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Feast or Famine
Hip-Hop · 2005 · 16 tracks

Feast or Famine

Reef the Lost Cauze

A ferocious display of Philadelphia underground rap. Gritty boom-bap production meets a vocal delivery that sounds like it's fighting for its life.

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This sounds like a fistfight in a recording booth and you're winning.

Relentless, confrontational energy with moments of exhausted, street-level tenderness.

Tracklist · 16 Tracks
01
Humble Beginnings
3:51
02
Sound of Philadelphia
3:38
03
Commander in Chief
3:56
04
How You Lose Your Mind
4:32
05
Crown of Thorns
5:36
06
Give It Up
4:10
07
Fair One
4:27
08
I'm Rich
4:41
09
Main Event
3:20
10
Coltrane
3:40
11
Already Dead
3:54
12
Look at the Sun
4:06
13
Two Guns Up
3:36
14
Crumbs
3:24
15
Eyes of My Father
4:58
16
Live as It Gets
6:10
Moments Worth Waiting For
The relentless, breathless flow on 'Fair One' that feels like a physical assault.
The somber, jazz-inflected shift on 'Coltrane' that provides a brief, smoky respite from the aggression.
The raw, vulnerable storytelling on 'Eyes of My Father' where the delivery softens but the intensity remains.
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