Latyrx (The Album)

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Latyrx (The Album)
Latyrx (The Album) cover
Studio album by Latyrx
Released August 25, 1997
Genre Rap
Length 47:14
Label Solesides/Quannum
Producer(s) Latyrx and the
Solesides crew
Professional reviews
Latyrx chronology
Latyrx
(The Album)

(1997)
The Muzapper Mixes
(1998)


Latyrx (The Album) is the debut full-length studio album by the American underground hip-hop duo Latyrx, consisting of Bay area rappers Lateef the Truthspeaker and Lyrics Born. The album was released on August 25, 1997 on the Solesides record label. Solesides was reestablished as Quannum Projects soon after, and the album was re-released on the Quannum label in 2002.

All Music Guide notes that the "sonically inventive" album, when considered with subsequent Quannum releases, "represents a major step for the Solesides (later Quannum) collective in replacing the Hieroglyphics as the Bay Area's most adventurous underground crew."

[edit] Track listing

  1. Latyrx – 5:48
  2. Say That – 3:41
  3. The Quickening (The Wreckoning, Pt. 2) – 5:02
  4. Balcony Beach (featuring Joyo Velarde) – 5:30
  5. Live at 90.3 '94 – 1:25
  6. The Muzapper's Mix: Aim for the Flickering Flame / Rankin #1 – 4:13
  7. Funky Granules – 1:49
  8. Bad News – 2:46
  9. Off (With) Their Heads (Be Prompt) – 3:03
  10. Interlude – 0:24
  11. Burnt Pride – 6:53
  12. Scratchapella – 0:23
  13. The Wreckoning (Live 45 mix) – 2:47
  14. Burning Hot in Cali on a Saturday Night (featuring Blackalicious) – 3:30

[edit] Production Credits

All songs produced by Lyrics Born except:

  • Tracks 1, 3, 12, 13 produced by DJ Shadow
  • Tracks 8, 14 produced by Chief Xcel
  • Track 5 from Live at KDVS 1994 with John Tchicai
Quannum Projects
Groups
Apsci | Blackalicious | Honeycut | Latyrx | Lifesavas | Lateef and the Chief (Maroons) | Poets of Rhythm
Members
Chief Xcel | Curumin | DJ Shadow | General Elektriks | Gift of Gab | Tommy Guerrero | Lateef the Truthspeaker | Lyrics Born | Pigeon John | Joyo Velarde
Full Length Albums
Latyrx (The Album) | The Muzapper Mixes | The Muzapper Remixes | Quannum Spectrum | Nia | Solesides Greatest Bumps | Discern/Define | Blazing Arrow | Spirit in Stone | Later That Day | Maroons:Ambush | 4th Dimensional Rocketships Going Up | Thanks for Asking | Achados e Perdidos | Cliquety Kliqk | Same !@#$ Different Day | The Craft | Supreme Lyricism | Overnite Encore: Lyrics Born Live
EPs
Melodica | A2G
Affiliated Groups or Members
Solesides