| Product Summary | | Label: Universal Music Group | | UPC: 00602517144040 | | Release Date: 6/26/2007 | | Buy.com Sku: 204381872 | | Item#: M3KSCK | Format:  CD |
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(P) 2007 Universal Records & SRC Records Inc., a division of UMG Recordings
(C) 2007 Universal Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
| Pharoahe Monch has dropped his highly anticipated sophomore album, Desire. The album features production from the Alchemist, Denaun Porter (D12), Black Milk and Pharoahe himself. The album is breath of fresh air for the current music climate as Monch has delivered a 13 track album that will be the best hip hop album of 2007 and a classic for years to come.
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Notes & Personnel Info |  | Personnel: Pharoahe Monch (vocals); Pharoahe Monch; Mela Machinko (vocals, background vocals); Mike Chav (guitar, programming); Mike Chav, Rob (guitar); Tower of Power (horns); Davel "Bo" McKenzie (keyboards); 99 Fingaz (bass guitar); Sean C. (drums, programming); Sean C. (drums); J. Clyde, Lee Stone, T. Jamerson, Lee Stone, T. Jamerson, Black Milk (programming); Boogie Blind (scratches); Erykah Badu, Tone, Candice Anderson (background vocals); Arden Altino, Bamm Davis (keyboards); L.V. (drums, programming); The Alchemist (programming); Lenesha Randolph, St. Juste (background vocals). | | Additional personnel: Dwele (horns); Mister Porter (programming); Showtyme (background vocals); Mela Machinko, Erykah Badu, Tone, Tower of Power. | | Audio Mixers: Neil Pogue; Doug Wilson; Mike Chav; Brian Stanley . | | Recording information: Area 51 Studios, Detroit, MI; C Black Recording Studios, VA; Effigy Studios; FBT Studios; Grand Ma's Hands Studio, Queens, NY; Mirror Image Studfios, New York, NY; Quad Studios, Nashville, TN; The Cutting Room, New York, NY; The Lab Studios, NY. | | Photographer: Josh Rothstein. | | The thinking man's favorite MC, Pharoahe Monch put in work in the 1990s as one half of Organized Konfusion. His exceptional 1999 debut, INTERNAL AFFAIRS (perhaps the apex of Rawkus's first wave), raised the bar for intelligent lyricism. After an eight year absence, the South Side, Queens native brings a gang of stress build-up to his sophomore release, DESIRE. Setting his sights on everything from crooked record labels to the war in Iraq, Pharoahe unleashes his lyrical fury with a barrage of head-scratching homonyms and tongue-twisted alliteration that puts Das EFX to shame. He speaks of gun violence on "When the Gun Draws," reworks PE's "Welcome to the Terrordome" for the new millennium, and gets a little crossover on "Body Baby." The beats bang thanks to the Alchemist, Denaun Porter, Sean C, Black Milk, Lee Stone, and Pharoahe himself, while Erykah Badu, Mr. Porter, Dwele, and Tone are featured. Without a doubt, DESIRE ranks among the best hip-hop albums of 2007. |
Producer: Alchemist; T. Jamerson; Davel "Bo" McKenzie; Kellen "J. Clyde" Ford; Lee Stone; Davel 'Bo' McKenzie; Kellen 'J. Clyde' Ford; Alchemist; Mr. Porter; Grind Music; T. Jamerson; Black Milk; Lee Stone |
Engineer: Alchemist; Mike Chav; Christos Tsantilis; Sprague Williams; Lee Stone; Blair Wells |
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| | Technical Info | | Release Date : 06/26/2007 | | Original Release Date : 2007 | | Catalog ID : 8069 | | Label : Universal Distribution | | Number of Discs : 1 | | Runtime : 47m : 21s | | Studio/Live : Studio | | Mono/Stereo : Stereo | | SPAR Code : n/a | | UPC : 00602517144040 |
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| | Professional Reviews | | Spin (p.93)
- 4 stars out of 5 -- "[He] demonstrates why his rapping is nearly unparalleled in diction, creativity, and storytelling."Entertainment Weekly (p.69)
- "His intricate rhymes ricochet gracefully off gospel-inspired backdrops....It's this year's rap album to beat." -- Grade: A Uncut (p.109)
- 4 stars out of 5 -- "DESIRE's lyrical broadsides coil like barbed wire round beats which call to mind the activist soul of the 1960s." XXL (Magazine)
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- "12 tracks of adamantine lyricism tempered by imaginative concepts....'Push' is a horn-driven, bluesy number produced by Monch..." |
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| | Bio | | | Pharoahe Monch To have Pharoahe Monch's reputation precede him would be a discredit to his long-standing body of creative achievement. Pharoahe Monch's legend precedes him like few lyricists committing words to wax in hip-hop today. After eight years as half of one of rap music's most revered and enduring underground duos, Organized Konfusion, and contributing two highlights ("WWIII" and "Mayor") to 1999's acclaimed 'official mix tape', Soundbombing II, the mighty Monch now delivers his inaugural solo album, Internal Affairs, on hip-hop skilltrade haven, Rawkus Records. Featuring guest appearances by an all-star cast of vocal luminaries -- Busta Rhymes, Canibus, M.O.P., Common and Black Thought of The Roots -- and production from esteemed boardsmen DJ Premier, DJ Scratch, Diamond D, Baby Paul, Lee Stone and Pharoahe himself, it has rapidly become one of the most anticipated releases of the year. Anyone remotely familiar with Organized Konfusion's much-lauded triumvirate of albums --1991's self-titled debut, 1994's Stress: The Extinction Agenda and 1997's The Equinox -- will readily attest to Monch and partner Prince Poetry's penchant for sophisticated, relentlessly expressive wordplay and grand, state-of-the-art production. While Internal Affairs never strays far from this provocative musical foundation, the album also provides a personal narrative line that, as indicated by the title, counts several emotional stops amongst its varied travels.
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