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Aceyalone
Love & Hate
Release Date: 2003 06 03
Label: Deconstruction
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As more and more great rappers find the underground is the perfect place to camp -- for the respect and freedom, if not the royalties and pay-offs -- records like Aceyalone's Love & Hate will, fortunately, become a more common occurrence. Released on Project Blowed, an open-mic night that gradually morphed into a winning record label, the album is a simple, straight-ahead match of excellent MC with great producers. Four of the best tracks come from PMD, front-loaded and featuring big-pimpin' beats and a clutch of cutting, digital effects. Def Jux's RJD2 contributes fractured, glittering productions to "Lost Your Mind" and "Takeoff," and the same label's El-P drops by to produce and drop rhymes over the dense, apocalyptic "City of Shit." Aceyalone also rises to the challenge on another high-profile underground soundclash, "Lights Out" featuring Antipop Consortium, picking up and casting off a dozen vocal pseudonyms in a single verse. His rhymes are among the best of his career, and he covers a lot of ground over 15 cuts; nearly every time he makes a record, he makes it clear that rap music has so much possibility that's never dreamed of by most on a major label. Whether he's trading licks with Oakland hero Casual on a hard-hitting jam ("Let Me Hear Sumn"), or talking directly to the listener, recounting a depressing, mood-of-the-country conversation during an airline flight ("Ms. Amerikka"), he makes it clear that, when it comes to the West Coast ten years on from the G-funk era, Aceyalone means much more than Snoop Dogg. John Bush, All Music Guide

Tracks:
TitleComposerTime
1Love and Hate Theme1:33
2JunkmanHayes3:53
3Let Me Hear SumnHill, Owens, Hayes4:14
4Lost Your MindHayes4:02
5In StereoHayes3:19
6TakeoffHayes3:58
7Love and HateHayes3:35
8Saga ContinuesHayes, Pointer5:05
9Moonlit SkiesHayes, Mohlabane4:17
10Ace CowboyBigham, Hayes5:30
11So Much PainOwens, Glenn, Hayes4:30
12Find OutOwens, Hayes3:40
13City of ShitMeline, Hayes3:46
14Lights OutHayes, Greene, Austin3:52
15Ms. Amerikkka [*]Hayes4:24







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