| Product Summary | | Label: Hieroglyphics Imperium | | UPC: 00655323010528 | | Release Date: 7/24/2001 | | Buy.com Sku: 60491040 | | Item#: MPC6QT | Format:  CD |
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Disc 1
| | Song Title | Sample | | 1. Grime And Grit ~ Pep Love |  | | 2. Living Is Beautiful ~ Pep Love | | | 3. Grind, The ~ Pep Love | | | 4. Fight Club, The ~ Pep Love | | | 5. U.S. / U.S. Interlude / Untitled - (hidden track) ~ Pep Love | | | 6. Onus, The (What You Are) ~ Pep Love | | | 7. T.A.M.I. ~ Pep Love | | | 8. My Energy ~ Pep Love | | | 9. Ascension ~ Pep Love | | | 10. Act. Phenom ~ Pep Love | | | 11. New Religion, A ~ Pep Love | | | 12. Pacific Heights ~ Pep Love | | | 13. Karma (The Snake Charmer) ~ Pep Love | | | 14. If You Can't Beat Em ~ Pep Love | | | 15. Different ~ Pep Love | | | 16. Black People (Melanin Magnetic) ~ Pep Love | |
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| | Album Notes and Credits |
Notes & Personnel Info |  | Personnel includes: Pep Love, Major Terror, Tajai, The Grouch, Casual (rap vocals); Eric McFadden (acoustic guitar, mandolin); Babu, DJ Lex, Jay-Bix (vinyl scratches); Goapele (background vocals). | | Producers include: Jay-Biz, A-Plus, Evidence, Bicasso, Mako. | | Engineers include: Tajal, Casual, Toure. | | Includes liner notes by Pep Love. | | If the Hieroglyphics crews' wildly inconsistent discography proves anything, it proves you can count on them to deliver one thing -- dope debuts. However, from being too experimental (Del's Both Sides of the Brain), missing in action (Casual), or just woefully inept (Souls' Trilogy), Oaktown's finest have seen their stock as individual artists, and as a crew, plummet. With history on his side, though, the last Boy Scout of Hieroglyphics, Pep Love, has finally stepped out of the shadows with his rejuvenating debut Ascension. For those who yearn for uplifting and positive hip-hop, then Love is your kind of emcee, as Ascension yearns to inspire. Eschewing material greed and trivial matters, Love seeks to reach higher levels of consciousness, and wants you to join him on this self-help trek. Yet, what separates Love from other pulpit prophesiers is that he drops knowledge ("Grime and Grit" and "U.S.") without sounding overly preachy. Likewise, Love's pleas for responsibility ("What You Are," "A-Plus") and the ode to young love, "T.A.M.I.," in an otherwise irresponsible genre are utterly refreshing. While Ascension is a notch below the classic debuts delivered by Love's more established teammates, it is a critical building block, as it generates renewed faith in the Hiero collective. As "Act-Phenom" reiterates, Ascension "is a ritual you will enjoy." ~ Matt Conaway |
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| | Technical Info | | Release Date : 07/24/2001 | | Original Release Date : 2001 | | Catalog ID : 230 105 | | Label : Hieroglyphics Imperium Records | | Number of Discs : 1 | | Studio/Live : Studio | | Mono/Stereo : Stereo | | SPAR Code : n/a | | UPC : 00655323010528 |
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| | Professional Reviews | | Spin (9/01, p.170)
- 7 out of 10 - "...Over ponderous percussion and strings worthy of Carradine's KUNG-FU...Pep stays tight, never slurring his spiraling syllables or getting needlessly abstract..."Alternative Press (12/01, p.90)
- 8 out of 10 - "...An air-tight debut..." |
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