First Born is the debut album by Minnesota hip hop group Eyedea & Abilities

Eyedea & Abilities

Eyedea & Abilities was an influential American indie rap duo from Saint Paul, Minnesota, consisting of DJ Abilities and the rapper Eyedea...

. The album is largely abstract hip hop, with the lyrical content ranging from Plato

Plato

Plato , was a Classical Greek philosopher, mathematician, student of Socrates, writer of philosophical dialogues, and founder of the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world. Along with his mentor, Socrates, and his student, Aristotle, Plato helped to lay the...

nian philosophy to traditional emceeing

Rapping

Rapping refers to "spoken or chanted rhyming lyrics". The art form can be broken down into different components, as in the book How to Rap where it is separated into “content”, “flow” , and “delivery”...

. DJ Abilities

DJ Abilities

DJ Abilities is a Minnesota-based hip-hop DJ affiliated with Rhymesayers Entertainment. With his emcee partner, the late Eyedea, he formed the group known as Eyedea & Abilities, also known as E&A...

 production on this album is much simpler than on the E&A album.

Track listing

The track listing for First Born is identical for both CD

Compact Disc

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 and vinyl LP

Gramophone record

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versions. On the CD release, the information is poorly organized and printed, omitting the names of three tracks. This track listing is as printed on the vinyl LP version.