Strange Fruit Project – The Healing

Artist: Strange Fruit Project

Album: The Healing
Year: 2006
Quality: 320 kbps

Tracklist:

01. Intro
02. Ready Forum
03. You (The Only Ones) Produced by Illmind
0 4. Under Pressure
05. Good Times
06. Liberation feat. Toby Produced by Chris Dave of The Foundation
07. Get Live feat. Erykah Badu Produced by Illmind
08. Soul Clap Produced by Jake One
09. Special feat. Thesis Produced by 9th Wonder
10. Pinball Produced by Vitamin D
11. Rise feat. Little Brother Produced by Illmind
12. Cali Cruisin feat. Deloach and Bavu
13. Parachutes feat. Thesis
14. God Is feat. Darien Brockington and Yazarah

+ Bonus Joint: After the Healing feat. Verbal Seed, K-Otix, Tahiti, Skotch, Kay (of The Foundation)

Relatively unknown before their collaboration with Ghostface Killah on the song “Milk ‘Em” in 2005, Strange Fruit Project, the group of three MCs (S1 doubles as a producer, though much of that responsibility is taken over by guests on The Healing) also found a fan in the Roots’?uestlove (which proved useful for Okay Player advertisements, of which they received a fair amount) and were able to distribute their music to a larger audience with the release of 2006’s The Healing. Mr. Thompson had valid reasons for being so complimentary about them, and the impressive assortment of featured artists on The Healing (Erykah Badu, Jake One, and both Little Brother and 9th Wonder) also attests to the group’s talent, and SFP are certainly deserving of this recognition. Instead of expanding the boundaries of hip-hop (either lyrically or musically), Strange Fruit Project look to bring the Native Tongues style back, which means that there are lots of nice, jazzy beats with socially conscious lyrics. S1, who also plays many of the instruments on the album, grew up playing piano in church, and that kind of gospel-inspired key work is found throughout the entire album (not to mention the many references, often in the form of brief, soliloquy-like skits about looking for God), but there are also the requisite synths and drum machines needed to make a nice clean beat. While the production is not particularly experimental, it’s always good, and it swerves away from predictable on tracks like “Pinball,” with its video-game beat and lyrics, “Get Live” (possibly because of Badu’s contributions), and the eerie bonus track, “After the Healing….” The rhymes are the general mix of gentle boasting about skills, problems in life, and perseverance found on so many albums of this sort, but all three SFP MCs (besidesS1 there’s also Myth and Myone, who has a delivery that is sometimes similar to Dré fromOutKast) do a good job of not repeating the same tired verses. They’re thoughtful, introspective, and intelligent, which then makes the one party track on the record, “Cali Cruisin,” seem a little out of place. The Healing is an album of solidly good hip-hop, nothing that really will blow any underground fans away, but absolutely enough to keep them listening.

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~ by pixelup on July 4, 2009.