EL DA SENSEI RELAX RELATE RELEASE PROFESSIONAL

This impressive bill also features Djinji Brown, Diverse, members of Family Tree, and producer Dug Infinite, who’s just released a split album with No I.D. As its title suggests, Relax lacks some of the intensity of the best Artifacts work, opting for a jazzier sound, but the MC rhymes about old-school virtues with the best of them. Due to past abuse, comments for the Hip-Hop section have been disabled.

EL DA SENSEI RELAX RELATE RELEASE PROFESSIONAL

AAC 256 kbps via Florenfile © 2002 Seven Heads No professional reviews are available for this release. The twosome was savvy in its choice of samples (Grover Washington Jr., David Axelrod, and Bennie Maupin), and its lean, gritty sound became influential after tracks like “C’mon wit da Git Down” and “Dynamite Soul” became underground hits. El Da Sensei - Relax Relate Release (2002) By Sentinel Country: U.S.A. Chicken And Gritz Atlantic 34 1 EL DA SENSEI Relax, Relate. Newark rapper El Da Sensei, who released his solo debut, Relax Relate Release (Seven Heads), in 2002, has also made a serious impact on the underground–he was a member of the Artifacts, a duo that recorded two minor classics for Big Beat/Atlantic in the mid-90s. on combined airplay reports of hip-hop and urban releases from CMJ's panel of college. But though “Like This Anna” clearly salutes Quest’s “Bonita Applebum,” J-Live’s deft wordplay, straightforward beats, and lyrical celebrations of creativity prevent the album from becoming a retro bore. Here the onetime middle school teacher evokes a previous, more principled era of hip-hop–the heyday of New York’s Native Tongues posse, when De La Soul, A Tribe Called Quest, and Black Sheep were the music’s vanguard. El Da Sensei Relax Relate Release 2002 2LP Promo Seven Heads-SVH021-2 Artifacts. But his first disc to receive widespread distribution was last year’s All of the Above (Coup d’Etat). Bootlegs of the record circulated constantly until it was finally released officially in 2001 on Triple Threat/Seven Heads. But his debut album, The Best Part, which was supposed to drop in 1999, was lost in the shuffle during corporate restructuring.

A couple of independent singles the following year bolstered his rep and eventually won him a contract with Payday/London. Due to past abuse, comments for the Hip-Hop section have been disabled. The album featured guest appearances from Sadat X (of Brand Nubian), J-Live, Organized Konfusion (Pharoah Monch and Prince Po), Mike Zoot & F.T., Asheru, and others.New York MC J-Live caught a good break in 1995, when the hip-hop magazine The Source singled him out for its Unsigned Hype column. 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. El Da Sensei stepped onto the hip-hop scene as one half of the Newark, NJ, duo, the Artifacts.

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