Triple Threat: Many Styles - VINYL LP

Title: Many Styles
Artist: Triple Threat
Label: Fat Beats
Product Type: VINYL LP
UPC: 659123510417
Genre: Rap/Hip Hop
Release Date: 2003-02-28
Number of Discs: 2

(Fat Beats) Not to diss their social lives, but these guys must spend a lot of time at home. It's not merely that their chittering cuts and tightly spiraled scratches suggest long bedroom exiles spent honing skills, but that they delight in making vocal samples talk to each other like an only child staging conversations between action figures. Dozens of snippets (from Nas to Method Man to Rakim, with way too many to count in between) trade boasts and competing call-outs on "Two Minute Warning" and "True Brothaz." Vinroc, Apollo and Shortkut invite some non-imaginary friends along, too: Talib Kweli rants about annoying fans on "Hip Hop Worth Dying For," which feeds a minimalist mariachi riff through a Neptunes compressor, while Black Thought reps Philly on "You Got 2." Vinroc makes the catchiest beats here (see "Hit Em Off," graced by Zion I's airy flow), offsetting the turntable virtuosity with jagged, welcome hooks.

Tracks:
1.1 Many Styles
1.2 Hit 'Em Off
1.3 Tha Cipha
1.4 Hip Hop Worth Dying for
1.5 Two Minute Warning
1.6 On and on
1.7 How U Talkin?
1.8 Bring Da Ruckus
1.9 You Got 2
1.10 True Brothaz
1.11 Ya Feelin It
1.12 We Got That
1.13 The Realist
1.14 Move Down Pressa
1.15 The Life
1.16 We're Triple Threat
1.17 Morning Showers