Me and my capers, will be somewhere stackinвЂ™ plenty papers Until that day we expire and turn to vapors WeвЂ™ll be leavinвЂ™ with some kind of dough, so Keeping this Schweppervescent street ghetto essence inside usД¬ause it provides us with the proper insight to guide usД®ven though, we know somehow we all gotta go Others such as myself are trying to carry on tradition Now some restinвЂ™ in peace and some are sittinвЂ™ in San Quentin IвЂ™m destined to live the dream for all my peeps who never made itД¬ause yeah, we were beginners in the hood as five percentersД«ut somethinвЂ™ musta got in us cause all of us turned to sinners

This musical tragedy demotes this intro, on which Anthony actually rhymes, to the category of ' fuck this shit'.Visualizing the realism of life in actualityДЇuck whoвЂ™s the baddest, a personвЂ™s status depends on salary I'm certainly glad that you felt the need to fuck up Nina Simone's 'Feelin' Good' by adding your own beat, my good sir.

(Apparently, I had nothing but money and time to burn.) I believe I spun the disc once that night and promptly decided to never listen to the entire thing ever again for the rest of my life, a promise that I'm willing to break for you, my two readers, because I'm bored, and I wanted to write about something. I didn't even bother to wait for class to end: I left campus during lunch to pick up the CD, and at that time I didn't even have a fucking CD player In my car. Here's the thing: back in 1998, I actually liked AZ's songwriting, and I picked this album up from Circuit City the day it dropped. So quickly, in fact, that when Pieces Of A Man finally dropped in 1998, it was nowhere to be found on the album, making this one of the first instances that I've come across where a commercially released single failed to earn its spot on its accompanying album. To the surprise of no one, Mariah Carey's track blew the fuck up on radio (I still love the fact that, allegedly, Q-Tip had a hand in producing Mariah's song when it's clearly a Puff Daddy 'creation'), and AZ's track was forgotten quickly. The first single, 'Hey AZ', happened to use the same sample as Mariah Carey's 'Honey', and was released around the same time. The album sold barely any copies, and one morning AZ found himself without a record deal, Noo Trybe having exercised the clause in their contract to say 'Oops!' and cut their losses. Nas, Foxy Brown, and Nature all make sporadic appearances which were probably recorded in the span of eleven minutes, and AZ does his best to keep up appearances that his career isn't going down the toilet. The Trackmasters, the production duo responsible for the shift on hip hop radio from hardcore (read: 'good') shit to radio-friendly, 1980's sampling piffle, handle the bulk of the album, just as they did with The Firm. His original label, EMI, sold his contract to Noo Trybe, who clearly was expecting this disc to be some sort of commercial success, and as a result of their interference Pieces Of A Man was positioned to become The Firm Part Deux. Since 'Phone Tap' was the only successful song on The Firm's album, it makes complete sense that AZ elected to work with everyone that wasn't Dr. But not before helping AZ create his second disc, Pieces Of A Man. After the release of their only group effort, the four artists packed their shit and walked away from the project. Dre-produced collaboration between Nas and Az (with an assist by Nature). The Firm was a doomed concept, mostly because this supergroup couldn't ever legally refer to themselves using their own fucking name (thanks to some allegedly obscure rock band that had the name first), but it certainly didn't help that their album was critically panned and spawned zero hit singles, save for 'Phone Tap', the Dr. The chemistry between the two artists, combined with the fact that Nas once saved AZ's life and, as such, felt some sort of responsibility for his well-being, led to Nas forming the supergroup The Firm, which consisted of himself, AZ, Foxy Brown, and Cormega, who was later replaced with weed carrier Nature, who was literally with weed in pocket when he was tapped to replace Mega Montana, but could only do so after he clocked out at Domino's. AZ's Doe or Die was a surprise hit back in 1995, thanks to his radio-friendly mafia tales, his friendship with fellow rapper Nasir Jones, also known as Big Sprite, a/k/a Nas, and the fact that Doe or Doe was actually good. You may feel that you no longer have to read the rest of this review. It differs from his debut, Doe or Die, in that Pieces Of A Man is a terrible album. Pieces Of A Man is the second album by rapper Anthony Cruz, professionally known as Lil' Sprite, a/k/a AZ.

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