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Music : AOI: Bionix
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AOI: Bionix by: De La Soul |
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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0016998136225 Format: Explicit Lyrics Label: Tommy Boy Manufacturer: Tommy Boy Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Tommy Boy Release Date: December 04, 2001 Studio: Tommy Boy Sales Rank: 50235 Disc 1:
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Editorial Review: Album Description: Long-awaited 2nd installment of the Art Official Intelligence trilogy, from Tommy Boy Records. Amazon.com: In the De La Soul diet, AOI: Bionix is a solid hip-hop meal--no fancy turntablism and few fluffy comedy sketches, just down-home beats and rhymes served straight up. Bionix is a mellow, intelligent album that aims to educate and get a laid-back party groove on at the same time. "Baby Phat" is a note to all the ladies that those couple extra pounds only mean there's more of them to love, and "Held Down" takes on a new, post-Septempter 11 relevance with the lyrics "And when I'm watching the news / And my daughter walk in / To choose to ask / 'Why were all the people on the floor, sleeping, covered in red?' / I told her, 'They came lookin' for God but found religion instead.'" Of course, De La Soul aren't comfortable preaching for too long, and at the other end of the spectrum lie sex and drug duds like "Pawn Star" (featuring Shell Council) and "Peer Pressure" (featuring Cypress Hill's B Real) that flog their subject matter dead. Even with a couple weak offerings, though, Bionix is more on par than subpar. The album's mix of gospel, funk, and hip-hop comes to a head on "Trying People," a soothing balm of a song about trying to make life a little less complicated. --Jennifer Maerz Customer Reviews
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 Rating: - For the grown.... This album isn't De La's best but its damned good. I can't believe how everyone shouts out tracks from the album and nobody says a damn thing about Trying People... that track is so raw, I had to reeeeeeeeeeewind like 5 or 6 times. Pawn Star... come on that Porn beat is sick. The beats really make this album so if you can't feel em you aint gonna feel the album. I can respect quality when I hear that ish.... the perfect album to listen to when your tired of all this wack gangster fake pimp Dr Seus raps. Rating: - Hip-hop for truly mature audiences only.I find that the main things about "getting" De La Soul's brand of hip-hop are: 1. They are cerebral rappers, forcing you to thorougly chew their lyrics before mental-digestion in order to understand their perspective. 2. At the time of this writing, they are well into their 30s (Pos was born "Out of the heavens August one-seven, sixty-nine... ") and have been in the game for 16 years, almost unheard of today (outside of LL, Dr. Dre, Snoop, and a few others, who even comes close). Accordingly, they tend to rhyme about things that their peers can relate to, especially if said peers are trying to "make it" in life. Unfortunately for De La - like Dave says in Bionix - they have had to "get on that ol' bulls ... Read More: Rating:  - 5 stars to make up for unfair, ignorant low marksOkay, maybe this album by De La Soul is closer to a 4, but it is still very strong. In 2001, De La quietly dropped this second installment in the AOI series after the first one garnered them some long-lost mainstream attention the year before. This is being called by many here as 'their worst album,' and if this is so, it only shows how incredible their catalog is. I mean, really, Posdnous and Dave are MC'in at as high a level as they ever have for the majority of this showing. The production, MOSTLY handled by Dave West and De La themselves, is entertaining and outstanding on a few tracks. I can see a reason for the choice low grades because people were disgusted by the track "Pawn Star." I wasn't feeling it either, but this track is just ... Read More: Rating: - Where are the real fans?First of all, being a fan doesn't mean you blindly follow. It means that you recognize their talent, creativity & hard work. De La blew my mind with this album. Those of you that didn't like Pawn Star have no sense of humor & wouldn't get satire if it pimp-slapped you in the face. The B-Real track is one of my favorites in their entire catalog. It is a joke guys, open your ears. Anyway, I thought the previous album was a little uneven & it didn't get a lot of play from me but I played this album @ least 200x in my car. Some of the hooks are as good as anything I've heard in 20 yrs. You all need to take 2 more listens & apologize for your reviews. Rating:  - There's a very good reason this is out of print.I'll keep this short and sweet. Simply is a pretty good track, while Held Down, Baby Phat, and Bionix are OK. Coming into track 9 (Special,) I was pretty surprised how decent this CD was turning out to be. However, by the closing of the aforementioned track, the album took a nose dive that it would never come back from. All of the badness in Bionix culminates in what is quite possibly the worst song of all time, Pawn Star. Extra disrespect goes to Simply Havin, which uses the exact same sample as in ATCQ's "Footprints." One would think that they're familiar with Tribe's material, but whatever. For the most part, this CD is garbage and doesn't hold up to De La's standards in the least. Perhaps you could buy Simply and Held Down ... Read More: |
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