 Artist: Blackalicious: mp3 download Genre(s): Rap: Hip-Hop Dance Blackalicious's discography:  The Craft Year: 2005 Tracks: 14  Blazing Arrow Year: 2002 Tracks: 17  Deception Year: 1999 Tracks: 5  Melodica Year: 1998 Tracks: 9 Like a few former West Coast hip-hop acts of the Apostles, including the Pharcyde and Jurassic 5, Blackalicious has in the independent pet what hip-hoppers call in the "overconfident tap"; in other words, its lyrics read oft been phantasmal and uplifting rather than trigger-happy or misogynous. Like a lot of experimental alternate rappers, Blackalicious can be way-out and type; yet, spiritualism is a big part of the group's music. Although Blackalicious wasn't formed until the early '90s, its members had known each other since the late '80s. Founding members Gift of Gab (Timothy Parker) and Chief Xcel (Saint Francis Xavier Mosley) scurvy met in Sacramento, CA, in 1987 when they were students at John F. Kennedy High School. Neither of them was originally from Sacramento; DJ/producer Xcel (wHO was going away by DJ IceSki at the time) was a native of the San Francisco Bay Area, patch rapper Gift of Gab was from Los Angeles' suburban San Fernando Valley. The two went their separate ways after Gift of Gab (as well known as Gabby T) graduated from Kennedy High in 1989, but they were reunited in Davis, CA, in 1992. By that time, Xcel had suit a student at the University of California at Davis and the Gift of Gab had touched to Davis to form Blackalicious with him. UC Davis was where Xcel had started working with a hip-hop crew named SoleSides, whose members included DJ Shadow, Lateef the Truth Speaker, and Lyrics Born. SoleSides Records was the make of the SoleSides Crew's Northern California record company and in 1994, that tag released Blackalicious' debut single "Cast Lake." Although non a triple-platinum crush, the individual was a pocket-sized metro hit that fared intimately among alternative rap audiences. The following year, SoleSides Records released a Blackalicious EP titled Melodica. By late 1997, SoleSides Records had transformed into Quannum Records, and in 1999, Quannum couch prohibited another Blackalicious EP, A2G. In 2000, Quannum released the group's uncut debut Nia (whose title is the Swahili logos for use). After being unitedly ashcan School years, Blackalicious finally signed with a major mark when, in late 2000, the Californians were added by MCA. In April 2002, Quannum/MCA released Conspicuous Arrow, which boasted guest appearances ranging from vocalizer Zack de la Rocha (of Rage Against the Machine) to the Roots' ?uestlove to old hand soul singer Gil Scott-Heron. After the necessary turn, both Xcel and Gab began developing solo material; Quannum released both Maroons' Ambush (Chief Xcel with Latyrx's Lateef the Truth Speaker) as well as a Gift of Gab solo LP, Fourth Dimensional Rocketships Going Up. The geminate returned in 2005 for their third album, The Craft, with a press in hand from the Anti- judge. |
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