The result is for the most part absolutely tremendous - I say mostly, because a few songs like " No Hook" pales in comparision with the original.
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This is something that K-DEF also makes a point of with his own interpretation while also bringing his own unique sounding flavor to the table. Since the story is set in the 1970's, the surrounding music that was created for the album did reimagining the sound of the times, which worked wonders. The original album, was in my opinion, brilliantly produced, and flew like a true allbum should, with a third of the album featuring perhaps the finest production work yet by Sean C & LV, a long with really ill beats by No ID, Toomp, Jermaine Dupri (if you don't believe me c lick here) and Just Blaze. So here we go, the "Real Live Gangster" album, as produced and remixed by K-Def, featuring the vocals of Jay-Z, Beanie Sigel, Nas, and so on. While it hardly invited as many heavyhitting remix albums as its 2004 counterpart, such as Danger Mouse's "The Grey Album", Kev Brown and 9th Wonder's respective takes, and so forth, it did give us an entire remix album by Lost Tapes favorite K-Def (yeah I know there's been extensive writing on my part of 'Def recently due to my "Best of 2013" series, but this one is brought up by request from an avid reader of The Lost Tapes). Just like he did with "The Black Album", Jay-Z and Def Jam/Roc-A-Fella decided to release the entire album as an accapella version as well, inviting producers everywhere to make their own version of the LP. Since his semi-retirement he hasn't come out with much worthwhile but I did find that his 2008 concept-album "American Gangster", inspired by the Ridley Scott film of the same name, was a very dope project. His more recent output, and the way he carries himself, is totally despicable in many ways but his talent as an emcee can't be denied, especially when listening to projects like "Reasonable Doubt", "The Black Album" and "Vol.
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I know several times when I have posted stuff about Jigga Man on here, I've gotten some angry comments about me including his music here on The Lost Tapes, despite it being his older material which I'm still a big fan of.