Freestyle Fellowship - Innercity Griots [2LP]

BE WITH RECORDS

£29.14

Format: 2 x LP
Catalogue No.: BEWITH101LP
Barcode: 4251804125369
Release Date: 05 Jul 2024
Genre: Hip Hop

Repress: 05 Jul 2024

2024 double vinyl reissue, 140g vinyl, includes “Pure Thought” bonus track from the original CD version, original picture sleeve and printed inner sleeves based on the original one.

Territories: Worldwide no restrictions Format Notes: 2021 double vinyl re-issue, 140g vinyl, includes “Pure Thought” bonus track from the original CD version, original picture sleeve and printed inner sleeves based on the original one.

Track List: A* : Blood (1:08) A1 : Bullies Of The Block (4:55) A2 : Everything’s Everything (3:47) A3 : Shammy’s (4:16) A** : Heat Mizer (1:08) B1 : Six Tray (4:39) B2 : Danger (3:58) B3 : Inner City Boundaries (4:39) B* : Bomb Zombies (1:06) C1 : Cornbread (4:21) C2 : Way Cool (4:22) C3 : Hot Potato (4:30) C4 : Mary (3:45) C5 : Park Bench People (4:59) D1 : Heavyweights (6:11) D* : Tolerate (1:01) D2 : Respect Due (3:53) D3 : Pure Thought (3:14)

Innercity Griots, the second album from Freestyle Fellowship, is perhaps *the* essential West Coast left-field rap album of the early ’90s. Released in 1993 on 4th & Broadway, it’s a towering, progressive hip-hop masterpiece that expanded rap’s boundaries through lyrical elevation and production innovation. Their talent was ahead of everybody else by light years. This is pure b-boy jazz. The original single vinyl LP is now hideously scarce, and of course the sound suffers from not being officially released as a double. This Be With re-issue fixes both problems, and for completeness also includes “Pure Thought” from the CD version of the album. This incredible display of imaginative hip-hop sounds better than ever. Freestyle Fellowship were some of the earliest technically dazzling rappers to come out of California. Mikah 9, P.E.A.C.E., Aceyalone and Self Jupiter - along with DJ Kiilu - forged their famed lyrical dexterity in the ultra-competitive crucible of the Good Life Cafe.

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