Aceyalone Preps Doo-Wop Inspired Solo Project
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Harvey, Plaese to explain. Very suspect. Is there any chance this could be a good record?From ballerstatus.comLos Angeles rapper and founding member of Freestyle Fellowship, Haiku D'Etat and Project Blowed, Aceyalone, is ready to make a return to music with a new project called Aceyalone & The Lonely Ones, which draws on Phil Spector, 60s girl groups, the J.B.s and a slew of raw, dirty funk for sonic inspiration.After indulging his love of Jamaican music for 2007's Lightning Strikes, the musically diverse emcee brings his admiration for doo-wop, blues and funk to the forefront. On the title track, finger snaps, falsetto choruses and Rickenbacker guitar dominate the production, a sound closer to Phil Spector's Wall of Sound than today's by-the-numbers beats."I'm not from that era, but this is my ode to it," Aceyalone explains of the album's feel. "I'm just putting myself into that character as a showman and bandleader. But I can still rhyme with the best of them. Artists are going to experiment and go different places and I love that whole era anyway."According to the rapper, on Lonely Ones, he along with producer Bionik, strike down sonic boundaries and throw the listener back to a time when music was pure, energetic, and fun. He says fans shouldn't be confused, it's not just a collection of songs, but an album where every part is essential to its meaning.While he's received critical acclaim for his past work -- including his 1995 debut solo album, All Balls Don't Bounce -- the rapper is still a work in progress, he admits. After nine solo albums and more to come, there's still a whole novel to go."You might say I'm prolific," he says, "but I'm still a work in progress. I'm just a conveyer of what???s already out there and people just don???t see it. I just interpret it."Aceyalone & The Lonely Ones is slated for release March 31.
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is going to rap over doo wop style beats or wot
is that right? I only really know of two. I guess I sort of know of the existence of the some others, but 9? Wow.
on a somewhat related note...
in Ego Trip's Book of Rap Lists they have "All Balls Don't Bounce" as one the top 10 great covers, but doo doo albums. Is that a mistake? I always thought the cover was doo doo and I like that album. I know some people is not feeling Acey De Uno, but I think that album has some jammies.
I love that song and the b side track on the mic check 12 too is pretty good!
It sounds kinda confusing, I don't think it's a doo wop lp though. Maybe just "The Lonely Ones" gives it that thought. I don't know, So, I guess he gonna do some love ballads ish?
I don't know about Acey, but there are some suspect judgments made in that Ego Trip book. In the "Bumpin albums, bumpy songs" list (where they point out the one weak song on an otherwise classic album) they call out "Powaful Impak" on Enta Da Stage (which to me is a fine song, if one of the more nondescript) and "Officer" on Bizarre Ride to the Pharcyde, which is one of my favorite joints on there.
What is it with certain artists and their aversion to creating anything without an overarching theme? I'm not opposed to concept albums, but it seems that most of the great, classic albums were mainly "just a collection of songs."
I've never dug Acey anywhere near as much as 3stacks, but I'm also from the South.
Lil' Wayne just leaked the first song off of his super overproduced rock album.
I heard some Gnarls Barkley from their first LP in Wamu today and it was an interesting contrast to some of the more recent 'experiments' in hip hop.
PS Herm...thanks for the hook up. DL now.....
might just be me...
but this sounds like some crap hall and oates with bad effects.
Aceyalone does Motown.
...and it will probably be a stylistic failure like PPP's new album.
That song is atrocious, but I still have hope he's got some good albums in him.
Phil Spector, Rickenbacker guitars, girl groups and James Brown are not doo-wop. Not in my book.
doo-wop or not that song was awful to these ears.
Bring back Volume 10!
Same here. I'll ride for ABDB ALL day long.
Sounds like a theme to a Jon Cryer movie.
Katrina And The Waves territory.