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| Artist______________ MC Eiht |
| Title_______________ Lessons |
| Label_______________ Blue Stamp Music |
| Genre_______________ Hip-Hop |
| Year________________ 2020 |
| Release Date________ 2020-09-21 |
| Street Date_________ 2020-09-18 |
| Source______________ WEB |
| Encoder_____________ MP3 / Lavf |
| Quality_____________ CBR 320kbps 44.1kHz |
| Size________________ 181.6MiB |
| Playtime____________ 1:18:14 |
| URL_________________ https://play.google.com/store/music/album/ |
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| 01. Get Money Man (feat. B-Real) 04:00 |
| 02. That's Perfect (feat. Tha Chill) 04:06 |
| 03. Honcho (feat. Conway The Machine & DJ Premier) 03:55 |
| 04. Bluue Wave 04:44 |
| 05. Can't Nobody (feat. Kokane) 04:10 |
| 06. U Kno 03:40 |
| 07. Ambition 04:30 |
| 08. Lessons 03:37 |
| 09. U Not Me 03:44 |
| 10. That 83 (feat. Tha Chill & Diamond Rich) 03:34 |
| 11. Courted In (feat. Dave East & Tha Chill) 04:03 |
| 12. Things We Go Thru (feat. Cherell Terri) 03:46 |
| 13. Past Mistakes (feat. Talib Kweli) 03:03 |
| 14. I Got U 03:38 |
| 15. Whut U Really On 03:46 |
| 16. On The Real Tho (feat. Yukmouth & Tha Chill) 03:29 |
| 17. Stand Up (feat. Mitchy Slick & Tha Chill) 04:18 |
| 18. Neighborhood Looks (feat. Havoc & Kurupt) 03:45 |
| 19. Magic (feat. Young Noble & Tha Chill) 04:14 |
| 20. We Got 04:10 |
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| Lessons is a worthy late addition to the MC Eiht Cinematic Universe, |
| its scenery familiar in a way that doesn't invoke cheap nostalgia; |
| there's nothing to be reclaimed or recaptured because, for better or |
| worse, Eiht's music never strayed beyond these settings in the first |
| place. When he deadpans, "Rollin' up trees on a magazine/Another |
| n***a died, sippin' lean" on the smooth highlight "Things We Go |
| Through," you can hear the disquiet in his grizzled voice. Eiht |
| always made shootouts and drug deals sound like nine-to-five |
| drudgery, and on Lessons they're relayed with a survivor's wariness. |
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| The solid guest roster on Lessons adds color to a template of hard |
| snares and sturdy hooks. On the sinister "Get Money Man," B-Real |
| makes for a perfect vocal foil, his jittery opening verse paving way |
| for Eiht's dour world-building. Mitchy Slick's excellent appearance |
| on "Stand Up" is buried a bit within the album's 20 tracks, but the |
| effect is similar-his eager flow veers around the drum pattern before |
| Eiht steers back to center. Dave East and Conway the Machine appear |
| as emissaries from the new school, but in practice they're the same |
| breed of glowering quick wit as Eiht. If rappers had coaching trees, |
| Eiht would be Rick Pitino. |
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| The beats, supplied by Ferhan C, Hermanata, D-Ace, and C.M.W. comrade |
| Tha Chill, are clean in a clinical, post-2001 way, sun and palm trees |
| with whiffs of gunsmoke and diesel exhaust. They settle into their |
| grooves and stay there. To say that these tracks would've sounded at |
| home in 2005 or 2015 isn't really a critique, but it does underscore |
| how deliciously weird Eiht's classic compositions were-while his |
| peers mined the P-Funk catalog for any samples Dr. Dre might have |
| neglected, Eiht enlisted SOLAR Records session player Willie |
| Zimmerman to help build orchestral arrangements and long, rolling |
| "Endoludes" comprised entirely of ad-libs. Lessons offers some |
| adequate chipmunk soul on "That's Perfect," a bright horn fanfare on |
| "Ambition." It's all professionally competent, if not particularly |
| distinctive. |
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| Eiht's timeless narratives on "Hood Took Me Under" and "All for the |
| Money" were kinetic and claustrophobic, sweeping cause-and-effect |
| arcs which encompassed decades in the course of individual verses; |
| when he wasn't scaling fences and fleeing S.W.A.T. teams, he was |
| training his own infrared beams on whichever saps were unlucky enough |
| to be wearing the wrong color. Lessons is comparably static and, it |
| must be said, recounted largely in the past tense. ("I know the theme |
| of this song is familiar," Young Noble admits on "Magic." Well, yes.) |
| It's an unlikely trajectory for the Compton Cyco, but Eiht plays the |
| elder statesman admirably. "Whut U Really On" and the title track do |
| nice jobs dispensing hard-earned wisdom without resorting to soapbox |
| proselytizing. |
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| YOU KNOW YOU HAVE TO BUY THIS SHIT IF YOU LIKE IT RIGHT?! |
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