Unknown Prophets – Le System D

Title [Le System D ]
Artist [Unknown Prophets ]
Label [Bump Opera Music ] Genre [Hip-Hop ]
Quality/Size [44.1 @VBR 68,5 MB] Ripped [12-11-2009 ]
Grabbed from [CDDA ] Enc [Lame 3.97 ]
Website [www.unknownprophets.com ]

Track Time Title
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01 03:20 Bleeds & Sweats
02 03:35 Forgot You Were Human
03 03:20 No More Hell
04 04:29 Ugly Face Feat. Grieves
05 04:13 Tap Dance Feat. Lazerbeak, & Chickenbone
06 04:52 Explore Feat. Braille
07 04:16 Stand Our Ground Feat. Brent Snyder, & Anneke
Kampman
08 03:32 Face The Storm
09 04:36 Fresh Feat. New Mc, & Alicia Steele
10 04:31 Forever Feat. Promoe
11 03:50 What I Live For
12 00:10 Untitled
13 03:37 Dangerous (Bonus Track)
Totals
13 48:21 min

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Made from scratch; a truly homemade album of natural
freshness and awesomeness!!!

In the book “The Nasty Bits” the chef and writer Anthony
Bourdain refers to System D – the MacGyverish, git-r-done,
don’t look too closely at how many eggs got busted in
pursuit of an omelet approach that professional cooks use to
get dinner on the table, no matter what. The foundational
Minneapolis hip-hop group Unknown Prophets took System D as
their title for this album, their fourth album, and first
since 2006’s The Road Less Traveled, and so present this 11
course prix-fixe meal designed to satisfy the deepest
hungers. Like the hunger in rap for musicians who can play
their own instruments – when Jay-Z called for hip-hop to pay
attention to bands like Grizzly Bear he had no way of
knowing that at that very moment MaD SoN was composing this
album on guitar. And the hunger of Big Jess to use rap to
address more than bling and shopping, to take on existential
issues like the propensity of the universe to ignore us, or
as he says in track 6, “Don’t you ever feel like
screaming/at the top of your lungs for no reason/in the
middle of a crowded place/and people stare at you like
you’re from outer space” In restaurants they call cooking
that incorporates the influence of many cuisines Fusion; If
Le System D was a meal you’d call if a Fusion of underground
dance artists like the Avalanches (see track 5 for more on
this), hard rock, and swift, playful elegant rhyme in the
style of early Eminem, but in Big Jess,Willy Lose, and MaD
SoN’s hands this fusion cooking is far more than the sum of
its parts, it’s a new cuisine, an unforgettable meal, a
satisfying repast that proves that it truly is far better to
have a meal prepared by chefs who have been kicking around
the kitchen enough to know their way around a knife.

Hate Face, the lead single from LSD, features the
Seattle-based rapper Grieves- recently featured as MySpace’s
Indie Artist to watch for. The song is a “love gone bad”
break up song with a killer hook and a catchy melody.
Doomtree powerhouse producer Lazerbeak and newcomer
Chickenbone trade production licks with Big Jess on the
instrumental cut “Tap Dance.” The song “Forever” features
Swedish MC Promoe of the Swede Grammy winning group
Looptroop Rockers. “Fresh” is another warm weather anthem
featuring South Minneapolis’ own New MC and the beautiful
vocals of Alicia Steele. Portland based rapper Braille lends
his skills to “Explore”. “What I Live For” set to be the
second single from LSD, is another catchy track that lends
it’s inspiration from the long and cold winter months here
in Minnesota.

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