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The Good Book
Hip-Hop · 2014 · 48 tracks · 1h 26m

The Good Book

The Alchemist

Forty-eight tracks of gospel-flipped grit. A psychedelic sermon of dusty loops, crackling sermons, and heavy, meditative boom-bap percussion.

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It's like a hip-hop sermon recorded in a smoke-filled basement on a haunted MPC.

A heavy, meditative journey through the intersection of religious fervor and urban grit.

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

Tracklist · 48 Tracks · 1h 26m
01
Joyful Noise (intro)
0:44
01
The New Messiah
1:08
02
The Baddest
1:46
02
The Spirit of God
1:29
03
Brother Elijah
2:13
03
Lord Pity Us All
1:33
04
I Make My Own Decisions
1:51
04
Heavenly Spirit
1:52
05
Holy Ghost Broom
2:07
05
Church on Shrooms
1:23
06
Higher Than Before
2:15
06
The G Code
2:54
07
Ball of Clay
1:53
07
With My Soul
3:41
08
Thru the Eyes of Christ
1:54
08
The Trees and the Sky
1:15
09
Lucifer
1:13
09
Forgive Me
2:22
10
Came to Praise
0:55
10
Praise Him
1:23
11
This Is Your Life, or Is It?
2:16
11
Telling Folk
1:39
12
In Heaven's Home
2:37
12
A Thief in the Night
1:19
13
We Expect You
1:02
13
Don't Need No Doctor
1:15
14
The Good Deacon
1:33
14
What You Want Me to Be
0:54
15
An Un-Holy Truth
0:55
15
Who Is He? (I Believe)
2:32
16
Little Guy, Not a Midget
1:08
16
Soul on Fire
1:46
17
Everything
2:02
17
So Good to Me
1:30
18
The Breakthrough
2:03
18
My God Is
1:55
19
Party at the Tabernacle
0:53
19
Judgement Day
1:48
20
Going Away
1:30
20
To Me
0:31
21
The Word Is $
1:39
21
Beyond the Years
2:35
22
Do Me Like Jesus
1:36
22
Going Home
1:12
23
Sweet Sweet Spirit
7:44
23
Thank Jesus
1:47
24
Bonus Beats, Part 1
1:32
25
Bonus Beats, Part 2
1:52
Moments Worth Waiting For
The way the organ swell on 'Church on Shrooms' dissolves into a heavy, hypnotic drum loop.
The unsettling juxtaposition of a preacher's fervor with the skeletal, cold bassline of 'Lucifer'.
The sprawling, psychedelic evolution of 'Sweet Sweet Spirit' that feels like a fever dream in a pew.
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