LL Cool J - Radio

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Dec 23, 2016 Sold Date

Jun 21, 2016 Start Date

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Artikel Name: Radio
Genre: Rap Produkt Typ: LP (Vinyl) Label: Def Jam Titelanzahl: 10 Dauer: 45:43

Trackliste LP - 1

1. LL Cool J - I Can't Live Without My Radio 5:27 2. LL Cool J - You Can't Dance 3:37 3. LL Cool J - Dear Yvette 4:06 4. LL Cool J - I Can Give You More 5:07 5. LL Cool J - Dangerous 4:40 6. LL Cool J - Rock the Bells 4:01 7. LL Cool J - I Need a Beat 4:31 8. LL Cool J - That's a Lie 4:41 9. LL Cool J - You'll Rock 4:42 10. LL Cool J - I Want You 4:51

Beschreibung

Run-D.M.C. was the first rap act to produce cohesive, fully realized albums, and LL Cool J was the first to follow in their footsteps. LL was a mere 17 years old when he recorded his classic debut album Radio, a brash, exuberant celebration of booming beats and B-boy attitude that launched not only the longest career in hip-hop, but also Rick Rubin's seminal Def Jam label. Rubin's back-cover credit ("Reduced by Rick Rubin") is an entirely apt description of his bare-bones production style. Radio is just as stripped-down and boisterously aggressive as any Run-D.M.C. album, sometimes even more so; the instrumentation is basically just a cranked-up beatbox, punctuated by DJ scratching. There are occasional brief samples, but few do anything more than emphasize a downbeat. The result is rap at its most skeletal, with a hard-hitting, street-level aggression that perfectly matches LL's cocksure teenage energy. Even the two ballads barely sound like ballads, since they're driven by the same slamming beats. Though they might sound a little squared-off to modern ears, LL's deft lyrics set new standards for MCs at the time; his clever disses and outrageous but playful boasts still hold up poetically. Although even LL himself would go on to more intricate rhyming, it isn't really necessary on such a loud, thumping adrenaline rush of a record. Radio was both an expansion of rap's artistic possibilities and a commercial success (for its time), helping attract new multiracial audiences to the music. While it may take a few listens for modern ears to adjust to the minimalist production, the fact that it hews so closely to rap's basic musical foundation means that it still possesses a surprisingly fresh energy, and isn't nearly as dated as many efforts that followed it (including, ironically, some of LL's own). ~ Steve Huey

Steve Huey