My Last Good Deed(Explicit Version) (2007)

Product Summary Label: FONTANA UPC: 00655323012423 Release Date: 5/1/2007 Buy.com Sku: 204381929 Item#: M3KU9M Format:  CD Song Listing Disc 1 Song Title Sample 1. Intro: Lyrically Beautiful - (with J Crow) ~ A-Plus 2. One, The - (with Blessman) ~ A-Plus 3. A Plus ~ A-Plus 4. Beautiful Thing, A - (with Casual) ~ A-Plus 5. Patna Please ~ A-Plus 6. Whats Hannin - (with Ty Nitty) ~ A-Plus 7. My Last Good Deed ~ A-Plus 8. My Dub Song ~ A-Plus 9. Nothin Fake / The Ultimate - (with Del Tha Funkee Homosapien/Pep Love) ~ A-Plus 10. Goodtime Charlie ~ A-Plus 11. Kiss the Sky - (with Jennifer Johns) ~ A-Plus 12. Javelin - (with JC/Tynitty) ~ A-Plus 13. Far Away - (with Sunspot Jonz/Femi) ~ A-Plus 14. Right Quick - (with Souls Of Mischief) ~ A-Plus 15. Outro: Unbroken - (with Alena Vance) ~ A-Plus   Album Notes and Credits Notes & Personnel Info Personnel: A Plus (rap vocals); Del tha Funkee Homosapien, Souls of Mischief, Casual (rap vocals); DJ Toure (scratches). A founding member of Oakland's Souls of Mischief, A Plus puts together a tight, focused record on his first official solo release, MY LAST GOOD DEED. Along with Aagee, A Plus produced most of the album's 17 cuts under the name Compound7--with J-Zone, Jake One, Colely Cole, and Q-Tones contributing a beat apiece. The consistent display of sheer mic skills and cohesive production throughout make MY LAST GOOD DEED among the tightest albums to come out of the Hieroglyphics camp. Casual, Domino, Pep Love, Del tha Funkee Homosapien, J Crow, and Bless Man, among others, make guest appearances. After spending years as part of Souls of Mischief and the Hieroglyphics consortium, as well as his work as a producer, A Plus has finally gotten around to making his own solo album. And My Last Good Deed is a consistent release that proves A Plus is just as capable rhyming alone as he is with a group. Though Jake One and J Zone each contribute a track, most of the production is handled by Compound7 (comprised of A Plus and AAGEE), who make strong, modern beats that take on a kind of post-millennium feel, urban and vaguely industrial -- synthesized, electronica-influenced keys and percussion -- but still West-Coast warm. There are, of course, an assortment of guest MCs, few of which are particularly notable (the exceptions being fellow Hieros Del, Pep Love, Casual, and Souls of Mischief), but A Plus is more than able to hold down rhymes on his own. His delivery isn't especially unique -- neither slow nor fast, drawn-out or syncopated -- but it's steady and uniform as he spits out bars about weed, his own subliminal skills, and everyday life. He's not a conscious rapper, though he does have a few songs about appreciating life ("Good Time Charlie," "A Beautiful Thing") but he's not mainstream or gangsta, either. He's a dude who likes to smoke and can come up with some pretty clever metaphors (wittily married in "Dub Song," about marijuana, in which he replaces common phrases with the "love" with "dub": "Lace it up and show you that dub hurts," "Want to grow it myself, my dub unconditional," and "I need dub, I feel like LL," are just a few of the examples). If anything, My Last Good Deed is too average-guy-ish, too consistent, with not quite enough personality. None of the 15 (plus two bonus tracks) on the album are bad, at all, but none of them really grab you, either, stand out from the crowd and make you want to play them again and again. This isn't to say that My Last Good Deed is a bad record, though, because it's absolutely not. It's done well, by a talented, and more importantly, practiced and professional MC, but it lacks some of the sheer excitable talent that propelled other Bay Area MCs to the top. ~ Marisa Brown Producer: Jake One Musical Guests Souls Of Mischief   Technical Info Release Date : 05/01/2007 Original Release Date : 2007 Catalog ID : 230 124 Label : Hieroglyphics Imperium Records Number of Discs : 1 Studio/Live : Studio Mono/Stereo : Stereo SPAR Code : n/a UPC : 00655323012423    Product Image