Rawkus 50 Presents: Barak Yalad - A Loss For Words

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Growing up in Roxbury and Springfield, MA, and now residing in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, Barak Yalad has experienced first-hand the challenges facing youths in inner-cities. Indeed, his music can be described as poetry of the street. Barak released his first full-length album, A Loss For Words, in November 2007 on Rawkus Records, the same record label that jump started the careers of other socially conscious hip-hop artists like Talib Kweli and Mos Def. A Loss For Words has been acclaimed for its rugged and raw style and its hearkening back to the politically aware hip-hop of an older generation, rather than the materialism of much of today’s hip-hop. Most recently, Barak opened for KRS-One during the College Music Journal Festival in New York, and had his song “Bewitched” added to the official mix-tape of the Boondocks cartoon on the Cartoon Network.

01. Intro
02. The Beginning
03. Music
04. Bewitch feat. Trouble T
05. Beautiful
06. The Release
07. Lion
08. Times Change
09. Linguistics
10. So Cool
11. False Prophets
12. Crop Cream

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Sick Rawkus 50 release, Barak is real nice on the mic and you got up-coming producer, Young Cee (Special Teamz, Kenn Starr, Little Brother) supplying some heat. Don't sleep!

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