Ok! I am so feeling this album I felt like doing the Carlton!

Blu expresses the good and bad times of an MC goes while trying to maintain life and a music career. This album is BANGIN'! The beats are authentic, the lyrics are sincere, there is passion in his delivery. It's what Hip Hop Heads thought basement music would be, want it to be, what it ought to be. Blu & Exile's sound remind me of "The Coup's Genocide and Juice" a little. Back when MC's didn't have budget or expense accounts and they got their friends to be in their videos! Those were the days are they coming back?

There aren't too many tracks I didn't like. There were some verses that hit me I included them under the track, in the track listing. Click Real Hip Hop
to hear the full album or click a track on the player. Enjoy!

1. My World Is ... I love this track it is a true throw back
2. The Narrow Path
3. So[ul] Amazin' (Steel Blazin')
4. Jucien' Dranks (feat. Taarach)
5. In Remembrance of Me
6. Blu Collar Workers
7. Dancing In The Rain

I say cool, but the truth is I’m stressing a grip/ Cause it’s hard to make music when this depression exists/ They say use it as inspiration – the best of them did/ But I just MC, I can’t handle this pressure for shit/ And if you ask me, stress is a bitch/ My girl needs more pretension and my record label’s desperate for hits/ Now I’m pissed ‘cause I’m getting out the zone again/ Makes me start to dread when I see a microphone and shit/ It ain’t supposed to be like that – I said ‘I’ll be right back’/ I left the office, got on the phone and called my partner Jack/ And I asked him, ‘Remind me why I’m rappin’’/ And right before he answered, I remembered my passion in the past/ When I was scribbling in my tablet/ To box out my mom and dad scrappin’/ To help me when my grandmother passed/ Plus the many times that I was homeless/ At the times that I was broke, this music made a way when I was hopeless/ He told me to remember the rain and to diminish the pain/ And he told me not to ask him again/

8. First Things First (feat. Miguel Jontel)
9. No Greater Love
10. Show Me The Good Life (feat. Aloe Blac & Joseph)

I got a call from my girl last week/ She telling me about that time of the month and how it may not come/ Dropped the phone right before she said I might have a son/ And I started asking God how come/ I got dreams I ain’t reached yet – ends that ain’t meet yet/ When it comes to being a man, shit I’m barely getting my feet wet / Trying to hit reset knee deep in debt/ Trying to figure out how to feed a mouth that ain’t got teeth yet/ How the hell am I gonna show a child to be a man/ When I’m twenty-two without a clue on how to take a stand/ Against this system when it’s just us/ Wanna show ‘em justice/ But last year I was just in cuffs/ What the fuck am I supposed to do when he’s telling me ‘Dad I need some food’?/ I’m looking down at my stomach and mine is grumbling too/ What can I tell him when he’s twenty-two/ And he’s asking me what the fuck I was thinking when mommy’s tummy grew?/ Was I scared, was I getting prepared?/ Or did I even think of leaving her without a father’s care?/ Should I tell him that it’s hell here and life ain’t fair?/ Or should I try to make a change when he’s pulling on my leg?

11. Simply Amazin'> My Gooodness...I feel this in my soul!
12. Cold Hearted (feat. Miguel Jontel)
13. The World Is (Below The Heavens) Pt. 1
14. The World Is (Below The Heavens) Pt. 2
15. I Am ...
16. You Are Now In the Clouds With (The Koochie Monstas)

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