This Is Babylon
Download links and information about This Is Babylon by Y-Love. This album was released in 2008 and it belongs to Hip Hop/R&B, Rap, World Music, Alternative genres. It contains 14 tracks with total duration of 55:10 minutes.
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Artist: | Y-Love |
Release date: | 2008 |
Genre: | Hip Hop/R&B, Rap, World Music, Alternative |
Tracks: | 14 |
Duration: | 55:10 |
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Tracks
[Edit]No. | Title | Length |
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1. | This Is Babylon | 5:37 |
2. | This Is Bump | 5:11 |
3. | Bring It On Down | 4:35 |
4. | Keep the Party Divine | 3:38 |
5. | Check the Technique (feat. Sha'anan Streett of Hadag Nachas) | 3:21 |
6. | Exhibit A: The Diagnosis | 1:03 |
7. | New Disease | 5:41 |
8. | 6000 | 4:27 |
9. | This Is a Test | 0:19 |
10. | State of the Nation | 4:36 |
11. | Mind Transit | 3:54 |
12. | From Brooklyn to Ramle (feat. Saz) | 3:57 |
13. | Mt. Sinai | 3:29 |
14. | Mehadrin Rhymin' | 5:22 |
Details
[Edit]In the wake of a Hasidic Jew achieving world-wide fame as a dancehall reggae deejay, it's hard to miss the mirror-image gimmickry aspect of an African-American making a splash on the hip-hop scene as a Hasidic rapper. But it's worth the effort it takes to look past the obvious strangeness and listen carefully to the songs — even if you're not fluent in Hebrew, Arabic, Aramaic, or Latin (all of them languages in which Y-Love raps on This Is Babylon, not to mention English). Like all good conscious hip-hop, there's just as much energy put into creating slamming beats as into preaching righteous messages. The mood is generally dark and relatively low-key: the slow and squelchy "Keep the Party Divine," the brilliantly reggae-flavored "Mt. Sinai," the darkly eschatological "6000" ("What you gonna be doin' when he shows up?") — these all combine spiritual exhortation with dancefloor booty-shaking to excellent effect. Shaanan Street joins him for an outstanding tag-team performance on "Check the Technique," and "From Brooklyn to Ramle" features some very fine Hebrew rapping (but the machine-gun sounds are a bit chilling — what exactly is the point there?). Nothing on the program jumps out as an immediate hit single (though "Mt. Sinai" does come close), but everything achieves a fine balance between darkness and light, faith and funk, warning, and an invitation to dance.