What the FUCK happened to Aceyalone?

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What the FUCK happened to Aceyalone?

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All the shit he did with Freestyle Fellowship was amazing. Then he drops what is arguably one of the best albums to come out of the west coast ever:
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After that we get a dope album in its own right:
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When did he decide to give up on life?
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RBG and Ice Daddy are not feeling this thread.
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Acey just needs new inspiration, like anyone else not where they used to be.
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I was a huge Acey fan. Real chill dude too, I remember I did an interview with him years ago and he was just driving around L.A. killing time on his dime and stayed on the phone close to 70 minutes just to shoot the shit. I dig him and mos definitely the FF catalog and his earlier stuff. I even liked his later releases to an extent and thought Accepted Eclectic was real dope. I got down with that whole Mike Aaron and Eddie steez too and from time to time he made a dope cut like Moonlight Skies but my interest and loyalty towards him went out the window when I heard this

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He hasn't made a real good album in well over 7 years.
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ya definitely seems like dude made a sharp turn for the worse around 97.

he's been fairly prolific, but i just find myself not caring when his songs/albums drop.
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yea he fell off real hard
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Philaflava wrote:RBG and Ice Daddy are not feeling this thread.
"Deep and Wyde" and "Never Said" are classic tracks, but I don't really like Acey like that.

Totally agree with this thread.
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Lightning Strikes was awful.

But, I liked Grand Imperial and a few tracks of that RJD2 project.
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that vid with phatlip is dope. anyone know what product that's off ?
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It seems like his performances match the caliber of the beats. And he hasn't had dope beats since ABDB.

Truly sad, he's one of my top five all time MC's but I haven't checked for anything since Accepted Eclectic.

Great live performer, and a nice guy to boot. Once admitted he was scared of Winnipeg's West End while we waited for our rides after a gig.
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Someone should post up one of his best songs and one of his worst for comparison.
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His stuff was hit or miss for me. No one I ever got real excited about.
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boring, ran out of material, last track that was listenable was fiya with rjd2 and even that hook and the lyrics were cheeseball
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He needs to get back to his roots and design a new and improved pulley.
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The unreleased version of Good Brothers was, uh, good, brother.
I Didnt like the retail version near as much.
here's an old video from the retail.
find the unreleased one if you can.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=fnhkZC7kiko

what the fuck is with Ahmad's get up in that video?

or this video for that matter

http://youtube.com/watch?v=8rKEL5gyw_o

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Mansfield Status wrote::blaowarrow:
Mad because he rejected your beat submissions thereby leading to a massive shortage of ramen noodles causing you to prepare for hibernation?
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mumbles turning buddhist is what happened
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ayentee wrote:mumbles turning buddhist is what happened
ok but what about ABDB? i think dude was just hungrier before 97.
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djjeffresh wrote:
ayentee wrote:mumbles turning buddhist is what happened
ok but what about ABDB? i think dude was just hungrier before 97.
im pretty sure mumbles did plenty of work on ABDB. acey needs that guidence. mumbles is the man
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ayentee wrote:mumbles turning buddhist is what happened
Buddhist don't make beats?

I guess they don't, it interferes with their state of pink and fluffy tranquility. More proof that eastern philosophy should stay in the east.
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Comedy Quaddafi wrote:
ayentee wrote:mumbles turning buddhist is what happened
Buddhist don't make beats?
I don't know for sure but I'd guess Chops is a Buddhist too.
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Word. DJ Krush (I think that's his name) made that album Zen which was rele dope... jap dude.

A buddhist can only own seven things right? I guess Mumbles thought clothing was more important than an MPC and a milkcrate of old records :roll:

back to Acey, I thought there was a few decent songs on the RJ album.

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acey is an all time great but that lightning strikes was pure bullshit
i take seven mc's ...ya'll should kno the rest!
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Mumbles dropped a record last year
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:lol: at people still hoping Acey will turn around. That record he did with RJD2 was decent at best. His classics are overplayed, I can't even listen to book.
Doesn't the false hope sort of contradict the hate for old rappers.

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The guy was great for damn near a decade. Very few artists in the history of hip hop wrecked shop over a 10 year period.

Fellowship Shop Tapes (1989-1990)
To Whom It May Concern (1991)
Innercity Griots (1993)
All Balls Don't Bounce (1995)
Universal Soldier EP (1995)
A Book Of Human Language (1998)

He fell the fuck off right around 1999/2000. I thought that "Faces Of The Deep" was his last great song.

Aceyalone & Nobody - Faces Of The Deep
http://www.zshare.net/audio/157170861cdb1a49/
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Does anyone have the unreleased version fo Good Brothers that was mentioned? Sounds interesting....
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