Angel Haze - Dirty Gold (Deluxe) (2013) [FLAC]

Angel Haze - Dirty Gold (Deluxe) (2013) [FLAC]

Genre: Hip Hop
Styles: East Coast Rap, Underground Rap
Source: WEB
Codec: FLAC
Bitrate: ~ 900 kbps
Bit Depth: 16
Sample Rate: 44.1 KHz

01 Sing About Me
02 Echelon (It's My Way)
03 A Tribe Called Red
04 Deep Sea Diver
05 Black Synagogue
06 Angels & Airwaves
07 April's Fool
08 White Lilies / White Lies
09 Battle Cry
10 Black Dahlia
11 Planes Fly
12 Dirty Gold
13 Rose-Tinted Suicide
14 Vinyl
15 Crown
16 New York

A poet-turned-rapper who uses lyrics like "live everyday like it's your last" and actually seems to mean them, Angel Haze's debut album sounds, at times, like the cerebral Mos Def and the sly Missy Elliot spliced into one MC (check the epic "Black Synagogue") while other times, it's a hooky-meets-old-school alternative affair, something like Digable Planets as a G-Unit-affiliated crew ("Echelon [It's My Way]" being the proof). Adding to this wild, inspired jumble is the Death Grips-like backstory where Haze leaked Dirty Gold early because her label, Island Records, was dragging its feet, but there are poptacular moments here that sound born and bred for radio (for a killer hip-hop power-ballad sandwich, just place Haze's "Battle Cry" between B.o.B.'s "Airplanes" and Eminem's "Survival") so is she an artist in, or out, of the system? The biggest complaint about Dirty Gold is that it's too big and too bold to answer this question succinctly, although worrying about where to file Haze matters little when this overwhelming effort offers a sultry ode to strippers that paints them as majestic sirens with soul-crushing backstories ("White Lilies/White Lies").