Skratch Bastid / John Smith / Pip Skid – Taking Care Of Business (2005) (CD) (FLAC + 320 kbps)
TAKING CARE OF BUSINESS skratch bastid/john smith/pip skid While the collabo group is nothing new,as soon as this joint right here drops into your audio device,you’ll realize that something different is going on.And not something new like gay marriage or white chocolate peanut butter cups,more along the lines of glasses that allow you to melt G-Unit hoodies when you stare at ’em or a whistle that shatters shitty records with one toot.The brainchild of legendary deck wrecker Skratch Bastid,this album is a testament to his desire to bring the DJ back into the hiphop record. Bastid,Pip and Smitty got together in the spring of 2004 to play a few shows and record an album in Halifax,Nova Scotia,Canada. A couple weeks of late night sessions,a handful of shows,and many,many drinks resulted in Taking Care of Business.Months later,the trio was re-united in Winnipeg to complete the circle and film a video for the album’s anthem “I Ain’t Lazy”.Shot in one day,it is an ironically non-sarcastic look at what happens from sun-up to sun-down in the life of the busy entertainers. Taking Care Of Business is about that grind-playing a show,recording a record or working a job so you have an oppor- tunity to do the rest.It ’s enjoying the benefits of being an entertainer or falling peril to the difficulties of doing what you love.Taking Care of Business,among other things,is a record about 3 hip-hop artists who work hard at their craft.Give love and you’ll get love.
1 Intro
2 I Ain’t Lazy
3 Get Nice [Featuring] – Kunga 219, Tachichi
4 Collecting Empties
5 Lay Awake
6 Entertainers
7 Reapin’ The Benefits [Featuring] – Sleep
8A Step To Gettin’
8B Worldwide Interlude [Featuring] – Yosuke
9 Murphy’s Law [Featuring] – Sleep
10 I Run Winnipeg [Featuring] – Big Barry Banks
11 Frosty The No Man
12 Who This Is
13 Eat The Slippers [Featuring] – Sleep
14 Non-Stop
15 Ebb & Flow
16 I Ain’t Lazy (Gordski Remix)
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