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Doe Or Die (EXPLICIT) (CD)

By: AZ (Artist)

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DISC 1 for Doe Or Die (EXPLICIT) (CD) Album By AZ (Artist)
1   Intro
2   Uncut Raw
3   Gimme Your's
4   Ho Happy Jackie
5   Rather Unique
6   I Feel For You
7   Sugar Hill
8   Mo Money, Mo Murder (Homicide)
9   Doe Or Die
10   We Can't Win
11   Your World Don't Stop
12   Sugar Hill - (remix)
 

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Review

Spin (12/95, pp.123-124) - 7 - Flawed Yet Worthy - "...AZ offers a grounded critique of the larger structures wreaking havoc upon the urban-dwelling body....DOE OR DIE achieves its purpose: AZ has breathed new air into the lungs of New York hard-rocks."
Rap Pages (12/95, p.28) - 7 (out of 10) - "...For every two words that your average Joe Blow rap star blurts, AZ claps off ten precise, sharp verbs that coagulate and blossom into vivid Technicolor dreams..."

Title Note

Personnel: AZ, NAS, Amar, Missjones (vocals); Erica Scott (background vocals).

Producers: Lunatic Minds, AZ (tracks 1, 9); LOOSE (track 2); Pete Rock (tracks 3, 5); Buckwild (track 4); Amar (tracks 6, 11); L.E.S. (track 7); D/R Period (track 8); N.O. Joe (track 10); Spunk Biggs (track 12).

Engineers: Jack Hersca (tracks 1, 6, 9); Joe Pirrera (tracks 2, 11); Jamie Staub (tracks 3, 5); Jason Vogel, John Kogan (track 4); Jason Vogel (track 7); John Gamble (track 8); Robert "Void" Caprio (track 10); Jamie Staub, John Chervokas (track 12).

Recorded at Chung King Studios, Greene Street Studios, Electric Lady Studios, Platinum Island and Battery Studios, New York.

All songs written by AZ except "Sugar Hill" (AZ/U. Barnes/K. Barnes) and "Mo Money Mo Murder (Homicide)" (AZ/NAS). Samples include "Little Children" (as performed by Kool And The Gang), "Just Rhymin With Biz" (as performed by Big Daddy Kane), "Here We Go" (as performed by Minnie Riperton) and "Cry Together" (as performed by The O'Jays).

Though the music industry is flooded with rappers of all shapes, sizes and traits, only a handful are recognized for their lyrical skills. AZ establishes his ground among them with his debut DOE OR DIE, a follow-up to one well-recognized appearence on Nas' ILLMATIC ("Life's a bitch and then you die...").

DOE OR DIE is AZ's first step towards a lifestyle free from the society he was born into. "Sugar Hill" reveals his dreams of sipping champagne and living the good life, without being subject to the horrors of the urban streets. While his political beliefs constantly mingle with his message, AZ openly expresses the opinions of his community--most specifically on "We Can't Win." And on "Mo Money, Mo Murder (Homicide)," he's joined by his Queens-counterpart Nas for a double-dose of unique, metaphorical rhymes.

Musically, DOE OR DIE matches up to AZ's lyrical abilities, and when his vocals are laid over Pete Rock-produced tracks ("Rather Unique" and "Gimme Your's"), it is hip-hop at its best. With little room for another street-life representative preaching about money, women and clothes, rap does have the space for this East New York native's abstract concepts, on-going rhyming style and Master-Don attitude.

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