Track Listings (18) - Disc #1| All Artists: Freestyle Fellowship Title: To Whom It May Concern Members Wishing: 1 Total Copies: 0 Label: Beats & Rhymes Release Date: 12/28/1999 Genres: Pop, Rap & Hip-Hop Styles: West Coast, Experimental Rap, Pop Rap Number of Discs: 1 SwapaCD Credits: 1 UPC: 765481865127 |
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One of the best underground classics you've probably never heard, Freestyle Fellowship's little-known, long-out-of-print first album was brilliantly conceived and executed. As much as we abuse the concept of "ahead of its ... more » |
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Amazon.com One of the best underground classics you've probably never heard, Freestyle Fellowship's little-known, long-out-of-print first album was brilliantly conceived and executed. As much as we abuse the concept of "ahead of its time," the Fellowship's 1991 debut predicted a sound and approach to Left Coast underground hip-hop that not only eschewed the omnipresence of gangsta rap but also issued a bold challenge to all other corners of the hip-hop nation that L.A. was not to be taken lightly. Songs like "Sunshine Men," "For No Reason," and "Here I Am" let MCs like Aceyalone, All in All, Mikay 9, P.E.A.C.E., and Self Jupiter strike out bold statements of lyrical prowess over masterfully sampled tracks that pulsed with insight, energy, and inspiration. Your underground collection is not complete without this addition to the library. --Oliver Wang Similar CDs
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CD ReviewsFreestyle Fellowship-To Whom It May Concern Sam Howard | Minneapolis, MN USA | 04/27/2006 (5 out of 5 stars) "There are a few things I need to clear up before the reader checks out this review. One-I am not a huge FF fan, this is the only album of their I own, and I love it, but don't take me as a condeseur of FF's music. Two, I listen to a lot of hip-hop of this style-from before this CD's KRS-One and the people who came right after like De La Soul (who were actually right around the same time). Three, I've listened to this CD only three times, and generally for me that wouldn't qualify a review-but since there are none, why the eff not right? I don't know what order this was in the Freestyle Fellowship collection, but I can tell you that with the rap I've heard from this time they were in their peak when they made this CD. I like to think of this CD as a De La Soul like flowing CD and a misc. subject CD. The thing I like best about this CD is the flow, something you might expect from a group called "Freestyle Fellowship." Their flows aren't simple rhyming, they run some iambic pantamoter and will often do the rhyme layering that has become a staple of Del Tha Funkee Homosapien. Another thing that I like about this CD is that although this group could be comparable to the modern-day Living Legends, everyone can flow, they don't have one dude rhyming streets ten times in a row (see Night Prowler), and almost as important as flow in group raps, their voices are all distinctly different. The production is pretty good...basically as good as it's gonna get when the artist themself isn't doing the production, and when there's no real "mood" dictated, and therefore there can't be any really dark piano hooks or a violin or anything. Basically they do the best with what they have in terms of production. Another thing that can help the production is emcees who can rap on beat, which FF demonstrates enormous ability at in almost every song. Basically this is an excellent hip-hop album of the early 90's, and definetly one you should pick up." A Los Angeles Underground Classic Chris | St.Louis,MO | 03/13/2004 (5 out of 5 stars) "I need to but this album the samples on this sounds great.
Great wierd style rapping that is Great all of them are classics all of them every fan should buy this." |
