2000 Fold

Editorial Reviews
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Disciples of the camp of Divine Styler, Los Angeles's Styles of Beyond lack the spiritual commitment of their mentor yet more than make up for it with deft rhyme construction, a hungry battle attitude, and a cosmic-comic understanding of the world around them. Their sound is a cross between that of Mobb Deep and Camp Lo, mixing casual storytelling with penetrating insult, and whether it's dealing with interdimensional transmissions, lyrical transgressions, or biological transformations, MCs Takbir and Ryu do it with class and finesse. The production, largely supplied by Vin Skully, is uniformly outstanding, abusing the sampler and the turntable to penetrating depths. As Takbir says on "Styles of Beyond," they'll continue to be "the number 3 letters on your flip phone: D-E-F till my death." --Jon Caramanica

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2000 Fold

Tracks:

Intro
Styles Of Beyond (Style Warz)
Hollograms
Dangeous Minds
Spies Like Us
Winnetka Exit
Muuvon
Easy Back It Up
Survival Tactics
Skullyanamayshun
Part II (Endangered)
Gollaxowelcome
Click Bert Box (Interlude)
Killer Instinct
2000 Fold
Come Out Your Frame (Interlude)
Marco Poloo
Outro

Amazon.com

Disciples of the camp of Divine Styler, Los Angeles's Styles of Beyond lack the spiritual commitment of their mentor yet more than make up for it with deft rhyme construction, a hungry battle attitude, and a cosmic-comic understanding of the world around them. Their sound is a cross between that of Mobb Deep and Camp Lo, mixing casual storytelling with penetrating insult, and whether it's dealing with interdimensional transmissions, lyrical transgressions, or biological transformations, MCs Takbir and Ryu do it with class and finesse. The production, largely supplied by Vin Skully, is uniformly outstanding, abusing the sampler and the turntable to penetrating depths. As Takbir says on "Styles of Beyond," they'll continue to be "the number 3 letters on your flip phone: D-E-F till my death." --Jon Caramanica

Customer Reviews:

One of my all time Faves.......2007-01-31

This album is an underground classic. S.O.B have created a masterpiece with this album. They are the sole reason why Ive spent so much time exploring the depths of underground hip hop. Ive come across many great artists and til this day, 2000 fold still gets alot of play. Theres nothing like it, the beats are simply amazing and the chemistry between ryu and tak is supurb. You will be left with your jaw dropped after hearing ryu flow so well on many of these tracks. I see alot of reviewers on here refering to them from fort minor. You cant compare this to them at all and if your just another fort minor groupie, stay away. Theres a fine line between underground and mainstream sound. I think mike shinoda is very talented and dont disrespect his work. I just dont think you can compare the groups. S.O.B is on an entirely different level than most of whats put out today. So youll need an open mind and to appreciate music beyong the lyrics, altho the lyrics on here are great as well.

If you want a good continuation to this album, SOB almost dropped a second album just like this. There are unreleased tracks called windows, atomic zen, and underground sound. They are sick, so try to find em and download em. They almost rolled with the idea, but changed their mind and megadef came out instead.

I hope S.O.B's third release is listenable, yet dont expect too much, sadly I dont think we will hear anything like this again from the group. They have made the transition from originality to pop. Megadef was the start. Fort minor was the death of SOB and the birth of the green. But thats life unfortunately.

This CD is dope.......2006-07-28

When it dropped I was spinning hip hop on a college radio station. I just remember that direct flow - sort of drone-y and the production is all fresh. just darker background melodies and building rifs on top of those Divine Styler-styled drum patterns. The flow and interchange between the MSc is very late 90s, but comes off extraordinarily well. A nice balance between the voices and flows. GET THIS CD if you love quality underground hip hop.

I can't speak as highly for their second release, "Megadef"...

I've heard way better........2006-03-04

I bought this album after hearing their work on Fort Minor's recent release. The beats are less than innovative and, frankly, just don't hit very hard. The vocal styles aren't bad, just not my cup of tea, and the rhymes didn't show me much either. I'm guessing they learned quite a bit in the last few years b/c their work on The Rising Tied was far better.

..........2005-08-26

yeah its pretty good. All the lyrics are bomb diggity, but most of the beats lack that certain sumthin that makes you want to slap your pappy. Also, there isnt much consistency within the album. There are a couple of very entertaining jams like #9 and #10, but some of the other tracks are relatively boring and mundane. Overall, a pretty solid effort because the lyrics make up for the shortcomings in production.

Outside the mainstream - pros and cons .......2005-08-08

The lyrical stylings on all the tracks is supurb. Once again proving that some of the best are not always the most commercially successful. I originally heard this group on a drum n' bass remix. The flow was outstanding so I researched the group and found this cd and Megadef. Some of the songs could use a little help structurally. But, the production value is good and overall I was extremely pleased. You can't say enough about the flow of these two artist. If you were to put them with some of today's top end producers I think you would see these guys competing with the likes of the Black Eyed Peas, Kanye West, and Ludacris, for top spots on the charts.