Name: Aloe Blacc - 99 Problems (Jay-Z Cover) by edvanilla
Duration: 2 min 47 s
Description: A cover of 99 Problems perfomed by Aloc Blacc

This Aloe Blacc impersonation is spot on. Bravo.

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Listen to "Show Me The Way" Feat. Aloe Blacc, the brand new single from Dilated Peoples forthcoming album Directors of Photography. 

Produced by: Jake One 

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Dilated Peoples - Show Me The Way Feat. Aloe Blacc

A cover of 99 Problems perfomed by Aloc Blacc

Aloe Blacc - 99 Problems (Jay-Z Cover)

Sunday, March 29th, 2015 marked the 10th anniversary of Blueprint's debut solo album on Rhymesayers, "1988". We've been celebrating this anniversary for a whole week with special posts on Instagram and Soundcloud, PLUS we've sale-priced the album (CD and Digital) at Fifth Element for a limited time. This week only, you can buy "1988" for just $4.99! Order the album from Fifth Element now, and we'll throw in a free digital download of DJ Rare Groove's official "1988 Live" mixtape, which was the exclusive bonus offered with the album pre-order back in 2005. 
Get the album now and experience the sounds of 1988!
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"No Half Smokin'" was a B-side cut on the "Print Is Goin' Off" 7-inch vinyl release, which dropped around the same time as the "1988" album. Both songs were reinterpretations of 80's Hip-Hop classics; Big Daddy Kane's "Ain't No Half-Steppin'" and Biz Markie's "Biz Is Goin' Off", respectively. The original songs were both released on the Cold Chillin' label, so the labels for this 7-inch were also reinterpreted to mimic the 12" single labels on those original Cold Chillin' releases.

This song may not have been heard as widely as the album, so we thought we'd share it here, too. This 7-inch is still available in limited quantities at Fifth Element for only $2.99! Get It now: http://fifthelementonline.com/products/blueprint-print-is-goin-off-7-inch-vinyl

Blueprint - No Half Smokin'

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16 BONUS TRACK The Original Featuring Benefit (and Mr. Green)

produced by L'Orange
vocals by Jeremiah Jae
guest vocals by Gift of Gab

The Night Took Us In Like Family
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/night-took-us-in-like-family/id962648340

About the album:
Enter those bloody alleys blocked off with yellow tape and chalk outlines. Secret backrooms riddled with sly crooks and blunt smoke. Slink into the underworld, the seedy shadowland owned by Jeremiah Jae and L’Orange on their noir-hop opus, "The Night Took Us In Like Family." 

Consider it the alchemy of Madvillain and "The Maltese Falcon": a five-part fable of tangled crimes, narrow escapes, and raining lead. The door busts open with “A Conspicuous Man.” L’Orange’s carefully severed cinematic clips hold the frame steady. The Windy City-raised Jae muscles the narrative forward—the hitman creeping. 

Beats bend sinister with imagery aiming for the temples. Jae invokes dark clouds, crowns of thorns and LSD eyes. Bars written in dirt. Samples are disembodied and ethereal. It’s like a grand jury indictment doubling as a Greek chorus. A song title like “Ice Obsidian” says it all. This is frozen lava, black and white celluloid, the spoils won by sinners. Watch your back rap. 

Or maybe it’s the hip-hop version of the gangster flicks made before the Hays Code—raw and uncensored, deeply artful without pretension. Pitchfork once described Jae as: “a lot of people talk loud and say nothing; Jeremiah Jae finds strength in the inverse." On "The Night Took Us In Like Family," he inhabits both eulogizer and executioner. He triumphantly looms over the corpses and explains how this all came to be. L’Orange supplies concrete requiems of dusted soul: beats to crack safes, soundtracks to stealth assassinations. 

If gangsta rap remains one of the genre’s most well worn tropes, Jae and L’Orange take inspiration from the rarely tapped roots of the tradition. This isn’t riffing on Oliver Stone’s "Scarface" like popular cliché, but rather the original Al Capone exploitation flick from the early 30s. Jae conjures a villain who vaporizes. Run-the-Jewels-raw but still sophisticated. Cuban cigars stuffed with California chronic. 

The picture unfolds wide frame. Guest stars include New York poison dart-thrower, Homeboy Sandman and Blackalicious’ Gift of Gab. The chapters flesh out the story: The Conspicuous Man skulks into “God Complex,” “The Damning,” “Revenge and Escape.” Jae and L’ Orange build their world as a catacomb and find a way to escape just as the walls feel like they’re closing in. It fades out as “A Macabre Instrumental” plays. The funeral is closed casket. The memories aren’t easily disposed.

L'Orange & Jeremiah Jae - All I Need (feat. Gift Of Gab)

Feat. Deacon The Villain and Natti of @CunninLynguists 
No Boundaries EP - Available NOW: bit.ly/noboundariesep

Progress feat. CunninLynguists (prod. HansSOLO)

Posting this up to coincide with my retrospective review of this Rhymesayers classic album. Peep the review, analytical breakdown, insight, and some album lyrics here: 

09 Southside Myth

The lyrics to this outstanding song are pretty damn poetic and profound.  My favorite verses by Tonedeff are found on CunninLynguists songs he’s featured on, even though he has a ton of solo work…probably because his lyrical style always melds exceedingly well with Kno’s beautiful production.

“You’ll catch bigger fish in the sea if you manage not to drown in it
It’s sad, but proud or not, most your standards go down a notch
When loneliness drinks at the bar you set too high
Cause, It isn’t really my time, is it? Shit…I just found the watch
But hearing the bell toll for me twice a day, has me fearing my grandfather clock
And I can’t die without trying. My hands tied in knots
Knowing that I’ll never learn to brave the waves if I stand by the docks
Love is hampered by thought”

Aloe Blacc - 99 Problems (Jay-Z Cover)

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