You Are Not Alone (Kinetics & One Love album)

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You Are not Alone
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ReleasedAugust 28th, 2012
Recorded2011–2012
Genre Hip hop
Length48:45
Producer Tim "One Love" Sommers, Jeremy "Kinetics" Dussolliet, Kenna Okoye
Kinetics & One Love chronology
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You Are Not Alone is the second album from hip-hop group and songwriting duo Kinetics & One Love. Released on August 28, 2012, the album features guest appearances from Termanology, [1] Wynter Gordon, Nitty Scott, Jon Bellion, Time Out Club's KTSB and the Lower East Side-based rapper and poet Accent. It also features guest production from Kenna Okoye. Within its first two hours on sale, the album broke the top ten on the iTunes hip-hop chart and climbed to #55 on the all albums iTunes chart. It also charted at No. 57 on Billboard Magazine's R&B/Hip-Hop chart and No. 32 on its Heatseekers chart. Upon its release, You Are Not Alone was reviewed by Billboard Magazine, [2] MTV's Buzzworthy, [3] Vibe Magazine , Complex Magazine , [4] The Source Magazine and XXL Magazine .

You Are Not Alone is a socially conscious concept album, reflecting upon the decisions of society as a whole and pondering the future direction of mankind. Throughout the course of the album, rapper Kinetics discusses a broad range of issues, such as teen suicide ("Sign Language"), domestic abuse ("Hideous"), feelings of isolation and being an outcast ("Sometimes I Feel Like A Robot"), declining standards of hip-hop music ("I Am A Computer") and even touches upon the genocide of Native Americans, the use of weapons of mass destruction and overprescription in the pharmaceutical industry (in "You Could Save Us All").

Track listing [5]

  1. "I Am a Computer" (4:00)
  2. "Hideous" (featuring Mimoza) (3:51)
  3. "You Could Save Us All" (3:48)
  4. "Still Dreamin'" (featuring Termanology) (3:13)
  5. "Sign Language" (featuring Wynter Gordon) (4:45)
  6. "Strangers" (featuring Nitty Scott) (3:48)
  7. "In My Own World" (featuring Yung Joey) (3:42) [6]
  8. "Sometimes I Feel Like a Robot" (4:32)
  9. "From Gorillas to Cyborgs" (5:44)
  10. "Vecino Del Mar" (featuring KGB) (3:46)
  11. "This Too Shall Pass" (featuring Accent & Polina Goudieva) (4:05)
  12. "Will You Be Remembered Remix" (featuring KTSB, B.Love & Hunter Stout) (3:31)

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