True & Livin'
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True & Livin is the third album from Oakland
Hip hop
duo Zion I
, their first on self-owned LiveUp Records. Zion and Amp Live expand their creative and experimental sounds on the album, featuring a wide range of musical styles, laced with intelligent, socially conscious lyrics. Album guests include Talib Kweli
, Aesop Rock
, Del tha Funkee Homosapien
, Gift of Gab
and Gabby La La
.
Oakland, California
Oakland is a major West Coast port city on San Francisco Bay in the U.S. state of California. It is the eighth-largest city in the state with a 2010 population of 390,724...
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...
duo Zion I
Zion I
Zion I are a hip hop duo from Oakland, California. The duo consists of producer DJ AmpLive and MC Zumbi. The group is known to its followers for Amp's futuristic production techniques, using a mix of live instrumentation and samples, and Zumbi's positive and socially conscious lyrics. Zion I...
, their first on self-owned LiveUp Records. Zion and Amp Live expand their creative and experimental sounds on the album, featuring a wide range of musical styles, laced with intelligent, socially conscious lyrics. Album guests include Talib Kweli
Talib Kweli
Talib Kweli Greene , better known as Talib Kweli, is an American hip-hop artist and poet from Brooklyn, New York. His first name in Arabic means "student" or "seeker" ; his in Swahili means "true"...
, Aesop Rock
Aesop Rock
Ian Matthias Bavitz , better known by his stage name Aesop Rock, is an American hip hop artist and producer. He was at the forefront of the new wave of underground and alternative hip hop acts that emerged during the late 1990s and early 2000s. He was signed to El-P's Definitive Jux label until it...
, Del tha Funkee Homosapien
Del tha Funkee Homosapien
Teren Delvon Jones , better known as Del the Funky Homosapien or Del tha Funkee Homosapien, is an American MC.-Early life and beginnings: 1990-1997:...
, Gift of Gab
Blackalicious
Blackalicious is an American hip hop duo from Sacramento, California made up of rapper Gift of Gab and DJ/producer Chief Xcel . They are noted for Gift of Gab's often "tongue-twisting", multisyllabic, complex rhymes and Chief Xcel's "classic" beats...
and Gabby La La
Gabby La La
Gabby La La, is a vocalist and multi-instrumentalist , signed to Prawn Song Records. Her music is self described as "fun, unique, crazy kooky". La La's eccentric debut album, Be Careful What You Wish For..., is a collaboration with Les Claypool that though "peculiar.....
.
Track listing
| # | Title | Producer(s) | Performer(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "True" | Amp Live | Fred Hampton, Jr. Fred Hampton, Jr. Fred Hampton, Jr. is an African American political activist and the son of Fred Hampton, Sr.. His father was a Black Panther who was shot to death while sleeping by the Chicago Police in 1969. Hampton's mother, Deborah Johnson, was eight-and-a-half months pregnant with him when Hampton, Sr. was... , M'kai Yi |
| 2 | "Doin' My Thang" | Amp Live | Zion |
| 3 | "Bird's Eye View" | Amp Live | Zion |
| 4 | "The Bay" | Amp Live | Zion, T Real, Big Cleezy |
| 5 | "Luv" | Amp Live | Zion |
| 6 | "Soo Tall Soo Tall "Soo Tall" is a single by Oakland Hip hop group Zion I, released in 2006 on Live Up Records. It was the third and final single released from their third album True & Livin. The music video was created by Encyclopedia Pictura.... " |
Amp Live | Zion, Omega Rae |
| 7 | "I Need Mo" | Amp Live | Zion |
| 8 | "Rockin'" | Amp Live | *Instrumental* |
| 9 | "Temperature Temperature (Zion I song) "Temperature" is a single by Oakland Hip Hop group Zion I, released in 2005 on Live Up Records. The single features Talib Kweli. The single's B-side, "The Bay", became a hit locally in California and on college radio, and featured a music video.-A-Side:... " |
Amp Live | Zion, C. Holiday, Talib Kweli Talib Kweli Talib Kweli Greene , better known as Talib Kweli, is an American hip-hop artist and poet from Brooklyn, New York. His first name in Arabic means "student" or "seeker" ; his in Swahili means "true"... |
| 10 | "One Chance" | Amp Live | Zion, Gabby La La Gabby La La Gabby La La, is a vocalist and multi-instrumentalist , signed to Prawn Song Records. Her music is self described as "fun, unique, crazy kooky". La La's eccentric debut album, Be Careful What You Wish For..., is a collaboration with Les Claypool that though "peculiar..... (sitar Sitar The 'Tablaman' is a plucked stringed instrument predominantly used in Hindustani classical music, where it has been ubiquitous since the Middle Ages... ), Mike Tiger (keyboard Keyboard instrument A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments... ) |
| 11 | "Amerika" | Amp Live | Zion |
| 12 | "Poems 4 Post Modern Decay" | Amp Live | Zion, Aesop Rock Aesop Rock Ian Matthias Bavitz , better known by his stage name Aesop Rock, is an American hip hop artist and producer. He was at the forefront of the new wave of underground and alternative hip hop acts that emerged during the late 1990s and early 2000s. He was signed to El-P's Definitive Jux label until it... , Ise Lyfe |
| 13 | "Heads Up" | Amp Live | Zion |
| 14 | "Next to U" | Amp Live | Zion |
| 15 | "What U Hear" | Amp Live | Zion, Del Del tha Funkee Homosapien Teren Delvon Jones , better known as Del the Funky Homosapien or Del tha Funkee Homosapien, is an American MC.-Early life and beginnings: 1990-1997:... |
| 16 | "Stranger in My Home" | Amp Live | Zion, C. Holiday, Gift Of Gab Blackalicious Blackalicious is an American hip hop duo from Sacramento, California made up of rapper Gift of Gab and DJ/producer Chief Xcel . They are noted for Gift of Gab's often "tongue-twisting", multisyllabic, complex rhymes and Chief Xcel's "classic" beats... |
| 17 | "Oh Lawd Blues" | Amp Live, Zion | Zion |
| 18 | "Livin'" | Amp Live | Fred Hampton, Jr. Fred Hampton, Jr. Fred Hampton, Jr. is an African American political activist and the son of Fred Hampton, Sr.. His father was a Black Panther who was shot to death while sleeping by the Chicago Police in 1969. Hampton's mother, Deborah Johnson, was eight-and-a-half months pregnant with him when Hampton, Sr. was... |
Album singles
| Single information |
|---|
| "Bird's Eye View Bird's Eye View "Bird's Eye View" is a single by Oakland Hip Hop group Zion I, released in 2005 on Live Up Records. The single was the first released from their third album True & Livin. The song, like Common's classic "I Used to Love H.E.R.", addresses the state of Hip Hop by comparing the culture to a woman. The... "
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| "Temperature Temperature (Zion I song) "Temperature" is a single by Oakland Hip Hop group Zion I, released in 2005 on Live Up Records. The single features Talib Kweli. The single's B-side, "The Bay", became a hit locally in California and on college radio, and featured a music video.-A-Side:... " |
| "Soo Tall Soo Tall "Soo Tall" is a single by Oakland Hip hop group Zion I, released in 2006 on Live Up Records. It was the third and final single released from their third album True & Livin. The music video was created by Encyclopedia Pictura.... " |