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| Power Is Mindful Peace |
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label: brockway
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producers: ill factor, nevski, danny elias, james orr, pimp t, wx, mix master mossman, others.
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guests: ac, roddy flores, mix master mossman, wx, kween, tech tai, above, sean one, danny elias, dj stv.
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| year of release: 2003 |
| website: pimpt.com |
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| I'm not even sure what to make of this. Pimp-T's whispery melodic vocals make him sound something like a cross between cLOUDDEAD's Dose One and a character from Sesame Street, and the content of his lyrics ranges between subjects as random as being accused of something he didn't do
at the age of nine ("Petty Crime"), and his nostalgic yearnings for childhood nursery rhymes ("Hippity Hop"). |
| And yet there are times at which this album is actually quite good. |
| The first full track - "Tha PIMP-T Theme (Nevski Remix)" - is an example of one of the album's better moments. The beat includes synthesised techno elements, and drums that hark back to golden-age simplicity, and the hook is
soulfully sung by AC. It is, however, quite difficult not to get caught up in Pimp-T's repeatedly claiming "no-one ever said that pimping is easy" while AC's chorus is along the lines of "hey Pimp-T you drive the ladies crazy." By the time "Tha PIMP-T Theme" has ended,
and the rising bass and echoing guitar of "Petty Crime" have led into another of Pimp-T's strange verses, you're already beginning to wonder what exactly is going on, and I'm not sure you're ever really granted an answer. |
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| tracklisting |
| 1. Intro |
| 2. Tha PIMP-T Theme (Nevski Remix) feat. AC |
| 3. Petty Crime |
| 4. Hippity Hop feat. Roddy Flores |
| 5. Power Is Mindful Peace (PIMP) |
| 6. Bump-N-Grind Fiend (Nevski Remix) |
| 7. Get Yo Groove On (Interlude) |
| 8. Party Slam feat. AC & Mix Master Mossman |
| 9. Moma (Intro) |
| 10. Moma feat. Mix Master Mossman & WS |
| 11. Pissed Off |
| 12. Number One feat. Kween, Tech Thai |
| 13. No Production Budget feat. Above, Sean One |
| 14. Funky Punks Anthem feat. Mix Master Mossman, WS |
| 15. My Thoughts (Outro) |
| 16. Tha PIMP-T Theme (Tech Thai Bunus Remix) |
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| "Power Is Mindful Peace" progresses through the piccolo (or possibly recorder) loops of "Bump-N-Grind (Nevski Remix)" to the house-time of "Party Slam" (featuring AC and Mix Master Mossman),
and on to a rendition of an old Spice Girls chorus on "Moma (Intro)" before Pimp-T (assisted by WS and Mix Master Mossman) declares that no rap album is complete "without a shout-out to your mother" (also see "Moma").
Whether or not we choose to agree with this particular declaration, a much more pressing question is whether or not "Power Is Mindful Peace" is actually a rap album of any kind. |
| "Number One" (featuring Kween and Tech Thai) and "No Production Budget" (featuring Above and Sean One), are two of the tracks on the album that are more easily described as rap most of the others, and discuss
justifications for rapping and continuing to rap while dealing with a certain amount of poverty respectively. |
| On "My Thoughts (Outro)", Pimp-T discloses that the tracklisting of the album represents the chronology in which the tracks were made, and says that people may not enjoy or choose to listen to what he does, but he will continue to express his creativity through rhyming.
What he doesn't offer is any real insight into what his aims in rhyming are, and so you can't help wondering whether it was ever his intention to make a Hip Hop album, or whether Pimp-T and a few friends all got together and basically decided to have a laugh. |
| Whatever the case, this is unlike almost everything else I've ever heard. While at times it is painful to listen to ("Party Slam" is probably the main offender), there are other moments when, irrespective of whether Pimp-T is
actually being serious, this album gives him the opportunity to do whatever it is he does over a number of fairly good beats. |
| review: cornerstone |
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