What would make me buy the album/support them?
I know nada about them
They got lyrics?
They got beats?

Do your best
*and any response that says "Buy the albums" will transform me into an internet thug...*

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gift of gab has a really distinctive and creative flow. good beats, some turntablism, good hooks...
their extended crew is just as distinctive, lateef and lyrics born and some other folks. just real unique, real tight rhymes and sometimes catchy as hell ish (deception!).
plus they have one of the illest songs in the past decade in alphabet aerobics, when gab constructs an entire song with alliteration going through the alphabet. oh, and the tempo increases so by the end the spitting is just nasty.
when i saw them in northampton with del they had a bangin asian singer performing with them too, anyone know who that is?
man, all that shit doesn't even matter, cuz you could hate blackalicious and still buy that album just off the guest appearances, good lord. it should tell you something when all those cats are down to work with a group. that's my recommendation, i hope you're sold.
there are few groups i like that much.
-phil harmonix.
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debut album out 03.10.02

until you hear "Chemical Calisthenics"

daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaamn!

They were just here tonight (no Xcel tho ) and Gab absolutely ripped it!

They have a new singer - a guy named 'Bear' (I believe that's what they said) - Erinn Anova and Joyo are sounding better and better - Bear did a rendition of "You Can't Win" by MJ (The Wiz) - Gab's flow leaves you awestruck because he's so clear and can rhyme so fast...

Xcel's production is incredible on the Blazing Arrow album - great shit to bump - feel good type music.

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5am, russ played me the final mix and me and com were damn near in tears.


really.


if i ever went solo, my favorite drummer would be me bragging sig:

"How great are the Roots live? Their drummer.oh my god, he's such a great
drummer. He's so good. So good! Such a great drummer. Is he one of those
musicians that knows how to play everything? He's such a great drummer. I
love them."
-james king

check the resume

organix-93
(from the ground up)-94
do you want more?!!???!-95
illadelph halflife-96
things fall apart-99
(the legendary)-99
the roots come alive-99
phrenology-2002
the tipping point-2004
(the roots present...) 2004
homegrown: the beginne

boxes of tissue

everyone will get a lil misty eyed the first time they hear it...

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this is where GOG breaks down the periodic table right???
good lord...

I picked up nia on the stregth of okps...after vic introduced it to ?uest/fire and they were speaking loudly about it...i figured i had nothing to lose.

I loved the beats, the lyrics, Gabs flow is out the box...and overall it just sounds REAL fresh...probably had something to do w/ time it was released, but overall that's how i can describe it. i lent it to a guy at work and he never gave it back :'(..i bought it on wax..but i still need a cd copy again(i ain't that hi tech yet)

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K - that shit is so dope - it's got you like
just awestruck

you have to listen again like... no he didn't really just do that

I don't know shit about periodic tables - but regardless the beats, flow and concept are so tight it's ridiculous

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Chemistry Calisthenics is the most amazing hip-hop SONG I have ever heard. Nobody is supposed to do it like THAT...

And the joint with Ke Ke Wyatt... whoa.

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>when i saw them in northampton
>with del they had a
>bangin asian singer performing with
>them too, anyone know who
>that is?

joyo velarde
she's on that lyrics born track "balcony beach"

I have 5 bootleg songs and they're kinda good, bit poetic but tight.


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Kid 1 - I'm tired
Kid 2 - Me too
Kid 1 - Uncle Ricky
SR - Hmmm?
Kid 1 - Could you tell us a bedtime story, like you used to?
SR - Look, don't y'all think y'all too old for that now?
Kids - No
SR - Listen, I got an adult question for y'all since y'all
like...11 now. Y'all ever get horny?
Kid 1 - Uncle Ricky!
SR - Now I don't mean to sound perverted, but do you ever
have like sexual urges?
Kids - No!
SR - No? Well you will, so sit your behind down and listen to
Uncle Ricky...and De La...tell y'all a grown up story
Kids - Okay



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I don't need a gun I've got a microphone and a melody or two"- Nikka Costa


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Gift of Gab is one of the best emceees out there. If you like good music, you will like Blackalicious.

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The O-A-K

"When I die, fuck it I wanna go to hell, cuz I'm a piece of shit - it ain't hard to fuckin tell. It don't make sense giong to heaven with the goodie-goodies dressed in white, I like black Tims and black hoodies... All my life I've been considered as the worst - lying to my mother, even stealin out her purse. Crime after crime, from drugs to extortion. I know my mother wish she got a fuckin abortion. She don't even love me like she did when I was younger - suckin on her chest just to stop my fuckin hunger. I wonder if I died, would tears come to her eyes - forgive me for my disrespect forgive me for my lies... I swear to God I feel like death is fuckin callin me..."
-B.I.G.

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fairweather

Sunn Toucha
okaysmokeoutdirector!
"I said Im Black Thought,from out the 2-1-5th, maybe you heard about the dy-nasty I DO run with?" B.T.

"All I have in this world is my balls and my word"-Tony Montana,political prisoner from KOO-BAH

" Claimin u got pull when the only pull you got is the wool over your eyes, gettin knowledge in jail like a blessin in disguise...." -Talib Kweli

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Have A Crunkalicious Day No

just check for the single.."Feel that Way"..If you're not feelin that..youre not gonna feel their vibe. still havent met any Blackalicious haters

Sunn Toucha
okaysmokeoutdirector!
"I said Im Black Thought,from out the 2-1-5th, maybe you heard about the dy-nasty I DO run with?" B.T.

"All I have in this world is my balls and my word"-Tony Montana,political prisoner from KOO-BAH

" Claimin u got pull when the only pull you got is the wool over your eyes, gettin knowledge in jail like a blessin in disguise...." -Talib Kweli

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Have A Crunkalicious Day No

"feel that way" uses my favorite childhood song (me and my arrow)


if i ever went solo, my favorite drummer would be me bragging sig:

"How great are the Roots live? Their drummer.oh my god, he's such a great
drummer. He's so good. So good! Such a great drummer. Is he one of those
musicians that knows how to play everything? He's such a great drummer. I
love them."
-james king

check the resume

organix-93
(from the ground up)-94
do you want more?!!???!-95
illadelph halflife-96
things fall apart-99
(the legendary)-99
the roots come alive-99
phrenology-2002
the tipping point-2004
(the roots present...) 2004
homegrown: the beginne

I heard it for the first time like three weeks ago on an urb magazine sampler i got...Man, brought me back to simpler times.

Like Gif says at the end of the track.."Its, its just love"

Sunn Toucha
okaysmokeoutdirector!
"I said Im Black Thought,from out the 2-1-5th, maybe you heard about the dy-nasty I DO run with?" B.T.

"All I have in this world is my balls and my word"-Tony Montana,political prisoner from KOO-BAH

" Claimin u got pull when the only pull you got is the wool over your eyes, gettin knowledge in jail like a blessin in disguise...." -Talib Kweli

www.okayplayer.com
givin u the true sites since 1999

Have A Crunkalicious Day No

amazing lyrics.

go to www.mcahiphop.com and catch some snippets. i forgot the name of the joint i'm really loving, but it's the same beat that's on the intro for their featured artist site here.

Thoughtfully yours,

Spirit Equality

If you really loved me, you'd check out http://www.mp3.com/spirit_equality

Spirit Equality will be rocking a 20 minute set as part of an underground hip-hop showcase @ Metro Cafe (on 14th St and Church St NW, b/t P and Q), FEBRUARY 28th...last day of February, baby, ring out Black History Month with a bang...cover price unknown...well worth any price asked (likely $5-7)

Misc. Flux will be having their record release show (for their debut CD "Dead In Dreams") @ STATE OF THE UNION (1357 U street NW, DC) on FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 2002...doors-9pm, show-10pm....$5 cover...$10 CD's for sale...21+ (please bring photo ID, open mind, and body (or bodies) ready to move)

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Peace,

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the song i was trying to think of the title for is "feel that way". great stuff.

Thoughtfully yours,

Spirit Equality

If you really loved me, you'd check out http://www.mp3.com/spirit_equality

Spirit Equality will be rocking a 20 minute set as part of an underground hip-hop showcase @ Metro Cafe (on 14th St and Church St NW, b/t P and Q), FEBRUARY 28th...last day of February, baby, ring out Black History Month with a bang...cover price unknown...well worth any price asked (likely $5-7)

Misc. Flux will be having their record release show (for their debut CD "Dead In Dreams") @ STATE OF THE UNION (1357 U street NW, DC) on FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 2002...doors-9pm, show-10pm....$5 cover...$10 CD's for sale...21+ (please bring photo ID, open mind, and body (or bodies) ready to move)

If you believe in avant garde music with soul, peep out http://www.miscflux.com

2002: The Underground Strikes Back

Abolitionist Movement representing...

Peace,

Spirit (Alan)
http://wutangbook.com

the production is solid, along the lines of their bredren dj shadow.

Gift of gab is an excellent lyricist, but, it's his voice i have a few difficulties with.

I don't know, it's kinda like the uk emcee thing and why they don't blow up here, it has to do with their accent. I don't think his pronunciation flows so easy over beats. He's very proper-sounding. Sounds like some white suburban kid rapping.

He just sounds like he's from the Bay Area.

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-------------sigh-----------
Love to love the lovable

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____

hate keeps my teeth white

their only weakness, in my view, is gab's voice. if you can get past that, you should love them. for me, he's kinda hit-or-miss. sometimes the voice is just too grading that i hate the song. i don't know if he's switchin it up or what, but i haven't been put off by his voice in any of the four new songs. here's hoping!

Peace,
JuanToro

"I'm Nestle when it's crunch time ..." - Common

I'd guess you're just used to it.

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Peace,
JuanToro

"I'm Nestle when it's crunch time ..." - Common

theyre pretty good though, i got nia i wasnt really disappointed. maybe this new album will be what expansion team was to dilateds platform


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and Chief Xcel shit is just gyeah.....i like

peep this cut, off Nia, damn i forgot the name lol, Come Along?

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I think that was one of the tighest albums of 2000. Lyrics, flow, beats, everything. I'm a little scurred of this new album-too many outside influences. Not that I don't love OK artists, but I'm worried that they may lose some of their flava because MCA is getting them to collabo with their other artists. I feel most of their hip-hop artists, but they are creating a formula for the "Underground Hip-hop album". Can't wait to hear the album though, I hope it calms my fears.

Yo, nobody fucks with Gift of Gab, man. Nobody needs to sell you on Blackalicious cuz they will do it for you. Check this:

Artificial amateurs aren't at all amazing
Analytically I assault, animate things
Broken barriers bounded by the bomb beat
Buildings are broken, basically I'm bombarding
Casually create catastrophies, casualties
Cancelling cats, got their canopies collapsing
Detonate a dime of dank daily doin' dope
Demonstrations, don dada on the down low
Eatin' other editors with each and every energetic
Epileptic episode, elevated etiquitte
Furious, fat, fabulous, fantastic
Flurries of funk felt, feeding the fanatics
Gift got great global goods gone glorious
Gettin' godly in this game with the goriest
Hit 'em high, hella height, historical
Hey, holocaust hints, hear 'em holler at your homeboy
Imitators idolize, I intimidate
In an instant I'll rise in an irate state
Juiced on my jams like jheri curls, jockin' joints
Justly, it's just me writin' my journals
Kindly I'm kindling all kinds of King Kong
Karate kicks fight kids in my kingdom
Let me live a long life, lyrically lessons is learned
Lame louses just lose to my leverage
My mind makes marvelous moves, masses marvel and move
Many mock what I've mastered
Niggas nap knowin' I'm nice naturally
Knack, never lack, make noise nationally
Operation opposition off, not optional
Out of sight, out of mind, wide beaming opticals
Perfected poems, powerful punchlines
Pummeling petty powder puffs in my prime
Quite quaint quotes keep quiet, it's Quannum
Quarrelers ain't got a quarter of what we got, uh
Really raw raps, rising up rapidly
Riding the rushing radioactivity
Super scientifical sound search, sought
Silencing stupified saps that are soft
Tales ten times talented, too tough
Take that, challengers, get a tune-up
Universal, unique, untouched
Unadulterated, the raw uncut
Verb vice lord, victorious, valid
Violate vibes that are vein, make 'em vanish
Wild, work well, I'm a wise wordsmith just weavin' up words
Weeded up on my workshift
Xerox, my x-radiation holes is large
X-type letters and xylophone tones
Yellowback yakmouth young ones yawn
Yesterday's lawn yards sell my lawn
Zig-zag zombies zoomin' to the Zenith
Zero in zen thoughts, overzealous rhyme zealots

Good...can you say it faster?

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"To be young is to be sad is to be high" - Ryan Adams

"Life's not a bitch...life is a beautiful woman...you only call her a bitch cuz she won't let you get that pussy" - Aesop Rock

"I want to be the one she calls on her cigarette break, not the cause of it" - Saul Williams

"It tastes like burning" - Ralph Wiggum

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Blackalicious is a fresh change of pace. They're not wierd like Cannibal OX but they're way different than almost all other rap groups they're amazing i think. The EP alone had me sold, Blackalicious may have some flaws like the main rappers voice but he's an incredible lyricist, he's intelligent, and his flow is sick. The voice isn't so hard to get over at all just like Quasimoto.

i love this group

west coast is keeping the experiments going and east coast is keeping the old school alive. Put the two together you get groups like Blackalicious, Dilated, Roots, Lootpack and others.

i love this era of hip-hop and its gonna get better with all the new shit coming out this year from COmmon, the ROots, talib, mos, pharaohe, slum village, blackalicious, j5, planet asia, zion i, and tons of others.

tis a great day to be fan.

"lurking in the boards since 99"

I don't love OK artists,
>but I'm worried that they
>may lose some of their
>flava because MCA is getting
>them to collabo with their
>other artists.

In my opinion & observation, MCA hip-hop artists basically A&R their own albums.....MCA usually hears an okp project after is 60-80% done track-wise (i.e. Common's EC). There are no A&R cats in the studio looking over the artists/groups shoulders while they are putting it down...they usually do administration schtuff to help out. The label usually gives input when it comes to single picking time, if $$$ is disappearing at a rapid rate vs. the recording progress timeframe, or if the project doesn't have a clear cut single and options are discussed.....or of course if the Prez wants Erykah Badu on the hook instead of the then unknown Jill Scott.
FYI, Blackalicious did everything that THEY wanted to do on this album.

LG
Doing my job since 1991

LG
Mark 11:24
Isaiah 54:17

the interview in the new issue of Elemental Magazine with Xcel and Gab. They give their very frank opinions on the move to MCA and their feelings about how the album was put together...

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please

LG
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LG
Mark 11:24
Isaiah 54:17

you're on the mailing list mayne!

you should get it next week sometime - I think you'll be pleased

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I see through your plan to promote Blackalicious...lol...

(and I love every minute of it)

Thoughtfully yours,

Spirit Equality

If you really loved me, you'd check out http://www.mp3.com/spirit_equality

Spirit Equality will be rocking a 20 minute set as part of an underground hip-hop showcase @ Metro Cafe (on 14th St and Church St NW, b/t P and Q), FEBRUARY 28th...last day of February, baby, ring out Black History Month with a bang...cover price unknown...well worth any price asked (likely $5-7)

Misc. Flux will be having their record release show (for their debut CD "Dead In Dreams") @ STATE OF THE UNION (1357 U street NW, DC) on FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 2002...doors-9pm, show-10pm....$5 cover...$10 CD's for sale...21+ (please bring photo ID, open mind, and body (or bodies) ready to move)

If you believe in avant garde music with soul, peep out http://www.miscflux.com

2002: The Underground Strikes Back

Abolitionist Movement representing...

Peace,

Spirit (Alan)
http://wutangbook.com

don't you ever talk to him like that again!

like babies and similac (c) ODB

well...online, anyway.

he posted first, i posted third. (c) ghostface

seriously, prov's an OG poster, I'm an OG poster.

Be easy.

Thoughtfully yours,

Spirit Equality

If you really loved me, you'd check out http://www.mp3.com/spirit_equality

Spirit Equality will be rocking a 20 minute set as part of an underground hip-hop showcase @ Metro Cafe (on 14th St and Church St NW, b/t P and Q), FEBRUARY 28th...last day of February, baby, ring out Black History Month with a bang...cover price unknown...well worth any price asked (likely $5-7)

Misc. Flux will be having their record release show (for their debut CD "Dead In Dreams") @ STATE OF THE UNION (1357 U street NW, DC) on FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 2002...doors-9pm, show-10pm....$5 cover...$10 CD's for sale...21+ (please bring photo ID, open mind, and body (or bodies) ready to move)

If you believe in avant garde music with soul, peep out http://www.miscflux.com

2002: The Underground Strikes Back

Abolitionist Movement representing...

Peace,

Spirit (Alan)
http://wutangbook.com

Quest, I saw them open up for you guys in DC one time...did you school em on improving their live performance at all, cuz their sound shit was horrible, you couldnt make a word out that they said! Still, one of the best groups in the last 5 years by far.

Maybe the sound was effed up or something, because Blackalicious RIP IT live. Particularly with Latyrx, but also with Versatyle and Joyo.

Go out and see them again, and you'll see.

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pros:

-- nice, solid production
-- Gab is nice with his
-- a bunch of other stuff that people have already said

cons (and most of these are superficial/aesthetic things):

-- i think the name "Blackalicious" sounds like a name of a Heather Hunter porn flick
-- um ... i had some more, but they've slipped my mind.

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