Y Society – Travel At Your Own Pace (2007)
01. Intro
02. This is an Introduction
03. Never Off (On & On)
04. Hole in Your Pocket
05. This Advice
06. Good Communication
07. Scientist
08. Dizzy
09. How Many of Us?
10. Puzzles
11. What’s Next?
12. In Command
13. Setting the Example
14. At My Own Pace
15. Peace, Im Out the Door
16. Never Off (On & On) (Insight Remix)
::note:: this is tagged as “advance” but there is no voice overs or anything annoying. Its as clean as a retail.
***** We talked a good bit about this CD but it was never added to HHB. How this could have been is beyond me. I know this is all over the place, but we have to make sure that anyone that visits HHB, has a chance to hear this. This is by far one of the greatest albums of 2007. Obviously this has been an insane year for Hip-Hop. So with that being said for this to be easily at the top of the list, that has to tell you something. If you have not yet picked this up, you need to! Buy this, support these artists. You need to go buy 3 of these and give them out as X-mas gifts. This is what Hip-Hop is all about! *****
“Travel At Your Own Pace” could be the perfect title for the debut by Y Society, as group members Insight and Damu the Fudgemunk are simply traveling at their own pace throughout the course of this album. They go their own way in terms of beats and lyrics, thus offering something unique and unexpected to the listener, and the result is good hip-hop that challenges the genre’s norms and expectations.
Y Society seems to have a lot of fun creating their music. This can be seen in almost every track of “Travel At Your Own Pace,” in which Insight’s lyrics and Damu’s production work off of each other to create a feel good album. Tracks like This Is Anintroduction, Good Communication, Scientists and Dizzy are just fun to listen to, and provide great platforms for the two artists to display their respective skills on the microphone and turntables. Such tracks show Y Society’s ability to inject hip-hop with a much-needed sense of positive energy and fun.
Other parts of the album allow Insight and Damu to demonstrate their collaborative skills by communicating back and forth with lyrics and cuts. In Command, Setting The Example, and At My Own Pace are skillful songs that create a back and forth effect between emcee and deejay. Insight creates dialogue by speaking with his rhymes, and Damu seems to respond by speaking with his hands in a musical communication technique mastered by very few in hip-hop today.
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