The Taste Of Rain... Why Kneel is a Hip-Hop album by Deep Puddle Dynamics, originally released in 1999. On Gatefold: 7 pressings tracked.
Sound DNA
- Hip-Hop
- Alternative Hip-Hop
- gritty
- intense
- urban
About
Deep Puddle Dynamics - The Taste Of Rain...Why Kneel? will forever be considered a conceptual and stylistic landmark for hip hop music. Through a series of destined coincidences, Doseone, Slug, Sole, Alias and a host of their DJ/producer friends (Jel, Abilities, Ant, Alias, DJ Mayonnaise and Controller 7) met each other and knew they had to create an album together. At the start, they decided on a perhaps over-deliberate effort toward content, a process Dose calls "selected forgetting" in its avoidance of familiar rap cliches. Battle-minded similes, along with namechecking, mic-grabbing, and references to hip-hop, were simply left out. By .
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Tracklist
- 1Deep Puddle Theme Song6:54
- 2The Candle5:53
- 3Thought vs. Action3:50
- 4Where the Wild Things Are5:23
- 5June 26th, 19986:19
- 6The Scarecrow Speaks5:56
- 7I Am Hip Hop (Move the Crowd)5:59
- 8Heavy Ceiling5:29
- 9June 26th, 1999 - Slight5:53
- 10June 26th, 1999 - Exist3:04
- 11June 26th, 1999 - Purpose3:26
- 12Mothers of Invention3:04
Credits
Rare pressing on Gatefold · 7 pressings tracked on Gatefold