Al Tariq - God Connections

YouTube · Post by **Philaflava** » Thu Aug 26, 2010 5:24 pm

Let's talk about this album for a bit. Traffic recently did the reissue with a few bonus tracks. I got my copy today and the liner notes has a breakdown of each track done by Tariq.

On some days this is my 2nd favorite Beatnuts release ever, right behind the self-titled album. Crime Pays is a perfect song.

What are your thoughts?

Thun · Post by **Thun** » Thu Aug 26, 2010 6:46 pm

Album is cool. Needs a remaster.

Al-Tariq is not a very good rapper. He sounds kind of like Ju-Ju but with less presence and is less likably ignorant.

Still, this album bangs. "peace akki" is that shit, for real.

vaporized2 · Post by **vaporized2** » Thu Aug 26, 2010 7:21 pm

yeh, good album. this is way better than "stone crazy"

beatnuts caught '1997 disease' - very contagious amongst previously great 90s producers, and apparently incurable...

YouTube · Post by **Philaflava** » Thu Aug 26, 2010 8:47 pm

Thun wrote:Album is cool. Needs a remaster.

I'm pretty sure this is significantly louder than the Relativity release.

DredScott · Post by **DredScott** » Thu Aug 26, 2010 10:43 pm

One of my fav underrated lps. Some of the beats are ridiculous and I always liked al tariq and his whole style. I feel like the beatnuts really missed him when he left the crew. This reissue needs to be ripped soon cause I would love a remastered version with bonus tracks. Speaking of which what are the bonus tracks? I'm assuming "nikki" is one of them. When did it come out?

Man I need this and that remastered version of Resurrection to drop.

YouTube · Post by **Philaflava** » Thu Aug 26, 2010 10:45 pm

Nikki and Me And My Mans feat. Missin Linx are the bonus tracks.

I don't know when this officially drops but it has to be this month, if it hasn't already.

Freezy Pazzy · Post by **Freezy Pazzy** » Thu Aug 26, 2010 10:58 pm

Philaflava wrote:I'm pretty sure this is significantly louder than the Relativity release.

I have the original CD and it was released by Correct Records, not Relativity.
If I'm right, the label folded a few months after the album's release, which explains why it became quickly hard to find. Same shit happened to Grav's album.

Da Me · Post by **Da Me** » Fri Aug 27, 2010 12:15 am

Yeah, this was a sick album and crime pays is my shit.
I had no idea Al Tariq was part of the Beatnuts. I thought he was only in Missin Linx.

djfilthyrich · Post by **djfilthyrich** » Fri Aug 27, 2010 12:24 am

dope album....Crime Pays & Everybody's Talkin were my 2 fav joints on this lp

jazzmatazz23 · Post by **jazzmatazz23** » Fri Aug 27, 2010 12:37 am

Peace Akki was actually my favorite song on the album

ALl the interludes on this album were dominant

ral278 · Post by **ral278** » Fri Aug 27, 2010 2:21 am

one of my most fav albums in my cratez! many great songs on it but "peace akki" is definitely the best. I remember hearing this song first in like 96/97 on a radio show and was like "damn! what is it n I GOTTA have it!". took my some weeks though to find out that it ain't a release u can find under beatnuts...
if some1 can up those bonus tracks would be great and much appreciated! good post!

Thun · Post by **Thun** » Fri Aug 27, 2010 3:07 am

Philaflava wrote:
Thun wrote:Album is cool. Needs a remaster.
I'm pretty sure this is significantly louder than the Relativity release.

Nice.

Thun · Post by **Thun** » Fri Aug 27, 2010 3:08 am

vaporized2 wrote:yeh, good album. this is way better than "stone crazy"

beatnuts caught '1997 disease' - very contagious amongst previously great 90s producers, and apparently incurable...

meaning they opted for a stripped down, cleaner, more melodic style, as opposed to piling dusty sample on top of dusty sample?

change is inevitable, dunny

Verge · Post by **Verge** » Fri Aug 27, 2010 12:58 pm

This album is great and a personal late 90's classic to me. Not a weak track, just a couple that I didn't like as much as the others. The beat from "Get Down Baby" is crazy.
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And I think Fash is a dope emcee.
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TopLeft Recordings · Post by **TopLeft Recordings** » Fri Aug 27, 2010 6:07 pm

djfilthyrich wrote:dope album....Crime Pays & Everybody's Talkin were my 2 fav joints on this lp

PopeyeJones · Post by **PopeyeJones** » Fri Aug 27, 2010 6:20 pm

Good to see they put Nikki on the new release.

This, like the self-titled nuts album, is one of those albums I'm pretty irrational about. I liked it too much for too long and just know I like it. I can't even tell if it's any good or not beyond my nostalgia for all the times I was listening to it. Still put it on once or twice a year.

william g. · Post by **william g.** » Fri Aug 27, 2010 7:01 pm

I believe the instrumentals of this are out on bootleg.

There's only a few tracks missing from it.

I had them a couple years ago but don't know what happened to them.

Great album though..

Gurped Out · Post by **Gurped Out** » Sun Aug 29, 2010 1:28 am

This album never gets old to me, I go back to it every couple of months. Always wanted him to drop another solo especially after his 12" with Necro production.

Verge · Post by **Verge** » Sun Aug 29, 2010 2:58 pm

I always thought "Nikki" was on the og? Nevermind, it was on the vinyl version, but not the CD. That's strange, it's usually the opposite with bonus joints.
vinyl version:
http://www.discogs.com/Al-Tariq-God-Con ... ase/523839
cd version:
http://www.discogs.com/Al-Tariq-God-Con ... ase/788839
instrumental version:
http://www.discogs.com/Al-Tariq-God-Con ... ase/452600

The instrumental version looks pretty official but it's missing more than half the album, unless you're talking about another version.

fatboybrandon · Post by **fatboybrandon** » Mon Aug 30, 2010 11:05 pm

I always liked the album, it definitely stood out among other releases of it's time. Peace Akki is a definite banger, another favorite of mine is Do Ya Thing. I was excited to see there was an instrumental release of the whole album on vinyl, The Beatnuts sure are generous in blessing us diggers with instrumental vinyl.

One think I noticed recently that I didn't before back in the late 90's was how choppy the beats and samples are all over the album, especially when I listen to the instrumental LP. I guess this is because people were doing their best to avoid increased sample law. If you go back and listen you'll here many stabs and arrangements that sound like they were putting together bits of sound rather than looping like on the early Beatnuts albums.

Solid album overall, listen to it reminds me of New York and takes me back to late 90's when I traveled down to Fat Beats and Footwork in the village heavy. I love the song sampled for Get Down Baby, it's a funk classic by Joe Quarterman:

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Odnet · Post by **Odnet** » Tue Aug 31, 2010 8:28 pm

fatboybrandon wrote: One think I noticed recently that I didn't before back in the late 90's was how choppy the beats and samples are all over the album, especially when I listen to the instrumental LP. I guess this is because people were doing their best to avoid increased sample law. If you go back and listen you'll here many stabs and arrangements that sound like they were putting together bits of sound rather than looping like on the early Beatnuts albums.

This is one of the things that stands out to me about this album compared to the Beatnuts' other production. There are some really great, simple, ingenious flips of stuff all over the album. The use of "Love and Happiness" on "Think Not" is fucking brilliant, for one example.

Verge · Post by **Verge** » Tue Aug 31, 2010 8:57 pm

fatboybrandon wrote:I always liked the album, it definitely stood out among other releases of it's time. Peace Akki is a definite banger, another favorite of mine is Do Ya Thing. I was excited to see there was an instrumental release of the whole album on vinyl, The Beatnuts sure are generous in blessing us diggers with instrumental vinyl.

One think I noticed recently that I didn't before back in the late 90's was how choppy the beats and samples are all over the album, especially when I listen to the instrumental LP. I guess this is because people were doing their best to avoid increased sample law. If you go back and listen you'll here many stabs and arrangements that sound like they were putting together bits of sound rather than looping like on the early Beatnuts albums.

Solid album overall, listen to it reminds me of New York and takes me back to late 90's when I traveled down to Fat Beats and Footwork in the village heavy. I love the song sampled for Get Down Baby, it's a funk classic by Joe Quarterman:

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That Beatnuts interview in your sig is fuckin great, thanks!

Hearing Get Down Baby again, now I think that sample(not the singing from the Quartermain shit, which is great too) is maybe a backwards filtered out joint.
Anyone think so, too? I'm about to bump that old "Backwards Sample" thread, if so:
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SoulOf76 · Post by **SoulOf76** » Sat Sep 04, 2010 6:50 pm

I love this album. I still remember copping this when it dropped. I also love the references that Al makes to Common. I saw the college tour in 94/95 with both acts and I still remember clear as day how they killed it!

livestrong · Post by **livestrong** » Mon Sep 06, 2010 2:34 pm

what ya'll know about this really?

skizm · Post by **skizm** » Mon Sep 06, 2010 9:54 pm

I won this on ebay about 9 months ago but the seller was dodgy and he was deregistered before i could pay for it luckily...........it's still on my ever expanding to buy list though

Galvatron78 · Post by **Galvatron78** » Wed Sep 08, 2010 1:36 am

Odnet wrote: The use of "Love and Happiness" on "Think Not" is fucking brilliant, for one example.

Yep, simple but effective. It slips my mind where they got those drums and the "uh uh uh uh" background noise from.

nickwoj · Post by **nickwoj** » Thu Sep 09, 2010 3:30 pm

the original vinyl of this is actually pretty common and cheap.
the cd, not so much. which is actually usually the case for these oop 90's joints.

KITFUNK · Post by **KITFUNK** » Thu Sep 09, 2010 5:42 pm

I've been waiting for the price to drop on Amazon for roughly 2 years now.

The reissue gonna be my first cop when I get some doe.