Diamond & The Psychotic Neurotics - Stunts, Blunts & Hip Hop - CD - street date, producers, purchase, audio, cover art, tracklist at UGHH. Feb 11, 2009 Diamond D I Went For Mine, from the classic album Stunts, Blunts & Hip-Hop.
USA (New York)Released: 1992
Label: Chemistry RecordsQuality: 320kbps
Duration: 1:06:45
Tracklisting:
1. Intro
2. Best Kept Secret Featuring - Fat Joe, Whiz One, Bonita, LaReese
Diamond And The Psychotic Neurotics Stunts Blunts Hip Hop Rar
3. Sally Got A One Track Mind
4. Step To Me
5. Shut The Fuck Up (Interlude)
6. Fuck What U Heard
7. I'm Outta Here
8. A Day In The Life Featuring - Brand Nubian
9. Last Car On The 2 Train
10. Red Light, Green Light Featuring - Gigi
11. I Went For Mine
12. Comments From Big L & Showbiz (Interlude)
13. Check One, Two
14. What You Seek 3:30
15. Lunchroom Chatter
16. Confused Featuring - Jasmine, Michelle Sweeting
17. Pass Dat Shit Featuring - Whiz One, Maestro, Mike G.Q., Fat Joe
18. Freestyle (Yo, That's That Sh..)
20. Stunts, Blunts, & Hip Hop
21. Wuffman Stressed Out
22. Feel The Vibe Featuring - Showbiz
23. A View From The Underground Featuring - Fat Joe
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Diamond D had quietly provided some exciting production work and made strides within the rap music industry and community throughout the early '90s, but his name didn't become immediately recognizable until his classic guest appearance rapping on A Tribe Called Quest's 'Show Business' ('Take it from Diamond/It's like mountain climbing/When it comes to rhyming/You gotta put your time in'), off their masterful second album, The Low End Theory. Even amid vintage verses by such lauded hip-hop company as Tribe's Q-Tip and Phife and Brand Nubian's Lord Jamar and Sadat X, something about Diamond D's forthright and rock-solid, but totally laid-back, style stood out. Hip-hop heads waiting to hear more from him were rewarded with a veritable wealth of treasures when Stunts, Blunts & Hip-Hop, Diamond D's debut album, was released the following year. The album instantly became -- and remains -- something of an underground masterpiece. Stunts is a hugely sprawling, amorphous thing. Nearly 70 minutes would generally seem far too long for a hip-hop album to sustain any degree of good taste, especially one that is mostly song-based and keeps the de rigueur between-song skits to a minimum. There is, in fact, a fair amount of filler here; but even that filler, after several listens, is so ingratiating that the album would seem incomplete without it, and it helps the album to actually be listenable in its entirety, as a single, long, whole statement. Part of the reason even the filler works is because the production -- most of it by Diamond D himself -- is uniformly excellent. The music he comes up with is just as steady as his rhyming. As for his simile-heavy lyrics, they can occasionally seem stilted or awkward, and aren't exactly complex, but Diamond spins a long yarn -- sometimes autobiographical, sometimes fantastical, sometimes a projected scenario -- with the best of them, although he can also delve too often into blanket boasting, and sometimes his words lack any particular direction. It's the everyone-in-the-studio ambience, though, rather than any particular standout aspect, that propels the album. Certain songs do stand out from the overall tapestry of the album: the woeful girl-gone-wrong tale 'Sally Got a One Track Mind'; '*!*! What U Heard,' with its bouncy bassline; the insistent 'Red Light, Green Light'; the Jazzy Jay-produced 'I Went for Mine'; the loping 'Check One, Two'; the groovy 'Freestyle,' co-produced by Large Professor; 'K.I.S.S.,' co-produced by Q-Tip; and the jazz-tinged 'Feel the Vibe.' But they make far more sense as part of the album's cycle. The most enjoyable way to listen to the album's individual parts is to also listen to the stuff that surrounds it.
| Sample | Title/Composer | Performer | Time | Stream |
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| 1 | Diamond D / Diamond and the Psychotic Neurotics | 0:41 | Amazon | |
| 2 | Jesse Kirkland / Robert 'Spike' Mickens / Dennis 'D.T.' Thomas | 4:07 | Amazon | |
| 3 | Diamond D / Diamond and the Psychotic Neurotics | 3:43 | Amazon | |
| 4 | 3:24 | Amazon | ||
| 5 | Diamond D / Diamond and the Psychotic Neurotics | 0:52 | Amazon | |
| 6 | 3:17 | Amazon | ||
| 7 | Diamond D / Diamond and the Psychotic Neurotics | 5:07 | Amazon | |
| 8 | 4:19 | Amazon | ||
| 9 | Diamond D / Diamond and the Psychotic Neurotics | 0:37 | Amazon | |
| 10 | 5:02 | Amazon | ||
| 11 | Diamond D / Diamond and the Psychotic Neurotics | 3:18 | Amazon | |
| 12 | 0:22 | Amazon | ||
| 13 | Diamond D / Diamond and the Psychotic Neurotics | 4:15 | Amazon | |
| 14 | 3:30 | Amazon | ||
| 15 | Diamond D / Diamond and the Psychotic Neurotics | 0:27 | Amazon | |
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| 17 | Diamond D / Diamond and the Psychotic Neurotics | 5:55 | Amazon | |
| 18 | 3:00 | Amazon | ||
| 19 | Diamond D / Diamond and the Psychotic Neurotics | 3:54 | Amazon | |
| 20 | 2:31 | Amazon | ||
| 21 | Diamond D / Diamond and the Psychotic Neurotics | 0:30 | Amazon | |
| 22 | Jesse Kirkland / Marv & Mitch Lemay / Rodney Lemay | 3:41 | Amazon | |
| 23 | Diamond D / Diamond and the Psychotic Neurotics | 0:21 | Amazon |