5. My Pops On Trumpet

6. Life (Kill Bill)

7. I and I HANDS HIGH

8. Let Me Show You

9. Some People

10. Summertime

11. Accapella Encore

0. Live at Ziggy's Intro

New hip hop album from North Carolina's Ignite and Imagery. This album is made up of lush soulful beats with soulful singing from Imagery, beautiful but sinister hard beats, jazzy beats, funked out beats and others that sound totally original and push the envelope. The subject matter from the MCs varies as well. From stories to experiences, love to parties to fights to real life to just plain lyrical acrobatics. The MCs have smooth and varied melodic flows that can be enjoyed by fans who don't care about lyrics, but at the same time are very lyrical with skillful rhyme schemes and wordplay. For example one of the first verses has rhymes that all start with P (Prose is profound Im professional, a pro with pronouns my progression so, fast and you funeral procession slow) I mean, I knew that I had to give this album to Big Daddy Kane, which inspired me further and lit a fire under my ass (he listened to my last album because he shops where I work, nice guy btw). We spent a lot of time on this album; reworking verses til they were as dope as possible and replacing sounds with live instruments we played in the studio. But some of this album was complete improv in the studio as well. Some mistakes also came out beautifully so we kept them. Whole hooks that Imagery came up with out of nowhere, right on the spot. All of his singing on Rise Above was done like that, Go Low Whoa and more were the same situation. Even though most of it was recorded in 90 to 100 degree weather with no AC in the studio, Imagery told me that he'd look back on these studio sessions as some of the best times in his life. I'd have to agree. And I think that vibe definitely shines through on this album.

Ignite and Imagery grew up skating and freestyling together in Winston-Salem (yeah like the cigarettes). We started making real songs together at 18 at some dude's apartment who made shitty beats. Then Little Brother came out and I figured out I didn't need to spend a fortune on gear, I could just download Fruity Loops to make beats (I currently use Reason and a midi keyboard).We were (and are still) heavily influenced by the Rawkus Era records, as well as Gang Starr, Outkast, Wu Tang, Busta Rhymes, The Roots, Curtis Mayfield, Sublime, Bob Marley and a gang of others. The goal has always been to make music that we and the people we grew up with would love. 


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