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Your Face or Your Kneecaps
Release Date: 2001
Running Time: 50:01
Label: Bustown Pride
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Before he hit the big (or at least moderately sized) time as a solo artist with the release of his official debut, Dead Ringer, on El-P's Definitive Jux label, RJD2 put together the extremely limited-edition Your Face or Your Kneecaps more or less as a promotional item. Irregardless of its semi-legitimate status, the album managed to get the producer noticed by Rolling Stone magazine, and it is definitely worth tracking down. It is conspicuous as the rawer blueprint for what Dead Ringer would eventually succeed fully at becoming: self-contained instrumental hip-hop of the highest order. Your Face or Your Kneecaps is of a much rougher finish -- it is a self-described "mix CD," after all, and lacks the glossy veneer of a studio product -- but it also has spontaneity and a ragged bedroom soul in spades. The album's main course is "Poorboy Lover Megamix," a virtuoso display of the art of the sampler. The song's 37 snippets (the majority of them cherry-picked out of the 1960s and '70s) mostly run no longer than 30 or 40 seconds apiece, but the whole 39-minute collage comes together like the greatest obscure, free-form funk 'n' jive live jam you've never heard. Both "Rain" and "Find You Out" have the same sort of effect, but on a much smaller scale. While they feel much more rooted in the earth, they are just as haunting as the mystical landscapes of DJ Shadow. And they help make the album more than simply a warm-up from a extraordinary artist. Stanton Swihart, All Music Guide

Tracks:
TitleComposerTime
1Poorboy Lover Megamix2:38
2Poorboy Lover Megamix1:22
3Poorboy Lover Megamix:41
4Poorboy Lover Megamix:09
5Poorboy Lover Megamix:16
6Poorboy Lover Megamix1:03
7Poorboy Lover Megamix:37
8Poorboy Lover Megamix:43
9Poorboy Lover Megamix:41
10Poorboy Lover Megamix:11
11Poorboy Lover Megamix:28
12Poorboy Lover Megamix1:41
13Poorboy Lover Megamix1:28
14Poorboy Lover Megamix1:22
15Poorboy Lover Megamix1:20
16Poorboy Lover Megamix2:23
17Poorboy Lover Megamix:29
18Poorboy Lover Megamix1:50
19Poorboy Lover Megamix:21
20Poorboy Lover Megamix:31
21Poorboy Lover Megamix1:10
22Poorboy Lover Megamix:31
23Poorboy Lover Megamix:41
24Poorboy Lover Megamix:48
25Poorboy Lover Megamix:10
26Poorboy Lover Megamix:31
27Poorboy Lover Megamix1:26
28Poorboy Lover Megamix:12
29Poorboy Lover Megamix:29
30Poorboy Lover Megamix:48
31Poorboy Lover Megamix1:14
32Poorboy Lover Megamix1:00
33Poorboy Lover Megamix1:24
34Poorboy Lover Megamix:36
35Poorboy Lover Megamix2:09
36Poorboy Lover Megamix3:29
37Poorboy Lover Megamix2:33
38Rain5:31
39Find You Out6:10







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