatever, there's no DJ's screamin on it and all the tracks are new.....it's an album, people. Regardless, it's from Mr. Jordan, so it don't let down.

01. Picking Up The Pieces
02. Dopeman Music (Feat. B. James And Monk Kaza)
03. Lyrical Assault (Feat. Malice And Mr. Lo Key)
04. FaSho Money (Skit)
05. Gwap (Feat. B. James And Monk Kaza)
06. Get Lost (Feat. B. James, Monk Kaza, And Rodney Gant)
07. The N Word
08. The Ghetto Report (Feat. B. James And Monk Kaza)
09. 2 The Beat (Feat. B. James And Monk Kaza)
10. Wanted
11. Hustle Game
12. Riff Raff (Skit)
13. In my Blood (Feat. B. James)
14. Bad Man (Feat. Papa Reu)

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John Coltrane - Giant Steps (1959)

Probably as good a starter album as any if you wanna get into jazz.

1. Giant Steps
2. Cousin Mary
3. Countdown
4. Spiral
5. Syeeda's Song Flute
6. Naima
7. Mr. P.C.
8. Giant Steps (Alternate Version 1)
9. Naima (Alternate Version 1)
10. Cousin Mary (Alternate Take)
11. Countdown (Alternate Take)
12. Syeeda's Song Flute (Alternate Take)

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Ornette Coleman - The Shape of Jazz to Come (1959)

Been meaning to check this out for years, since the Refused basically stole the title. Kind of a 'watershed' moment for jazz, the break into avantgarde or free jazz, as I understand it.

01 - Lonely Woman (05:01)
02 - Eventually (04:22)
03 - Peace (09:02)
04 - Focus on Sanity (06:50)
05 - Congeniality (06:47)
06 - Chronology (06:04)

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Charlie Parker & Miles Davis - Bluebird: Legendary Savoy Sessions (1947)

I'm not a jazz connoisseur like I am with hip-hop or hardcore punk, so I'll just say this is good stuff, people, good stuff.

01 - Billie's Bounce
02 - Now's The Time
03 - Meandering
04 - Donna Lee
05 - Chasin' The Bird
06 - Cheryl
07 - Buzzy
08 - Milestones
09 - Little Willie Leaps
10 - Half Nelson
11 - Sippin' At Bells
12 - Another Hair-Do
13 - Blue Bird
14 - Klaunstance
15 - Bird Gets The Worm
16 - Barbados
17 - Ah-Leu-Cha
18 - Constellation
19 - Parker's Mood
20 - Perhaps
21 - Marmaduke
22 - Steeplechase
23 - Merry-Go-Round

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Miles Davis - Bitches Brew (1969)

Got into one of my jazz phases recently, which are usually short and involve either Charlie Parker or Guru's solo stuff and then that's it. But then I heard this. Wow. This is music that almost defies words and description really. This is the kind of stuff I imagine artists listening to, cooped up from the outside world and creating their masterpieces.

Side one

1. "Pharaoh's Dance" (Joe Zawinul) – 20:00

Side two

1. "Bitches Brew" – 26:59

Side three

1. "Spanish Key" – 17:29
2. "John McLaughlin" – 4:26

Side four

1. "Miles Runs the Voodoo Down" – 14:04
2. "Sanctuary" (Shorter) – 10:52


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Kurupt - Streetlights (2010)

It's with great hesitation that I post this or even listen to it. Kurupt probably holds the unofficial title of 'MC Who Fell Off The Worse". I pretty much gave up on him in 2005, and that was after years of decline. Maybe its because its gettin' warmer out, but thought I'd give his brand of West Coast gangsta shit another try.

1. Intro
2. Im Burnt (Ft. Problem)
3. Questions (Ft. Uncle Chucc)
4. In Gotti We Trust (Ft. Xzibit)
5. Face Down (Ft. J. Black, Tone, Terrace Martin)
6. Yessir
7. All That I Want (Ft. Snoop Dogg, J. Black)
8. Im Drunk (Ft. J. Black)
9. Scape (Ft. Terrace Martin, Virgina Slim, Big Tri)
10. Riot In The Club
11. Im The Man (Ft. J. Black, Jah Free)
12. Im Burnt (Remix) (Ft. Snoop Dogg, Roscoe, Problem)
13. Streetlights (Ft. Tone)
14. Bounce, Rock, Skate (Kurupted Mix) (Ft. Dj Drama, Snoop Dogg,Dj Quick, Terrace Martin)

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WC- Guilty By Affliation (2007)

1/3 of Westside Connection, the dude who brought c-walkin to the mainstream, etc. This was pretty good, although not sure I believe Ice Cube really produced the whole album.

1. This Is Los Angeles
2. West Coast Voodoo (Feat. The Game)
3. Jack And The Bean Stalk
4. Paranoid
5. Guilty By Affiliation
6. Dodgeball (Feat. Snoop Dogg & Butch Cassidy)
7. Keep It 100
8. Crazy Toones 4 President
9. If You See A Bad Bitch
10. Look At Me
11. Side Dick
12. 80's Babies (Feat. Ice Cube)
13. Gang Injunctions
14. Addicted To It

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Tha Alkaholiks - 21 & Over (1993)

Never really listened to these guys so I thought I'd finally check em out, after 13 years of being aware of them. This a good early 90s West Coast one, with Muggs/Sir Jinx type beats that were pretty prevalent back then.

01. Likwit (Feat. King Tee)
02. Only When I'm Drunk
03. Last Call
04. Can't Tell Me Shit
05. Turn Tha Party Out (Feat. Lootpack)
06. Bullshit (Feat. King Tee)
07. Soda Pop (Feat. Field Trip)
08. Make Room
09. Mary Jane
10. Who Dem Niggas (Feat. Threat)

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Celly Cell - Killa Kali (1996)

It's hard for me to believe that this came in 1996. This came into my collection around 2002 and I assumed it was from 93-94, but I guess when I listen to it now it makes sense. That was around the time Mobb was gettin bigger in the Bay Area and the West Coast as a whole was moving towards a more computerized sound.

1. Round 2 (Intro)
2. What U Niggaz Thought
3. 4 tha Scrilla (Feat. E-40 & B-Legit)
4. It's Goin' Down
5. Can't Tell Me Shit
6. Tha Bullet
7. Red Rum (Feat. Spice 1)
8. Skanlezz Call
9. Scanlezz Azz Butcher
10. Remember Where You Came From
11. Killa Kali
12. Playerizm
13. Funk Season

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Little Brother - The Listening (2003)

As a nearly self-identified former backpacker, I know this is blasphemy, but I never really listened to 'The Listening'. I don't know what happened. In the summer of 2005, 'The Minstrel Show' and 'The Chitlin Circuit 1.5' were in full rotation, but I never really got to this one, and haven't since....until recently. It's pretty good. Not sure if I like it more than TMS, but it's close...

1. Morning
2. Groupie Pt. 2
3. For You
4. Speed
5. What Ever You Say
6. Make Me Hot - (interlude)
7. Yo-Yo, The
8. Shorty On The Lookout
9. Love Joint Revisited
10. So Fabulous
11. Way You Do It, The
12. Roy Lee Producer Extraordinaire - (interlude)
13. Getup, The
14. Away From Here
15. Nobody But You
16. Home - (interlude)
17. Nighttime Maneuvers
18. The Listening

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Above the Law - Uncle Sam's Curse (1994)

Kind of legendary album, both because of its quality and because of the fact its been out of print for years. Not sure about now, but the CD used to go for $150. I happened to get a hold of the tape, other wise, I woulda never heard this until the download age.

1. Return of the Real Shit
2. Set Free
3. Kalifornia
4. Concreat Jungle
5. Rain Be for Rain Bo
6. Everything Will Be Alright
7. Black Superman
8. The 'G' in Me
9. Uncle Sam's Curse
10. One Time Two Many
11. Who Ryde
12. Gangsta Madness

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Andre Nickatina - KHAN! The Me Generation

Nickatina is one of them hella slept on folks from the Bay. Personally, I ain't think his lyrics are all that great, but he has a wicked flow and can make a beat seem better cuz of that. This is his new album, and I been bumpin it when I got time to listen to music (gettin rare).

01 1-Flight (ft. Lawrence W)
02 Nicky's (Strip Club)
03 Blind Genius
04 9 To 5 (ft. Too Short)
05 My Name Is Money
06 Popeye's Certified
07 Tony Montana
08 Big Cars Big House
09 Jellybean Colored Suits
10 Pimp-Hop (ft. Paul Wall)
11 Cocaine
12 Waffle House

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Jadakiss - The Champ Is Here Part 3 (2010)

The first was bananas, the second one was meh. Hopefully the 3rd one is aight.

01. Jadakiss - Intro
02. Jadakiss - Bang
03. Jadakiss - The Champ Speaks 1
04. Jadakiss - Still Hatin
05. Jadakiss - You Will Remember Me
06. Jadakiss - Interlude
07. Jadakiss - Soldier Survivors (Feat. Nas & Sheek Louch) [Prod. By DJ Green Lantern]
08. Jadakiss - The Champ Speaks 2
09. Jadakiss - All Falls Down [Prod. By DJ Absolute]
10. Jadakiss - Who Shot Ya
11. Jadakiss - She Likes Me (Feat. Nicki Minaj)
12. Jadakiss - Top 5 Dead Or Alive (Feat. Styles P)
13. Jadakiss - Pussie (Feat. Uncle Murda & Bully) [Prod. By DJ Green Lantern]
14. Jadakiss - Here I Go (Feat. Yo Gotti)
15. Jadakiss - They Dont Know [Prod. By Tuneheadz]
16. Jadakiss - Allergic To Losing (Feat. Masspike Miles & L.A. Darkman) [Prod. By DJ Green Lantern]
17. Jadakiss - Slow Down (Green Mix)
18. Jadakiss - Im Ill (Green Mix)
19. Jadakiss - Coach Of The Year (Feat. D-Block)
20. Jadakiss - Its Whatever (Feat. Uncle Murda & Tone) [Prod. By DJ Green Lantern]
21. Jadakiss - Lets Git It (Feat. Uncle O & Meek Mill)
22. Jadakiss - Somehow Some Way
23. Jadakiss - HBO Boxing Interlude
24. Jadakiss - Celebration!

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