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stop. think. run
Hip-Hop · 2009 · 15 tracks · 58m

stop. think. run

Us3

Gritty, high-velocity jazz-rap that trades 90s smoothness for urban urgency. Hard-bop horns collide with restless breakbeats and sharp social commentary.

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It's like a 1950s jazz club got into a street fight with a 90s drum machine and everyone won.

A relentless, urban urgency that balances sophisticated musicality with raw street energy.

stop. think. run · vs · Us3
Restless+2.9σ

Restless saturates this record far more than the artist's norm.

Tracklist · 15 Tracks · 58m
01
Gotta Get Out of Here
5:04
02
Life Love Music
3:59
03
Can I Get It?
3:40
04
You Already Know
2:11
05
From the Streets
3:55
06
Who Got Next?
4:10
07
B‐Boys
3:18
08
The Future Ain’t What It Once Was
3:29
09
Don’t Waste Your Life
3:58
10
The Love of My Life
3:57
11
Keep Movin’
3:59
12
Turn It Up
3:55
13
Got to Make a Livin’
4:14
14
I Let ’Em Know
4:15
15
She’s With Me
4:12
Moments Worth Waiting For
The claustrophobic tension of the opening track where the trumpet seems to be chasing the beat through a narrow corridor.
A sudden shift into a lush, piano-led bridge on track 10 that provides a brief emotional respite from the album's driving pace.
The way the drums on 'B-Boys' feel like they were sampled from a dusty 1960s session but hit with 21st-century low-end weight.
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