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Overview

An "open" microphone is another term for an amateur showcase, and underground DJ Blu here provides a forum for a batch of potentially up-and-coming rappers. As might be expected, the talents on display are at varying levels of competence. Tribe of Levi, for example, sound just about ready for prime time on "The Dance," while the members of ScienZe seem to be reciting their first-ever rhymes, without much sense of what's going on around them, in "Taking the Day Off." The most consistently interesting aspect of the album, however, is the backgrounds. Blu can construct tracks out of a combination of found sounds, odd musical elements, and voices, and they range from the keyboard-inflected "Gotta Be Free" and "Twenty Seven" to the soulful "Remember Me" and the jazzy "Brown Sucre." Blu himself speaks of "switching from independents to majors" on "Steel Remains (Raw)," and that's what he may be doing in the not-so-far-off future. ~ William Ruhlmann

Product Details

Release Date: 09/27/2011
Label: Nature Sounds
UPC: 0822720715121
Rank: 165611

Tracks

  1. Point Blank
  2. Good Gracious
  3. Stee Remains (Raw)
  4. Gotta Be Free
  5. Taking the Day Off
  6. Part Time Suckas
  7. Avenge of the Cheap Ass
  8. Remember Me
  9. Dance
  10. Ooh Child
  11. Botton
  12. Brown Sucre
  13. The End
  14. Twenty Seven

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Blu   Primary Artist,Primary Artist
Sene   Primary Artist
Chop   Primary Artist
Fresh Daily   Primary Artist
Da-1   Primary Artist
JustLee   Primary Artist
Definite   Primary Artist,Primary Artist
Tribe of Levi   Primary Artist
Aaron Smartz   Primary Artist
ScienZe   Primary Artist
Versis   Primary Artist
Ms Guiterrez   Primary Artist
Micah   Primary Artist
Esmeralda Starlett   Primary Artist
South Broad   Primary Artist
DTail   Primary Artist

Technical Credits

Blu   Producer
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