Ghetto Gold & Platinum Respect [Explicit Lyrics]

1. Live in Brooklyn

2. New York

3. I Don't Want You

4. Carpenter

5. Oh Lord

6. You Got It Coming

7. Hip Hoppers

8. Mad Contacts

9. Hardcore

10. Mr. Sexability

11. Take Your Time

12. Can't Take Mine

Editorial Reviews

Product Description
Japanese Version featuring Two Bonus Tracks: Carpenter (Frankie Cutlass Remix), and Double Trouble Remix (Featuring Krs-1)

Tracks:

Live In Brooklyn
New York
I Don't Want You
Carpenter
Oh Lord
You Got It Coming
Hip Hppers
Mad Contacts
Hardcore
Mr. Sexability
Take Your Time
Can't Take Mine

Album Details

Japanese Version featuring Two Bonus Tracks: Carpenter (Frankie Cutlass Remix), and Double Trouble Remix (Featuring Krs-1)

Customer Reviews:

Ghetto Gold &Platimun Respect.......2000-03-19

Mad Lion is the first to combine the two musics such as hip hop and reggae. Since Mad Lion has stepped on the set, there have been alot of copy cats. I feel that Nervours Records didn't get Mad Lion the propor promtions and marketing he really needed to compete with the rest of the hip hop artist at the time of his releases. Lion should be a super star like all the other artist that came out around 1993 and 1994. It's a same that some artist that have a large following have to remain undergroud. Big up your chest Mad lion cause the real reconize the real. Lick mad shoots.

Crutial.......1999-08-27

Mad Lion has come back with another Blaster. He truelly is the King of Hip-Hop/Reggae. I really recomend this cd. All songs are excelent but my favorite are "mr. sexability", "take your time", "carpenter".

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The World is a Ghetto
The World Is a Ghetto...
TY BESS(THE MUSIC MAN)
Progressive soul music...
The BIG one...

The World Is a Ghetto
War
Manufacturer: Rhino
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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All Day Music
Deliver the Word
Why Can't We Be Friends?
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War Live

ASIN: B000003D6T
Release Date: 1995-02-21

Tracks:

Cisco Kid
Where Was You At
City, Country, City
Four Cornered Room
World Is a Ghetto
Beetles in the Bog

Amazon.com essential recording

Best known for its distinctive fusion of Latin-flavored jazz, funk, rock, and soul, War was unquestionably one of the most successful fusion bands to emerge in the early '70s. Initially working with Eric Burdon, former lead singer with the British '60s band the Animals, the seven-member team enjoyed a commercial breakthrough with 1971's "All Day Music." The follow-up, The World Is a Ghetto took War mainstream thanks to the crossover success of the title track, a top 10 pop and R&B smash as 1972 became 1973. Cuts like the 13-minute-plus jazz-flavored adventure known as "City, Country, City" alongside the witty "Where Was You At" and the eerie "Four Cornered Room" were standouts on the six-track album. But it was the immediacy of the No. 2 pop single "The Cisco Kid," with its catchy hook that helped give the band a chart-topping No. 1 gold-selling album in 1973, arguably the best representation of its work as groove pioneers of the day. --David Nathan

Customer Reviews:

The World is a Ghetto.......2007-06-09

A classic that remains as fresh today as when it was released.

The World Is a Ghetto..........2007-02-04

Once again, WAR comes through...this album is a classic for all times...I rate this album FIVE STARS!!!!

TY BESS(THE MUSIC MAN).......2007-01-27

If you like music that is a good backdrop for a party or just hanging around the house or better yet washing the car this is a cd that will fill the bill.enjoy!

Progressive soul music..........2006-07-10

This album, which is one of my top 30 favorites, is progressive soul music. It's like Isaac Hayes in his heyday, when his albums like Hot Buttered Soul, Movement, and Joy had epic tracks on them, some running as long as 18 minutes. This is War's best album, with the title track and City, Country, City standing out. Even though there's only 6 songs, and most of them are fairly long, War was one of the tightest bands on the planet. The main theme of the album really resonates today, that the world is indeed a ghetto, because no matter where you go, trouble will find you. You can never cut yourself off completely from society (even though some try to). As the liner notes say, even a Rolls Royce can get a flat tire. If we realised that, we would get along much better, because we all live in this ghetto of a world. We should try and make it better.

The BIG one..........2006-05-03

The title of my review says it all. For those of you that are into statistics and sales and chart positions and all that good stuff, you're probably aware that this is the only War album to top the pop charts. Of course, for my purposes, none of that matters.

Growing up, this was my SECOND favorite War album. As I became an adult, though, this one crept to the top of the list. Why? Perhaps it was the mood of the album. The album is very dark and downtrodden, and perhaps that's the beauty of it. Although the album was released a couple of years before I was born, it was an album that reflected the uncertain times: a few years after the murders of MLK & RFK, in the midst of American dissatisfaction with the Viet Nam war, and the soon-to-be-headline-making Watergate scandal.

Anyway, even though there's only six songs on the album, they are a WHOPPING six songs. Kicking things off is "The Cisco Kid." Honestly, if I had to name a single song that made me a War fan, it was this one. It's all in the bass line. For all you bass aspiring bass players out there, this song is SERIOUS PROOF that you don't have to slap to be STANKY.

Next, there's the Big Easy flavored "Where Was You At?"...a great little song, sad but upbeat. Then there's the epic "City Country City." The darkness rises in a big way. You get lots of what made WAR one of THE best: great group work, great individual solos, and the music never gets stagnant.

The things only get darker with "Four Cornered Room." I'll be honest: I like the song, but it's probably the spookiest song War ever recorded. Couple this song along with the totality of Sly Stone's "Riot" LP for ultimate in depressing, junkie-nodding music.

Than the culmination, the title song. Great song, great groove, great lyrics, great solos....

"Beetles in the Bog"? I like the song. It's sort of like one of those campfire sing-along type songs. Well, in this particular case, it's more like a song best sung around a fire lit in a garbage barrell.

This is War's masterpiece, an album no serious War fan should be without.

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Don Carlos With GOLD

Ghetto Living
Don Carlos & Gold
Manufacturer: Tamoki Wambesi
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00004WJJA
Release Date: 1988-08-01

Tracks:

Never Run Away
Declaration of Rights
Tear Drops
Them Say
Plantation
Ghetto Living
Go Find Yourself a Fool
It Was Love
Every Time I See You
Come on Over
Promise to Be True
Angel Face Woman

Customer Reviews:

Don Carlos With GOLD.......2006-01-09

If you are finding the wicked beats of the Roots Radics and have come across Israel Vibes and Barrington you will feel at home with Tear Drops and Angel Face Women. Also very good album by Don Carlos is Day to Day living. If your an inspiring roots singer you will need hog and goat back up to make your success.