Blackalicious

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The Gift of Gab (Tim Parker) and Chief Xcel (Xavier Mosley) met at John F. Kennedy High School in 1987 in sacramento, california and formed the group in the early 1990s. They released their first recording, “Swan Lake”, on solesides records. The Solesides Crew consisted of the duo. as well as other friends of theirs they had met at University of California - Davis, including DJ Shadow, Lyrics Born and Lateef The Truth Speaker. The single was an underground hit, but label trouble prevented the duo from immediately capitalizing on their fame.

In late 1997, Solesides became quannum projects and in 1999 Blackalicious released the A2G EP, which served as a precursor to their debut full length album, NIA, which was released the following year. This was followed by a major label contract with MCA Records and the release of the critically acclaimed album Blazing Arrow in 2002.

In May 2004 Gift of Gab released his first solo album, 4th Dimensional Rocketships Going Up, but he assured fans that Blackalicious was alive and well.

A third full length, entitled The Craft, was released on Epitaph Records imprint ANTI- on September 27, 2005.

1	Blazing Arrow full track	575
2	Make You Feel That Way full track	514
3	Sky Is Falling full track	481
4	First In Flight full track	366
5	4000 Miles full track	363
6	Paragraph President full track	327
7	Deception	301
8	Nowhere Fast full track	296
9	Chemical Calisthenics full track	288
10	Alphabet Aerobics full track	266
11	Aural Pleasure full track	253
12	Purest Love full track	229
13	Day One full track	210
13	It's Going Down full track	210
15	Passion full track	208

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rigoisphat wrote:
9 hours ago

law of de-fi-nite pro-por-tion, gain-ing weight

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Jaysilla wrote:
10 days ago

Blazing Arrow is probably one of my favorite album's of all time.

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lincredible wrote:
last month

doc take a rain check, she is the medicine...

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Alec_Trevelyan wrote:
last month

Blackalicious' samurai slicin' is amazing.

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kidoriginal wrote:
May 2008

It's such a beautiful thing, this musical thing.

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MMBKG wrote:
May 2008

NIIIIIIIIIIIIA

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FootToFace wrote:
May 2008

RELEASE

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coolcoolb wrote:
May 2008

they are it

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Boskov wrote:
May 2008

Tehryan - Arguably any album is a good start; I used to prefer Blazing Arrow over Nia and The Craft, but now I like them all equally. Blackalicious is one of the few artists that I love everything they've put out.

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MFSOUL wrote:
April 2008

http://goldenerahiphop.blogspot.com

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djbricksta wrote:
April 2008

love them

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Kieran0411 wrote:
April 2008

egyptTOLOGIST wisdom

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Tehryan wrote:
April 2008

can sum1 recommend me an album to get from these dudes These guys haven't put out anything shitty to date. You will go magically right with any record. Hurray for the Pacific

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foshocho wrote:
March 2008

i started with blazing arrow, but u honestly cant go wrong with any of the albums

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zking510 wrote:
March 2008

make ya feel that waayyyy

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zking510 wrote:
March 2008

yo i know gift sonn...

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blackitolism wrote:
March 2008

i'd say start with nia then blazing arrow, then a2g ep, then the craft. shit, cop their whole discography lol.

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Stillmatic_au wrote:
March 2008

can sum1 recommend me an album to get from these dudes

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James_Hartley wrote:
February 2008

Registering my respect right here, right now

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foshocho wrote:
February 2008

2 million hits....yeyyy ya

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