AZ - Doe or Die
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Track List: Doe or Die
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- IntroDownload & Buy
- Uncut RawDownload & Buy
- Gimme Your'sDownload & Buy
- Ho Happy JackieDownload & Buy
- Rather UniqueDownload & Buy
- I Feel For YouDownload & Buy
- Sugar HillDownload & Buy
- Mo Money, Mo Murder 'Homicide'Download & Buy
- Doe Or DieDownload & Buy
- We Can't WinDownload & Buy
- Your World Don't StopDownload & Buy
- Sugar Hill (Remix)Download & Buy
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Album Details: Doe or Die
- Release Date:
- 10/10/1995
- Label:
- Capitol
- UPC:
- 724385839825
User Reviews: Doe or Die
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classic
, May 2, 2004Reviewer: bighen20032003 - See all bighen20032003's reviews -
Probably AZ's best album
, January 12, 2006Pros: One great song after another
Cons: here and there you find a not-so-great song
I was lucky to find about this artist here. I checked out some of his other albums first and was pretty impressed, but this one blew me away. Most of my favorite songs from AZ are on this album. AZ has a production style like no other and lyrics to match. Him and Nas have done quite a few songs together and nas is probably the closest comparison to AZ (the older nas ["Illmatic" but doe or die is even better]). This is a must for any hip hop fan who knows what talent is.
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Pro Reviews: Doe or Die
| EXPERT RATING: From AMG Reviews In 1995 it was easy to confuse comrades and collaborators Nas and AZ, so similar in style were their street-schooled lyrical concerns and their austere, lazy-eyed rhyming styles. AZ, in fact, first came to the attention of the rap scene by contributing a verse to the former's classic 1994 single "Life's a Bitch." To compound the resemblance, he called upon Pete Rock to produce a couple tracks ("Gimme Your's" and "Rather Unique," both stellar) on this introductory recording, just as Nas had on his classic debut. The two albums are very much the twin sides of the same double-headed coin. They are so closely connected, in fact, that it's difficult to pinpoint where Doe or Die's points of departure are located. Many of its character sketches (the Buckwild-produced "Ho Happy Jack"), urban-caked admonitions ("Mo Money Mo Murder," on which Nas, in fact, turns up to return the favor, the equally hard-hitting title track), and gritty expressions of love ("I Feel for You," a pumped-up "One Love") are every bit as meditative and literate, peppered with authentic, incisive documentary detail. Ultimately, AZ's album is not quite as compact and consistent, and, unlike its mirror-image, its focus lapses right toward the end. But while Doe or Die is not quite on an artistic par with, not quite the free-flowing masterpiece as, the landmark Illmatic, it is not at all far behind in terms of quality, either. Certainly it was one of the strongest, most promising debut efforts of 1995, and probably one of the year's strongest rap albums period. And as with Nas, he would have a difficult time following up on this early juggernaut. - Stanton Swihart, All Music Guide |
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One of the numerous thoughtful, literate gangsta rappers to emerge from New York during the mid-'90s, AZ never garnered the attention of peers like Nas and Jay Z. Instead, he saw his debut album, Doe or Die, become a critical favorite in late 1995 be...Full AZ Biography
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Pros: everything
Cons: he's slept on
buy this regardless, he ripped every track even sugar hill remix. get you a copy or two he derseve if. Achknowledge his skills