Artist/Group Releases 1st Down - A Day Wit The Homiez, 12-inch single (1995) Pay Day Records Slum Village - Fan-Tas-Tic, 12-inch single (1996) Slum Village - Fan-Tas-Tic (Vol. 1), Album (1996) Donut Boy Recordings, (1997) Sudden Impact, (2006) Barak Slum Village - We Be Down 12-inch single (1997) Sudden Impact Jay Dee - Jay Dee Unreleased Remixes, EP (1997) House Shoes Records Slum Village - Somethin' For The People, All I Do (Remix) from All I Do 12-inch single (1997) WB J-88 - Look Of Love (Remix) 12-inch single (1999) Groove Attack Slum Village - Get This Money, 12-inch single (1999) INTERSCOPE Slum Village - Fantastic Vol.
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2, Album (2000) Goodvibe (2002) Capitol (2010) Barak Slum Village - Fall In Love (Remix), 12-inch single (2000) Goodvibe Slum Village - Cimax/CB4, 12-inch single (2000) Goodvibe J-88 - Best Kept Secret, EP (2000) Groove Attack Jay Dee - Fuck The Police/Move, feat. Frank N Dank, 12-inch single (2001) Up Above Jay Dee feat. Frank-N-Dank - Pause, 12-inch single (2001) BBE Jay Dee - Welcome 2 Detroit, Album (2001) BBE 1st Down - A Day Wit The Homiez, Album (2002) RonnieCash.com Jay Dee - Instrumental Series Vol 1, EP (2002) Bling 47 Jay Dee feat. MC (Not producer) Tami Hert - If You Were Mine (Detroit Demolition Mix) 12-inch single (1997) 550 Music v/a - Fight Club, feat. Dilla, Nottz & Boogie from Best Kept Secret Mix, Album (2003) Bling 47 Dabrye - Game Over 12-inch single (2004) Ghostly International Wale Oyejide - There's A War Going On 12-inch single (2004) Shaman Work Wale Oyejide - There's A War Going On from One Day, Everything Changed, Album (2004) Shaman Work Slum Village - Reunion from Detroit Deli, Album (2004) Barak/Capitol Pete Rock - Niggaz Know from Soul Survivor II, Album (2004) Rapster /BBE v/a - Do Your Thang, Stupid from BR Gunna Presents Dirty District Vol. Production Credits: 1996 5-Elementz - Whutchawant, Feed Back, Rockshows, Party Groove, Janet Jacme, E.G.O., Don't Stop, Searchin from The, Album Time Forgot cassette (1996) That Was Entertainment A Tribe Called Quest - 1nce Again, Get A Hold, Keeping It Moving, Stressed Out, Word Play from Beat, Rhymes, & Life, Album (1996) Jive Records AZ - When The Cheering Stops from NFL Jams (1996) Castle Busta Rhymes - Keep It Movin', Still Shinin' from The Coming, Album (1996) Elektra Busta Rhymes - Woo-Hah!! (Jay-Dee Bounce Remix), Woo-Hah!!
(Jay-Dee Other Shit Remix), 12-inch (1996) Elektra Busta Rhymes - It's a Party (Ummah Remix), Ill Vibe (Ummah Remix), 12-inch single (1996) Elektra De La Soul - Stakes Is High from Stakes Is High, Album (1996) Tommy Boy De La Soul - Stakes Is High (Remix) from Itzsoweezee, 12-inch single (1996) Tommy Boy Mad Skillz - It's Going Down, The Jam from From Where??? (1996) Big Beat Kieth Murray - The Rhyme (Remix), Dangerous Ground from Enigma (1996) Jive Natives Of Da Underground - Pack Da Hous/Brotha's Juss Don't Know/Whatcha Gonna Do?, 12-inch single (1996) ALR Phife Dawg - Game Day from NFL Jams (1996) Castle Proof - Da Science from Detroit Hip Hop Volume 1 (1996) Modern Tribe Proof - Vibe Session from Anywhere, 12-inch single (1996) Hip Hop Shop Tha Pharcyde - Runnin', Bullshit, Splatittorium, Somethin' That Means Somethin', Drop, Y? From Labcabincalifornia, Album (1996) Delicious Vinyl. Production Credits: 1998 A Tribe Called Quest - 4 Moms, Against The World, Busta's Lament, Da Booty, Find A Way, His Name Is Mutty Ranks, Start It Up, Steppin' It Up from The Love Movement, Album (1998) Jive Records A Tribe Called Quest - That Shit from Funkmaster Flex Vol. 3, Album (1998) Loud Records Bizarre - Butterfly from Attack of the Wierdos, EP (1998) Federation Mood - Secrets Of The Sand (Remix) from Snake Backs, 12-inch single (1998) Blunt N'Dea Davenport - Bullshittin (Remix) from N'Dea Davenport, Album (1998) V2.
Production Credits: 1999 5 Ela - You Ain't Fresh, Ain't No Love from 5-E Pt. Production Credits: 2001 Bahamadia - One-4-Teen (Remix) from Summer Sampler, Album (2001) Goodvibe Bilal - Reminisce from 1st Born Second, Album (2001) Interscope Busta Rhymes - Genesis, Make It Hurt from Genesis, Album (2001) Elektra Chino XL - Don't Say A Word from I Told You So, Album (2001) Metro Records De La Soul - Peer Pressure Intro & Outro Monologues by Jay Dee from AOI: Bionix, Album (2001) Tommy Boy Lucy Pearl - Without You (Remix), 12-inch single (2001) Pookie/Virgin Mos Def - Can U C The Pride In The Panther? (Remix), 12-inch single (2001) Interscope Que D - In Yo Face from Still Bangin, single (2001) Up Above and Que D Limited Edition, Album (2003) Royal Flyness Toshi Kubota - Nothin But Your Love (Remix), 12-inch single (2001) Epic. Production Credits: 2003 AS D (Afrob & Samy Deluxe) - Komm Schon from Wer Hatte Das Gedacht?, Album (2003) Eimsbush ASD (Afrob & Samy Deluxe) - Wenn Ihr Fuhlt. Production Credits: 2006-2009 NOTE: CREDITS IN THIS SECTION WERE CREATED DURING THE ARTIST'S LIFETIME Ghostface Killah - Beauty Jackson, Whip You with a Strap from Fishscale, Album (2006) Def Jam Busta Rhymes - You Can't Hold A Torch from The Big Bang, Album (2006) Aftermath Visionaries - All Right from We are the One s (We've Been Waiting For), Album (2006) Up Above Guilty Simpson - Clap Your Hands from, Album (2006) Stones Throw A.G.
Hip Hop Quotable, 12-inch single (2006) Look A.G. Hip Hop Quoteable from Get Dirty Radio, Album (2006) Look Madlib - Take It Back from, Album (2006) Stones Throw Guilty Simpson -, 12-inch single (2007) NO LABEL Phat Kat - Cold Steel, 12-inch single (2007) Look Phat Kat - 5 songs from Carte Blanche, Album (2007) Look Guilty Simpson - I Must Love You from, Album (2008) Stones Throw Guilty Simpson - Stress, 12-inch single (2009) NO LABEL Raekwon - House of Flying Daggers, Arson Jones, 10 Bricks from Only Built for Cuban Linx 2, Album (2009) EMI Note: other posthumous production credits, beginning in 2006, not listed here. The listings above were made during the artist's lifetime.
On Talib Kweli's most recent studio album, 2004's uneven The Beautiful Struggle, he couldn't leave a bad idea alone. Every concept was weighed on triple beams, each line raked over with a fine-toothed comb, and each beat polished to the point of oblivion. But many of that album's tracks wouldn't have worked if Talib had spent a thousand years on them: The hooks weren't there, the themes felt forced, and the approach was off. He went from being the guy who was about to spark a revolution with Reflection Eternal and Black Star to sounding painfully generic amongst faux-street tracks and empty, cynical idealism. The good news is that Talib rebounds on Eardrum, continuing a trend he began with Liberation, his net-only collaboration with Madlib. The BK MC here sounds confident and relaxed- he doesn't try to knock it out of the park with every turn at bat, instead letting the album's themes and motifs slowly unfold over 20 tracks.
He's also assembled an all-star cast of producers (Madlib, Kanye, Pete Rock, Just Blaze, Hi-Tek) who manage to make a cohesive album that points toward the gospel, soul, and hip-hop sounds that made the best of Kweli's solo work- Train of Thought and Quality- so enjoyable. After experimenting with a harder persona on Beautiful Struggle, Talib seems to have accepted the fact that he's a nerd. The heartfelt, eager 'Eat to Live' and appealing wispy 'Country Cousins' recapture the quirky glory of early Reflection tracks, and fans will be pleased to hear there are no missteps such as 'Back Off Me', where the conscious MC tried to affect a harder persona. There are also a handful of unapologetically pop songs, ones that are surprisingly good and (unlike Struggle's 'I Try') don't merely try to revisit 2002 hit 'Get By'.
Single 'Hot Thing', produced by Will.I.Am, comes across like Quincy via Pharrell, while Talib runs down all the little things about the 'sunshine of my life' that get him 'stiff like a hieroglyph.' Yeah, it's corny, but it's also catchy. For the harder 'Listen!!!' , originally released to moderate success late last year, producer Kwame flips a Fred Williams sample beautifully, mixing it with back-masked voodoo, 808 interruptions, and dramatic string swells. And while those songs are on opposing ends of hip-hop's stylistic spectrum, most of the production work on Eardrum mixes swooning gospel with carefully crafted r&b drama that nods towards 70s soul mavens Gamble & Huff or the stereo symphonic jazz of David Axelrod.
The album's opening track, 'Everything Man', has a simulated thunder clap, while Madlib's 'Soon the New Day' offers a slinking, twilight soul anchored by a hook from Norah Jones (yes, that Norah Jones). As with Common's Finding Forever, spirituality is a central theme on Eardrum.
This focus, more than the anti-mainstream rap screeds sprinkled here and there, allows Talib to weave personal struggles into a universal narrative. 'Give 'Em Hell' is probably the most nuanced and effective example of this, as Talib questions both the rigidity and cultural bias of modern religion. It's heady, abstract stuff, but Talib fills in details with memories of childhood confusion. There are missteps: Modern hip-hop polemics have fallen out of favor in the light of this decade's faux-populism, and 'Hostile Gospel Pt. 1 (Deliver Us)', despite an excellent turn by Just Blaze, is unlikely to convince anyone that we need a revolution with lines like, 'I call these rappers baby seals because they club you to death.' Another track, meanwhile, features various people remembering when they first heard Talib and is an exercise in self-absorption. And though Talib switches up his flow (see his double time rap on 'Country Cousins') more than ever, he's still prone to rhythmless rambling (see how he ruins Pete Rock's excellent flip of Elton John's 'Border Song' on 'Holy Moly').
There's also the unforgivable 'The Nature', with a thin, noiseome guest spot from Justin Timberlake, but Talib gets more right here than wrong. He's made a nice to return to form, crafting a mature album that nods to his past without being a retread.