Black Spade - To Serve With Love (Advance) (2008)

Artist: Black Spade
Album Title: To Serve With Love
Record Label: OM Records
Rip Date: 2008-01-15
Catalog Number:
Genre: Hip-Hop
Year: 2008
Source: CD
Encoder: LAME 3.97 -V2 --vbr-new
Quality: 159 kbps avg / 44.1KHz / Joint Stereo

Track List
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01 To Serve With Love (Intro) 2:42
02 To Serve With Love 4:30
03 Her Perfume She Wore 4:24
04 Love's Right Here 3:10
05 She's The One (20's Love Song) 3:15
06 Evil Love 4:43
07 Lavish Life 3:00
08 Actioneer 3:46
09 The Ship Has Sailed 3:06
10 Good Crazy 3:55
11 Revolutionary Bullshit 3:27
12 The Half That's Never Been Told 4:40
13 Tale Of 32 2:27
14 Not For The Bullshit 3:49
15 Enjoy The Experience 3:43
16 True Friends 3:58
17 The Genius In You 2:53
18 As We 4:47
19 Where I'm Coming From 4:09
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Rip Notes
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Armed with little more than his father's extensive record collection of jazz,
soul, psychedelic rock, folk, comedy and a Kurzweil 2000 keyboard - Black
Spade's music is a melting pot of sounds hailing from St. Louis by way of New
York, Detroit, LA, and everywhere that hip-hop has carved a distinctive and
influential sound for itself.
Writing and producing all his music along with MC'ing, Spade's one man team
approach is full of burbling sythns, and off-kilter drums while his voice slides
smoothly over choruses coated in multi-tracked vocals and skipping roughshod
drums. Attributing his distinctive sound to his home of St. Louis, Black Spade
explains "We get a piece of everything by being in the middle." However, he
feels no harmonious connection to where St. Louis pop acts like Nelly, Chingy,
etc. have taken hip-hop lately. Spade's style is not like the norm. This
undercurrent shows through all his music and can be heard in songs like "Evil
Love," where the keyboard hits less than a second after you expect it to. It's
subtle, but these little things are what make Black Spade's music so compelling.
Despite his strong ties to hip-hop, Spade's taste in music walks across genres.
He listens to Prince and Dilla, alongside Bloc Party and Radiohead while using
all these sounds a blueprint for his future, one that sits under the guiding
light of Miles Davis' Bitches Brew era electronic sax skronk. Then there's his
rapping - Spade's cadence flutters up and down like Pharoahe Monch, but stays
introspective like Common. Before you know it, he'll switch to singing and
suddenly his songs become less like hip hop experimentation and more like fully
fleshed sketches.
In addition to music, Spade is a clothing designer who makes blazers from bits
of bomber jackets and whatever odds and ends he finds while thrift store
shopping. Creating clothing the same way he does music runs parallel to Spade's
sampling from his father's record collection.
At his core, Black Spade is a producer who makes music because he loves to. His
sounds are grounded in the past while still sounding futuristic, and most
importantly come from the heart. Spade says, "To get my music out there to
people... at the end of the day that's what really counts."
"Black Spade gets necks snapping with his throwback-to-the-future beats." -
FADER
"He could possibly be what hip hop fans and music lovers in general have been
waiting for." - VAPORS
"Black Spade's funky samples grace the speakers oh-so-organically." - URB 'Next
100'
"Black Spade is the future of Hip Hop." - Daz-I-Kue (Bugz in the Attic)

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