Integration (Kellee Maize album)

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Integration
Integration Cover.jpg
Studio album by Kellee Maize
Released November 11, 2011
Recorded 2011
Genre Hip hop/Rap
Length70:35
Label Independent
Producer DJ Huggy
Kellee Maize chronology
Aligned Archetype
(2010) Aligned Archetype2010
Integration
(2011)
Owl Time
(2012) Owl Time2012

Integration is the third studio album by American rapper Kellee Maize. It was released on November 11, 2011 and was recorded primarily in her home studio, Nakturnal Studio. Musical styles present on the album include reggae, dubstep and electropop. [1] The album's theme revolves around the idea of having a good balance between the opposites in human nature. [2]

Kellee Maize is an American rapper, singer, and songwriter. Her first album, Age of Feminine, was released in 2007. Maize has now been involved in the music business for just over a decade and has recorded and released six full albums leading to a handful of singles. As of 2011, her YouTube videos had combined for over four million views, and she had over 180,000 Twitter and Facebook fans. Her albums had been downloaded over 400,000 times, and she has been mentioned in various media outlets over 200 times. According to a news report in 2011, a Google search for “female rapper” displayed her website as the number one search result.

Reggae music genre from Jamaica

Reggae is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1960s.The term also denotes the modern popular music of Jamaica and its diaspora. A 1968 single by Toots and the Maytals, "Do the Reggay" was the first popular song to use the word "reggae," effectively naming the genre and introducing it to a global audience. While sometimes used in a broad sense to refer to most types of popular Jamaican dance music, the term reggae more properly denotes a particular music style that was strongly influenced by traditional mento as well as American jazz and rhythm and blues, especially the New Orleans R&B practiced by Fats Domino and Allen Toussaint, and evolved out of the earlier genres ska and rocksteady. Reggae usually relates news, social gossip, and political comment. Reggae spread into a commercialized jazz field, being known first as ‘Rudie Blues’, then ‘Ska’, later ‘Blue Beat’, and ‘Rock Steady’. It is instantly recognizable from the counterpoint between the bass and drum downbeat, and the offbeat rhythm section. The immediate origins of reggae were in ska and rocksteady; from the latter, reggae took over the use of the bass as a percussion instrument.

Dubstep is a genre of electronic dance music that originated in South London in the late 1990s. It is generally characterized by sparse, syncopated rhythmic patterns with massive wobbly basslines that contain prominent sub-bass frequencies and epic gigantic breakdowns. The style emerged as an offshoot of UK garage, drawing on a lineage of related styles such as 2-step and dub reggae, as well as jungle, broken beat, and grime. In the United Kingdom the origins of the genre can be traced back to the growth of the Jamaican sound system party scene in the early 1980s.

Contents

Release and reception

The album received generally positive reviews, reaching the top on both Amazon and Frostwire. [3] It was also downloaded over 160,000 times within its first month of release. [4] The first single from the album, "Hasta Abajo," peaked at number 7 on Jamendo. [5] Maize performed multiple tracks from the LP at the album's release party in Pittsburgh at a local Middle-Eastern inspired performance venue. [6]

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Healing Tones" Kellee Maize 1:49
2."Mad Humans"Maize3:05
3."Hasta Abajo"Maize4:33
4."Takeover"Maize3:58
5."The Fact Is"Maize5:03
6."Trapped"Maize3:31
7."Don't Stop"Maize3:28
8."I Insist"Maize3:56
9."La La Love"Maize4:25
10."Catch Me"Maize3:44
11."Divine"Maize3:43
12."Shadows"Maize4:12
13."Notice the End"Maize4:40
14."Revival"Maize3:36
15."Eleven 11 (Remix)"Maize3:58
16."L'Outro"Maize3:36
17."Gratitude"Maize7:54
18."Buffalo Mediation"Maize1:44

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