Question In The Form Of An Answer, released in June 2000, is the second album by People Under The Stairs

People Under the Stairs

People Under the Stairs is a hip hop group from Los Angeles, California formed in 1997 by Thes One and Double K. The group has released eight critically acclaimed full-length albums and performed on every continent except Antarctica. It is estimated that the group has performed well over 1,000 sold...

. The lead 12” single, Youth Explosion, sold the full run of 15,000 copies pressed in its first month, and was not repressed in order to promote the second and third singles The Cat and We’ll Be There – each of which went on to sell 15,000 copies. The album was critically acclaimed for its eclectic and diverse range of beats rooted in Jazz

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 and Psychedelic Rock

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 and P.U.T.S. continued with another set of world tours to support the record, this time adding Japan and Australia to their routing.

Following the release of the second album, Thes One began to coordinate strings of successful world tours for PUTS culminating in performances at the UK’s famous Glastonbury Festival

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 in 2001 alongside Kelis

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 and successful shows at the Reading

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, Leeds

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 and infamous Essentials festival in London where the group was joined with Biz Markie

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, Ice T

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, Jeru

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, Masta Ace

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 and De La Soul

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 on the final Sunday of the festival.

Track listing

1. "Intro" – 1:48
2. "Crazy Live" – 3:26
3. "Youth Explosion" – 4:39
4. "Suite For Creeper" – 3:46
5. "Sterns to Western" (featuring Capn' Kidd Lexus) – 3:56
6. "Code Check" – 3:36
7. "Blowin' Wax" – 4:35
8. "Give Love A Chance" – 4:30
9. "Stoned Youth Truth" – 0:18
10. "Yehaw Partystyles" – 3:45
11. "Get Drunk" – 0:35
12. "43 Labels I Like" – 1:50
13. "King Kuff" – 0:46
14. "E Business" (featuring JazMak) – 4:38
15. "Zigaflyinblow" – 2:18
16. "July 3rd" – 3:51
17. "Stay Home" – 3:21
18. "Earth Travellers" – 4:34
19. "The Cat" – 3:44
20. "Electric Lady" – 0:15
21. "We'll Be There" – 5:26
22. "Fredly Advice" – 8:16

Samples

• "Youth Explosion"
  • "Boys With Toys" by Gap Mangione
    Gap Mangione
    Gaspare "Gap" Mangione is a jazz pianist, composer, arranger, and bandleader from Rochester, New York, United States.Born and raised in Rochester, Mangione's younger brother is Grammy-winning flugelhornist Chuck Mangione. Members of a music-loving family, both Gap and Chuck took up instruments...
    
    
• "Suite For Creeper"
  • "Dolemite" by Creeper
    Creeper
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• "Zignaflyinblow"
  • "You Are What I'm About" by The New Birth
  • "Captain Jack" by Billy Joel
    Billy Joel
    William Martin "Billy" Joel is an American musician and pianist, singer-songwriter, and classical composer. Since releasing his first hit song, "Piano Man", in 1973, Joel has become the sixth best-selling recording artist and the third best-selling solo artist in the United States, according to...
    
    
• "We'll Be There"
  • "More Today Than Yesterday" by Howard Roberts
    Howard Roberts
    Howard Roberts was an American jazz guitarist, educator and session musician.-Biography:Roberts was born in Phoenix, Arizona, and began playing guitar at age 8. By the time he was 15 he was playing professionally locally....
    
    
• "The Cat"
  • "Here Comes the Judge" by Pigmeat Markham
    Pigmeat Markham
    Dewey "Pigmeat" Markham was an African-American entertainer. Though best known as a comedian, Markham was also a singer, dancer, and actor...
    
    
• "Stay Home"
  • "Supermarket Blues" by Eugene McDaniels
• "Get Drunk"
  • "By the Time I Get to Phoenix" by Shirley Scott
    Shirley Scott
    Shirley Scott was an American hard bop and soul-jazz organist. She was most known for working with her husband, Stanley Turrentine, and with Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis...
    
    
• "Fredly Advice"
  • "Diana in the Autumn Wind" by Gap Mangione
    Gap Mangione
    Gaspare "Gap" Mangione is a jazz pianist, composer, arranger, and bandleader from Rochester, New York, United States.Born and raised in Rochester, Mangione's younger brother is Grammy-winning flugelhornist Chuck Mangione. Members of a music-loving family, both Gap and Chuck took up instruments...
    
    
• "E Business"
  • "The Star of the Story" by Heatwave
• "Earth Travelers"
  • "La Bahemia" by The Earth Disciples
  • "Love's Theme" by Fausto Papetti
    Fausto Papetti
    Fausto Papetti was an Italian alto saxophone player.He was born at Viggiù in Lombardy.His performance of the song "Love's Theme" was featured on the breakbeat compilation "Ultimate Breaks and Beats".Papetti became well known for all the 1960s and 1970s, and all his new album reaches the top of...
    
    
• "Blowin' Wax"
  • "A Dream Within a Dream" by Glass Prism
  • "Hot and Nasty" by Black Oak Arkansas
    Black Oak Arkansas
    Black Oak Arkansas is an American Southern rock band named after the band's hometown of Black Oak, Arkansas. The band reached the height of its fame in the 1970s with ten charting albums released in that decade...
    
    
• "Give Love a Chance"
  • "Holding You, Loving You" by Don Blackman
    Don Blackman
    Don Blackman is an American jazz-funk pianist, singer, songwriter, producer born in Queens, New York.Blackman's neighbor as a child was Charles McPherson, and while still a teenager he played in McPherson's ensemble with Sam Jones and Louis Hayes...
    
    

External links

• Official People Under The Stairs Website