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Artist | 7L & Esoteric
Title | Warning: Dangerous Exclusives
Genre | Hip-Hop Format | Album
Source | CD Time | 20:29
Label | Landspeed Records / Brick Records Store | 2002
Catalog | BRK 027 Rip | 2020
Bitrate | 646 kbps Size | 99.96 MB
Freq | 44.1 kHz Encoder | FLAC 1.3.1
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01. Title Track (Original 7L Mix) (Prod. 7L) 3:48
02. Can't Come Close (Feat. Beyonder) (Prod. Beyonder) 4:05
03. Brain In Gear (Prod. 7L) 3:12
04. You Can Try (Feat. Apathy) (Prod. Panik) 3:45
05. Hell When I Come Through (Prod. Vinyl Reanimators) 3:13
06. Split Personality (ES Vs. The God Awful) (Prod. 7L) 2:26
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Bonus disc that came with purchase of Dangerous Connection.
7L & Esoteric first came together in 1992 after 7L heard Esoteric DJing at
a local college radio station in Boston. Esoteric's sets were mostly
hip-hop-based, but on occasion he would fuse his own material into his
playlists. After hearing Eso's material, 7L contacted him in the hopes of
forming an artistic collaboration. And collaborate they did. Reverting back
to the standard hip-hop formula for success -- one DJ, one MC -- they
immediately started to build on a common love for hip-hop born of
1986-1989. The pair headlined shows in smaller venues throughout Boston,
New York, and Philadelphia as well as opening for some hip-hop heavyweights
like Bahamadia, Rakim, Redman, and Company Flow.
The duo released their first single under the name God Complex in 1996. The
single was immediately dubbed one of the best rap singles of the year,
receiving huge responses from Los Angeles, New York, Canada, and the
overseas markets. Soon after, the Rebel Alliance LP was released. Calling
together their fellow MCs and DJs from their hometown (including Virtuoso,
Mr. Lif, Tony Infamous, and Force Five), Rebel Alliance was a compilation
showcasing the talent and skills held in the scene that raised them. As
soon as Rebel Alliance was in the stores, 7L & Esoteric followed up with a
12" featuring the tracks "Be Alert," "Protocol," and yet another
collaboration with Virtuoso, "Touch the Mic." While "Be Alert" received
attention thanks to the sampling of the Transformers cartoon show,
"Protocol" was garnering intense recognition for Esoteric's nonstop
lyricism. Source magazine even went so far as to label "Protocol" one of
the five best hip-hop tracks of the '90s. Their next single, released on
Direct Records, earned the group praise from coast to coast. "Def Rhymes"
was exactly what the title implied, while "Headswell" brought back the
now-expected pairing of Eso and Virtuoso.
While waiting to release their debut, the duo put out the EP Speaking Real
Words, but the pressure that Direct put on them to finish their first
full-length, The Soul Purpose, left 7L & Esoteric with bad feelings (plus
an album they felt wasn't mixed completely), so they moved to Brick Records
for 2002's Dangerous Connection. The success that followed led the group to
move to Babygrande, which, with more resources, could give them the
marketing and support they were looking for. In 2004 DC2: Bars of Death,
the sequel to Dangerous Connection, came out, and though the friends were
receiving a fair amount of attention and acclaim, they were also feeling
tired and constrained. 7L began working on solo material (he released Flow
Season with MC Main Flow in September 2006), and Esoteric began making
beats. In 2005 Babygrande issued Moment of Rarities, an album of previously
unreleased tracks.
Although it appeared that a breakup, or least a "hiatus," was on the
horizon, 2006 saw the duo back in the studio working on new songs, and June
brought A New Dope, whose beats -- which came from both 7L and Esoteric--
were more similar to Kraftwerk or Fatboy Slim than DJ Premier.
A procession of Esoteric solo albums filled out the rest of the 2000s,
although many of them featured 7L productions and most of them appeared on
the duo's Fly Casual Creative label. The duo also appeared on several
albums by the hip-hop supergroup Army of the Pharaohs (organized by Vinnie
Paz). The year 2010 brought a full-length 7L & Esoteric record, 1212, with
features for Sadat X, Inspectah Deck, Paz, and Celph Titled. Three years
later, Inspectah Deck returned for a full collaboration, Czarface.
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