Blog: audio hallucinations

for this one i'd thought i'd take you back to blackalicious ' nia album. if you never heard of blackalicious you're severely deprived of some good hip hop. the group consists of an mc: gift of gab and a dj: cheif xcel, they started to colab while attending uc davis in northern cal, released a couple of eps before debuting in 1999 with this fine peice of craftsmanship, nia. the album could be labeled conscious hip hop due to the non gangsta/positive lyrics and image of the group and falls into the same category as jurassic 5, early black [...]