For Tricky's fifth album Juxtapose he teamed with DJ Muggs (the architect of Cypress Hill's sound, a clear precedent for Tricky's) and DMX's producer, Grease. This album is quite obviously a Tricky album: a highly eccentric artist, an unusual mix of collaborators, an entirely new expression and message. 180 gram audiophile vinyl Trip/hop-hip-hop album produced by DJ Muggs from Cypress Hill Includes insert with credits and photos Feat. “For Real”, “Bom Bom Diggy”, “Hot Like A Sauna” a.o. SIDE A 1. FOR REAL 2. BOM BOM DIGGY 3. CONTRADICTIVE 4. SHE SAID 5. I LIKE THE GIRLS SIDE B 1. HOT LIKE A SAUNA 2. CALL ME 3. WASH MY SOUL 4. HOT LIKE A SAUNA (METAL MIX) 5. SCRAPPY LOVE

Repress 2021 Entro 21-3-2021

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DESCRIPTION “When we decided to do an album, we didn’t want to do just a beats and rhyme album, but something more conceptual. The times we’re living in gave me the idea of tackling the idea of what’s a sinner and what’s a saint.”—Rasheed Chappell on his new album with producer Buckwild, Sinners & Saints. On their ambitious collaboration, New York rap heavyweights Rasheed Chappell & Buckwild have perfectly captured the stress and tension, but also a faint sense of the hope, of what it means to be a sinner or a saint. In just 11 tracks, Sinners & Saints plays like an audio documentary series filled with expertly crafted beats and rhymes. When the two sat down to work together, Rasheed says that they only knew that they “wanted to address the now, the past, and the potential future.” And upon receiving the first batch of beats from Buck—the D.I.T.C. producer with decades of acclaimed work to his name—the NY emcee used a majority of them and knew immediately what they were doing. “My goal was simple: don’t try to recreate anything they have done, just create something that no one else can do, which is to be me,” Rasheed says. Buck echoed that sentiment when he talked about the record in a documentary, in which he expressed his excitement to work with not just a talented rapper, but a skilled artist. “Being an artist is just as important as putting two words together to rhyme,” Buck explained. That high level of artistry, from everyone involved, is what makes Sinners & Saints so impactful. Not just anyone could pull off a track as stirring as “The Blue Hood,” in which Rasheed plays the role of a racist, corrupt police officer over Buck’s harrowing production. The same goes for “Rock Bottom” where he and Ransom sound off about life’s low points, and “Bredren,” a speaker-knocking middle-finger in musical form featuring Planet Asia. There’s just so much to love about what these two have created with Sinners & Saints, a project that sounds like if 2020 was a hip-hop album. And if things do truly get better as we move into 2021, there’s no better anthem than “Black Owned,” a powerful anthem for Rasheed, Buck, and everyone listening. TRACKLIST 1. Tour Bus feat. 38 Spesh & Chè Noir 2. Sinners & Saints feat. Shannell Griggs 3. Rock Bottom feat. Ransom 4. Mass Media 5. Crime & Punishment feat. Yolanda Sargeant & Oran Juice Jones II 6. Bredren feat. Planet Asia 7. Dyckman feat. The Musalini & Durgaveli 8. Post Game (Skit) 9. The Blue Hood 10. C.E.O. Sug feat. SugaHill 11. Black Owned