AWOL-What It Be Like-CD-FLAC-1993-RAGEFLAC

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 AWOL - What It Be Like
 Artist:  AWOL                                                                
 Title:   What It Be Like                                                     
 Genre:   Rap                                                                 
 Label:   Bryant Records / Ichiban Records                                    
 Scene:   2022-07-06                                                          
 Retail:  1993-10-05                                                          
 Source:  CD                                                                  
 Tracks:  12                                                                  
 Length:  0h 52m 12s                                                          
 Size:    317.6MB                                                             
 Bitrate: 844 kbps avg 44.1 kHz                                               
 Grabber: EAC                                                                 
 Encoder: FLAC 1.3.1                                                          
 From:    Detroit, Michigan                                                   
 http://www.discogs.com/release/1605576-AWOL-What-It-Be-Like
 Kevin "The Last Soulman" Jones and Marqui "Boogie Mack" Vaughn met on the    
 football field at Joliet Junior College in Illinois. Their introduction to   
 hip hop was Public Enemy "Yo! Bum Rush The Show" while in Chicago,           
 influencing them to want to pursue a career in hip hop. They dropped out     
 (flunked out) of college and returned to Detroit in need of a DJ and         
 producer.                                                                    
 In 1989, a friend, DJ Mystro (now Christian hip-hop producer Lord Maji).     
 took them to see a fledgling producer, Bennie "DJ Homicide" Herron, who      
 impressed them with his music and skills, leading to the formation of        
 A.W.O.L. (Afrocentric Wicked Old-school Lyricists).                          
 "You Don't Want None Of This" was A.W.O.L.'s first single. They took it to   
 WGPR-FM 107.5, where a respected on-air personality named Billy T played     
 the song on his hip-hop show, "Billy T's Basement Tapes." Bob Alman, an      
 employee of Comcast Cable, directed the video. The song became a local       
 hip-hop classic.                                                             
 They released the "No Deal" EP in 1992 and their local popularity led to a   
 deal with Ichiban Records, leading to the release of this album ("What It    
 Be Like") in 1993. The following year, A.W.O.L. would release its most       
 popular album, "Detroit 4 Life", on BootStrap / Rock-A-Fella Records.        
 The Source magazine gave "Detroit 4 Life" a three-and-a-half-mic rating.     
 Having gained coverage in The Source and other credible hip-hop journals     
 such as 4080 and Rap Sheet, A.W.O.L. became hometown hip-hop hopefuls. But   
 just as they were the first to make these achievements, they also became     
 Detroit's poster children for the music industry's politics and bullshit.    
 A rapper named MC Essential A.W.O.L. released an album on Freeze records in  
 the mid-'90s. His labelmate was a struggling MC named Jay-Z. Ichiban took    
 exception to MC Essential using the word "A.W.O.L." in his name. Since his   
 name wasn't protected, Ichiban made him take his records off the shelf. The  
 Last Soulman dissed him on a song called "Ben-Gay On My Nuts" and almost     
 immediately Jay-Z and his camp came back with a label called Roc-A-Fella,    
 spelled without the "k" to "get back at them", according to The Last         
 Soulman.                                                                     
 "Detroit 4 Life" failed to make a ripple in the mainstream. Boogie Mack      
 decided to get a job, and moved to Alabama. The Last Soulman and DJ          
 Homicide continued the musical struggle in Detroit. In 1996, just as the     
 trio were going to reunite to work on a project, DJ Homicide was the ironic  
 victim of a mysterious homicide. The Detroit Police Department concluded     
 that DJ Homicide was killed while attempting to break into a home and was    
 ruled a justifiable homicide, which his group members dispute.               
 Homicide's death sent A.W.O.L. into an emotional tailspin. Boogie Mack quit  
 and returned to Alabama, and later moved to Las Vegas. The Last Soulman      
 spent the next few years combating depression and coping with the loss. He   
 rebounded, enrolled at Specs Howard School of Broadcasting to study radio    
 and landed a job as on-air personality at WGRI, a gospel station in Grand    
 Blanc.                                                                       
 The Last Soulman and Boogie Mack attempted a comeback in 2002, with O'Dell   
 "P-Dog" Perry assuming DJ duties, releasing "Back 2 Tha Future", the final   
 A.W.O.L. project.                                                            
 "What It Be Like" was entirely produced by DJ Homicide and co-produced by    
 The Last Soulman and Boogie Mack.                                            
 01. What It Be Like                                                     4:47 
 02. U Ain't Down                                                        4:52 
 03. Trilogy                                                             3:32 
 04. Wake Up                                                             4:35 
 05. You Don't Want None Of This Pt.2                                    3:28 
 06. Dreaming Remix                                                      5:58 
 07. U Don't Know Me                                                     5:22 
 08. Nitey Nite                                                          5:29 
 09. Keep On                                                             2:47 
 10. Homicide                                                            3:00 
 11. AWOL First Demo (1988)                                              4:47 
 12. BLVD                                                                3:35 
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