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Stones Throw Records
STH2370
If there's a Blaxploitation vibe to Yes Lawd!, that's just the depth of NxWorries' funk and strut showing. If there's gospel in the grits, that's the history of the cooks. Each grew up with religion. It was Knxwledge's job to tidy up the family church in Jersey as a kid, and when he was done, he got to play on the instruments. Better still, when those instruments went bad, he kept them. Similarly, he'd soon find sounds in his growing vinyl cache, and when he moved to Los Angeles in 2008 as a beat maker, his compositions ensured he'd be home at Stones Throw. His hypnotically dank 2015 LP Hud Dreems was the tip of an iceberg—75 Bandcamp collections, and counting. Paak was neck deep in those songs when Knxwledge reached out. The singer grew up in Oxnard drumming in his own family's church. His folks got locked up when he was a teen, and while he'd eke by on odd jobs (grocer, trimmer, personal assistant), he was homeless for a spell with a newborn son. But .Paak pushed forward, building a career via imaginative albums (2016's Malibu), and collaborations that always seem to make him the star, even when he's just there to sing the hook.
NEW / Released in 2016
Tracklist:
A1 Intro
A2 Livvin
A3 Wngs
A4 Best One
A5 What More Can I Say
A6 Kutless
B1 Lyk Dis
B2 Can’t Stop
B3 Get Bigger / Do U Luv
B4 Khadijah
C1 H.A.N.
C2 Scared Money
C3 Suede
C4 Starlite
D1 Sidepiece
D2 Jodi
D3 Link Up
D4 Another Time
D5 Fkku
Alternative Rock, Indie Rock,
Jazz, African, African, Jazz,