- hip hop
- 62 min
- 16 tracks
- Fat Beats Records
The Preface is the debut album of rapper eLZhi, released 12 August 2008 on Fat Beats Records. It features many other Detroit's MCs including Royce Da 5'9", Guilty Simpson, Black Milk, Fatt Father, Danny Brown and Phat Kat among others. The album has been critically acclaimed and considered by many professional reviewers as one of the best hip hop albums of 2008.
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Character
Spare, grave, classical in form and contemporary.
- sparerichly built
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
- character-ledplot-driven
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Tracks
- 1Intro (The Preface)1:03
- 2The Leak3:32
- 3Guessing Game5:39
- 4Motown 253:57
- 5Brag Swag2:41
- 6Colors3:16
- 7Fire (remix)4:06
- 8D.E.M.O.N.S.4:12
- 9Save Ya4:00
- 10Yeah.4:14
- 11Transitional Joint4:57
- 12Talking in My Sleep4:20
- 13The Science3:04
- 14Hands Up4:14
- 15What I Write3:40
- 16Growing Up5:02
16 tracks, 62 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- eLZhi
- Label
- Fat Beats Records
- Released
- July 29, 2008
- Type
- Album
- Format
- CD
- Country
- US
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