1988 (album)
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1988 is a hip hop
album by rapper/producer
Blueprint
, released on March 29, 2005 on Rhymesayers Entertainment
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Hip hop
Hip hop is a form of musical expression and artistic culture that originated in African-American and Latino communities during the 1970s in New York City, specifically the Bronx. DJ Afrika Bambaataa outlined the four pillars of hip hop culture: MCing, DJing, breaking and graffiti writing...
album by rapper/producer
Hip hop production
Hip hop production is the creation of hip hop music. Though the term encompasses all aspects of hip hop music, it's most commonly used to refer to the instrumental, non-lyrical aspects of hip hop. This means that hip hop producers are the instrumentalists involved in a work...
Blueprint
Blueprint (rapper)
Blueprint is an American rapper and hip hop producer from Columbus, Ohio. He is the founder and owner of Weightless Recordings and is also signed to Rhymesayers Entertainment...
, released on March 29, 2005 on Rhymesayers Entertainment
Rhymesayers Entertainment
Rhymesayers Entertainment is an independent hip hop record label based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, co-founded in 1995 by Sean Daley, Anthony Davis, Brent Sayers and Musab Saad....
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Track listing
- "Introduction" – 0:27
- "Anything Is Possible" – 1:29
- "1988" – 3:04
- "Inner City Native Son" – 3:22
- "Tramp" – 4:45
- Contains a sample from "Papa Was Too" by Joe TexJoe TexJoseph Arrington, Jr. , better known as "Joe Tex", was an American Southern soul singer-songwriter, most popular during the 1960s and 1970s...
- Contains a sample from "Papa Was Too" by Joe Tex
- "Boombox" – 5:18
- "Trouble on My Mind" – 3:39
- "Lo-Fi Funk" – 3:31
- Contains an interpolation of "Bonita" by Cal TjaderCal TjaderCallen Radcliffe Tjader, Jr. a.k.a. Cal Tjader was a Latin jazz musician, though he also explored various other jazz idioms. Unlike other American jazz musicians who experimented with the music from Cuba, the Caribbean, and Latin America, he never abandoned it, performing it until his...
- Featuring Aesop RockAesop RockIan Matthias Bavitz , better known by his stage name Aesop Rock, is an American hip hop artist and producer. He was at the forefront of the new wave of underground and alternative hip hop acts that emerged during the late 1990s and early 2000s. He was signed to El-P's Definitive Jux label until it...
- Contains an interpolation of "Bonita" by Cal Tjader
- "Big Girls Need Love Too" – 4:02
- "Fresh" – 2:48
- "Where’s Your Girl At?" – 2:58
- "Kill Me First" – 4:58
- Featuring CJ The Cynic
- "Liberated" – 8:53