Chocolate Supa Highway

Hip-Hop · 1997 · 15 tracks

Chocolate Supa Highway

Michael Franti & Spearhead

Thick upright bass and smoky jazz-rap textures meet sharp social critique. A murky, pre-millennial exploration of urban life and digital anxiety.

It's like a midnight jazz club in the middle of a digital revolution.

A tense, nocturnal meditation on urban survival and digital alienation wrapped in warm, organic grooves.

Chocolate Supa Highway · vs · Michael Franti & Spearhead

Upright Bass+3.5σ

The instrumentation foregrounds upright bass far more than the catalogue usually does.

Tracklist · 15 Tracks

01

Africa Online

0:43

02

Chocolate Supa Highway

5:08

03

Keep Me Lifted

4:20

04

Food for tha Masses

5:02

05

U Can't Sing R Song

5:27

06

Tha Payroll (Stay Strong)

5:10

07

Madness in tha Hood (Free Ride)

4:49

08

Rebel Music (3 O’Clock Roadblock)

5:28

09

Why Oh Why

4:51

10

Comin' to Gitcha

4:07

11

Life Sentence

0:13

12

Ganja Babe

3:34

13

Wayfarin' Stranger

5:28

14

Gas Gauge (Tha World's in Your Hands)

4:35

15

Water Pistol Man (Chocolate mix)

5:44

Moments Worth Waiting For

The way the upright bass on the title track creates a physical weight that anchors Franti's smooth delivery.

The haunting interpolation of Bob Marley's Rebel Music that transforms a classic into a modern urban survival anthem.

The transition from the digital glitch of Africa Online into the deep analog warmth of the second track.

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