New Dope [Explicit Lyrics]

New Dope [Explicit Lyrics]

Editorial Reviews
About the Artist
Hot new artist from the Bay. Cousin of Celly Cell Lil Flip, Silk tha Shocker,Fein, Too Short,Daz, Tray D

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This Album is HOT!HOT!HOT!

New Dope,H-Hustla,Buildin Bloxxx/ Big- V Entertainment/SMG

Un Gran Dia en el Barrio
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I am going to dead this stupid argument!

Basic and unmoving. Unoriginal.

Solid Throughout

Nuyorican vs Cuban - There is a difference

las cosas en su lugar

Un Gran Dia en el Barrio
Spanish Harlem Orchestra
Manufacturer: Rope a Dope
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Saboreando Salsa Dur en el Bronx

ASIN: B00006IZNW
Release Date: 2002-09-17

Tracks:

Mama Guela
Obsesion
Tambouri
Aprende A Querer
La Musica Es Mi Vida
La Banda
Pa' Gozar
Somos Iguales
Vale Mas Un Guaguanco
Pueblo Latino

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We all know that Harlem was the home of the fabled African-American renaissance of the '20s and the birthplace of bebop in the '40s. But it was also the spawning ground for Latin jazz, the boogalo, and the Hispanic musical lingua franca also known as salsa. The title of this CD, which translates as "A Great Day in the Neighborhood," was inspired by the famous '50s jazz portrait by photographer Art Kane. It aurally illustrates the overlooked contributions of the Puerto Rican musicians from Spanish Harlem who created salsa and kept Cuban music alive in America during the early years of the Cuban embargo. With the talented Rubén Blades pianist Oscar Hernandez serving as musical director, this band of NYC's top Latin musicians (featuring bongo drummer Bobby Allende, bassist Rubén Rodriguez, singers Jimmy Sabater and Herman Oliveira, and trumpeter Ray Vega) lay down some serious, no-nonsense salsa dura grooves. This clave-powered crash course features some heavyweight selections, including Tito Puente's "Mama Guela," the enchanting Pedro Flores bolero "Obsesión," and the Willie Colón/Hector Lavoe classic "La Llego la Banda." The mambo, cha-cha-cha rumba, and guajira are blended together in a zesty musical dish by these Puerto Ricans in the Big Apple, and it's a dish best served on the dance floor. --Eugene Holley, Jr.

Album Description

This record is Spanish Harlem's answer to Cuba's Buena Vista Social Club. Slipcase. Ropeadope Records. 2002.

Customer Reviews:

I am going to dead this stupid argument!.......2005-03-13

It's one thing to be proud of one's nationality and heiritage but this is just stupid. As a so called "African-American", I don't know a Cha Cha Cha from a Mozambique but I know good music and this album is pretty good, although I have heard better. Unless you trace your family back to Quuen Isabella or some other Spanish royalty, chances are neither you nor I will pass the infamous "brown paper bag test" (well at least I know I won't, yeah for melanin). Therefore it's pointless to feed into the whole divide and conquer thing.
In the documentary which accompanies the excellent performance film "Calle 54", Bebo and Chucho Valdes, Richie Gonzalez, Michel Camilo, Eliane Elias, and even Chano Dominguez all say that 'Africa is the Grandfather of Latin Jazz'. In case you lost count, that's two Cubans, a Puerto Rican, a Dominican, a Brazilian and a Spainard (thrown in for good measure) all saying the same thing so what are we arguing about. We know that the majority of the "ritmos" that make up what we today call Salsa came from what "re-emerged" and "melded" in Cuba. These styles were brought to New York, met with some Bomba, Plena and probably a little, Merengue and Bachata (and don't forget the Blues, Swing and Soul)and eventually became the "sauce" that we now call "Salsa".
So instead of you guys fighting, you should be happy that your ancestors were ablle to keep more of their own unique traditions and music (unlike my own) and give the world such a rich palette of culture and music. So don't let the pride blind you to the truth.
By the way, this CD is worth the price for "Obssesion" alone, as one reviewer pointed out.

Basic and unmoving. Unoriginal........2004-12-23

With the caliber of musicians playing on this album, I expected a hard hitting original. Instead we get re-arranged covers and lots of "filler" salsa. No surprises here. The classic salsa albums are worth your cash but if you are curious, you'll play this one once.

Solid Throughout.......2004-11-21

Not sure that the controversy in the other reviews below does much to help the potential CD purchaser to make a choice, This is very solid NY salsa with tight ensemble playing, great soloists and good vocals. I don't really think there is a bad cut on the CD. The musical forms that comprise salsa are all well represented and the musicianship is top notch. You can't go wrong buying this. I listen to it often.

Nuyorican vs Cuban - There is a difference.......2004-07-04

First of all, on the record, it's a decent album. But the new album - Across 110 st - is better. But the bolero "Obsesion" is done perfectly and is worth the CD just for that. Further "Vale Mas Un Guaguanco" is slamming. Again though, the new album is better, if only it has Ruben Blades on 4 tracks.

Also, comparing Buena Vista Social Club (BVSC) to Spanish Harlem orchestra is like comparing Apples to Oranges. BVSC are firmly rooted in the Cuban "salsa" tradition, whereas SHO are rooted in the Nuyorican tradition. There is a distinct difference (read below). Also complaining about the voices of Ferrer and Portuondo is silly because they are both elderly and there best days are behind them. There is no way they could sound as good as younger singers in their prime.

Now, on this Puerto Rican - Cuban feud. I think I can speak ojectively because my father is Spanish, my mother Peruvian, and I was born in Australia. I have no alegiance to either side (except that I do prefer Nuyorican-salsa dura to Cuban salsa-guaguanco, etc) . Also I am 27 but am a lover of Latin American music in general and I devour it.

So here it is. The Cubans no doubt invented forms that would lead and formed the base of salsa - for example Guaguanco, Montuno, etc - but they did not invent salsa. Salsa is the music that came out of New York in the late 60's and 70's (and indeed the term didn't even get used to describe the music until mid 70's). Nobody was calling Cuban music "salsa" prior to the 70's. Salsa was used to describe the music coming from New York (and the Puerto Rican community) and the Fania label as well as the stuff on the Tico and Inca labels. Then it got adopted by every other music with a clave and is even used to describe certain manufactured pop artists (whom I won't name).

On the music itself, listen to a Sonora Matancera record and then compare it to Sonora Poncena. They are different forms of music. It's like comparing Benny Goodman to Count Basie. The fact is the "salsa" music coming out of New York/Puerto Rico in the 70's was a hybrid of Cuban music, funk, jazz, and soul. It was much more open to influence and is much more dynamic - Nuyorican salsa is disco whereas Cuban is ballroom. Willie Colon even chopped up the sacred clave so that it was almost unrecognizable, a Cuban would never have done that.

One last gripe, I keep hearing how Salsa Timba is so fresh and new and how they are mixing R&B and jazz with salsa (they don't even do it very well). What's so new about it? Wasn't this what salsa was in the 70's from New York. I challenge anyone to listen to Hector Lavoe's La Voz album (as well as countless of Colon, Barretto, Palmieri, Blades tracks) from the mid 70's and tell me that the album isn't littered with funk, soul, and jazz references from the beginning to the end.

I give love to both salsa communities (Puerto Rica and Cuba) but its about time Cubans stopped saying that Nuyorican salsa is just a badly made version of Cuban music. The Nuyoricans took Cuban music to a whole new level of experimentation and energy and created a new form that should be recognised.

Finally, it's amazing how little recognition is given to the Latino community of New York for creating salsa. It is a forgotten story and a little known fact (even amongst some latinos). I speak to Australian's (even some latino-Autralians) who wouldn't have the first clue about how important New York Puerto Ricans were to salsa history. They just assume its all from Cuba and its all the same music. From what I understand its a similar issue in the US where latino contribution to music and culture is not understood or acknowledged. When pop artists get called salsa you know there is a problem.

Buy the album

las cosas en su lugar.......2004-06-24

Decir que este CD es una respuesta a BVSC no es criticable, pero si pretencioso. En primer lugar porque son dos cosas distintas. El CD de la SHO es salsa neyorquina, el CD de BVSC es son tradicional. Ambos hacen muy bien su trabajo y sobre todo logran un objetivo fundamental: rescatar y reelaborar la musica hecha en estas tierras. La salsa venia de una grave crisis y es recien a mediados de los 90 que comienza a revitalizarse. Este disco es una excelente muestra de que el tumbao sigue vivito y colenado. eso si creo que una desventaja es que los temas sean covers, incluso alguno de ellos son menores que los originales. Creo que el Pueblo Nuevo del genio Pete Conde Rodriguez es mucho mejor.
Ahora lo rescatable es que la gente que toca en este disco (Jimmy savater, Ray de la Paz, jimmy Bosch) esta preocupada por darle nueva vida a la salsa dura y olvidarse de la perjudicial "erotic salsa". Y eso no tiene el CD de BVSC. Salvo Compay Segundo y Eliades Ochoa, los demas no son lo mejor de la historia musical cubana. Falto gente como Graciela Grillo (diez veces mejor que Omara Portuondo), Laito Sureda (veinte veces mejor que Ibrahim Ferrer), o la genialidad de los señores Reynaldo Hierrezuelo o Reynaldo Creagh (mil veces mejor que Puntillita Licea). En este caso me gusta mas lo hecho por Vieja Trova Santiaguera que este fenomeno del marketing llamado BVSC. hace unos dias vi a I. Ferrer en Lima con algunos musicos de BVSC y no me convencio.
Este disco de SHO que cumple su cometido: sabor, descarga, sandunga, y tumbao. Altamente recomendable para bailar y tomar unos tragos. El CD de BVSC solo fue bueno en su momento, today no more. Pero la salsa y el son aun viven y hay que seguir escuchandolos

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Never fail to please....
Funked Up
from Happeningsville
Good N.O. music
Very, Very Good

Medicated Magic
The Dirty Dozen Brass Band
Manufacturer: Rope a Dope
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Binding: Audio CD

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Release Date: 2002-04-23

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Walk On Gilded Splinters (feat. John Bell of Widespread Panic)
Cissy Strut (feat. Robert Randolph)
Ruler Of My Heart (feat. Norah Jones & Robert Randolph)
Everything I Do Gon' Be Funky (feat. Dr. John)
We Got Robbed (feat. DJ Logic)
Junko Partner (feat. Olu Dara)
Tell It Like It Is (feat. Robert Randolph)
Africa (feat. DJ Logic)
Big Chief (feat. Dr. John)

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Since their birth in 1977, the pioneering Dirty Dozen Brass Band has extended the New Orleans Second Line tradition into rock, R&B, funk, and hip-hop. Led by trumpeter-vocalist Gregory Davis, the nonet is joined by several cutting-edge guest artists. Dr. John lends his Crescent City piano chords and deep-south vocals on "Everything I Do Gon' Be Funky" and the festive "Big Chief." The gravel-voiced John Bell, of Georgia-based jam band Widespread Panic, chimes in on the hip-shaking "Walk on Gilded Splinters." Robert Randolph's ghostly steel pedal guitar casts its spell on Aaron Neville's "Tell It Like It Is," and the young diva Norah Jones's tender Texas twang graces the ballad "Ruler of My Heart." DJ Logic's turntable scratches provide the gumbo on the autobiographical "We Got Robbed," and the Mississippi-born blues bard Olu Dara adds his Delta-derived voice to "Junko Partner." Throughout the CD, the DDBB brings Big Easy grooves into the 21st century. --Eugene Holley Jr.

Album Description

2002 album features ten tracks of pure New Orleans rhythm and includes guest appearnces by Dr. John, John Bell, Norah Jones, DJ Logic, Robert Randolph, and Olu Dara.

Customer Reviews:

Never fail to please...........2003-02-07

Once again the mighty horn totin' denizens of the Crescent City bring forth another fine effort. Beyond their always soulful playing, their "back to basics" recording and their clever and idiomatic arrangements, this outing pairs the Band with several distinguished guest artists. Particular stand-outs include Norah Jones, D.J. Logic and the always welcome voice of Dr. John. The cut with Olu Dara (Junko Partner), has a "big four" beat that is so relaxed it sounds like it happened yesterday and of course, the Band rolls right along in the pocket. This really is a great listen....keep up the great work fellas....

Funked Up.......2002-11-22

On the occasion of their 25th Anniversary, this New Orleans institution has released an absotively bonaroo CD, if you know what we mean (or if we do). Although the personnel have changed a wee bit over the years, this largely in tact band of premier musicians continues t provide some of the most buoyant, joyous, dynamic music to be found anywhere. Included here are classic-sounding originals written by members of the band and just plain classics of such Nawlins legends as Allen Toussaint, The Meters, Professor Longhair, Dr. John, and Aaron Neville and Irma Thomas. Produced by Craig Street, whose name seems to pop up on a significant number of our favorite albums, this CD employs an eclectic and imaginative assemblage of guest artists. Included are Dr. John himself, roots/jazz vocalist Olu Dara, turntablist DJ Logic, the incredible Robert Randolph who coaxes the most distinctive and unusual sounds out of a pedal steel guitar, and, just when we were beginning to go through a Norah jones, she provides a fix with a stunning rendition of a Nawlins standard. If there is a more thoroughly funked-up album out there right now, we'd like to know about it.

from Happeningsville.......2002-08-09

This is great second line music with the sizzlin' shufflin'
parade beats and the funk. Lots of staples from the Nola songbook. Solowise, the baritone sax is the
hottest. If you have a friend who plays baritone sax, don't wait, get this already.

Get on the good foot and party to this side!

Good N.O. music.......2002-06-06

This is not far from be as good as Dr John and Meters records from early 70.

Good sound, great "second line" music and that means great good old New Orleans funk music. A real party record... a REAL great party record :-)

Very, Very Good.......2002-05-24

Let me start by saying that I love the DDBB. They are true pioneers who, 25 years later, are delivering music that is as good (probably better) than when they started. Highlighted by virtuoso performances and amazing arrangements, they define "old school" for me. Other bands should (and obviously do) listen to and emulate them, but there can be only one DDBB.

The first time I listened to Medicated Magic, I was a little disappointed, as I was hoping for an album as outstanding as their last one, Buck Jump (one of the baddest, funkiest, old-school-showin'-em-how-its-done albums EVER). But as I listen to this CD more, it has definitely grown on me. Especially good are the opener "Ain't Nothin But a Party"; their cover of the Meters' "Cissy Strut"; "Ruler of My Heart" with Norah Jones (now I see what the fuss is about!); and "Big Chief" with Dr John. It's great to see DDBB giving props to the music of New Orleans, much like they did on the New Orleans album (which I also recommend).

My only (minor) complaints are that "Walk on Guilded Splinters" with John Bell of Widespread Panic does not kick quite as much as the live version they did on WP's recent live album (although its very good), and the duet with Dr John on "Everything I Do Gon' Be Funky" does not have as much bite as it should. But overall, a very, very good album. (P.S. check out their live DVD - unbelievable!!!)

Let's Make A New Dope Deal
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Let's Make A New Dope Deal
Cheech & Chong (Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong)
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Let's Make A New Dope Deal, Cheech & Chong's sixth and final album (not including Greatest Hit), was originally released in 1980. It contains the legendary bits Queer Wars, Bloat On, Let's Make A New Dope Deal and more.

Warner Records made the album out-of-print in the early 80's.

In November 2005, Cheech and Chong Dot Com signed an agreement with Warner Records to re-release Sleeping Beauty and Let's Make A New Dope Deal on CD. Let's Make A New Dope Deal hasn't been on CD until now.

Each CD has been digitally re-mastered and the artwork from the original vinyl release has been digitally enhanced.

A New Dope
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The one that got me hooked.

Singin' shake whatcha mama gave ya to a thug

WOW

could go either way

Think Back

A New Dope
7L & Esoteric
Manufacturer: Babygrande Records
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Customer Reviews:

The one that got me hooked........2007-06-30

I had bought a few 7LES cds about 8 months ago, during a period when I was trying to get back into hip-hop but wasn't really feeling ANY music at all; I think my brain couldn't handle anymore music. I listened to them a few times then forgot about 'em.

After about 6 months I realized I still hadn't opened A New Dope. Well when I did, I was stunned. This album has fire, and Esoteric has improved plenty and even further diversified his style. This album is the reason I've picked up the other CDs I was missing. I still need Warning: Dangerous Exclusives and Dope Not Hype, though.

People might hate on Esoteric, but this and DC2 show an evolved man who continues to improve, and I would find it hard to dislike the lyrical content on this album, save for maybe 2 or 3 songs.

Singin' shake whatcha mama gave ya to a thug.......2007-05-08

While this album is obviously not for everyone, it is an AMAZING album. It to me was paying homage to what hip hop once was. Now alot of these kids out here who did not grow up listening to old school hip hop(not like when you hear a 16 year old call Dre's "The Chronic" old school) will probably have little respect for an album like this. 7L's beats are always catchy and there is no exception with this album and ESO's flow is non-stop throughout. Great samples too, 7L even samples the Twin Peaks theme on Perfect Person.

WOW.......2006-12-10

most of these reviewer should Listen to the Firt (and Last) track on this CD. They are DUMB. Damn this Cd is nice. I am from NEW york and generally hate everything Boston. But these two have been hitin hard ever since they was 'speakin real words'. To put it briefly, this is what hip hop should progess to. 7L is one of the best beatmakers ever, and Esoteric is a renown battle MC who can also make an album. This is very different from their old albums, but not in bad way. They out in left field with Manny Ramirez with this one, and like Manny they should be feared and most of all respected though many don't understand. YOu don't like his album you probably don't listen to hip-hop and listen to R&B like G-Unit and Dipset. Stick with that garbage and don't listen to music.

could go either way.......2006-11-09

This is my first 7L and Esoteric album and I didn't know what to expect. I heard them once on an iTunes radio station, remembered the name and came across them a couple week later at my record store. I've never heard their previous work, so I'm making no comparisons here, just observations of this album. It's got an old school feel to it, which is kinda nice to hear. Esoteric (he's the one rapping, right?) drops some clever rhymes. Although nothing special, it's got a nice, slow flow to it. I was a little dissapointed with some of the music, but the samples 7L uses are pretty good (twoards the end of 3 Minute Classic and then Cemetary is just hilarious). The reason I only gave this 3 stars is because although Eso has some good and funny rhymes, his voice and flow get boring after a few listens and the music on some songs make me skip to the next track. It's a good album to listen to every once in awhile, just to listen to something different then the same old underground (admit it, underground rappers sound a lot better than the mainstream crap, but they do tend to all have a similar sound to them). I can honestly say I don't have anything else like this in my collection.

Think Back.......2006-10-09

For those who looked at this album and booed its departure from 7L ES of five years ago, find new music, cuz you missed the point entirely. I put A New Dope into the deck, replacing Paid in Full. 7L ES are blazing onward where hip hop should have gone. Who cares if they're No. 1? Who gives a dismount if they dont' sound like they used to? You suckas who thought memorizing tricky punchlines would make you an indie icon - get a new hat.

For those who were waiting for someone to put down somethin new school, it's this album. This takes us back ten years to when someone should've been makin a follow up for the classics, not beefin like slaughterhouse garbage cans.

I heard Rakim, I heard Guru and even Eazy E crept up On the Radio--- but it wasn't an imitation, it was Eso's voice and 7L's hand, put together makes em one intelligent band.

A New Dope is the Real Deal.

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WTF? Wake up & Groove on this peeps! 4.5 stars, really!
this ain't about the, ahem, wankery people!
Can't Believe Someone Actually Financed This Release
Beautiful electronic guitar noise
Two Funky Minds Thinking Alike

Front End Lifter
Yohimbe Brothers
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Drawing on their many musical obsessions, Black Rock Coalition founders Vernon (Living Colour) Reid and DJ Logic have teamed up to present a very potent blend of hip-hop, electronica, circus music, blues and soul, dub reggae, and, as is to be expected, full-tilt rock & roll. Front End Lifter offers a fresh set of eclectic vibes that will especially please folks who long for a return to progressiveness on the dance floor. Songs such as the "Secret Agent Man"-like "Ponk" and the African-inflected "Tenemental" explore the trip-hop end of the spectrum, while "Bamalamb," driven by a gritty harmonica riff, mines the '70s blaxploitation era for inspiration. New York underground performer Latasha N. Diggs weaves her sexy vocals through the blistering "Psychopathia Mojosexualis," while the all-star cast of Prince Paul, Slick Rick, Corey Glover, and BRC stalwart Greg Tate add major flavor to the goofy "6996 (Club Yohimbe)," a tune that plays as a satisfying combination of both Digital Underground's "Doowutchyalike" and "Humpty Dance." --Rebecca Levine

Album Description

Guest appearances by Prince Paul, Slick Rick and all original members of seminal rock band Living Color. Slipcase. 2002.

Customer Reviews:

WTF? Wake up & Groove on this peeps! 4.5 stars, really!.......2006-02-17

Why this band was never a big hit I STILL cannot fathom.
Is it because Vernon Reid & the YBs are not descended from pasty, seasick oarsmen who arrived on the Mayflower? Or is it because the sweaty, pumping, and face-melting INFOTAINMENT contained on FRONT-END LIFTER joyously overflows with a kinetic, thought-provoking and humorous blend of funk-hop, psychedelia and blazing guitar pyrotechnics? I'm still scratching my head! But my toe's still tapping as my
butt boogies and funny bone shivers with delight while Vernon & Co. funkify my life like few other band can (the Meters, Garage-A-Trois, Pfunk and early Chili Peppers - WTF happened, Flea? - come to mind!). The Yohimbe Brothers (Reid with DJ Logic playing mind-bendingly tasty turntables + a crack team of PLAYAS extraordinaire!) simply crank out supercharged guitar funk that not only'll get your grandma out on the dancefloor, but will also fry your synapses with acid-drenched guitar shredding and a battery of crazy sounds that all bounce along with the intensity of horny teenager on Red Bull and a first date with his new girlfriend. The hyper-funk workouts
ripping outta this CD are enough to lift the roof off any house-party while the proficiency of the players should satisfy all but the snobbiest of true MUSIC-o-PHILES. The cast of performers assembled here by Reid allows F-EL to play out a dizzying array of stylistic twists all rooted in guitar-shred funk. Latasha N. Diggs simultaneously melts and steels every guy in the room with her super sexy rap in "Psychopathia Mojosexualis". Whereas Slick Rick and Prince Paul
scope out the pick-up bar with horny hilarity as VR & the band rip a sick groove behind them. Their guitaristic jams exquisitely layed down with Hendrixian muscularity prove to be the musical glue binding this stylistically diverse party record together. Vernon and Logic also spread their experimental wings and blast our earholes with sick guitar-soaked slabs of HIP-HOP PSYCHEDELIA via "Ponk" and "Tenemenatal". Our fearless music professors then tweak our knobs past ELEVEN by sampling a SQUARE DANCE CALLER and cranking up the groove factor again with the harmonica-funk hoedown of "Bamalamb"...WHOO-EEE! That un' blowed up, real good! So get off yer rumps and prick up your ears because this band came here to FUNK YOU UP! I can only deal this outstanding album FOUR AND ONE HALF stars because while
the sexy fonk on this disc tickles both my brain and boogie bone, my life wasn't changed forever like it was after FZ, Mingus, or the Meters. But if you want to rock the house with a smart,sexy and amazingly musical rock out; do yourself and any "slow-to-get-down" party a favor: get yer yayas out with the Yohimbe Brothers.

this ain't about the, ahem, wankery people!.......2002-11-16

in a word: awesome. in a couple of other words, if you are expecting a rock guitarist's album with a turntableist thrown in as window dressing, you will surely be mistaken.

if you are looking for an album that is nearly always interesting, never boring, and is sometimes quite funny, you should pick up "front end lifter".

this is the surprise of the year for me. the things that these two cats can do with their instruments is amazing.

Can't Believe Someone Actually Financed This Release.......2002-11-05

Music is a very subjective thing, and my fellow Arlingtonite liked this release, but I thought it was horrible. The editorial review mentions "blues and soul" and "rock." This cd has none of those, and I mean NONE. I love Vernon Reid and Living Colour, too, which is the only reason I took a chance on this release, and you wouldn't even know he is even on it. You can barely hear any guitar. If you like techno, then you may like this, if you like Vernon Reid, don't even bother. This is a complete waste of cd space.

Beautiful electronic guitar noise.......2002-10-17

This is a brilliant show of music. Everything from the cd cover art down to the slip case over the cd is wonderful. The music on the inside is the jem though. I've always been a fan of Vernon Reid, even during his days with Living Color. His playing on this album is just an extension of what was on his solo album, Mistaken Identity. Not many DJ's are really interesting to listen to or fully get the creativity for the instrument that they use, but DJ Logic is not one of these artists. He approaches his instrument like a jazz musician, less is more type feel. He know just where to place "notes". This is a wonderful, eclectic little album to jam to, hopefully more will come from these two - together.

Two Funky Minds Thinking Alike.......2002-10-01

Ten years. Despite traveling in the same artistic circles, and even appearing on each other's solo work, it took a decade for DJ Logic and Living Colour guitarist Vernon Reid to record an album together. It's especially odd now, given the path DJ Logic's career has taken. In the mid-'90s, it would have made perfect sense, working together on Graham Haynes' Transition disc and even Reid's own Mistaken Identity album, the two were almost in the exact same place musically.

But now DJ Logic finds himself among an entirely different crowd. After being "discovered" by Medeski, Martin and Wood on their Combustication album, DJ Logic and his group, Project Logic, were quickly taken up by the jam band community. The only problem is, these bands want to turn Logic into a DMC-style turntablist: wow the crowd with some impressive scratching and be done with it. But, as Reid knows, that isn't his proper role. He is a musical handyman, filling in spaces and touching up grooves with conservative scratches, obscure vocal samples and any other sound he sees fit. There is no machismo here, no concern over dropping listeners' jaws. It's a chance to see two artists realize their full potential after waiting for so long.

When you hear the album, it becomes apparent why they chose to name themselves after Africa's answer to Viagra. The Yohimbe Brothers start things off with Reid, maybe under the influence of the aphrodisiac, putting down a sexually charged guitar riff. Not to be outdone, DJ Logic provides an array of percussionist scratches and effects that matches Reid's intensity. The sexual energy builds even further, as producer Prince Paul (reprising his Handsome Boy Modeling School persona of Chester Rockwell) sends us on a tour with "6996 (Club Yohimbe)". This is probably the closest the album comes to living up to the '70s AFROdisiac feel of the cover art.

As the midpoint approaches, things begin to cool off. The initial excitement has been expelled, and the artists take time to focus on a much gentler, sweeter sound. The slower pace also allows DJ Logic more time to manipulate the music. The echoed vocals and muted horn work of "$moke and Du$t Dub (version)" make it seem as if the song is being carried on the crisp night, instead of your home speakers.

With "Bamalamb" we get a glimpse of what a Black Rock Coalition (the loose confederation led by Vernon and his old band, Living Colour) ho-down would sound like: violin, harmonica and a kick-ass guitar. But it seems that the sexual energy of the yohimbe root is not enough to carry the album all the way through. The tracks grow colder as the Brothers create a vast soundscape of crunching drums, modified guitars and an unending supply of electronic bleeps and blips. But with the mechanized sound comes more improvisation, a nice contrast to the more groove-oriented opening tracks.

This album is the final piece in a vision that was started by Vernon Reid with his Mistaken Identity record. But now Vernon seems to realize that you can't keep an album interesting with simple guitar licks.

Tracks:

Kickin' the Gong Around [#] - Cab Calloway
Dope Head Blues - Lonnie Johnson, Victoria Spivey
Cocaine Habit Blues - Memphis Jug Band
Pipe Dream Blues - Hazel Meyers
Smoking Reefers - Larry Adler
Take a Whiff on Me - Leadbelly
Killin' Jive - The Cats & the Fiddle
You'se a Viper - Stuff Smith & His Onyx Club Boys
Stuff Is Here and It's Mellow - Cleo Brown
Reefer Man - Baron Lee & the Blue Rhythm Band,
Onyx Hop - Frankie Newton
Knockin' Myself Out - Lillian "Lil" Green,
Junker Blues - Champion Jack Dupree
Reefer Hound Blues - Curtis Jones
Reefer Song - Fats Waller
I'm Feelin' High and Happy - Gene Krupa
When I Get Low I Get High - Ella Fitzgerald, Chick Webb & His Orchestra
Ol' Man River (Smoke a Little Tea) - Cootie Williams, Cootie Williams
Blue Reefer Blues - Richard M. Jones
Cocaine
Reefer Head Woman - Jazz Gillum
Willie the Weeper - Frankie "Half-Pint" Jaxon
Cocaine Blues - Luke Jordan
Blue Rag - Freddy Taylor
Viper's Moan - Willie Bryant & His Orchestra

Customer Reviews:

Great album, tracks available elsewhere!.......2006-09-30

This is a terrific album and highly recommended. However, the individual tracks are all available legally through other (less expensive) channels. Try "Dope & Glory" or "Flashbacks: Drug Songs, high & low 1917-1944" if this type of music appeals to you.

Average customer rating:

Play Da Game

Manufacturer: City Of Dope Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music
ASIN: B000MTOL0Y
Release Date: 2007-01-30

Average customer rating:

Gentleman Is A Dope
Michael Kanan
Manufacturer: Fs New Talent
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Jazz | Styles | Music
ASIN: B00008JL8T
Release Date: 2004-11-16

Average customer rating:

The Good Money EP
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Manufacturer: Aces Click
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Mirror , Mirror
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