Blaq Poet flexes his veteran lyrical skills, and let’s loose a barrage of gritty street narratives and some more introspective reflections over 15 solid tracks. Tha Blaqprint features guest appearances by the also Year Round Records signed group NYGz and Nick Javas, N.O.R.E., Imani Montana, Lil’ Fame from M.O.P., and the late Screwball member KL. Poet, later on, signed to DJ Premier’s Year Round Record label and released his second album, Tha Blaqprint in 2009. The album featured production from DJ Premier amongst others. They released two albums and a compilation together before Poet went solo with the street album Rewind: Deja Screw, released in 2006. Poet went on to team up with KL, Hostyle, and Solo, creating the group Screwball. In 1996 they parted ways due to being unable to find another record label. He was first heard as a teenager on the 1987 track “ Beat You Down” from the Bridge Wars, a diss song towards KRS-One and Boogie Down Productions. In 1991, Poet and DJ Hot Day formed a duo called PHD (Poet & Hot Day) and released their debut album, Without Warning on Tuff City Records. Man On The Moon: The End of Day is a masterpiece and a modern classic.īlaq Poet is a Hip Hop veteran who never really got wide recognition. Man On The Moon: The End Of Day is an immersive experience, to be taken in in single sittings – the whole is greater than the sum of its parts, even if individual songs like “My World”, “Day n Nite”, Sky Might Fall”, “Alive (Nightmare)”, “Cudi Zone”, “Make Her Say”, “Pursuit Of Happiness”, and “Up, Up And Away” are all great. The album has a spacey, atmospheric vibe that fuses psychedelic, indie pop, R&B, electronica, and rock styles – typified by infectious melodies, sparse arrangements, experimental structures, and lush beats laced with shuddering keyboards, brooding synths, syncopated drums, sinister strings, and light pianos. Kid Cudi’s singing rap style is engaging, the personal lyrics and moody subject matter are immersive, and the haunting production is phenomenal. Man On The Moon: The End of Day is a genre-bending piece of music, with a more eclectic musical feel to it than ‘regular’ Hip Hop has. Production was handled by several high-profile record producers, including Kanye West and No I.D., among others. The album follows the release of his first mixtape A Kid Named Cudi (2008) and is the first installment of the Man on the Moon trilogy. Man On The Moon: The End Of Day plays like a concept album, and is narrated by Common. Man On The Moon: The End of Day is the debut studio album by Cleveland-native Kid Cudi. Kid Cudi - Man On The Moon: The End Of Day The format of the album plays like a radio show with Pete Rock as the program director.ġ5. It’s mind blowing… this is like the missing links to Dilla’s legacy. This album combines what he did in the beginning of his career, what he did in some of our early hospital stays, which was very deep, and some stuff pulled from old floppy disks & DATs. It wasn’t rushed and it wasn’t haphazard. In regard to the album’s feel and direction Ma Dukes stated: It was executive produced by Dilla’s mother Maureen “Ma Dukes” Yancey along with the musical supervision of Dilla’s musical idol, Pete Rock. Although Jay Stay Paid is mostly instrumental, it includes guests vocals from several artists that Dilla worked with or admired, such as Black Thought, Havoc, Raekwon, MF DOOM, and M.O.P. The album is a 28 track collection of unreleased Dilla beats mixed and arranged by Pete Rock. Nine times out of ten posthumous releases are doing a disservice to the memory of the artist in question, and are often obvious cash-grab attempts by rightsholders.
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