Komplettes MP3 Album von DP Da Reapa
Angegebene Spieldauer: 78:30
Veröffentlichungsdatum: 2003-03-27
Kurz-Beschreibung von CDbaby: Old school to def, hailin’ from VA

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Greetings 2 all our peeps. Dat’s right..Ya’ll out dere. Black, brown, white, yellow, red, and whatever U look like. Male or female. Conservative or liberal. Democratic or republican. Jew, Muslim, or Christian. Upper class wannabee or Down N D hoodz and barrios. We drop mad shots 4 U right now. Representin’ as always 4 D real. ’Cause D real is D life as D people live it and dat’s what ReapALife represents...’cause ultimately on dis here plane what happens is dat we either manifest D positive tip or D negative tip. Either way, we gotz 2 survive.

Either way, we ReapALife. What kind of life we reap is D kind of life we sow. D negative and D positive is both parts of life and both parts of D real. Dere R no absolutes, no perfections, just hard work tryin’ 2 git th’u’. And we B doing all up in the mix with D system dat’s tryin’ 2 tell me and U how to live while marching us 2 D altars of death.

What we know...we know by D life. Dis is a hip-hop reality here. D hip is bein’ N D know. dat’s what consciousness is..not some esoteric, mystical crap, but knowin’ D ledge, D edge, so U don’t fall off. D hop is mobility, ’cause U gotz 2 keep movin’. Either move or U git moved on. We tryin’ 2 move, we tryin’ 2 help U move. Listen N. We hit U wit’ D lyric, we hit U wit’ D visual, we hit U wit’ D lessons, we hit U wit’ D wordz. But every lick is 1 2 grow on. Dis yo birfday site, U bin rebo’n. Welcome 2 D home of ReapALife, web and worldwide, all over dem bustas, frauds, and fakes. DP Da Reapa N here, yo war correspondent. Stay alive! Signed..Reapa

DP Da Reapa (Rev. Dr. Nikitah Imani) is Pres. and CEO of Reapalife Records in Harrisonburg, VA. He is from the ATL and holds a BSFS, 2 masters degrees and a Ph.D. He is assoc. prof. of sociology at James Madison Univ and adjunct associate professor of sociology at Blue Ridge Community College.. He is also an ordained minister of the Universal Life Church and has pastored in Afrikan orthodox and Southern Baptist religious contexts. He was the co-author of The Agony of Education (1996) on Routledge press.

Volume Two of Old School 2 Def is the "conscious" piece of da duality. We start off with Hip-hop Niggaz, still trying to purge dem frauds and fakes that don’t know the culture up out da game. Phenomenon and Feel My Shit are in the same vein.

Soundbyte wit’ Substance was named in opposition to all the radio static dat be having soundbytes with no real content. This track was produced by DJ Sseleman, I just added and remixed my vocals. Guestin’ on dis is my boy B-One. It’s dedicated to him since he recently had a lfe threatened accident. We live to see the day you pick you mike back up son. Love forever.

Deathwish is a reminder of how we used to rhyme straight off the top off the block in the dozens. It sets up the fictional scenario of such a battle just to gi yous a taste of the way we used ta do it.

WildLife is a track with Murda Mal that was on the original version of his Wild Life CD.

Thank U is dedicated to the King of rock Jam Master Jay. May he live forever.

Neva Say Die is a shot out to all my homies in hoods and barrios and reservations worldwide strugglin’ ginst dem odds and trying to rise up.

Dem Bones would be rather straightforward, but it was based on an old crazy Euroamerican folk song one of my teachers used to sing in elementary school. I also thought it was incredibly stupid, but it always stayed in my head. Here we give it a kick, ya know?

Girl Got Problems? Self-explanatory. Still looking for the queens and trying to drop off the STP crew ya’ll.

So Lovely is for the queens dat actually act like it.

Hope ya feel me, peace.