Disposable Arts

Artist: Masta Ace
Label: Jcor Entertainment
Category: Music

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Format: Explicit Lyrics
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 042286094823
EAN: 0042286094823
ASIN: B00005R8G1

Release Date: 2001-10-30

Disposable Arts

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Tracks:

The Release
Too Long
Block Response
Commercial
Don't Understand
Goodbye Lisa
Hold U
Every Other Day
Roommates Meet
Take A Walk
Something's Wrong
The Classes
Acknowledge
Enuff
Watching The Game
Unfriendly Game
Alphabet Soup
Dear Yvette
I Like Dat
P.T.A.
Type I Hate
Dear Diary
Last Rights
No Regrets

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Customer Reviews:

Know what you write!.......2005-10-11

First off, everyones' review thinks the song "Acknowledge" is a song to mainstream rappers. Its NOT!!! It's an answer back song to Boogieman's "Just you Wait"! I laughed when I read some of these. Do your homework before you talk about a song!!! Overall, the LP is amazing from production, guest artists, & punchlines. Cop it!

wow.......2004-11-24

this guy can flow!!! my buddy introduced me to Ace's stuff, and I have been amazed ever since.

" take a walk" is an excellent song, and so is Too long.

I cant believe i hadnt heard of Masta Ace sooner. If you havent, you should check it out.

Lessons in new school for an old rap Masta.......2004-07-19

Masta Ace has been an incredible MC since the very beginning of hip-hop. Many people have complained about "Disposable Arts" because it's a different type of flow for him, but honestly, "Disposable Arts" is a record you can play straight through without having to skip a single track. The production is incredible and the word-play on both his part and the part of his guest-mc's is mind-blowing. Of course, Punchline and Wordsworth are incredible, but amazingly, every single guest rapper on the album manages to live up to Masta Ace's "masta" flow.

The best tracks on the CD would have to be "Block Episode", "Take A Walk", "Acknowledge", "Enuff", "Unfriendly Game", "Type I Hate", "Dear Diary", and "No Regrets".

On "Acknowledge", Masta Ace rips the clone-rapping emcees you see so often in the mainstream to shreds as he rhymes-
"And I heard your album, this must be something you're new at/Cause I'd rather hear a Little Wayne, Little Zane duet/"
"I'ma diss you via e-mail, and then through a fax/I'ma diss you by two-way, I ain't gonna never relax/I'ma diss you over fast, slow track, or no track/If your 'stuff' wasn't so wack, I'd diss you to your track/Your that little fish that I catch and I throw back/And by the way, give 50 Cent his flow back/"

"Block Episode" chronicles a shooting; Masta Ace plays the guy living in the apartment above the shooting, Punchline plays the shooter, and Wordsworth plays the victim. It's a genius song, rapped with amazing tact and skill, showing the dangers and sadness of a ghetto-life. "Enuff" basically is self-explanatory. Masta Ace and his featured emcee, Mr. Lee Gee, complains about the materialism in rap. It's an enlightening explanation of what makes records sell; money, sex, jail, thuggin', etc...

"Unfriendly Game" is another masterfully crafted song where Masta Ace compares life in the streets to a football game.
"/I'm about to take this beat, and teach you about the agony of defeat/In this football game in the streets/And no it ain't two hand touch, it's rough tackle/When 'brothers' ball on your block, and they bust at you/The field's full of players, and they all tryin to score/The whole team sits on the bench in a down-pour/Cause no matter the weather, the game don't stop/Competing with other teams, to reign on top/Your offense, has got to be cats with no conscience/No nonsense 'brothers' with no options/That know how to carry that rock/And make that hand off and run off the block/It's hard to get first down, when you new in this rough town/You sell a pound, it's a touch down/"
"It's monday night, 'we're watching the game'/But I could go outside, and still see 'the same'/Cause look, there's a bunch of brothers in the huddle/Look's like they're calling the play, come in kids, don't be all in the way/Cause that's Pookie, he's the -- quarterback/Cause he like to use the shotgun/If he don't, I know he got one/And that's Booger, he's the -- runningback/Cause he always say he gonna quit, and he always wind up running back/The rest of them? I'll just say they play the line/Cause they like to protect Pookie, and Pookie make 'em stay in line/"
NOTE: I had to "edit" a few words/lines in the lyrics for the sake of cleanness.
Things keep on going on like that, but it's just too long to write out.

"Dear Diary" is a genius song in which Masta Aces diary talks back to him, telling him he's washed up etc... It shows the negative thinking behind any accomplished artist, and the mental pit falls that Masta Ace probably had to go through while recording his "come back" album. "No Regrets" is the perfect closing song for this CD. The title is pretty self-explanatory, he basically goes through his career blow by blow, acknowledging his thanks, stating simply, he has no regrets.

Masta Ace, when it comes down to it, is really a "Masta" story-teller. He crafts each song to his clever two-line-rhyme style that chronicles the chain reaction of events in different situations. His rhymes reflect on many different aspects of life, and although he does occasionally abandon his conscience rhymes for a song like "I Like Dat", an overly vulgar sex-song with Punch and Words on the track, he generally maintains a street-wise attitude with catchy lyrics that have a message to them. I highly recommend this CD to, well, anyone.

Nothing about this piece of Art is Disposable!!!!!.......2004-07-07

Since "music man" emerged in 1990 ive been a fan of ACE. His delivery is always on point, his albums are always top notch and
having also met the man himself in person in DUBLIN when he played with "punch+words" i found him completely down to earth.
This album is his finest hour, in my opinion. Every track is as
tight as you can get with such a high level of skill+intelligence
in every rhyme. The beats are rock hard head nodders. With no
real weak tracks apart from possibly "every other day" and "take
a look". No real hiphopper's collection is complete without this.

disposable arts.......2004-05-26

First off I have to say that no hip hop album collection is complete without this gem. Nearly every song is brilliantly written and produced, the worst songs on this album, would blow away any of these weak, overhyped, overproduced joints MTv hits us with on a daily basis. I bought this CD @ the end of 2001 and thought for sure MA was going to make a HUGE comeback, I mean everyone of my friends, associates or whoever would come over and hear this ish bangin in my stereo was mad interested in knowing who this cat was, even the cats I chill w/ who don't listen to hip hop @ all loved this s##t. Masta Ace is a seasoned veteran, and EVERY cat into hip hop @ all should have this album. The only thing that I didn't like about Disposable Arts were the numerous skits between songs, but its still a 5 star joint regardless.

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