Plain Brown Rapper, by Brown James

Plain Brown Rapper

by Brown James

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1.	Who Is Who Aint? 01:30		buy track
2.	Get It Crackin 03:47		buy track
3.	Brown 01:30		buy track
4.	Change 4 $ 05:01	info	buy track
5.	Black & White 02:52		buy track
6.	Close 2 da Most 04:04	info	buy track
7.	360 00:46		buy track
8.	Wake Up 03:38		buy track
9.	Important Things 03:54		buy track
10.	Adayinthelife 04:44	info	buy track
11.	Science This 04:33		buy track
12.	Mcs in the Night 04:07		buy track
13.	Ach Tung 05:08		buy track
14.	Sucka MC 03:46	info	buy track

about

Hip hop actually saved Brown when he was in North Carolina. His family moved back to Fayetteville before his senior year of high school. After graduation, Brown was on his own, sometimes sleeping in his girlfriend's car, back and forth between Virginia, Georgia and North Carolina. He says he found himself in situations that were do or die, and hip hop helped him get away.

"Music was always the center to me, but sometimes I forgot that. I had friends who would be like, 'Let's go to the studio or do this show or do this open mic,' even though I may have had some bad things on my mind," says Brown, who now lives in Pennsylvania with his wife and three children. "Music will save your life."

Hip hop certainly means more to Brown than money, and the use of something that served as his savior for purely capital gains chafes him. The representation that hip hop now receives in popular culture frustrates him, and he pins the blame largely on the filter it runs through before it reaches the suburbs--towering Manhattan skyscrapers and Los Angeles companies that house major labels run by people unfamiliar with what hip hop can mean, separate from finances. He thinks that it should be black culture's prerogative to control itself and its distribution.

"Kids get a false representation of hip hop because of the powers that wield it and control it," Brown says. "I think black people should build their own labels and not bother with these big corporations, because major labels don't care about us like we care about us. Sometimes we don't even care about us like we should, so we really shouldn't rely on somebody else."

READ MORE: indyweek.com/music/features/beyond-brown/

credits

released November 15, 2005

Written-By, Performer – Curtis Moss

Producer – Khateeb/Jihad* (tracks: 1 to 4, 7 to 10, 12 to 14)
Except: (15) Autolect/Bil Basmala (11) POE (6,5) DOX

Recorded By, Mixed By – Fanatik (tracks: 1 to 4, 7 to 10, 12 to 14)
Except (5,6,11) Recorded By, Mixed By – Don Yohn

Recording Location - Fluid Studios, NC, New Andalus Studio, Bay Area, CA

Executive-Producer – Hasan Rahma T' Ullah, Don Yohn, J. Wright

Copyright 2005 XI SOUNDS / Xtra Infinite Inc.