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Flatbush, Brooklyn hip-hop duo the Underachievers met and became friends over a shared love of mind-expanding drugs. MCs AK and Issa Gold got into a conversation about psychedelics while smoking pot at a mutual friend's house and were hanging out, making tracks and tripping together almost immediately thereafter, choosing the name Underachievers due to their fondness for activities that might come off as less than motivated to mainstream society. The irony is that Underachievers create anything but the type of mindless stoner pop-rap blather that Wiz Kalifah peddles or the one-dimensional weed-obsessed routines that afforded Cypress Hill their entire career. Early mixtapes sported not just inventive production but lyrical nods to third-eye spirituality and unconventional perspectives on social and religious issues. Proper debut full-length Cellar Door: Terminus Ut Exordium finds the Underachievers continuing on the strengths of their mixtape material, with their psychedelic tendencies coming through more in the album's somewhat ethereal production than anywhere else. The haunted string samples and syrupy drums of standout track "Chrysalis" back up the duo's nonstop flow, fluid and ceaseless lyrics feeling more dreamlike when meeting up with the almost celestial vibe of the beat. Trippy bangers like "Quiescent" and lurching, submerged beats like "Metropolis" show a little of what made the Underachievers appealing enough to producer Flying Lotus to sign them to his Brainfeeder label immediately. There's a kinship between Flying Lotus' experimental production daring and the Underachievers' wavy, paranoid, and still unfailingly intelligent rhyme styles. Cellar Door is a dense, sometimes relentless affair, and it takes several passes to latch on to the plethora of lyrical and production ideas that seem to flow by in a blur, but the Underachievers don't seem highly concerned with getting any overt points across. Instead, they've constructed a vivid and often mysterious beast of an album with snippets of commentary and perspective hidden within, highly enjoyable either taken at face value or dug into deeper.
© Fred Thomas /TiVo
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Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - The Underachievers, MainArtist - Marlon Fung, Composer, Lyricist
2014 Slang Music 2021 RPM MSC, INC
The Underachievers, MainArtist - Marlon Fung, ComposerLyricist - Akeem Joseph, Lyricist - Jack Crosby, Composer - AK publishing, LLC (BMI), MusicPublisher - Elevated Nations Publishing,LLC (BMI), MusicPublisher
2014 Slang Music 2021 RPM MSC, INC
Patrick Baril, Composer - The Underachievers, MainArtist - Marlon Fung, Lyricist - Akeem Joseph, ComposerLyricist - Patrick Baril (BMI), MusicPublisher - Cas Weinbren, Composer - AK publishing, LLC (BMI), MusicPublisher - Elevated Nations Publishing,LLC (BMI), MusicPublisher - Cas Weinbren (BMI), MusicPublisher
2014 Slang Music 2021 RPM MSC, INC
Haleek Maul, Composer - The Underachievers, MainArtist - Marlon Fung, ComposerLyricist - Akeem Joseph, Lyricist - AK publishing, LLC (BMI), MusicPublisher - Elevated Nations Publishing,LLC (BMI), MusicPublisher
2014 Slang Music 2021 RPM MSC, INC
Ryan Hemsworth, Composer - The Underachievers, MainArtist - Marlon Fung, ComposerLyricist - Akeem Joseph, Lyricist - AK publishing, LLC (BMI), MusicPublisher - Elevated Nations Publishing,LLC (BMI), MusicPublisher
2014 Slang Music 2021 RPM MSC, INC
The Underachievers, MainArtist - Marlon Fung, ComposerLyricist - Akeem Joseph, Lyricist - Jordan Dalby, Composer - AK publishing, LLC (BMI), MusicPublisher - Elevated Nations Publishing,LLC (BMI), MusicPublisher
2014 Slang Music 2021 RPM MSC, INC
The Underachievers, MainArtist - Marlon Fung, Lyricist - Akeem Joseph, ComposerLyricist - Brandun DeShay, Composer - AK publishing, LLC (BMI), MusicPublisher - Elevated Nations Publishing,LLC (BMI), MusicPublisher - Brandon Deshay (ASCAP), MusicPublisher
2014 Slang Music 2021 RPM MSC, INC
Two Fresh, Composer - The Underachievers, MainArtist - Marlon Fung, ComposerLyricist - Akeem Joseph, Lyricist - AK publishing, LLC (BMI), MusicPublisher - Elevated Nations Publishing,LLC (BMI), MusicPublisher
2014 Slang Music 2021 RPM MSC, INC
Supreme Cuts, Composer - The Underachievers, MainArtist - Marlon Fung, ComposerLyricist - Akeem Joseph, Lyricist - AK publishing, LLC (BMI), MusicPublisher - Elevated Nations Publishing,LLC (BMI), MusicPublisher
2014 Slang Music 2021 RPM MSC, INC
Lapalux, Composer - The Underachievers, MainArtist - Marlon Fung, ComposerLyricist - Akeem Joseph, Lyricist - AK publishing, LLC (BMI), MusicPublisher - Elevated Nations Publishing,LLC (BMI), MusicPublisher
2014 Slang Music 2021 RPM MSC, INC
Ryan McPhun, Composer - The Underachievers, MainArtist - Marlon Fung, Lyricist - Akeem Joseph, ComposerLyricist - Nick Leon, Composer - AK publishing, LLC (BMI), MusicPublisher - Elevated Nations Publishing,LLC (BMI), MusicPublisher
2014 Slang Music 2021 RPM MSC, INC
Portugal. The Man, FeaturedArtist - John Baldwin Gourley, Composer - The Underachievers, MainArtist - Marlon Fung, Lyricist - Akeem Joseph, ComposerLyricist - Nicholas Downing, Composer - AK publishing, LLC (BMI), MusicPublisher - Elevated Nations Publishing,LLC (BMI), MusicPublisher
2014 Slang Music 2021 RPM MSC, INC
Albumbeschreibung
Flatbush, Brooklyn hip-hop duo the Underachievers met and became friends over a shared love of mind-expanding drugs. MCs AK and Issa Gold got into a conversation about psychedelics while smoking pot at a mutual friend's house and were hanging out, making tracks and tripping together almost immediately thereafter, choosing the name Underachievers due to their fondness for activities that might come off as less than motivated to mainstream society. The irony is that Underachievers create anything but the type of mindless stoner pop-rap blather that Wiz Kalifah peddles or the one-dimensional weed-obsessed routines that afforded Cypress Hill their entire career. Early mixtapes sported not just inventive production but lyrical nods to third-eye spirituality and unconventional perspectives on social and religious issues. Proper debut full-length Cellar Door: Terminus Ut Exordium finds the Underachievers continuing on the strengths of their mixtape material, with their psychedelic tendencies coming through more in the album's somewhat ethereal production than anywhere else. The haunted string samples and syrupy drums of standout track "Chrysalis" back up the duo's nonstop flow, fluid and ceaseless lyrics feeling more dreamlike when meeting up with the almost celestial vibe of the beat. Trippy bangers like "Quiescent" and lurching, submerged beats like "Metropolis" show a little of what made the Underachievers appealing enough to producer Flying Lotus to sign them to his Brainfeeder label immediately. There's a kinship between Flying Lotus' experimental production daring and the Underachievers' wavy, paranoid, and still unfailingly intelligent rhyme styles. Cellar Door is a dense, sometimes relentless affair, and it takes several passes to latch on to the plethora of lyrical and production ideas that seem to flow by in a blur, but the Underachievers don't seem highly concerned with getting any overt points across. Instead, they've constructed a vivid and often mysterious beast of an album with snippets of commentary and perspective hidden within, highly enjoyable either taken at face value or dug into deeper.
© Fred Thomas /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 12 track(s)
- Total length: 00:39:59
- Main artists: The Underachievers
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Seeker Music
- Genre: Hip-Hop/Rap
2014 Slang Music 2014 Slang Music
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