J-Zone-Music For Tu Madre-Reissue-LP-FLAC-2002-THEVOiD

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 Info   
     Artist  | J-Zone
     Title   | Music For Tu Madre
     Genre   | Hip-Hop                              Format  | Album
     Source  | Vinyl                                Time    | 40:13
     Label   | Old Maid Entertainment               Store   | 2002
     Catalog | OME-2001                             Rip     | 2021
     Bitrate | 2691 kbps                            Size    | 816.78 MB
     Freq    | 96.0 kHz                             Encoder | FLAC 1.3.1
 Tracks 
     A1. FM Blues                                                    1:22
     A2. Who Is J-Zone?                                              0:37
     A3. The Zone Mission                                            3:35
     A4. So Pretty (Feat. Al-Shid)                                   3:46
     A5. Candy Razors (Feat. Huggy, Kobayashi & Trip)                4:09
     A6. I'm Lonely                                                  0:31
     A7. Kizzy's Revenge (Feat. Los)                                 3:25
     A8. Intermission                                                1:29
     B1. 5 Years Prelude                                             2:27
     B2. 5 Years                                                     4:20
     B3. S.H.I.D. (Feat. Al-Shid)                                    2:23
     B4. Catch 22 (Feat. Huggy)                                      4:05
     B5. Smoke Theory                                                1:59
     B6. Pain                                                        0:08
     B7. Inaugration Day                                             4:12
     B8. Calamine Lotion                                             1:45
 Notes  
     Westchester-bred, Queens-based rap artist J-Zone began his musical quest
     when he picked up and mastered a variety of instruments before he even made
     it out of elementary school. Growing up in suburbia, he specifically
     dreamed of a career playing bass guitar in a raw urban funk band and would
     scour record stores for hours to dig up old funk LPs just to mimic the
     basslines,
     Surrounded by hip-hop culture and a now-significant vinyl collection,
     inspired by Yo! MTV Raps, and influenced by the likes of the Bomb Squad,
     Marley Marl, DJ Premier, and local beatsmith-made-good Pete Rock. J-Zone
     nevertheless put his funk fantasies on hold by the time he reached high
     school - where he also earned his pseudonym due to the same zany, zoned-out
     personality that would eventually manifest itself on his recordings - to
     concentrate on his emerging skills as a rap producer and DJ, while also
     occasionally dabbling as an MC on the side.
     Taking hip-hop back to the elemental, J-Zone produced, engineered, mixed,
     rhymed and DJed on, promoted, and pressed his 1999 debut "Music For Tu
     Madre" - literally his senior college project - himself, even selling
     copies out of the trunk of his Mazda Protege, according to legend, before
     the ink had yet to dry on his college diploma. There's also another,
     musical quality that the album shares with an earlier era of rap music: an
     absurdist sense of humor. In fact, J-Zone - a one-time apprentice to Slick
     Rick partner-in-rhyme Vance Wright - elevates lampoonery to the same high
     art as Biz Markie did before him.
     Unintentional though the album may have originally been, its pleasures -
     the production par excellence and a not inconsiderable number of gut laughs
     - are entirely of a voluntary nature. At just over forty minutes, it isn't
     exactly the EP it purports to be, and lucky for listeners. J-Zone and his
     troop of side-men MCs, most impressively Al-Shid and Huggy Bear, skewer
     every aspect of hip-hop culture that comes into their purview, whether the
     sorry state of radio ('FM Blues') or around-the-way girls who think they're
     all that but lack both the "all" and the 'that' ('Candy Razors') or the
     music's commercialization and lack of artistic vision ('5 Years').
     Though they save much of their deprecation to preemptively deflate their
     own egos and J-Zone does get serious on one of the album's finest tracks,
     "Inauguration Day". "Music For Tu Madre" may be juvenilia, and occasionally
     sophomoric at that, but it is full of such brilliant sparks of wit and
     musical merit that it more than rewards the effort it takes to track down,
     either in its original vinyl and cassette pressing (beyond rare and almost
     impossible to find) or in its proper 2002 CD/vinyl reissue (extremely
     imited but still intermittently available).
     Above and beyond that, if the album earned its creator anything lower than
     a B+ in class, there was obviously some kind of grade fix in the works.

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26M	a1-j-zone-fm_blues.flac
13M	a2-j-zone-who_is_j-zone.flac
71M	a3-j-zone-the_zone_mission.flac
73M	a4-j-zone-so_pretty_(feat._al-shid).flac
81M	a5-j-zone-candy_razors_(feat._huggy_kobayashi_and_trip).flac
11M	a6-j-zone-im_lonely.flac
66M	a7-j-zone-kizzys_revenge_(feat._los).flac
29M	a8-j-zone-intermission.flac
48M	b1-j-zone-5_years_prelude.flac
86M	b2-j-zone-5_years.flac
47M	b3-j-zone-s.h.i.d._(feat._al-shid).flac
79M	b4-j-zone-catch_22_(feat._huggy).flac
39M	b5-j-zone-smoke_theory.flac
2.7M	b6-j-zone-pain.flac
82M	b7-j-zone-inaugration_day.flac
35M	b8-j-zone-calamine_lotion.flac
780M	total