Mazta I - Thank The Lord And The Sword!
ARTIST.....: Mazta I
TITLE......: Thank The Lord And The Sword!
LABEL......: Self-Released
URL........: www.myspace.com/maztai
RIP DATE...: Jun-11-2006
STORE DATE.: May-06-2006
GENRE......: Hip-Hop
QUALITY....: VBR / 44.1Hz / Joint-Stereo
SIZE.......: 38,6 MB
Track Listing:
01 - Assail The Assasin 03:25
02 - From Fear To Ferocity 03:23
03 - Emsi's Lament (Mazta's Story) 02:28
04 - Eye Does The Damn Thang 02:32
05 - Phantasm 02:44
06 - Life Is Pain 03:32
07 - Ambitions Of Ascension 03:15
08 - Restitutions 03:30
09 - Unhealthy 03:25
10 - Message To The Forefathers 03:02
11 - A World Of Nothing 04:19
(Prelude To The Genesis)
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35:35 min
Release Notes:
Born VIRGO and raised on the South Side of Chicago the freestyle
technician moved to Mpls in Oct '99. He gives credit to his SOUTH
SIDE roots for inspiring True EMCEE Skills. He has Toured with
Eyedea (E&A), Carnage (Hecatomb), The Crest (Wiscompton), Silent
Army (Doomtree) and has done songs with I Self Devine
(Micronauts), and ANT (Atmosphere). Always Representing
underground Hip Hop and Overground consciousness, "THANK THE LORD
AND THE SWORD", a self produced classic that will definetly be one
for the Real heads.
Also forthcoming Projects with Illpoetic (Cinncinatti) and ANT
will hit the masses soon enough. Also check out Plain Ole Bills
mixtape, Self Destruction by I Self Devine(All I know, Sex)
Sribble Jam Compolation 2005 (We Just Dying), Atmospheres new
alblum (Musical Chairs) and what ever else Mazta I's voice shows
up on. Also check check out http://www.creativejuicesmusic.com
they got video of Mazta I freestyling and it's kinda dope. Don't
forget CHEAP COLOGNES - SOMETHING RANDOM (Days Ahead) in stores
now. Other artists on the compolition include KANSER, CARNAGE, OUT
OF BOUNDS, ICON THE MIC KING, PIGEON JOHN, AND MANY MORE. To
Purchase the Alblum visit Fifth Element, Cheapos, Mindstate, or
Electric Fetus also you can catch MAZTA I at one of his upcoming
shows and purchase the alblum directly from him.
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With the gravelly exception of Lyrics Born, or that whore Ja Rule,
hip hop has never much cared about male rappers who can sing.
Until last year, that is, when Mazta I made one of the more
talked-about cameos in the Rhymesayers catalog. On I Self Devine's
Self Destruction, the newcomer rendered every rap syllable
sonorous, like a deeper-voiced Q-Tip, and sang with the natural
grace of a guy who need not, and will not, make an unmanly show of
melisma. Mazta I moved here from Chicago's South Side in '99, and
made his name as a battle MC, then appeared on stages alongside
Eyedea, who engineers this new solo debut. So more than the usual
expectations ride on the results.
The music is half there. Producing alone, and leaning heavily on
synths, Mazta I lets the singsong "Phantasm" cast a DJ Shadow-like
spell. He taps a surprisingly Krautrock guitar sample for "Eye
Does the Damn Thang," a barely comprehensible rant that leaves him
comically breathless by the end of two minutes. "Unhealthy"
similarly garbles a rhyme for "monosodium glutamate," but
otherwise evocatively juxtaposes violence and bad eating (shades
of Capital D's "No Beef").
The radical centerpiece is "Life Is Pain": two chords on a piano,
no beat, and Mazta I crooning, "Ain't get no love/So you hook up
with thugs." He obviously has something to say, and a willfully
different way of saying it. Clarity will be key in bringing it
together. (citypages.com)