Just-Ice - Kool & Deadly (Justicizms) (1987) [CD, 2005]

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01. Going Way Back

02. The Original Gangster Of Hip Hop

03. Freedom Of Speech

04. Moshitup

05. Kool & Deadly

06. On The Strength

07. Lyric Licking

08. Booga Bandit Bitch

09. Freedom Of Speech '88 (12-inch Single Edit)

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The original "Hip-Hop Gangsta' Just-Ice" is one of the illest and most innovating MC's in our time. This album is so rugged and so ill! Hard-core Hip-Hop at it's finest! Production is done by KRS ONE (and not Mantronik) on this album. The sound quality in this CD edtion is incredible and it has a track not featured on the original pressing (FREEDOM OF SPEECH '88 {12" single edit.}.) This was one of the best albums released back in '87 and one of the best rap albums ever made! A true Hip-Hop classic! Produced and mixed by Just-Ice and KRS-One !!

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mp3 @ VBR / Lame 3.97 / Avg. 258 kbps / 85,8 mb
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Going Way Back (Feat. KRS-ONE)

(The Video might take a couple of seconds before it start)

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Just-Ice - Back To The Old School (1986) [CD, 2005]

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01. Cold Gettin' Dumb

02. Love Story

03. Back To The Old School

04. Latoya

05. Gangster Of Hip Hop

06. Little Bad Johnny

07. Put That Record Back On

08. Turbo Charged

09. Cold Gettin' Dumb II

10. That Girl Is A Slut

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Brooklyn-born Just-Ice was among the first to call himself a gangsta MC, even though there was no violence in his lyrics. Inspired by a Melle Mel show, Just began rhyming in his early teens, buying his first rhyme from a friend for $3. His first album, Back to the Old School, was released in 1986 on resh/Sleeping Bag Records and pointed to a new direction in hip-hop. However, as more and more MCs followed down the gangsta path, Just-Ice went with a more hardcore, straight-up hip-hop style and was one of the first MCs to use ragamuffin-style toasting from dancehall reggae. Just was also one of the first MCs to employ Five-Percenter rhetoric in his rhymes. Even with production by artists such as Mantronik, KRS-One, and Grandmaster Flash and with seven albums under his belt, Ice still never achieved the commercial success of many of his peers. Productions by Mantronik.

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mp3 @ VBR / Lame 3.97 / Avg. 271 kbps / 93,4 mb

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Keith Murray - The Most Beautifullest Thing In This World (1994) ***Def Squad***

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01. Live from New York
02. Sychosymatic
03. Dip Dip Di
04. The Most Beautifullest Thing in This World
05. Herb Is Pumpin'
06. Sychoward
07. Straight Loonie (Feat. Illegal)
08. Danger
09. Get Lifted
10. How's That (Feat. Redman & Eric Sermon)
11. The Chase
12. Take It to the Streetz
13. Bom Bom Zee
14. Countdown
15. Escapism
16. The Most Beautifullest Thing in This World (Green-Eyed Remix)

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A native of Long Island, NY, Keith Murray first hooked up with Erick Sermon (of EPMD) in 1994.Before he managed to get himself locked up for a brief bit later in the decade on an assault charge, Keith Murray was assaulting microphones and thesauruses alike with his ill "Sychosymatic" lyrical skills. Introduced to the rap world at the end of 1993 via a guest spot on the song "Hostile" off Erick Sermon's first solo album, Double or Nothing, Murray stepped out on his own at the beginning of the next year with the mellow Sermon-produced hit single "The Most Beautifullest Thing in This World," then backed it up with a full-length debut by the same title. There is nothing new in Sermon's loping music that you couldn't get on EPMD albums or from other recordings by members of the Def Squad, although he did continue to bring the funk hot and viscous as always. The main attraction on The Most Beautifullest Thing in This World, then, is Murray's raw, emotionally charged flow and droll (though not as funny as Redman), articulate rhymes, straight out of the battle-rap school of hip-hop. His lyrics, in other words, are often tasty going down (particularly on "How's That" with Sermon and Redman and "Bom Bom Zee" with Paul Hightower and Hurricane G), but won't necessarily stick around to quell any sort of hunger. Still, the album went gold, and is easily recommended for fans of Double or Nothing or Whut? Thee Album.

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mp3 @ VBR / Lame 3.9? / Avg. 179 kbps / 56,6 mb

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Dynospectrum - The Dynospectrum (1998)

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01. You Can Lose Your Mind

02. Introspectrum

03. Headphone Static

04. Permanent On Surfaces

05. Breath of Fresh

06. Winter Mood

07. Brief Interlude

08. Appearing Live

09. Southside Myth

10. Traction

11. Decompression Chamber

12. Evidence Of Things Not Seen

13. Superior Friends

14. I Wouldn't Want You To Die Uninformed

15. Tenfold

16. Anything Is Everything

17. Armor

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Conceived by Rhymesayers Entertainment emcee and co-founder Beyond (Musab), the Dynospectrum was the only album the "group" released in the history of the label. Including Beyond, the group also consisted of Headshots crew members Slug (of Atmosphere), Swift (of Phull Surkle) and I Self Devine (of Atlanta, Georgia's Micranots crew). They performed under the pseudonyms General Woundwart, Sept Sev Sev Two, Mr. Gene Poole and Pat Juba, respectively. The album was produced by Rhymesayers in-house beatsmith Ant (Anthony Davis of Atmosphere) who assumed the name Solomon Grundy for the project.

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mp3 @ VBR / Lame 3.97 / Avg. 173 kbps / 90,3 mb

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Headphone Static

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PMD - Shade Business (1994) ***EPMD***

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01. Shade Business

02. In the Zone

03. Steppin' Thru Hardcore

04. Respect Mine

05. Here They Cum (Feat. Das EFX)

06. Back to the Rap

07. I'll Wait

08. I Saw It Cummin'

09. Swing Your Own Thing

10. Fake Homeyz

11. Phuck It Up Scratch (Interlude)

12. Back up or Get Smacked Up

13. Thought I Lost My Spot

14. No Shorts and No Sleep (Feat. Top Quality)

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Dark slamming rhythm with weird samples as of a slow-moving rap-machine, interleaving with diggedy-fast Das EFX talk and unbeatable PMD rap-talent. Serious as usual, woth having for all real hiphop lover. Not a single wack track. Great minimal album design for looking at while listening to east-side rap premium thang!The best PMD solo project for sure. No pop, no shit. Feel concrete soul of NY and seriousness of rappin' HitSquad.. Beware!

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mp3 @ VBR / Lame 3.9? / Avg. 194 kbps / 75,2 mb

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2 Black 2 Strong MMG - Doin' Hard Time On Planet Earth (1990)

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1. Ghetto Blasta

2. Skulls

3. Only The Strong Survive

4. Up In The Mountains

5. Across The 110

6. Ice Man Cometh

7. 2 Black 2 Strong

8. War On Drugs

9. Goin' All Out

10. Burn Baby Burn

11. MMG Shoot Out

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Harlem's confrontational 2 Black 2 Strong came with the backing of MMG, a collective that included members Mean Gene, Johnny Marrs, Warchild, C Dogg, and Dark Chocolate. Doin' Hard Time on Planet Earth, 2 Black 2 Strong's 1991 album, was prefaced the previous year with the Burn Baby Burn EP. The cover of the EP depicted a burning U.S. flag and tipped off the subject matter of the title track. When Relativity's In-Effect offshoot attempted to press promotional copies, its tape manufacturer refused to comply. Eventually, it was pressed up through another source. 2 Black 2 Strong's continued testing of freedom of speech was met with resistance, especially since "Burn Baby Burn" included the line, "Fuck the red, white and blue." His solid album also tackled issues like the war on drugs, police brutality, and other inner-city plights. This release comes from a transition period in hip hop. Hip hop was moving from political, black power oriented lyrics to more street-level gansterism, and this albusm strikes a pleasant balance between the two.

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mp3 @ VBR / Lame 3.9? / Avg. 211 kbps / 77,9 mb

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Masta Ace Incorporated - Sittin' On Chrome (1995)

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01. Intro

02. The I.N.C. Ride

03. Eastbound

04. What's Going On!

05. The B-Side

06. Sittin' On Chrome

07. People In My Hood

08. Turn It Up

09. U Can't Find Me

10. Ain't No Game

11. Freestyle?

12. Terror

13. Da Answer

14. 4 Da Mind

15. Born To Roll

16. The Phat Kat Ride

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In the five years that passed between his debut, Take a Look Around, and his third full-length, Sittin' on Chrome, Brooklyn rapper Masta Ace's sound changed a lot. Angrier lyrics were already starting to show up on his sophomore release, SlaughtaHouse, but it was nothing in comparison to Sittin' on Chrome. Not that the themes are fueled by testosterone and rage here (and not that they were on SlaughtaHouse, either, though there was a great deal more vitriol), but the overall feel of the album, which has by now moved past the boom bap old-school beats into fuller, gloomier production that more aptly represents the mid-'90s East Coast sound, is much darker, with slower, heavier songs that ponder life in the ghetto. But the record's not an attack on the system that has caused the poor conditions of inner-city existence; rather, it's more of a collection of sketches that show it in its entirety, both the good and the bad. The whole Masta Ace Incorporated crew (Lord Digga, Leschea, and Paula Perry) is present here and does a good job, along with Ace, of course, whose flow and lyrics combine to show him off at his best, at adding depth and realism to the album's 16 cuts, interludes and all. It's a formula that clearly works well: Sittin' on Chrome boasted the MC's most popular songs, "Born to Roll" (which was also included as a bonus track on SlaughtaHouse), "The I.N.C. Ride," and the title track itself, but the other material, "Eastbound," "People in My Hood", is equally as interesting, and makes the record a very worthwhile addition to a rap collection.

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mp3 @ VBR / Lame 3.98 / Avg. 219 kbps / 113 mb

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Flatlinerz - U.S.A. (1994) ***Def Jam***

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01. Intro

02. Good Day to Die

03. Scary-Us

04. Flatline

05. Sonic Boom

06. Brooklyn-Queens (Skit)

07. 718

08. Run

09. Body N' A Blunt (Skit)

10. Whydyadoit (Skit)

11. Takin' Em Underground

12. Graveyard Nightmare

13. One Armed Bandit (Skit)

14. Rivaz of Red

15. Satanic Verses

16. War Zone

17. Beware... (Satanic Verses-Skit)

18. Live Evil

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Flatlinerz is a hip hop group from Brooklyn, New York. The group was one of the first to rhyme in the Horrorcore style.

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Click HERE if you want to read more about them..

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mp3 @ 256 kbps [CBR] / Lame 3.97 / 103 mb

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Luniz - I Got 5 On It (1995) [CD, Maxi-Single]

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01 - I Got 5 on It (Clean Short Mix)

02 - I Got 5 on It (Clean Bay Ballas Vocal Remix)

(Feat. Dru Down, Richie Rich, E-40, Shock G & Humpty Hump, Spice 1)

03 - I Got 5 on It (Gumbo Funk Remix)

04 - I Got 5 on It (Clean Weedless Mix)

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Members: Yukmouth & Knumskull..

Two best friends who met each other in Junior High in Oakland, California. When the first started out, they were known as The Luni Tunz. After six years they began to rise by two albums, Dru Down's Explicit Game and their debut album Operation Stackola, which was released in 1995. They soon made it to the top of the Rap/R&B charts for their release of the Weed Anthem Song 'I Got 5 On It,' which features vocals by Michael Marshall of the Timex Social Club. They released their second album entitled 'Lunitik Muzik' in 1997. Their smash-hit 'I Got 5 On It' then slowy arose again in the D&B charts with Aphrodite's remix in 1999.

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mp3 @ 320 kbps [CBR] / Lame 3.98 / 40,2 mb
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Ron ''C'' - ''C'' Ya (1989) ***Southern Rap***

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01. Funky Lyrics

02. What's Tha Tip?

03. Capping

04. Good To Go

05. Trendsetter

06. Do Dat Danz

07. Make It Funky

08. Mmm There It Is

09. Ron ''C''

10. South Dallas Drop

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Click Here To Read Some Reviews

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mp3 @ VBR / Lame 3.97 / Avg. 204 kbps / 71,8 mb
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Flipmode Squad - The Imperial (1998)

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01. The Imperial Intro

02. To My People

03. Settin' It Off

04. Run for Cover

05. I Got Your Back

06. This Is What Happens

07. Everybody on the Line Outside

08. Last Night

09. Where You Think You Goin'

10. We Got U Opin, Pt. 2 (Feat. Buckshot)

11. Straight Spittin

12. Money Talks

13. Cha Cha Cha

14. Hit Em Wit da Heat

15. Do for Self

16. Everything

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Busta Rhymes' rap posse (which includes newcomers Rampage, Lord Have Mercy, Spliff Star, Rah Digga and Baby Sham, as well as Busta himself) bust out the jams on this audacious debut, which mixes Busta's typically tight beats and surrealistic words with a wise-ass street savvy usually reserved for his best singles. But The Imperial drags on a bit too long, filling its 73 minutes with partial track ideas (including the prerequisite, and ineffective, between-song skits) and lyric and melodic fragments that seem to have no beginning or end, unsurprisingly, not unlike Busta's solo work. Still, Busta has always dropped a couple of decent cuts per album, and The Imperial is no exception: "Everybody on the Line Outside" (a sort-of sequel to Busta's own "Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Could See"), "Cha Cha Cha" and "Everything" are lightning-quick attacks of hip-hop aptitude.

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mp3 @ VBR / Lame 3.98 / Avg. 247 kbps / 132 mb

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We Got U Opin, Pt. 2 (Feat. Buckshot)

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Guru - Jazzmatazz Streetsoul, Vol. 3 (2000) ***GANG STARR***

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01. Intro
02. Keep Your Worries (Feat. Angie Stone)
03. Hustlin' Daze (Feat. Donnell Jones)
04. All I Said (Feat. Macy Gray)
05. Certified (Feat. Bilal and Slum Village)
06. Plenty (Feat. Erykah Badu)
07. Lift Your Fist (Feat. The Roots)
08. Guidance (Feat. Amel Larrieaux)
09. Interlude
10. Supa Love (Feat. Kelis)
11. No More (Feat. Craig David)
12. Where's My Ladies? (Feat. Big Shug)
13. Night Vision (Feat. Isaac Hayes)
14. Who's There? (Feat. Les Nubians)
15. Mashin' Up The World (Feat. JR Reid)
16. Timeless (Feat. Herbie Hancock)

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Give Guru credit for knowing how to surround himself with great talent. It's a fact that has guided his career from the early days of Gang Starr, the group he formed with one of the greatest hip-hop producers of all time, DJ Premier, to his solo Jazzmatazz albums, recorded with a host of jazz legends including Roy Ayers, Donald Byrd, Freddie Hubbard, and Branford Marsalis. This third volume in Guru's Jazzmatazz series came not only after a five-year break, but at a time when the notion of jazz-rap was almost as antiquated as the '70s jazz-funk sound it helped resurrect back in the late '80s. Guru undoubtedly realized this, so instead of focusing strictly on jazz this time out, he made Streetsoul more of a roots album. With all the great contemporary R&B talent on display, though, any jazz-rap fans still left could hardly be annoyed with Guru's shift in focus from jazz to soul. A trinity of late-'90s soul divas, Macy Gray, Erykah Badu, and Kelis, each have features, and the swing-to-urban production behind Badu's contribution frames her vocal excellently. DJ Premier also shows up, contributing his usual excellent trackmaster skills to "Hustlin' Daze," with vocals by Donell Jones. Fellow rapcentrics the Roots make an appearance on the fight-for-your-right anthem "Lift Your Fist," and Guru inserts two pioneer tracks, Herbie Hancock's "Timeless" and Isaac Hayes' "Night Vision" near the end.

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mp3 @ VBR / Lame 3.98 / Avg. 210 kbps / 93,7 mb

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Boogie Down Productions - Edutainment (1990)

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01. Exhibit A

02. Blackman in Effect

03. Ya Know the Rules

04. Exhibit B

05. Beef

06. House Nigga's

07. Exhibit C

08. Love's Gonna Get 'Cha (Material Love)

09. 100 Guns

10. Ya Strugglin'

11. Breath Control II

12. Exhibit D

13. Edutainment

14. The Homeless

15. Exhibit E

16. The Kenny Parker Show

17. Original Lyrics

18. The Racist

19. Dee Jays

20. Cops Or More

21. Exhibit F

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KRS-One's artistic winning streak continued with Edutainment, Boogie Down Productions' fourth album. True to form, he focuses on black history and speaks out on homelessness, racism, police excesses, and materialism with clarity and insight. KRS was often compared to Public Enemy leader Chuck D because of his consistently sociopolitical focus, but there's no mistaking the fact that his unique mixture of black nationalism, Eastern religion (both Hinduism and Buddhism), and Rastafarian philosophy is very much his own. From a commercial standpoint, he had become a little too intellectual and wasn't selling as many albums as many in rap's gangsta school. But from an artistic perspective, Edutainment is as commendable as it is riveting.

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mp3 @ VBR / Lame 3.98 / Avg. 210 kbps / 102 mb

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Boogie Down Productions - Ghetto Music: The Blueprint Of Hip Hop (1989)

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01. The Style You Haven't Done Yet

02. Why Is That?

03. The Blueprint

04. Jack Of Spades

05. Jah Rulez

06. Breath Control

07. Who Protects Us from You?

08. You Must Learn

09. Hip Hop Rules

10. Bo! Bo! Bo!

11. Gimme, Dat, (Woy)

12. Ghetto Music

13. World Peace

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The second Boogie Down Productions album devoted mostly to consciousness raising, Ghetto Music: The Blueprint of Hip Hop finds KRS-One evolving into a fierce advocate for both his community and his chosen art form. He's particularly concerned about the direction of the latter: he's wary of hip-hop being co-opted by the pop mainstream, and the album's title comes from his conviction that real hip-hop is built on the vitality and rebelliousness of the streets. Accordingly, Ghetto Music contains a few more battle rhymes than usual, plus some showcases for pure MC technique, in keeping with the most basic elements of the music. The production, too, is still resolutely minimalist, and even if it's a little more fleshed-out than in the past, it consciously makes no concessions to pop or R&B accessibility. There are more reggae inflections in KRS-One's delivery than ever before, audible in about half the tracks here, and the production starts to echo dancehall more explicitly on a few. Meanwhile, as the Teacher, he's actually put together lesson plans for a couple tracks: "Why Is That?" and "You Must Learn" are basically lectures about biblical and African-American history, respectively. This is where KRS-One starts to fall prey to didacticism, but he has relevant points to make, and the rapping is surprisingly nimble given all the information he's trying to pack in. Elsewhere, "Who Protects Us from You?" is a bouncy anti-police-brutality rap, and KRS closes the album with the point that "World Peace" can only be achieved through a pragmatic, aggressive struggle for equality. Although Ghetto Music has a few signs that KRS is starting to take himself much more seriously (he dubs himself a metaphysician in the liner notes), overall it's another excellent effort by BDP.

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mp3 @ 224 kbps / Joint Stereo / 81 mb

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Mic Geronimo - Vendetta (1997)

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01. Nothin' Move But The Money

02. Vendetta

03. Survival

04. Life In Lessons

05. For Tha Family

06. Street Life

07. Be Like Mic

08. Unstoppable

09. Single Life

10. Things Ain't What They Used To Be

11. How You Been?

12. Usual Suspects

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With his second album, Vendetta, Mic Geronimo proves that his hard-hitting debut was no fluke. Geronimo may flirt a little too heavily with the crossover, Puff Daddy's production on "Nothin' Move But the Money" is a little too smooth, and the blatant materialism doesn't suit him well, but the fact of the matter is, even when he tries his hand at the pop game, Geronimo has more lyrical skills than many of his peers. Musically, he needs to toughen up a little and find his own sensibility, but there's no denying that his rhyming is strong and that the R&B-flavored productions are appealing, and that all makes the album a Vendetta worth pursuing.

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mp3 @ VBR / Lame 3.9? / Avg. 232 kbps / 94 mb

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Mic Geronimo - The Natural (1995)

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01. The Natural

02. Lifecheck

03. Wherever You Are

04. Masta I.C.

05. Man of My Own

06. Time to Build

07. Shit's Real

08. Three Stories High

09. Sharane

10. Men Vs. Many (Feat. OC and Royal Flush)

11. Train of Thought

12. Things Change

13. Masta I.C. (Remix)

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A Queens rapper with a streetwise attitude as well as a few ties to Puff Daddy's pop-rap empire of the late '90s, Mic Geronimo grew up listening to LL Cool J and Big Daddy Kane, plus soul acts like Stevie Wonder and Prince. Discovered by producer Irv Gotti (DJ Irv) at a talent show, Mic Geronimo signed to Blunt/TVT and debuted with the 1995 LP The Natural. TVT wasn't exactly the most respected label in hip-hop, and the album made few waves despite the presence of several hard-hitting early singles, "Shit's Real" and "Masta I.C." The 1997 album Vendetta saw him with a higher profile, working with Puff Daddy-related acts the LOX and the producer himself on the single "Nothin' Move but the Money."

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mp3 @ VBR / Lame 3.97 / Avg. 179 kbps / 76,2 mb

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Masta I.C.
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Da Bush Babees - Gravity (1996)

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01. Intro

02. Gravity

03. Wax

04. The Beat Down

05. Maybe

06. 3 MCs

07. S.O.S. (Feat. Mos Def)

08. God Complex

09. The Ruler

10. The Ninth Presentation

11. The Love Song (Feat. Mos Def)

12. Rock Boots

13. In Meh Dreams

14. Melting Plastic

15. Outro

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Da Bush Babees is a group of underground hip-hop artists loosely affiliated with the Native Tongues. The members of the group are Babe-B-Face Kaos (later Lee Majors), Mister Man (later Mr. Khaliyl) and Y-Tee.The three grew up in Jamaica and Trinidad, and hence reggae strongly influenced its style, but it was in 1992 in Brooklyn, NY, where Mister Man first saw Kaos perform, that the group was formed. The two began collaborating, and after Mister Man suggested adding a reggae toaster, Y-Tee joined the group. After their early concert dates attracted major-label interest, the trio performed live office auditions and signed with Reprise three months after launching the group. Their first album, Ambushed (1994), featured production from Jermaine Dupri, Ali Shaheed Muhammad, Salaam Gibbs (later known as Salaam Remi) and the group itself, among others. Later releases included "Remember We" in 1995 and their 1996 second album Gravity, which was the group's first underground and commercial success. Its lead single, "The Love Song", was produced by Posdnous of De La Soul; that single also featured a then-unknown Mos Def singing the chorus, who also sang the chorus and rapped the third verse of the album's seventh track, "S.O.S".Mr. Man later changed his nickname to Mr. Khaliyl and went on to produce for other artists, and also released a rare 12-inch single on Rawkus featuring Talib Kweli, Pharoahe Monch and DCQ. Mr. Man has also recently produced for such artists as Res and Fabolous.

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mp3 @ VBR / Lame 3.98 / Avg. 186 kbps / 65,2 mb

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