| Product Summary | | Label: Chordant Music Group | | UPC: 00669447287100 | | Release Date: 8/27/2002 | | Buy.com Sku: 60566511 | | Item#: MPN2G3 | Format:  CD |
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Disc 1
| | Song Title | Sample | | 1. Here We Go ~ Grits (Rap) |  | | 2. Ooh Ahh - (featuring TobyMac) ~ Grits (Rap) | | | 3. Runnin' - (featuring V3) ~ Grits (Rap) | | | 4. Tennessee Bwoys ~ Grits (Rap) | | | 5. Be Mine - (featuring Nirva Dorsaint) ~ Grits (Rap) | | | 6. Ill Coined Phrase - (Interlude) ~ Grits (Rap) | | | 7. Seriously ~ Grits (Rap) | | | 8. At The Video Shoot - (Interlude) ~ Grits (Rap) | | | 9. Video Girl - (featuring Knowdaverbs) ~ Grits (Rap) | | | 10. Believe - (featuring Jennifer Knapp) ~ Grits (Rap) | | | 11. What Do You Believe - (Interlude) ~ Grits (Rap) | | | 12. Get It ~ Grits (Rap) | | | 13. Make Room ~ Grits (Rap) | | | 14. Keep Movin' - (Interlude) ~ Grits (Rap) | | | 15. Sunny Days - (featuring Nirva Dorsaint) ~ Grits (Rap) | | | 16. Love Child - (featuring Antonio Phelon) ~ Grits (Rap) | | | 17. Art Of Translation, The - (Interlude) ~ Grits (Rap) | |
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Notes & Personnel Info |  | This is an Enhanced CD, which contains both regular audio tracks, multimedia computer files, and Here We Go (The Video). | | Personnel includes: Grits, Toby Mac, Jennifer Knapp, Nirva Dorsaint, Knowdaverbs, Antonio Phelon, V3. | | Producers: Ric "Form" Robbins, Otto Price, Teron Carter. | | Recorded at Soundstage Studios, Formulation, Juggernaut Soundlab, House Of Fleming, Nashville, Tennessee; House Of Insomnia, Franklin, Tennessee. | | THE ART OF TRANSLATION was nominated for the 2003 Grammy Awards for Best Rock Gospel Album. | | This is an Enhanced CD, which contains both regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files. | | On their fourth outing, Grammatical Revolution in the Spirit not only comes up with the best Christian hip-hop album ever, but the Nashville duo delivers a Dirty South tour de force that only OutKast has matched. The difference between the two groups is that Coffee (Stacy Jones) and Bonafide (Teron Carter) ignore their Atlanta brethren's exotic P-Funk fancies (both lyrical and musical) in favor of plainspoken rhymes, driving bounce, and sledgehammer hooks. But that certainly doesn't imply that GRITS lacks innovation, as The Art of Translation has a sense of adventure that hip-hop's mainstream lacks. More importantly, the group's style-hopping is universally successful, seamlessly incorporating Afro-Cuban sizzle ("Here We Go"), metallic guitar ("Seriously"), and even angsty alt-rock ("Believe," featuring labelmate Jennifer Knapp on the hook) into big-bottomed beats with the help of mixer Serban Ghenea, who adds the hit-bound sheen he brought to albums from Jay-Z, N.E.R.D., and Musiq. Yet, great as the album sounds, nothing on it is more remarkable than the sound of two conscious and gifted MCs responding to hip-hop thuggery with marriage and Jesus, instead of a hopeless "reality" or revolutionary tripe. "When GRITS is hot they bubble," they note on "Get It." They're hot here, on the most potent antidote to hip-hop's parade of pathologies in some time. ~ Dan LeRoy |
Musical Guests | | TobyMac | | Jennifer Knapp | | Knowdaverbs | | V3 | | Nirva Dorsaint | | Antonio Phelon |
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| | Technical Info | | Release Date : 08/13/2002 | | Original Release Date : 2002 | | Catalog ID : 2871 | | Label : Gotee | | Number of Discs : 1 | | Studio/Live : Studio | | Mono/Stereo : Stereo | | SPAR Code : n/a | | UPC : 00669447287100 |
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