This is Michael Mixerr. I will review Born Soul - From The Beginning To The End. Born Soul is K-Smooth the Innovator (Kelly Hancock), DJ Crash (of diRTy WoRMz), Born Soul (rapper), and Mello D. This album was released on Born Soul Productions in 1999 with distribution by Southwest Wholesale and INDI. Born Soul Productions is based outta Austin, Texas! Harold Green is the executive producer and the manager. Most of this album was recorded at The Bomb Shelter Studios near Arlyn Studios in South Austin.
Guiding Light is a great song to start your morning to as you awaken during the sunrise. Think about it as the sun starts to rise. It's the symbolization of a better day with a positive outlook that's things will get better in lifetime. The beats and rhymes will guide you through this song. The beats and rhymes will make you high tonight.
This song is very great and classical. The Peter Nero sample is really perfectly settled in with the calm mood and timbre of this song right here. Guiding Light is a good song.
Guiding Light is a perfect way to start the album.
Fold 'Em contains an interpolation of Kenny Rogers - The Gambler. The lyrics are very mimicked from Kenny Rogers. This song called Fold 'Em teaches us that you've got to know when to fold them and know how to walk away from a situation that could seriously jeopardize your own life when times get ruff. This song is very real. This song called Fold 'Em is considered to be too real for some certain people to handle.
The samples of Tomorrow by The Brothers Johnson makes it feel like I woke up one day and it was good. No bullshit.
Serchin' is a religious song about religious soul searching. This song is about loving God the most. Serchin' is a very religious oriented song based on religion. To be exact, the religion of Christianity that is! The beats and production are on point!! Those smooth classical xylophone is smoothly played out on very lighthearted felt notes. Born Soul and K-Smoove invite you to soul search with them.
K-Smoove faces a lot of stress and pressure on the song Stress. K-Smoove got an interview for a job opportunity but he knows very good and well that the employer is going to hire that other prior employee over him. It's similar to the rampant "getting hired and fired on the first day" stigma that is unfortunately overlooked in the United States workplace culture. This just goes to show you how replaceable of an employee he really is. K-Smoove is about to loose his composure due to too much stress from various factors of life. Can you see what K-Smoove sees? He wants you as the listener to relate to him. Too much stress.
K-Smoove and Mello-D rapidly flows off on the southern rap freestyle Jump On It. DJ Crash really showcases his production skills on this rap song as a well known underground DJ right here. The nighttime mood really fits in perfectly right here with this particular song.
Like Dat is a perfect song in a way to end this classic masterpiece of an album. Like Dat will remind of Run-DMC - It's Like That. Yes, Like Dat is another freestyle rap song filled with southern rap. It reminds me of Madlib, MF Doom, Little Brother, Bahamdia, MC Lyte, Talib Kweli, and Mos Def.
The Stress Factor skit should have came after Paper Chase. The song Stress should have been after Guiding Light. Brotha From The South was too short of a song for me and it should have been longer. This album will remind you of Outkast. This albums is filled with obscure soul samples, classic breakbeats, ambient electro house production, and hip hop sounds. I loved the beats, synthesized horns, keyboard programming, classic soul samples, and production of course. You will too!
The production is on point! I like that!! This album will remind you of Outkast.
This album is filled with fun Southern rap freestyles that relate to reality of people's problems they face on a daily basis. Most of the songs are freestyle raps. Think similar to Lil Flip. The whole album with make you groove to songs like The Groov, Jumps On It, Fatal, and Southern Fried Flav!
Samples used in this album were Wonderful You by Peter Nero, The Party Continues by Jermaine Dupri, Love Put Me on the Corner by Isley Brothers, Searchin' by Roy Ayers, Tomorrow by The Brothers Johnson, Tribe Vibe Break Beats, and Give Me the Night by Quincy Jones.
It's too bad that this album was underpromoted and overlooked. This album right here only sold 10,000 units. Whenever Born Soul releases an album, it usually sells 10,000 in the United States, Japan, France, Spain, Canada, Zimbabwe, Pakistan, and China. Born Soul Productions had vast potential to be the next OutKast from Texas.
ATX that is! I rate this album, From The Beginning To The End, 5/5*****!!
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