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| Artist : B-Real |
| Album : Smoke N Mirrors |
| Bitrate : VBR kbps |
| Label : KOCH |
| Year : 2009 |
| Genre : Rap |
| Rip date : Feb-18-2009 |
| Store date : Feb-24-2009 |
| Size : 84,7 MB |
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|Track Listing: |
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| 01 - Smoke N Mirrors feat. Bo Roc 04:55 |
| 02 - Gangsta Music feat. Bo Roc 03:19 |
| 03 - Don't Ya Dare Laugh feart. Xzibit And 03:57 |
| Young De |
| 04 - Everything U Want feat. Buckshot 03:29 |
| 05 - 6 Minutes feat. Young De And Tekneek 03:41 |
| 06 - Psycho Realm Revolution feat. Sick Jacken 04:46 |
| 07 - Fire feat. Camian Marley 03:21 |
| 08 - 10 Steps Behind feat. Young De And 04:42 |
| Tekneek |
| 09 - Get That Dough feat. Babydoll Refresh 03:53 |
| 10 - Dr. Hyphenstein feat. Snoop Dogg, Young 03:59 |
| De And Trace Midas |
| 11 - Stackn Paper 04:22 |
| 12 - 1 Life feat. Sen Dog And Mal Verde 04:21 |
| 13 - Dude Vs. Homie 03:33 |
| 14 - When They Hate You feat. Babydoll Refresh 03:30 |
| 15 - When We're Fucking feat. Too Short, 04:23 |
| Kurupt And Young De |
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| 60:11 min |
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| With his work in the pioneering hip-hop group Cypress Hill, rapper B |
| Real became something of a hip-hop legend for several reasons. Most |
| immediately, his trademark rhyming style, featuring an exaggeratedly |
| nasal whine and a jazz singer's skill at staying just behind DJ Muggs' |
| already sluggish beats, was one of the most instantly recognizable flows |
| of the 1990s. Furthermore, B Real and his partners Sen Dog and DJ Muggs |
| were the first Latino hip-hop stars, ushering in a richly varied |
| subgenre of hip-hop that thrives to this day. Finally, Cypress Hill's |
| fervent proselytizing on the subject of marijuana legalization both |
| brought the subject to its highest public awareness since the days of |
| Cheech & Chong and paved the way for a generation of weed-happy middle- |
| class high school kids to discover and identify with hip-hop to an even |
| greater degree than before. However, that B Real therefore is indirectly |
| responsible in part for Kevin Federline should not be held against him. |
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| Born Louis Freese in Los Angeles on June 2, 1970, Freese met Mellow Man |
| Ace (Ulpiano Sergio Reyes) and his brother Sen Dog (%Senen Reyes) in |
| high school in the mid-'80s, forming the trio that would eventually |
| become Cypress Hill (named after a local hangout in their South Gate |
| hood) after Mellow Man Ace left to pursue a successful solo career and |
| DJ Muggs (Lawrence Muggerud) came in as producer and DJ. During this |
| period, B Real and Sen Dog were involved in a local branch of notorious |
| street gang the Bloods; B Real was shot in a drug-related incident in |
| 1988, leading both men to get out of the thug life. However, those |
| experiences formed the narrative of the group's first album, 1991's |
| Cypress Hill. |
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| One of the first commercially successful gangsta rap albums, the album |
| was controversial despite the trio's attempts not to glamorize gang |
| life. 1993's Black Sunday was an instant hit due to the weirdly catchy |
| single "Insane in the Brain," and the same year, the trio's contribution |
| to the pioneering rap-rock soundtrack Judgment Night found them working |
| with fellow marijuana enthusiasts Sonic Youth, with whom Cypress Hill |
| also guest-starred in a classic Lollapalooza-parody episode of The |
| Simpsons. Playing the actual Lollapalooza tour in 1994 and 1995, the |
| band added percussionist Eric Bobo (the son of legendary salsa drummer |
| Willie Bobo) and pursued an increasingly rock-oriented style on their |
| evermore infrequent albums. |
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| During this period, B Real also created a hardcore gangsta side project, |
| the Psycho Realm, releasing two albums, 1997's The Psycho Realm and |
| 2000's A War Story. B Real even teamed back up with Mellow Man Ace for |
| the short-lived Serial Rhyme Killers, which released one 12" single in |
| 2002. Finally embarking on a solo career, B Real released two reggaeton |
| -influenced collaborative mixtapes, The Gunslinger and The Gunslinger, |
| Pt. 2: A Fistful of Dollars, in 2006. |
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