Declaime / Self Study
Album: Self Study   Collection:Hip-hop
Artist:Declaime   Added:Jul 2011
Label:Someothaship Connect  

A-File Activity
Add Date: 2011-10-09 Pull Date: 2011-12-11 Charts: Hip-Hop
Week Ending: Nov 13
Airplays: 1

Recent Airplay
1. Nov 06, 2011: MHz
Perfect (Git A Taste)

Album Review
Allen Thayer
Reviewed 2011-10-05
Declaime (aka Dudley Perkins) / Self Study/Interplanetary Peace Talks
By the Ambassador

Alkaholiks alum/Stones Throw collaborator, Dudley Perkins alter ego and domestic partner of Georgia Anne Muldrew. This is some heady hip-hop about self-awareness and politics. No FCCs as far as I could hear. Recommended tracks: #4, #5, #12, #17

1) 1:52 intro; 2) 2:48 interesting plodding beat with tuba accent; 3) 2:37 political lyrics and double-tracked vocals; 4)** 3:53 funky intro and catchy lyrical hook; 5)* 3:32 a little more mellow with femme vox and lyrics about a boy growing up; 6) 1:40 vox with effects – short filler track; 7) 4:10 declaime speaking the truth about problems in black community to a woozy beat and clunky rhymes; 8) 3:04 chunky, glitch beat with lackadaisical rhymes ; 9) 4:22 starting with Gil Scott-Heron sound clip then Declaime disses sucka MCs to a funky repetitive beat ; 10) 3:01 starting with skit about police brutality ; 11) 0:24 instrumental interlude; 12)** 3:21 featuring MED minor-key piano loop and righteous lyrics; 13) 2:55 diss about gang warfare; 14) 3:38 starting with female vox then smooth beats and personal lyrics; 15) 1:07 beats and vocal sample; 16)* 4:14 tuba sample and femme vox back-up; 17)** 3:42 plodding funky beat with nice lyrics and chorus sample hook

Track Listing
1. Introvision   9. Perfect (Git A Taste)
2. Poet   10. Dirty Dude
3. Ship's Doctor   11. Ms. One Drum
4. Illicit Fonk   12. Zoom Ft. Med
5. Self Study   13. Tribal Warfare
6. Fresh   14. Quartz
7. Coonspiracy   15. Inversion
8. East Meets West Ft. Kev Brown   16. Lifestyles
  17. Movin