Innercity Griots

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Innercity Griots
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Studio album by
Freestyle Fellowship
ReleasedApril 28, 1993 (1993-04-28) [1]
Genre Hip hop
Length65:25
Label 4th & B'way, Island, PolyGram
Producer Freestyle Fellowship, The Earthquake Brothers, Bambawar, Daddy-O, Edman, JMD, Kevin O'Neal
Freestyle Fellowship chronology
To Whom It May Concern...
(1991)		Innercity Griots
(1993)		 Temptations
(2001)
Singles from Innercity Griots
  1. "Bullies of the Block"
    Released: 1992
  2. "Hot Potato"
    Released: 1993
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svg [2]
Christgau's Consumer Guide Rating-Christgau-neither.png [3]
Entertainment Weekly A− [4]
Pitchfork 9.0/10 [5]
Q Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [6]
The Source Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [7]
Tom Hull – on the Web B+ ( Five Pointed Star Solid.svg Five Pointed Star Solid.svg ) [8]

Innercity Griots is the second studio album by American hip hop group Freestyle Fellowship. It was released on April 28, 1993 on 4th & B'way Records and distributed through Island Records.

Contents

Critical reception

Nathan Bush of AllMusic gave the album 5 stars out of 5, praising the group's creativity and range as well as the album's production, which he felt showed an improvement from their previous effort. [2] Jihad Hassan Muhammad of The Dallas Weekly commented that "they gave an unlikely musical offering at the time when everything was gangs and sets thrown as far as hip-hop was concerned in Los Angeles." [9]

In 2012, it was listed by The Daily Californian as one of the "10 Albums for the Hip-Hop Layman". [10] In 2013, Spin named it one of the 50 best rap albums of 1993. [11] In 2015, NME placed it at number 51 on its list of the "100 Lost Albums You Need to Know". [12]

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Bullies of the Block" Freestyle Fellowship, Bambawar4:55
2."Everything's Everything"Freestyle Fellowship, The Earthquake Brothers, L. McCann 3:47
3."Shammy's"Freestyle Fellowship, The Earthquake Brothers, Daddy-O 4:16
4."Six Tray" M. Davis, The Earthquake Brothers4:39
5."Danger"Freestyle Fellowship, The Earthquake Brothers3:58
6."Inner City Boundaries" (featuring Daddy-O)Freestyle Fellowship, Daddy-O, R. Willis4:39
7."Cornbread" E. Hayes, Jr. 4:21
8."Way Cool"Freestyle Fellowship, G. Redd, R. Bell, R. Mickens, D. Thomas, R. Westfield, G. Brown, C. Smith4:22
9."Hot Potato"Freestyle Fellowship, Edman, M. Rice, J. Gillespie 4:30
10."Mary"E. Hayes, Jr., M. Troy, O. Glenn, H. Mancini 3:45
11."Park Bench People"M. Troy, The Earthquake Brothers4:59
12."Heavyweights" (featuring Cockney "O" Dire, Archie, Volume 10, Spoon, and Ganja K Chronic)Freestyle Fellowship, The Heavyweights, The Earthquake Brothers6:11
13."Respect Due"Freestyle Fellowship, The Earthquake Brothers3:53
14."Pure Thought" (CD bonus track)Freestyle Fellowship, W. Cobham 3:04

Personnel

Information taken from the liner notes. [13]

Notes

  1. ↑ Madden, Sidney (April 28, 2015). "Today in Hip-Hop: Freestyle Fellowship Drop 'Innercity Griots' Album". XXL . Retrieved May 20, 2017.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
  2. 1 2 Bush, Nathan. "Inner City Griots - Freestyle Fellowship". AllMusic . Retrieved May 9, 2010.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
  3. ↑ Christgau, Robert. "Consumer Guide: Freestyle Fellowship". Robert Christgau . Retrieved May 15, 2017.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
  4. ↑ Fox, Marisa (July 23, 1993). "Innercity Griots (1993)". Entertainment Weekly . Retrieved December 6, 2014.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
  5. ↑ Pemberton, Rollie (11 October 2020). "Freestyle Fellowship: Innercity Griots Review". Pitchfork . Retrieved 11 October 2020.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
  6. ↑ "Q review". Q : 88. July 1993.
  7. ↑ "The Source review". The Source : 79. March 1993.
  8. ↑ Hull, Tom (April 19, 2021). "Music Week". Tom Hull – on the Web. Retrieved April 20, 2021.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
  9. ↑ Muhammad, Jihad Hassan (February 14, 2013). "Hip-Hop's Black History Album List Part 2". The Dallas Weekly . Retrieved December 6, 2014.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
  10. ↑ Bell, James (September 19, 2012). "Goin' Off: 10 Albums for the hip-hop layman". The Daily Californian . Retrieved December 6, 2014.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
  11. ↑ "Freestyle Fellowship, Innercity Griots (4th & B'way/Island/Polygram)". Spin . November 21, 2013. Retrieved May 20, 2017.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
  12. ↑ "100 Lost Albums You Need To Know". NME . March 6, 2015. Retrieved May 20, 2017.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
  13. ↑ Freestyle Fellowship (1993). Innercity Griots.

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