A Heap of Broken Images is the debut album by hip hop

Hip hop music

Hip hop music, also called hip-hop, rap music or hip-hop music, is a musical genre consisting of a stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rapping, a rhythmic and rhyming speech that is chanted...

 production

Hip hop production

Hip hop production is the creation of hip hop music. Though the term encompasses all aspects of hip hop music, it's most commonly used to refer to the instrumental, non-lyrical aspects of hip hop. This means that hip hop producers are the instrumentalists involved in a work...

 duo Blue Sky Black Death

Blue Sky Black Death

Blue Sky Black Death is a production duo based in Seattle, Washington. The duo consists of Kingston and Young God . They are known principally for their hip hop and instrumental music, made with a mix of live instrumentation and sampling...

, released on June 23, 2006 by Mush Records

Mush Records

Mush Records is an independent record label that has released albums for many independent artists and was started by Robert Curcio and Cindy Roché.Mush Records is an electronic based record label...

.

The album is a double-disc

Double album

A double album is an audio album which spans two units of the primary medium in which it is sold, typically records and compact discs....

 release, with the first disc featuring twelve instrumental

Instrumental

An instrumental is a musical composition or recording without lyrics or singing, although it might include some non-articulate vocal input; the music is primarily or exclusively produced by musical instruments....

 tracks (with a mix of sampling

Sampling (music)

In music, sampling is the act of taking a portion, or sample, of one sound recording and reusing it as an instrument or a different sound recording of a song or piece. Sampling was originally developed by experimental musicians working with musique concrète and electroacoustic music, who physically...

 and live instrumentation), and a second disc featuring one instrumental and nine of their beats matched with vocals from a number of guest rappers

Rapping

Rapping refers to "spoken or chanted rhyming lyrics". The art form can be broken down into different components, as in the book How to Rap where it is separated into “content”, “flow” , and “delivery”...

. The album title comes from the T. S. Eliot

T. S. Eliot

Thomas Stearns "T. S." Eliot OM was a playwright, literary critic, and arguably the most important English-language poet of the 20th century. Although he was born an American he moved to the United Kingdom in 1914 and was naturalised as a British subject in 1927 at age 39.The poem that made his...

 poem The Waste Land

The Waste Land

The Waste Land[A] is a 434-line[B] modernist poem by T. S. Eliot published in 1922. It has been called "one of the most important poems of the 20th century." Despite the poem's obscurity—its shifts between satire and prophecy, its abrupt and unannounced changes of speaker, location and time, its...

("A heap of broken images, where the sun beats, and the dead tree gives no shelter, the cricket no relief").

The guests include Jus Allah

Jus Allah

Jus Allah is a New Jersey rapper who made his official debut on Jedi Mind Tricks second album Violent by Design in 2000. He is known for his aggressive lyrics that are commonly Afro-centric...

 of Jedi Mind Tricks

Jedi Mind Tricks

Jedi Mind Tricks is a hip hop duo with Vinnie Paz from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Jus Allah from Camden, New Jersey. The group was founded by two high school friends, rapper Vinnie Paz and former producer/DJ Stoupe the Enemy of Mankind...

, Wise Intelligent of Poor Righteous Teachers

Poor Righteous Teachers

Poor Righteous Teachers is a hip hop group from Trenton, New Jersey, founded in 1989. Often referred to as PRT by its fans, Poor Righteous Teachers are known as pro-Black conscious hip hop artists, with musical content inspired by the teachings of the Nation of Gods and Earths. Wise Intelligent, as...

, Sabac Red

Sabac Red

Sabac Red, also known as Sabac, is an Sicilian-Puerto Rican rapper from New York, US, and a former member of Non Phixion.-Biography:Sabac was born in Guaynabo, Puerto Rico along with his twin sister. His family moved to Brooklyn, NY when he was 4 years old. Sabac was raised by his mom and...

 of Non Phixion

Non Phixion

Non Phixion was a New York-based hardcore hip-hop group.-History:In late 1994, MC Serch took his protege Sabac and teamed him up with DJ Eclipse and Ill Bill, thereby creating the group known as Non Phixion. Within six months Goretex, a childhood friend of Ill Bill, had joined the crew after...

, A-Plus

A-Plus (rapper)

Adam Carter, known by the stage name, A-Plus, is an American rapper and producer. He is one of the founding four members of the Oakland, California-based underground hip hop group Souls of Mischief, and, with Souls of Mischief, a part of the eight-person, alternative hip hop collective, the...

 and Pep Love

Pep Love

Paulo Peacock , better known by his stage name, Pep Love, is an American hip hop artist and motivational speaker. He is also one of the founding members of the Oakland, California-based underground hip hop collective Hieroglyphics....

 of Hieroglyphics

Hieroglyphics (band)

Hieroglyphics, also known as the Hieroglyphics Crew and Hiero, are an American underground hip hop collective based in Oakland, California. The collective was founded in the early-1990s by rapper Del tha Funkee Homosapien...

, Chief Kamachi of Army of the Pharaohs

Army of the Pharaohs

Army of the Pharaohs is a hip hop supergroup originating from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, formed by Jedi Mind Tricks MC, Vinnie Paz in 1998.-Recording history:...

, Guru

Guru (rapper)

Keith Edward Elam , better known by his stage name Guru, was an American emcee and member of the hip-hop duo Gang Starr, along with DJ Premier. He was born in Roxbury, Massachusetts...

 of Gang Starr

Gang Starr

Gang Starr was an influential East Coast hip hop duo that consisted of the late MC Guru and DJ/producer DJ Premier. Their style combined elements of New York jazz and hip hop.-Background:...

, Mike Ladd

Mike Ladd

Mike Ladd is a hip-hop MC and producer. As an MC, he practices spoken-word and is known for his poetic lyrics. As a producer, he is known as the owner of the Likemadd label.-Biography:...

, Rob Sonic

Rob Sonic

Rob Sonic is a hip hop artist from The Bronx, born in Washington DC. As a child growing up, he devoted himself to many styles of music and was a follower of artists such as The Beatles, Run DMC, Kraftwerk, Talking Heads, Led Zeppelin, Public Enemy, Muddy Waters, Ultramagnetic MC's, The Clash among...

, Holocaust, Mikah 9 of Freestyle Fellowship

Freestyle Fellowship

Freestyle Fellowship are a rap group from Los Angeles consisting of rappers Aceyalone, Myka 9, P.E.A.C.E., Self Jupiter and producer J Sumbi...

, Virtuoso and Awol One. Later in 2006, the duo released a full-length collaboration album with Holocaust, titled Blue Sky Black Death presents: The Holocaust

Blue Sky Black Death presents: The Holocaust

Blue Sky Black Death Presents: The Holocaust is a 2006 collaboration album from Blue Sky Black Death and Holocaust, released on September 5, 2006 through Babygrande Records. The duo Blue Sky Black Death consists of producers Kingston and Young God, who produce the entire project, while Holocaust ...

.

Disc one

#	Title	Producer(s)	Notes
1	"Skies Open"	Blue Sky Black Death	Contains a sample from the film Primer Primer (film) Primer is a 2004 American science fiction drama film about the accidental discovery of a means of time travel. The film was written, directed, and produced by Shane Carruth and was completed on a budget of $7,000...
2	"Days Are Years"	Blue Sky Black Death	Bass: Atiba Joshua Starr Contains a sample from "Make The Night A Little Longer" by The Shirelles The Shirelles The Shirelles were an African-American girl group that achieved popularity in the early 1960s. They consisted of schoolmates Shirley Owens , Doris Coley , Addie "Micki" Harris , and Beverly Lee... .
3	"Chloroform"	Blue Sky Black Death	Contains a sample from "Turn Into Earth" by The Yardbirds
4	"Not Here"	Blue Sky Black Death	Guitar: Michael Matais
5	"They Came Around"	Blue Sky Black Death
6	"Dream of Dying"	Blue Sky Black Death	Bass: Atiba Joshua Starr Contains a sample from "Body through which the dream flows Violin Concerto (John Adams) The Violin Concerto by the American composer John Adams was written in 1993. It was premiered in 1994 by Jorja Fleezanis with the Minnesota Orchestra. Fleezanis also collaborated with Adams in writing the violin solo.... " by John Adams
7	"From Sun's Angle"	Blue Sky Black Death	Cello: Allie Van Dyke Violin: Nancy Kuo
8	"Rap Creature Land"	Blue Sky Black Death
9	"Heroin for God"	Blue Sky Black Death
10	"Guilty Ones"	Blue Sky Black Death	Contains a vocal sample from the movie "Crime and Punishment in Suburbia"
11	"The Dead Tree Gives No Shelter"	Blue Sky Black Death	Cello: Mary Taggart Violin: Nancy Kuo
12	"Still Asleep"	Blue Sky Black Death

Disc two

#	Title	Producer(s)	Performer (s)
1	"Engage My Words"	Blue Sky Black Death	First verse: Jus Allah Second verse: Wise Intelligent Third verse: Sabac Red
2	"Street Legends"	Blue Sky Black Death	First verse: A-Plus Second verse: Pep Love Third verse: Pep Love, A-Plus
3	"Floor Chalk (Best Reprise)"	Blue Sky Black Death	First verse: Guru Second verse: Chief Kamachi Third verse: Guru Fourth verse: Chief Kamachi
4	"Scriptures"	Blue Sky Black Death	Performed by: Lil' Sci
5	"Long Division"	Blue Sky Black Death	First verse: Rob Sonic Second verse: Mike Ladd
6	"I Catch Fire"	Blue Sky Black Death	Performed by: Holocaust
7	"Grimey Styles"	Blue Sky Black Death	Performed by: Mikah 9
8	"Brain Cells"	Blue Sky Black Death	Performed by: Virtuoso
9	"Everything"	Blue Sky Black Death	Performed by: Awol One
10	"It Wasn't White"	Blue Sky Black Death