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Heavy Rhyme Experience, Vol. 1 | 
 enlarge | Artist: The Brand New Heavies
Label: Delicious Vinyl
Category: Music
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Avg. Customer Rating:  11 reviews
Sales Rank: 142427
Format: Explicit Lyrics
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 812276767286
EAN: 0081227676728
ASIN: B00005A09H
Release Date: March 20, 2001
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| Tracks:
| • | Bonafied Funk | | • | It's Gettin' Hectic | | • | Who Makes the Loot? | | • | Wake Me When I'm Dead | | • | Jump N' Move | | • | Death Threat | | • | State of Yo | | • | Do Whatta I Gotta Do | | • | Whatgabouthat | | • | Soul Flower |
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 Short Acid Jazz Mixed With Some Hip Hop (Rating: 8 out of 10- -4.0 stars) January 21, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Not too often, we hear bands colab with many hip hop artists. On albums like Heavy Rhyme Experience, we get a blend of instuments with some astounding vocals to come together on to one album. Brand New Heavies, I've only heard of them once which was on a song with The Main Source, which appears on this album. To be honest, I really don't know too much about this group, except N'Dea Davenport (ATL baby!) was in the group, and later left, and then rejoined. But outside of that information, that's all I know about the group.
Here on this album, Brand New Heavies, bring in some popular artists that were peaking around 1991/1992. Artists like Guru, Black Sheep, Masta Ace, and others bring their A game to this album. "Bonafied Funk" with The Main Source, already appears on their Breaking Atoms if you have any of the reissues. Guru from Gangstarr drops in for the solid "It's Getting Hectic". Grand Puba colabs for the nice "Who Makes The Loot" which appears on his Reel to Reel. My most favorited track is the next one, Masta Ace's colab "Wake Me When I'm Dead", about artists crossing over in hip hop. The next track, "Jump 'n' Move" with Jamalski, has a reggae bouncy touch which sounds okay. Another standout would be the colab with Kool G. Rap with "Death Threat" which is amazing. The Black Sheep colab track "State Of Yo" is another banger that is highly enjoyable. Ed O.G. drops in for the solid "Do What I Gotta Do" track. The next track is the Tiger colab with "Whatgabouthat" which it depends on what mood I'm in on where I like that song or not. The final track is The Pharcyde colab "Soul Flower" with is good, but doesn't match the remix which appears on Bizarre Ride II the Pharcyde.
Overall a great album. Most of the colabs I'm feeling with the live sounding instruments. This is one of those albums that you can vibe to real easily. With only 10 tracks, clocking at 35 minutes, this album may feel a little short sounding, but it does quickly get to the point. Fans of live sounding music will like this one. It does have a little crossover appeal to it, but it still keeps it place in the acid jazz and hip hop areas. This is one I recommend you check out, especially if you're a fan of anyone who appears on this album.
Lyrics: A-
Production: A+
Guest Appearances: B
Musical Vibes: A-
Top 5 Tracks:
1. Wake Me When I'm Dead (with Masta Ace)
2. Death Threat (with Kool G. Rap)
3. Who Makes The Loot (with Grand Puba)
4. State Of Yo (with Black Sheep)
5. It's Getting Hectic (with Guru)
 MAN, I FORGOT HOW WONDERFUL THIS ALBUM IS!!!! February 9, 2007
man, i tell you what, i was just reminded about how lovely this album is to listen to. i had the tape, but i lost the tape. right after i ordered it on here, i find the cotton pickin' think hiding in a doggone bag!!!! nevertheless, this is wonder fusion of funk and hip hop. why it did not get more attention than it did, i do not know. it was a breath of fresh air for '91/'92. you just do not hear that type of thang anymore. if they did it today, they would probably be club bangahs in the form of jazz. shameful!!!!!
A rap album with substantial crossover appeal November 10, 2006
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Let me first say that with a few exceptions like Us3, Digable Planets and the Beastie Boys from Check Your Head forward, I am certainly NOT a fan of rap. But what those artists all have in common is a decidedly funk, soul and/or jazz groove rather than a contemporary urban R&B sound. And so it is with this album, where various American old-school rap artists - this album was recorded in 1991, after all - rhyme to tracks laid down by the London-based acid-jazz/rare-groove legends The Brand New Heavies. Rather than relying on processed beats and looped samples, the Heavies provide the MCs with genuine instrumental tracks with enough funk to get all but the comatose up out of their chairs. The tempo varies from slow-and-low grind-funk as in the opening track "Bonafide Funk" featuring Main Source and "It's Getting Hectic" featuring Gang Starr to driving dance-club beats as in "Soul Flower" featuring The Pharcyde and "Jump n' Move" featuring Jamalski (recently used in a trailer for the animated penguin movie "Happy Feet"). Regardless of pace, the Heavies infuse each song with deep basslines, rump-movin' funk-syncopated rhythms and infectious guitar hooks with liberal use of the wah-wah pedal.
The album has some minor weaknesses, in particular the sped-up, repetitive and insufferably grating vocal samples laid over "Do What I Gotta Do" with Ed O.G. But any weaknesses are superficial blemishes on the otherwise flawless musical foundation beneath each track.
This album should be on every Top 100 Hip-Hop Albums of All Time list. Its lack of widespread critical recognition much less commercial success is practically a crime.
an unfortunately slept on album... January 9, 2006
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
IMHO, one of the great albums of all time.
Fantastic rhymes from 10 different lyricists (many of them some of the great names in underground/not-so-underground hip-hop of the era), over the Heavies' great vintage-instrument-influenced grooves.
Hip-hop records from the mid-80s through the early-90s have an organic production quality that is generally missing from the more slicked-out productions of today (which is not to say that hip-hop today ALWAYS feels inorganic). To me, what is significant about "Heavy Rhyme Experience, Vol. 1" is that the music has that same organic feeling, but none of the music is sampled. Certainly it is influenced by James Brown, The Meters, the Mizells, etc. (who of course were the same artists being sampled in hip-hop around that time), but all the music is written and performed by the Heavies and the guest rappers. And cleverly, too! The subtleties of the compositions still knock me out 15 years later--the Heavies' understated variations on the repetitive grooves call to mind earlier hip-hop productions, but also the music of Fela Kuti and Steve Reich.
In the realm of hip-hop with a live band, "Heavy Rhyme Experience" is hard to compare to The Roots, but this record may be funkier and display more variety and diversity than any of The Roots' recordings. It's kind of a shame that the Heavies never actually made a Volume 2, exploring this direction further. This is easily their best album, though "Brother Sister" is very good.
The only complaint I have is the length, which at 30-something minutes leaves me wishing for so much more...
Seems like No one's heard of this hip hop classic February 26, 2004
I spent a long time trying to re-find this album after it was originally stolen from me. It wasn't til the re-release that I was able to find it and I was amazed at all the fantastic MC's from the past that were used on this album. Everyone from Grand Puba, Guru, Jamalski, Masta Ace, the Pharcyde, Main Source and Kool G Rap drop rhymes on this album, and the funky, jazzy beats by the Brand New Heavies are just so refreshing. This is like a breath of Fresh air when it comes to hip hop, and just the names of the Mc's alone should make it worthwhile.Admittedly, this is not really the best example of the Brand New Heavies music. In fact, it's not a good representation of them at all, except it does show the diversity of their style, and the music they make is fantastic, regardless. This version of Soulflower with the Pharcyde is just great and I liked it much better than the version used on the Bizarre Ride 2 The Pharcyde.
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