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Format: CD
Label: Christylez Production LLC
Year: 2008
Media Condition: New
Sleeve/Cover Condition: New
TRACKS:
1 Welfare Check
2 Aura (Feat. Naima Jahmaal)
3 Get Down
4 Metroneusense
5 Roaches
6 Individual
7 Indecisive (Feat. D'mite)
8 Keep It Real (Feat. Komplex)
9 Halfadayz
10 Tryanny (Feat. Earn)
11 Ellington
12 Mambo Sauce
13 Urban Redevelopment (Feat. D'mite)
14 Star
"I called the album Advanced Artistry because it takes on traditional hip-hop elements and expands everything about it, with the use of piano solos in between the chorus & verses, heavy extended chord progressions, altered song structuring, and all original composition without sampling records.
"Being a student at Duke Ellington School of the Arts, I always saw these connections between sonata-allegro form and hip-hop song structure, scat & rapping. But hip-hop artists weren't doing that.
"I created this album out of a dream and a longing to hear the combination of cultures, genres, and social classes. I call it progressive hip-hop. It takes traditional hip-hop elements and fuses live instrumentation and genres from around the world."
Label: Christylez Production LLC
Year: 2008
Media Condition: New
Sleeve/Cover Condition: New
TRACKS:
1 Welfare Check
2 Aura (Feat. Naima Jahmaal)
3 Get Down
4 Metroneusense
5 Roaches
6 Individual
7 Indecisive (Feat. D'mite)
8 Keep It Real (Feat. Komplex)
9 Halfadayz
10 Tryanny (Feat. Earn)
11 Ellington
12 Mambo Sauce
13 Urban Redevelopment (Feat. D'mite)
14 Star
"I called the album Advanced Artistry because it takes on traditional hip-hop elements and expands everything about it, with the use of piano solos in between the chorus & verses, heavy extended chord progressions, altered song structuring, and all original composition without sampling records.
"Being a student at Duke Ellington School of the Arts, I always saw these connections between sonata-allegro form and hip-hop song structure, scat & rapping. But hip-hop artists weren't doing that.
"I created this album out of a dream and a longing to hear the combination of cultures, genres, and social classes. I call it progressive hip-hop. It takes traditional hip-hop elements and fuses live instrumentation and genres from around the world."