In the fall of 2002, El finally dropped his debut solo album, Relax, Relate, Release, through Seven Heads Entertainment.
During this time, he dropped the singles "Frontline" and "Got That" to let fans know he was still working. After the split, El Da Sensei went on his own traveling around the world and appeared on numerous compilations from Japan to Norway to Germany. Although not nearly successful as the first album, many hip-hop fans claim the album is an "underground classic," spawning the underground hits "The Art of Facts" and "The Ultimate." Shortly after the release of the second album, El and Tame decided on an amicable break up. They had developed a fan base of hardcore hip-hoppers, being graffiti artists and hip-hop purists themselves they sparked a new sub-culture in hip-hop called "backpackers." In 1996, the group followed up their debut with their sophomore album, That's Them. After that initial hit, the Artifacts splashed the world with joints like "Come on With the Come On" and "Dynamite Soul," and went onto tour the U.S. They released their debut album, Between a Rock & a Hard Place, in 1994 with "Wrong Side of the Tracks" as the lead single and video. The Artifacts first rose to fame with the hit "Wrong Side of the Tracks." After El Da Sensei and his partner Tame-One sent a rough demo to Bobbito the Barber at WKCR in New York, the group was signed to Big Beat/Atlantic Records.
At this point, with four classic albums on her name, it was safe to proclaim Missy Elliott one of the GOATs.El Da Sensei stepped onto the hip-hop scene as one half of the Newark, NJ, duo, the Artifacts. Like the album cover, the content has kind of a throwback feel in places too as Timbaland and Missy pay homage to the old school and the golden era by the use of beats, samples, and lyrical references – best evidenced by the stand-out “Funky Fresh Dressed”. “Gossip Folks, (with Ludacris)” “Bring The Pain” (with Method Man), “Back In The Day” (with Jay-Z), “Slide”, and of course “Work It” are other highlights on this album, but overall Under Construction is a super consistent album – there are zero skips necessary on this album. As always Timbaland comes with exciting, energetic backdrops for Missy to do her thing – once more striking the exact right balance between pop-sensibilities and street Hip Hop attitude. God’s Son may fall just below the top tier of his albums, but that means it’s still damn good.įollowing three groundbreaking platinum-plus albums, Under Construction is Missy Elliott’s fourth studio album – and it maintains the high standards Missy set with her first three. “Book of Rhymes” is an ingenious track in which Nas supposedly is flipping through old notebooks and spitting what he finds (some verses are only a couple of lines) and “Made You Look” is a NY street classic. There’s the dedication to his mother who had died earlier that year – “Dance” and the subsequent wondering about what happens when we die – “Heaven” – but also the duet with the ghostly presence of 2Pac – “Thugz Mansion (N.Y.) – and even the docu-style recounting of his career and beefs – “Last Real N***a Alive” – all of which is imbued with a sense of regret and disappointment. More introspective than any of his other albums God’s Son has a melancholy sense of loss and sorrow hanging over much of it. Ive got a album to do All yall magazine writers prepare for your review I kick that shit to make you feel relieved Feel release. Speakin Lyrics El Da Sensei Relax Relate Release. Soundtrack Lyrics Top 100 Artists Top 100 Lyrics Submit Lyrics Contact us Read more than 8 Millions Lyrics. Most will agree that Illmatic is his absolute best album and Nastradamus his messy worst, but in between those two? It will be hard for anyone to argue against the statement that God’s Son easily belongs to the better half of Nas’ albums. Speakin lyrics performed by El Da Sensei. Fluf over substance – that’s the world we live in and that’s one of the points this album so cleverly makes.įew discographies in Hip Hop are food for discussion as much as Nas’ body of work is. In a year where an album like Nellyville sold over 6 million units, this Mr. Lyrically astute and the production to back up the poignancy of the narrative – this is an important album and one that has to be remembered. The thematic and narrative scope of I Phantom is incredible, and even it is heavy stuff at times, this is a brilliant album.
Lif is resurrected as a Hip Hop messiah), and you’ll know what you’re in for. I Phantom is filled with excellent tracks – if you somehow missed out on this album and you want to have a taste of the album, check out the 8-minute epic “ Return Of The B-Boy” (in which Mr. The cover of the album sums up the lyrical content – I Phantom deals with media, government, food, religion, law, sex, violence, drugs, and money – and how these things control and run people’s lives and how they are used to wipe out a person’s individuality.
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