Droppin' Soulful H2O on the Fiber

Droppin' Soulful H2O on the Fiber

Track Listings
1. No Need 2 Run Anymore
2. Feelin' Like
3. Free Soul
4. Boat
5. Do You?
6. I Know You're a Virgin
7. Dropping Soulful H20 on the Fiber
8. Reality
9. Jungle
10. Basement Music
11. Ya Know
12. Dancing Beauty
13. Big Bowl of Life
14. Soldier Boy
15. Last Night

Droppin' Soulful H2O on the Fiber
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • Underrated classic
 Droppin' Soulful H2O on the Fiber
Gumbo
Manufacturer: Capitol
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

GeneralGeneral | R&B | Styles | Music
GeneralGeneral | Soul | R&B | Styles | Music
GeneralGeneral | Rap & Hip-Hop | Styles | Music
Experimental RapExperimental Rap | Rap & Hip-Hop | Styles | Music
ASIN: B000008GA4
Release Date: 1993-07-13

Tracks:

  1. No Need 2 Run Anymore
  2. Feelin' Like
  3. Free Soul
  4. Boat
  5. Do You?
  6. I Know You're a Virgin
  7. Dropping Soulful H20 on the Fiber
  8. Reality
  9. Jungle
  10. Basement Music
  11. Ya Know
  12. Dancing Beauty
  13. Big Bowl of Life
  14. Soldier Boy
  15. Last Night

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Underrated classic.......2006-08-27

I was probably one of the few who bought this when it first came out.

This is the kind of jazz and soul inspired musically laid back, lyrically clever, sensible but not overtly heavy handed conscious hip hop of the Digable Planets/Arrested Development/Daisy Age school that was sadly overwhelmed by the ignorant and misogynistic gangster garbage that unfortuantely became more popular among the youth.

I bought this when it came out while I was in Grad school (1993), and as I lied on my studio apartment mattress as it blared on my CD player, "Feelin' Free" just BLEW ME AWAY and I had to call my friends to say "Y'all have GOT to hear this!"

"I Know You're A Virgin" is a VERY clever and tasteful double entendre about a wise young man who tries to initiate his girlfriend to think more deeply about the world. The refrain "I Know, I know, I know" does a good job of punctuating the tune without being annoying.

"Basement Music" tells a lot of what the group's mission statement is all about. Any rappers with the taste to sample Jr. Walker and the All Stars ( in the case, "I Don't Need No Reason" form JW&TAS' 1973 "Peace and Understanding Is Hard to Find" Lp) gets big ups in my book.

As a whole, this is a fine example of hip hop's "path not taken," how this genre could have easily been a force of unity and good will (as was the Soul Music of bygone years) as opposed to the detrimental trash it has become.

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  5. Game [Explicit Lyrics]
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  7. Get Mine [CD-single]
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  9. Great Milenko
  10. Information to Raise a Nation

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