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Nia (Import) (CD)

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DISC 1 for Nia (Import) (CD) Album By Blackalicious
1   Searching  
2   Fabulous Ones  
3   Do This My Way  
4   Deception  
5   Put It On A Plate  
6   A To G  
7   Cliff Hanger  
8   Nation Time  
9   Shallow Time  
10   Ego Trip By Nikki Giovanni  
11   You Didn't Know That Though  
12   If I May  
13   Dream Seasons  
14   Trouble (Eve Of Destruction)  
15   Smithzonian Institute Of Rhyme  
16   Beyonder  
17   Making Progress  
18   As The World Turns  
19   Sleep  
20   Finding  
 

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Review

Rolling Stone (4/27/00, p.73) - 3 stars out of 5 - "...Celebrates old-school hip-hop while infusing it with inspired new twists....This longing for post-gangsta hip-hop has been expressed before but has seldom rocked so well."
Spin (3/00, p.151) - 8 out of 10 - "...deeply sussed funk....NIA is cogent, committed songwriting; it bumps to the hardheaded notion that hip-hop can change minds..."
Entertainment Weekly (2/18/00, p.86) - "...defines West Coast indie rap aesthetic....bringing hip-hop morality plays, mad-libbibg freestyles, videogame-worthy adventure tales and poet Nikki Giovanni's final word on rap braggadocio, all riding taut, jazzy funk..." - Rating: A-
Alternative Press (4/00, p.80) - 4 out of 5 - "...combines '99s excellent A2G EP with new material, much of it every bit as absorbing....that classic combo of brainiac wit, old-skool positivity and funkadelic freestyling is [their] stock in trade..."
CMJ (1/31/00, p.3) - "...does for West Coast underground hip-hop what Mos Def and Black Star have been doing for the Big East - matching fierce, uplifting poetics to irresistible beats....gospel music of the 21st century."
Vibe (4/00, p.183) - "...identify themselves as the lost children of the socially conscious soul stirrers of the '60s and '70s....an ecstatic declaration that asserts the affirmative power of music in consciousness elevation..."
The Source (3/00, pp.250-2) - 3 mics out of 5 - "...refreshingly distict...an elaborate fusion of jazz, soul, hip-hop and spoken-word-style rhymes....you gotta be in the hip-hop, bohemian, coffee house state of mind....evidence of a group willing to take creative risks..."

Product note

The debut album from West Coast indie outfit Blackalicous, NIA introduces the unique hip-hop sound of MC Gift of Gab and producer DJ Chief XCel. With an off-kilter approach to production that recalls the best elements of Dan the Automator, Godfather Don, and Howie B, and an elevated lyricism that never drifts into hackneyed gangsta-ism, NIA consistently entertains, surprises, and contradicts conventional stereotypes of hip-hop. Far and away the album's brightest moment, "A to G" has Gift of Gab wielding his mic skills as he exhausts the first six letters of the alphabet, pummeling listeners with a staggering two-minute alliterative onslaught while Chief XCel closes the track with an equally impressive scratch extravaganza.

Album Description

The debut album from West Coast indie outfit Blackalicous, NIA introduces the unique hip-hop sound of MC Gift of Gab and producer DJ Chief XCel. With an off-kilter approach to production that recalls the best elements of Dan the Automator, Godfather Don, and Howie B, and an elevated lyricism that never drifts into hackneyed gangsta-ism, NIA consistently entertains, surprises, and contradicts conventional stereotypes of hip-hop. Far and away the album's brightest moment, "A to G" has Gift of Gab wielding his mic skills as he exhausts the first six letters of the alphabet, pummeling listeners with a staggering two-minute alliterative onslaught while Chief XCel closes the track with an equally impressive scratch extravaganza.

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