Latyrx - Lateef & Lyrics Born - The Album - DJ Shadow - Underground Hip Hop 2LP
2LP

Latyrx [Lateef & Lyrics Born] – The Album



Label: Solesides – SS008
Format: 2 × Vinyl, LP, Album
Record: Sides A+B VG+ VG++ few light scuffs
Sides C+D VG+ several light scuffs
Cover: VG+ VG++ ringwear, cornerwear
Includes inner lyric sleeve VG+ cornerwear, slight creasing
Country: US
Released: 17 Mar 1997
Genre: Hip Hop
Style: Conscious


Tracklist


A1 Latyrx 5:41
A2 Say That 3:41
A3 The Quickening (The Wreckoning Part II) 5:02


B1 Balcony Beach
Backing Vocals – Joyo 5:29
B2 Live 90.3 '94
Featuring – Free Association, John Tchicai 1:25
B3 The Muzappers Mix: The Flickering Flame/ Rankin' #1
Backing Vocals – Joyo 4:12



C1 Funky Granules 1:49
C2 Bad News
Producer – Chief Xcel
Written-By – X. Mosley 2:45
C3 Off (With) Their Heads (Be Prompt) 3:01
C4 Interlude 0:25



D1 Burnt Pride
Harp [Mouth Harp] – Zen E. Bo
Bass – Big Otions
Organ – K-Versus
Sampler – Lawrence Born
Music By [Backed By] – Virgo Royalty
Guitar – "Mad" Shawn Strummy
Scratches – Turntablist Disk
Drums – "Ill" Al Ballard
Horns – Rich & Cliff
Tambourine – Mack B-Dog 6:55
D2 Scratchapella 0:23
D3 The Wreckoning (Live 45 Mix) 2:46
D4 Burning Hot In Cali On A Saturday Night
Written-By – T. Parker
Rap [Featuring] – Gift Of Gab, The
Producer – Chief Xcel
Featuring [Credited To] – Blackalicious 3:30

Credits
Design – Brent Rollins/sdr
Executive Producer – Latyrx, Solesides Crew, The
Photography By – B+
Producer – DJ Shadow (tracks: A1, A3, D2, D3), Lyrics Born (tracks: A2, B1 to C1, C3 to D1)
Producer [Interludes] – Lyrics Born
Recorded By, Mixed By – Chief Xcel (tracks: A2, B1, B3, C2, D1, D4), DJ Shadow (tracks: A1, A3, D2, D3), Lyrics Born (tracks: A2, B1, B3, C3, D1)
Written-By – J. Davis* (tracks: A1, A3, D2, D3), L. Daumont* (tracks: A1 to A3, B2 to C3, D3, D4), T. Shimura* (tracks: A1, A2, B1 to C1, C3, D1, D4)

Notes

"Live At 90.3 '94" was recorded live at UC Davis college station KDVS in 1994. It features Bay Area jazz musician John Tchicai and funk/jazz band Free Association.

Track C3 recorded & mixed at Live Oak Studios, Berkeley, CA.
A2 to B1, B3, C2, D1 to D4 recorded & mixed at The Glue Factory, San Francisco, CA.
A1 recorded at Nash Studios, Oakland, CA and mixed at The Glue Factory.
C2 recorded & mixed live at Studio A, KDVS by someone whom we don't remember.

Given times for tracks in liner notes:

1. Latryx (five forty five)
2. Say That (three forty one)
3. The Quickening (The Wreckoning Part II) (five 'o two)
4. Balcony Beach (five twenny nine)
5. Live At 90.3 '94 (one twenny fever)
6. The Muzapper's Mix: Aim For The Flickering Flame/ Rankin' #1 (four onety one)
7. Funky Granules (one forty werty nina)
8. Bad News (quarter to three)
9. Off [With] Their Heads [Be Prompt] (I'd say it's about 3:01 or so, I don't know)
10. Interlude (a double deuce)
11. Burnt Pride (ro pun go jyu ichi byo)
12. Scratchapella (veinte tres segundos)
13. The Wreckoning (Live 45 Mix) (2:46)
14. Burning Hot In Cali On A Saturday Night (tray y media)





Latyrx is a hip hop music group consisting of Lateef the Truth Speaker and Lyrics Born. The roots of their partnership lay in the formation of the Solesides collective at the University of California, Davis.


Lyrics Born is deep and contemplative, Lateef speedy and confrontational, and together--on DJ Shadow's heads-up lead track, simultaneously, with only a balance knob and some small print between you and the crash of your rhyme-processing program--their playful mastery has no parallel in today's rap. Not all that many precedents, either, although it's significant that several aren't ghettocentric: early De La, 3rd Bass. They take more pleasure in words themselves than in tales, messages, explicit content. That granted, note that Lateef's riff on "those that talk most got the least to say" merits all the attention it gets, and that Lyrics Born's "Balcony Beach" is rap at its most spiritual-- actually seems wise. Except on the predictable boast tracks toward the end, their language elevates the music even when homeboy Shadow isn't producing, as he usually isn't.




Latyrx - Latyrx

This song has been blowing my mind since '97.

I read about this song in a book called "How To Rap"