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Intro
- 01:19
- 4,839 plays
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Uncut Raw
- 03:00
- 10,650 plays
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Gimme Your's
- 03:06
- 14,510 plays
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Ho Happy Jackie
- 03:33
- 10,729 plays
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Rather Unique
- 04:47
- 16,837 plays
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I Feel For You
- 03:02
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Sugar Hill
- 04:08
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Mo Money, Mo Murder (Homicide)
- 06:29
- 26,036 plays
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Doe Or Die
- 04:37
- 8,701 plays
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We Can't Win
- 03:23
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Your World Don't Stop
- 03:31
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Sugar Hill (Remix)
- 04:16
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album review
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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Doe Or Die N*gga
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- By the muzik box
- 9/13/2009 14:33:05
- "Mo' money Mo' Murder" Is my favorite.. "Sugar Hill" is another banger.. To Be honest AZ should be up with the greats of this rap game... Definitely one of the most underrated rappers of all time.. He just can't get the respect he is due.. Y'all know AZ is that dude.. All his callabos with nas are off the chain.. To bad he can't get that exposure like Nas.. "Affirmative action""Phone Tap""How Ya Livin'""The Essence""Problems" just to name a few... He's Hot like fish grease.. Give him some spins y'all
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Rather Unique
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- By Dmack Masterice
- 2/21/2009 18:43:17
- we was already loyal to people's minds and mulianis
now we more fucked up with a mayor named Guliani
you can try to bomb me
analyze but can't define me
my mind's divine heavily entwined with Ghandi's
far from feeble, I leave your nostrils hard to breathe through
cause my cerebral's are more of a higher plane
than the Hebrews
my mic devotion brings out my deepest emotions
overdosing wannabes posing
sending them through convulsions
to hard to follow, you took a bite but couldn't swallow
your mind's boggled
but I'm as deep as Donald Goines novels
my whole persona's kinda laid back like a recliner
and since my mama, I been fucking with marijuana
wavy-haired, my skin got a money getting glare
strictly menace wear, macking offa Guinness beer
so where it all begins is here
destiny and me finally meet
so how can I be weak?
I'm rather unique
AZ IS THAT DUDE - 3 out of 3 people
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