Pre-Life Crisis

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Pre-Life Crisis
Pre Life Crisis Cover.jpg
Studio album by
Released1995
Genre Hip hop
Length54:40
Label Work
Producer Count Bass D
Count Bass D chronology
Pre-Life Crisis
(1995)
Art for Sale
(1997)

Pre-Life Crisis is the debut album by the American rapper and musician Count Bass D, released in 1995. [1] [2] Count Bass D played the majority of the instruments on the album. [3] The album's only single, "Sandwiches (I Got a Feeling)", received moderate radio and video airplay, in addition to being released on vinyl and CD, along with the B-side "T-Boz Tried to Talk to Me".

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Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [4]
Spin 7/10 [5]

The International Herald Tribune noted that Count Bass D's "raps are hard-hitting but mellifluous, minimum-expletive and laugh-sprinkled." [6] In 2003, Rolling Stone wrote that the "hyperquirky debut ... imagined an esoteric, fully live hip-hop wonder world that transcended the generic boombap." [7]

Track listing

#TitleLengthSongwriter(s)Producer(s)Performer(s)
1The Dozens3:38Dwight Conroy FarrellCount Bass DCount Bass D
2Sandwiches (I Got a Feeling)4:39Dwight Conroy FarrellCount Bass DCount Bass D, (Mark Nash (musician) on Lead Guitar)
3T-Boz (Part 1/2)0:35Dwight Conroy FarrellCount Bass DCount Bass D, (Rod McGahaw on Flugelhorn)
4Shake4:08Dwight Conroy FarrellCount Bass DCount Bass D, (Mark Nash on Lead Guitar), (Rod McGahaw on Trumpet), (Kismick Martin on Additional Background Vocals & Freestyle on Vamp), (Vincent Sims on Additional Background Throat)
5T-Boz Tried to Talk to Me!4:42Dwight Conroy FarrellCount Bass DCount Bass D, (Rod McGahaw on Flugelhorn)
6Carmex5:17Dwight Conroy FarrellCount Bass DCount Bass D
7I Got Needs4:24Dwight Conroy FarrellCount Bass DCount Bass D, (Mark Nash on Lead Guitar), (Roger "Rock" Williams on Soprano Saxophone)
8Broke Thursday4:02Dwight Conroy FarrellCount Bass D, Coolout (co-producer)Count Bass D, Herbie Hancock, M. Ragin, P. Jackson
9Agriculture4:47Dwight Conroy Farrell & Vincent SimsCount Bass DCount Bass D, Vincent Sims (Roger "Rock" Williams on Alto Flute)
10Brown4:01Dwight Conroy FarrellCount Bass DCount Bass D, (DJ Reggie (Reg) Mason & Vincent Sims on Background Throat)
11The Hate Game4:43Dwight Conroy FarrellCount Bass DCount Bass D (Psalm 109 on inspiration)
12Pink Tornado3:15Dwight Conroy FarrellCount Bass DCount Bass D, Jaco Pastorius
13Sunday School5:35Dwight Conroy FarrellCount Bass DCount Bass D (Psalm 118:24 on inspiration)
14Baker's Dozen (Instrumental)1:01Dwight Conroy FarrellCount Bass DCount Bass D

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