Tuesday, September 2, 2008

11 (10 maybe?). Blu and Exile - Below the Heavens (2007)


West coast LA freestyle MC Blu teamed up with dope beatmaster Exile to create this badass album that, despite critical praise, only a few people heard for some reason. This was one of my favourite rap albums of 2007, second only to T-Pain's Epiphany (sp?). Exile has produced for a number of well known artists in the past, including Mobb Deep and Jurassic 5, and is one half of the duo Emanon, but before this release Blu was a completely unknown outside of certain LA MC circles. Here he combines tight rhymes with a well-paced delivery and a very soulful singing voice and he also looks cool. Exile covers a lot of territory on this long album, trying out most styles of hip hop and r and b beats.

Download here.

2 comments:

OnwardsChristianSoldier696969 said...

[REQ] someone please upload purple on time by us maple. annie out.

Smilin Tyler said...

yeah, we need to have some posts about USMaple. i've got purple on time around here somewhere...