Dub Sonata Presents: On The Arm

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Balancing the gangsters from the backpackers can be difficult, but Dub Sonata’s debut album On the Arm manages to erase the line between mainstream and underground hip-hop. Dub Sonata’s joints sound like he’s been schooled by both DJ Premier and Three 6—soul samples on one track, stomping drums and alarms on the next. Sonata sits in the producers role, but unlike the recent Timberland solo super-producer disaster, he relies on his strengths—and the vocal cadences of the slew of guest rappers, including Double A.B., J-Hood and Bizzy Bone—to create a beautiful pastiche of New York hip-hop both old and new.

01. Rich Mo - Do What You Do
02. Double A.B. - Wake Up
03. J-Hood - No Sir
04. Nature - The Sermon
05. Skinny Joints - Streets Too Live
06. Swave Sevah, Double A.B. & C-Rayz Walz - New York
07. Billy G - Young N' Filthy
08. Bizzy Bone (Of Bone Thugs N Harmony) - Philosophical Gangsta
09. Vast Aire (Of Cannibal OX), Double A.B. & Swave Sevah - Hit Em
10. Deadly Divisionz - Riot Gear
11. The Aztext - Envy
12. J-Hood & A.P. (ODG) - So Fly
13. Moondoc - As Fas As
14. Double A.B. - Revolution
15. Dom Pachino (Of Killarmy) & Thirston Howl III - Napalm
16. Rich Mo - Murderers
17. Dub Sonata - Greatest Love

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Definitely one of the most slept on albums from 2007. Dope producer, cool as hell guy too. He's on his New York ish wit this album and MC's like Nature & Bizzy Bone come through and spit hot bars over these sick beats. Don't sleep on this guy... I'll post up some more stuff related to him when I get a chance.