Live and Let Die

Artist: Kool G Rap & DJ Polo
Label: Cold Chillin Records
Category: Music

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

UPC: 754647500125
EAN: 0754647500125
ASIN: B0000010D9

Release Date: 1992-11-24

Live and Let Die

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Tracks:

Intro
On The Run
Live And Let Die
Crime Pays
Home Sweet Home
Train Robbery
#1 With A Bullet
Operation CB
Straight Jacket
ILL Street Blues
Go For Your Guns
Letters
Nuff Said
Edge Of Sanity
Fuck U Man
Still Wanted Dead Or Alive
Two To The Head

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Customer Reviews:

possibly G. Raps best.......2007-01-13

Lookin at those prices I'm happy as hell I got this today. I gave my boy 25 bucks for this. He had no idea what he just sold. He just needed some bud and didn't get paid today, so I robbed em'. F*ck it! Now I own this classic again. This is my favorite G. Rap album. No filler tracks. Great production and some of the illest lyrics. All the tracks is standouts to me. I can listen to the whole thing without skippin'. Well anyway I just want to give this album its props. Cuz I doubt anybody would shell out 70 bucks for this. I wouldn't even do it. And this is in my top 5 of most favorite albums and Kool G. Rap is in my top five of greatest rappers of all time. The sellers is on crack as far as I'm concerned.

kool g rap at his best.......2005-05-07

Kool g rap is oldschool and has been around for a while, he came hard on this album and its one of my favourites of his. Every single track has nice production and sounds tight. His flows are hard and he talks a lot of sense in his rhymes. You have to make sure you pick this up if you ain't got it, you won't be dissapointed to hear real rap like this. Later!

G. Rap in his prime (it's like watching a gangster film).......2004-04-05

After dropping two gems on hip hop, Kool G. Rap & D.J. Polo returned in 92 with the AMAZING third album. G. Rap was still in his prime with Live And Let Die, an album SO gangster it's beautiful. Ever wonder why Kool G. Rap was always looked at as one of the greatest MCs of all time, this album shows why. Here's the review:

Album Highlights: NO FILLER, this is ONE gangster film, every song from the intro to the final song is worth a listen.

Production: Thumbs up.

Lyrics and Subject Matter: Thumbs up, if you LOVE storytelling raps, this album is for you.

Originality: Thumbs up.

The Last Word: While truly better than Road To The Riches, but CHALLENGED by Wanted Dead Or Alive, this may or may be the BEST Kool G. Rap album EVER. He represented here with the gangster storytelling. He might not have made an impact in record sales, but he's still on of the greats, as he proves on this album. A STRONG RECOMMENDATION. Don't sleep on this album.

THE DEFINITIVE KOOL G RAP CD A MUST HAVE 4 A REAL RAP FAN.......2003-05-08

Live and Let Die is the ONLY gangsta rap album you'll ever need to listen to. Why? No other hardcore CD produced after it or before it can come close to matching its quality. Kool G Rap & DJ polo create a CD that may be foul mouthed, mysoginistic and [one sided], however it is a well done foul mouthed, mysoginistic and [one sided] masterpeice. From Ill Street Blues to F**k U Man the rhymes are clever, intelligent and downright funny ("Ready to do some work were not a lazy crew we'll do ajob or two but yo m'man couldn't sick me with some Krazy glue!" "The thought makes me shiver-Damn what if I get caught they find me floatin in the Hudson River.) Anyone who can put all of the nautical refernces together (head, waterbed, deep sea diver saliva) in a rap lyric and then later on make reference to The Dick VanDyke show and My Three Sons in the same song themed around [love] is deserves a throne in the hip hop hall of fame next to Big Daddy Kane, LL cool J and Rakim. This is G Rap's definitive CD. This is one of Hardcore Rap's definitive CD's. Perhaps only Tupac Shakur cold have produced something better if he were alive. Too bad a lot of people slept on G Rap in the 80's and 90's; they missed the coming of a legend. He didn't have the flashy image of today's or even yesterday's rappers but his artistic skill and lyrical flow is unmatched on the microphone even today. P.Diddy, 50 Cent, and Eminem would be DESTROYED in a battle by this lyrical master. And all of today's rappers WISH they could create a CD like this. Like other overlooked rappers like Neneh Cherry, and Three Times Dope, Kool G rap will probably not be appreciated this generation but by another generation who will find his music and listen to it and take his songs for the classics that they are.

Dante's Inferno + NYC + Gangsta Tracks.......2002-06-26

With this LP G Rap effectively put the nail in the coffin of so-called Gangsta Rap (yes, I'm aware that the genre continues to limp long blindly).

I say he put the nail in the coffin by expanding the limitation of the genre, upping the ante and showing that no one - other than perhaps WC and The MAAD Circle - could deliver a complete, provocative and thoroughly entertaining work of art.

G Rap loses points for run-of-the-mill misogynist rants, but scores points in virtually every other category.

G Rap is a rhyme master. His story telling is top notch which is where his competitors fail. G Rap lends us a lens with which we can measure why some people make the choices they do. He never digs down into the self-aggrandizing / self-indictment of his students (Jay-Z, Beanie Sigel, etc.). He simply shows you the situation - allows you to feel the appropriate emotions - and then shows you the outcome.

Masterful!

Now, having said that. This album probably won't be very comforting to you if you aren't a heterosexual Black male. But that's who he was delivering this to anyway. Try to open your mind and ears. You might actually like it.

G Rap. Kick more verses for us, homie!

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