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Title: Watermelon, Chicken & Gritz
Release date: 26 February, 2002
Record label: Atlantic
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1. Intro
2. Hustla
3. Set It Out
4. Country Boyz
5. Ballin' on a Budget
6. Awnaw
7. Headz Up
8. Slums
9. Po' Folks
10. Start It Over
11. Blowin' Trees
12. Sholiz
13. Life's a Bitch
14. My Ride
15. One Forty
16. Dime, Quarter, Nickel, Penny
17. Kentucky Mud
18. Lounge [*]
19. Ho Down [*]
20. Headz Up [Refried][*]
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"When you think of Nappy, you think raw and untamed," says Nappy Roots member Scales, explaining the hip hop sextet's unique moniker. "But you also think pure and natural." "That's what we are," chimes in partner in rhyme, Skinny DeVille. "Our name signifies our unwillingness to conform with fads. Once the fads die out, you always come back to the roots."
As for the group's roots, they trace back to Western Kentucky University, 1995. Comprised of the Kentucky-bred Skinny DeVille, B. Stille, Ron Clutch, and Big V. along with Oakland's R. Prophet and Milledgeville, Georgia's own Scales, the group was drawn together by a simple love of music.
"You'd think it would be hard to get six guys moving in the same direction, but that's something more people bring to our attention than we actually think about ourselves," says Skinny DeVille. "We just be kickin' it, doing what we doing and not really thinking about the fact that 'okay, it's six people.' It's a matter of give and take."
Of course, the Nappy Roots creative formula has been paying off for years now, giving rise to an underground following courted through tantalizingly belligerent flows, intuitive hood analysis, and PA-melting beats. Created and sold at ET's, the Nappy Roots 1998 indie album, "COUNTRY FRIED CESS," flew off the retail shelves from the word go. In fact, NR garnered such a tremendous buzz with the album that representatives from Atlantic Records soon came a-knocking.
Even though they'll get their first chance to speak to the masses later this year with their Atlantic Records debut, "WATAMELON, CHICKEN, AND GRITZ," don't expect to see the men of Nappy Roots blinding you with oversized ice anytime soon. As they're quick to point out, flossing is not their style. They're much happier with the simple things in life. "We're trying to make people realize that it's good to just be you," says Skinny DeVille, who, along with his five other mic cohorts, rhymes about "ballin' on a budget." "That's essentially what Nappy Roots is about. We're glamorizing being average."
The Scales-composed "Life's a Risk" is equally as ruminating with such Skinny DeVille rhymes as "On the verge of loosing my mind as well as my last nerve/I served my last dime standin' on this crack curb." In this way, the group places you on the frontlines of a future fraught with uncertainty. With production contributions from the likes of Carlos Broady and label mate Jazze Pha, the album possesses an abundance of tracks sure to secure Nappy Roots among the game's most contemplative thinkers as it also demonstrates their readiness to party crunk with the best of them - as they reveal on the block rattling "N-A-P-P-Y."
However, proving their musical muscle is only part of the challenge for Nappy Roots - there's also the responsibility of holding it down for their often over-looked home turf. "It's like a plant," says Big V. "If there's no light to shine on Kentucky, it won't grow." "We do have a burden on our shoulders because a lot is riding on the success of Nappy Roots," adds Ron Clutch. "But we're not worried. Our music speaks for itself."
Nappy Roots exists out of:
BIG V * Ron Clutch * Scales * R. Prophet * B. Stille * Skinny Deville
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