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██░ The Urban Sophisticates - The Cowards Anthem ░
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Artist [The Urban Sophisticates ] ██▒
Label [n/a ] Genre [Hip-Hop ] ██░
Quality/Size [44.1 @VBR 75,1 MB] Ripped [12-12-2005 ] ▒██
Grabbed from [CDDA ] Enc [Lame ] ▓██
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01 04:11 Cowards Anthem ██
02 03:33 We Can Watch It All Ft. Dp And Erik Peterson ██
03 03:57 Run Ft Joel Simmons ██
04 04:04 Chapel Hill ██
05 02:06 Kaos Mathematics Ft. DJ Sk ██
06 05:11 Its About Time ██
07 04:02 Breakups ██
08 03:07 Im Feelin It Ft Caroline Faust ██
09 03:38 Fake Gun Hands ██
10 03:21 To The Top Ft Dp ██
11 01:46 Soul Crime Ft Mary Nicole Denman ██
12 04:28 Testify ██
13 04:05 Legend ██
14 04:07 The Waiting Room Ft. Marta Richardson ██
Totals ██
14 51:36 min ██
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Label it what you want, Benton says. I tell everybody that ██░
were a live hip-hop band, but theres so much more to us if ██
you listen. ██
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Right now heÆs testing the limits of the stool thats ██
propping him up ?" Benton is a big man and he makes the ██
thing look like it belongs in a first-grade classroom. Hes ██
sensitive about his size; the opening lyric of the title ██
track on the bands new CD, Cowards Anthem makes that clear: ██
I know Im not the handsomest/ and the car that I drive aint ██
the fanciest/ but if I took a couple inches off the ██
waistline/ would it be enough for you to want to be mine? ██
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After the refrain brother Aaron comes in with the bridge, ██
singing sweet like Nate Dogg with brass accents in the ██
background: Im not lazy wont you please believe me/ Im just ██
a brother that likes to chill. ██
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Its a song about having feelings for a girl and not having ██
the courage to say it, Benton says. ██
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He slid me an early copy of the disc at the office earlier ██
in the day and it spent the rest of the afternoon making my ██
head bounce. ██
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The CD represents nearly eight months of recording, writing ██
and mixing ?" Benton himself worked on it with the ██
dedication of a legionnaire, spending more nights on the ██
studio couch than in his own bed. ██
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I was just trying to get noticed, he says. Were gonna make ██
the big Christmas push, see if we cant sell some of these ██
records. ██
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There are no bitches and hos here. No references to firearms ██
or violence (except in the tune Fake Gun Hands, a kind of ██
indictment against street crimes that begins with a plea: ██
Somebody call an ambulance right now). No scratch DJ, save ██
for a cameo by DJ SK on Kaos Mathematics. No N word, no ██
benjies, no dubs and no playas. ██
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Well, maybe a couple of playas, but also well-crafted, ██
self-revelatory lyricism from this guy whos insecure about ██
his size, unsure about women, still mourning the death of ██
his father and trying to make it in a confusing business ██
with nothing but a carload of talent, a trunkful of ambition ██
and a really killer band ?" Tim Hooker on guitar, Romondo ██
Jessup on drums, bass player Ricky Nxumalo and a horn ██
section consisting of Jeremy Denman on trumpet and Sal ██
Mascali on trombone. ██
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I didnt really get into hip hop until maybe four or five ██
years ago, Benton says. I was into Counting Crows, Pearl ██
Jam, all these angsty artists with all these deep meanings ██
rock lead singers have a way of getting this vibe across. My ██
style is trying to get a feeling across with some metaphor, ██
but also trying to get a story across. ██
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The work is rife with witty metaphor (Benton proclaims, Lets ██
take it back like Cosby sweaters, in CowardÆs Anthem) and ██
artistic flourish ?" in Breakups, brother Aaron sings a ██
capella, A treasure chest of memories plays like/ old vinyl ██
singles with just a second or two of needle hiss and pop in ██
the background. ██
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Another great cut, Soul Crime, is a short, slow-funk lament ██
sung by the trumpeters sister, Mary Nicole Denman, ██
understated and minimalist with a modicum of distortion on ██
the mic, way different from the others. ██
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