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Pre-Life Crisis | ||||
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Released | 1995 | |||
Genre | Hip hop | |||
Length | 54:40 | |||
Label | Work | |||
Producer | Count Bass D | |||
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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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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [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]
# | Title | Length | Songwriter(s) | Producer(s) | Performer(s) |
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1 | The Dozens | 3:38 | Dwight Conroy Farrell | Count Bass D | Count Bass D |
2 | Sandwiches (I Got a Feeling) | 4:39 | Dwight Conroy Farrell | Count Bass D | Count Bass D, (Mark Nash (musician) on Lead Guitar) |
3 | T-Boz (Part 1/2) | 0:35 | Dwight Conroy Farrell | Count Bass D | Count Bass D, (Rod McGahaw on Flugelhorn) |
4 | Shake | 4:08 | Dwight Conroy Farrell | Count Bass D | Count 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) |
5 | T-Boz Tried to Talk to Me! | 4:42 | Dwight Conroy Farrell | Count Bass D | Count Bass D, (Rod McGahaw on Flugelhorn) |
6 | Carmex | 5:17 | Dwight Conroy Farrell | Count Bass D | Count Bass D |
7 | I Got Needs | 4:24 | Dwight Conroy Farrell | Count Bass D | Count Bass D, (Mark Nash on Lead Guitar), (Roger "Rock" Williams on Soprano Saxophone) |
8 | Broke Thursday | 4:02 | Dwight Conroy Farrell | Count Bass D, Coolout (co-producer) | Count Bass D, Herbie Hancock, M. Ragin, P. Jackson |
9 | Agriculture | 4:47 | Dwight Conroy Farrell & Vincent Sims | Count Bass D | Count Bass D, Vincent Sims (Roger "Rock" Williams on Alto Flute) |
10 | Brown | 4:01 | Dwight Conroy Farrell | Count Bass D | Count Bass D, (DJ Reggie (Reg) Mason & Vincent Sims on Background Throat) |
11 | The Hate Game | 4:43 | Dwight Conroy Farrell | Count Bass D | Count Bass D (Psalm 109 on inspiration) |
12 | Pink Tornado | 3:15 | Dwight Conroy Farrell | Count Bass D | Count Bass D, Jaco Pastorius |
13 | Sunday School | 5:35 | Dwight Conroy Farrell | Count Bass D | Count Bass D (Psalm 118:24 on inspiration) |
14 | Baker's Dozen (Instrumental) | 1:01 | Dwight Conroy Farrell | Count Bass D | Count Bass D |
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