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Featuring material recorded over 1994-1997, Company Flow’s official full-length debut, Funcrusher Plus, had a galvanizing effect on the underground hip-hop scene. It was one of the artiest, most abstract hip-hop albums ever recorded, paving the way for a new brand of avant-garde experimentalism that blatantly defied commercial considerations. Musically and lyrically, Funcrusher Plus is abrasive and confrontational, informed by left-wing politics and the punked-out battle cry “independent as f.ck.” It’s intentionally not funky and certainly not danceable; the beats are tense and jagged, and often spaced far apart to leave room for the MCs’ complex rhymes. Bigg Jus and El-P’s lyrical technique is so good it’s sometimes nearly impenetrable, assaulting the listener with dense barrages of words that take a few listens to decipher. Even if this is all highly off-kilter, it’s also a conscious return to hip-hop on its most basic, beats-and-rhymes level; hooks or jazz and funk samples aren’t even considerations here. The production is spacy and atmospheric, often employing weird ambient noises and futuristic synths that clash with the defiantly low-budget production values. It’s also quite minimalist, particularly on tracks like “Vital Nerve,” which is basically just a three-note synth line over a beat, and the classic Indelible MC’s single “The Fire in Which You Burn,” where Co-Flow trades rhymes with the Juggaknots over a skittering beat and sitar drone.
Other tracks have sci-fi and conspiracy theory undertones; some are set in an Orwellian dystopia, while some pointedly satirize corporate and capitalist greed. Yet there’s also some straightforward realism, as on “Last Good Sleep,” a frightening domestic abuse drama. Funcrusher Plus demands intense concentration, but also rewards it, and its advancement of hip-hop as an art form is still being felt. It’s difficult, challenging music, to be sure, and it’s equally far ahead of its time.
Tracklist: 01 Bad Touch Example 02 8 Steps To Perfection 03 Collude / Intrude 04 Blind 05 Silence 06 Legends 07 Help Wanted 08 Population Control 09 Lune TNS 10 Definitive 11 Lencorcism 12 89.9 Detrimental 13 Vital Nerve 14 Tragedy Of War (In III Parts) 15 The Fire In Which You Burn 16 Krazy Kings 17 Last Good Sleep 18 Info Kill II 19 Funcrush Scratch Download: FLAC – 320 kbps –.
01 – You Don’t Wanna Go 2 War (feat. TRU & Mystikal) 02 – The Party Don’t Stop (feat. Master P & Foxy Brown) 03 – I Pitty U 04 – Who Got Tha Clout (feat. Mystikal) 05 – Ain’t 2 Be Played Wit 06 – Unlady Like 07 – Intro (feat.
Loren) 08 – I’ll Take Ya Man ’97 (feat. Salt ‘N’ Pepa & Hurby Luv Bug) 09 – Let’s Get It Straight 10 – 4ever Tru (feat. TRU) 11 – Bring Da Drama (feat. Serv-On) 12 – All N’s 13 – Mama’s Family (feat. Fiend, KLC, Kane & Abel, Mac & Mr.
Serv-On) 14 – I Don’t Know Why (feat. Dick) 15 – Hoodlum Poetry 16 – Rainy Dayz (feat. Beats By the Pound) 17 – Mommie’s Angels (feat. Dick) 18 – You & Me (feat. O’Dell & T.C.) 19 – R.I.P.
Jill 20 – Thank You (feat. Puffs intro 02. Do You Wanna Get $ (Feat. Kelly Price) 03. Take What’s Yours (Feat. Mad Rapper (Interlude) 05.
Will They Die 4 You (Feat. Puff Daddy & Lil’ Kim) 06. Lookin’ at Me (Feat. Puff Daddy) 07. White Girl (Interlude) 08.
Love U So (Feat. Billy Lawrence) 09. The player way (Feat Eightball and Mjg) 10. Hater (Interlude) 11. Niggaz Wanna Act (Feat. Busta Rhymes) 12.
Feel So Good (Feat. Kelly Price) 13. What You Want (feat.
Phone Conversation (Interlude) 15. Cheat on You (Feat. Jay-Z, Lil’ Cease & 112) 16. To Livelive (Feat.
Black Rob, DMX & The L.O.X.) 17. I Need to Be (Feat.
Watch Your Back (Interlude) 19. Wanna Hurt Mase 20. Jealous Guy (Feat. 112) Wyclef Jean – The Carnival.
01 Intro / Court / Clef / Intro (Skit) 02 Apocalypse 03 Guantanamera (feat. Celia Cruz) 04 Pablo Diablo (Interlude) 05 Bubblegoose 06 Prelude To “To All The Girls” (Interlude) 07 To All The Girls 08 Down Lo Ho (Interlude) 09 Anything Can Happen 10 Gone Till November 11 Words Of Wisdom (Interlude) 12 Year Of The Dragon 13 Sang Fezi 14 Fresh Interlude 15 Mona Lisa (feat. The Neville Bros.) 16 Street Jeopardy 17 Killer M.C. (Interlude) 18 We Trying To Stay Alive 19 Gunpowder 20 Closing Arguments (Skit) 21 Enter The Carnival (Interlude) 22 Jaspora 23 Yele 24 Carnival.