Brand Nubian - Very Best of Brand Nubian
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Track List: Very Best of Brand Nubian
- All for One
- Feels So GoodDownload & Buy
- Concerto in X Minor
- Drop the Bomb
- Wake Up [Reprise in the Sunshine]
- Slow Down
- Brand NubianDownload & Buy
- Slow Down [Pete Rock's Newromix]
- 360° (What Goes Around)
- Mind Your Business
- Allah U Akbar
- Love Me or Leave Me Alone
- Punks Jump up to Get Beat DownDownload & Buy
- Hold On
- Punks Jump up to Get Beat Down [Remix]
- Don't Let It Go to Your Head
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Album Details: Very Best of Brand Nubian
- Release Date:
- 09/18/2001
- Label:
- Elektra / Wea
- UPC:
- 081227435820
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, September 17, 2001Reviewer: bigb142002 - See all bigb142002's reviews1 of 1 Yahoo! Users found this Very Best of Brand Nubian review helpful I can only think of two other groups in the history of hip-hop that have as much chemistry as my boys from New York. Outkast and Tribe during the Low End Thoery. What this means is that the best of Brand Nubian offers just a few of their hits (about 15) that completely show that these boys are future hip hop hall of famers. The only failure of this album is that they did not include a large amount of songs of thier last classic Foundation. But that is the only flaw. If you are new listener of Brand Nubian watch how Sadat X and Grand Puba are in a completely different realm of thinking than Lord Jamar. The best of Brand Nubain takes you through twelve years of politics, disturbing flows, and four classic albums. ...
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| EXPERT RATING: From AMG Reviews Politically controversial in their time, Brand Nubian doesn't sound like the dangerous, Afrocentric militants they were originally made out to be in some quarters. Maybe it's because their jazzy, post-Native Tongues music is so ingratiating; maybe it's because Grand Puba has such a playful, easygoing presence on the mic; maybe it's just that, in the new millennium, politics are no longer the way rap groups ruffle feathers. Whatever the case, Rhino's The Very Best of Brand Nubian is an essential summation of the uncompromisingly pro-black, often very positive group's career. Grand Puba, clearly their most inventive lyricist, departed after their excellent debut, One for All, and was definitely missed on subsequent albums. So instead of trying to balance the picture, the compilation wisely leans heavily on One for All, from whence come seven of the 16 tracks (eight if you count the Pete Rock remix of "Slow Down"). We also get two Grand Puba solo singles and one track from the group's latter-day reunion with Puba, "Don't Let It Go to Your Head." That leaves three tracks from In God We Trust, just one from the coolly received Everything Is Everything, and another hard-to-find remix (of "Punks Jump up to Get Beat Down"). One could make the case that "Step to the Rear" and "Who Can Get Busy Like This Man" should also have made the cut from the debut, instead of the two remixes, but then again, there had to be a decent reason to buy this comp, even if all the post-One for All material included here is worth rescuing. As for the group's politics, the "white devil" fixation on "Drop the Bomb" and "Wake Up (Reprise in the Sunshine)" can sound paranoid to non-believers. But really, it shouldn't detract from the group's numerous strengths, which make The Very Best of Brand Nubian an extremely high-quality listen. - Steve Huey, All Music Guide |
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The Five Percent Nation of Islam was a popular inspiration for numerous thinking-man's rap groups during the early '90s, and Brand Nubian was arguably the finest of the more militant crop. Although they were strongly related to the Native Tongues pos...Full Brand Nubian Biography
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