Slum Village - Villa Manifesto - Discussion Thread

[Leggy Hendrix]

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          01  02:31 Bare Witness Ft. Babu                               ██
          02  03:03 Lock It Down                                        ██
          03  04:15 Scheming Ft J. Dilla, Posdnuos, and Phife           ██
          04  03:05 Earl Flinn                                          ██
          05  03:37 Faster                                              ██
          06  02:53 2000 Beyond Ft. J Dilla                             ██
          07  02:45 Dance Ft. Ab                                        ██
          08  07:25 Dont Fight The Feeling Ft. Dwele                    ██
          09  03:33 Um Um Ft. Keys                                      ██
          10  03:51 The Set Up                                          ██
          11  03:10 The Reunion Pt. 2                                   ██
          12  02:52 Where Do We Go From Here Ft. Little Brother         ██
          13  03:47 We'll Show You Ft. Ab                               ██
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bout to check this out, what you all think?

[13th Duke]

I'll definitely be buying this. Apparently its the last ever Slum Village album.

I like the touch of still putting Dilla & Baatin's names over the SV badge with the other two.

[NotoriousTDA]

holla!

gunna check this out

[Leggy Hendrix]

people sleeping 

[WCoastTillIDie]

Even without a full album with Jay Dee production, I really like this album.  T3 and Baatin (RIP) don't have the best lyrics, but man they flow so well together.  It's always entertaining to hear those 2 together, and Elzhi is a beast on the mic.  Nevertheless, it's a great album, very cohesive sounding.  Check it out!

[Matty]

hot shit on here

Mr. Porter dropped a banging Dilla style beat

[Paul]

What's the production credits? Gonna check this out tomorrow I think.

[Leggy Hendrix]

01) Bare Witness (Feat. DJ Babu) (2:30) (Produced by Khrysis)
02) Lock It Down (3:03) (Produced by J Dilla)
03) Scheming (Feat. J. Dilla, De La Soul & Phife) (4:15) (Produced by Young RJ)
04) Earl Flinn (3:04) (Produced by Young RJ)
05) Faster (Feat. Colin Munroe) (3:37) (Produced by Young RJ)
06) 2000 Beyond (Feat. J. Dilla & ?uestlove) (2:53) (Produced by Young RJ)
07) Dance (Feat. AB) (2:45) (Produced by Dave West)
08) Don't Fight The Feeling (Feat. Dwele)/Daylight (7:24) (Produced by Mr. Porter/T3)
09) Um Um (Feat. T. Richardson) (3:33) (Produced by Young RJ)
10) The Set Up (3:51) (Produced by Hi-Tek)
11) The Reunion Part 2 (Feat. Illa J) (3:09) (Produced by Young RJ)
12) Where Do We Go From Here (Feat. Little Brother) (2:52) (Produced by Young RJ)
13) We'll Show You (Feat. AB) (3:47) (Produced by J Dilla)

[13th Duke]

Thats a nice production line-up. Young RJ is cool and has a sound that fits them, then the guest producers are all superb. The "Slum Village" self-titled album from about 2005 was great and was mostly produced by him, Black Milk and T3, so theyve proved in the past they can make an album without Dilla's beats and still sound great.

Slum Village at their peak were arguably one of the best hip-hop groups around. Jay Dee's music is timeless, and even though Baatin, T3 and to a certain extent Elzhi aren't the best three emcees in the world, they all sound the best over the SV sound. Baatin and T3 made Dilla's sound their own, in the same way no-one sounds as good over a Pete Rock beat than CL Smooth.

[D-Nice]

Dope album. Like WestCoast said it is very cohesive for all of the verses they had to cut and paste for Dilla and Baatin.

[Matty]

bump. ill album, stays on repeat

[Leggy Hendrix]

just saw on another forum that apparently track 12 - Where Do We Go From Here, along with 2 others, was originally supposed to be on Rapper Big Poohs upcoming album Dirty Pretty Things...it seems that T3 is fucking over a lot of people at the moment