The Only Color That Matters Is Green [Super Audio CD - DSD]

PaceWon&Mr.Green (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 20, 2008)
• Please Note: Requires SACD-compatible hardware
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Super Audio CD - DSD
• Label: Raw Poetix Records
• ASIN: B001BTZQPI
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #130,782 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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5.0 out of 5 stars 5 STAR ALBUM, July 23, 2011

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J. Combs "MaNiAkOnE" (Indianapolis) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Only Color That Matters Is Green (Audio CD)

Albums like this is why i fell in love with Hip Hop in the first place ! I think of very few albums as classic (36 chambers. Illmatic. Cuban Linx. Madvillainy. Me Against The World ) Anyways you get the picture. This album is in this group i feel. This is the one of the best Hip Hop albums i've ever listened to. I heard they said Gang starr's style inspired this album and you can tell. Mr. Green's beats are just flawless and Pace's lyrics are hard hitting and make complete sense. I mean the whole album is completely dope. The track "Children sing" should be a blow up single. It is on a whole different level than anything put out in years in the mainstream. They also have a few videos for this album on YouTube that are worth checking out. It is an absolute shame that not many people have heard this cd. I just hope that MR GREEN and PACEWON continue to work together because is works very well. BIG A+ 4 this album.

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Album, May 8, 2010

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Joe - See all my reviews

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This review is from: The Only Color That Matters Is Green (Audio CD)

This is one of the best albums I've heard in years. The beats and the rhymes are both top notch. <3 Children Sing

4.0 out of 5 stars Green Must Be The Color of Dope Music, January 31, 2009

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Mo-Dilla (Toronto, Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Only Color That Matters Is Green (Audio CD)

Whether it's Ghostface's forthcoming collab with DOOM, or Jake One's debut (which featured a collaboration between Freeway & Brother Ali), it seems like musicians these days are growing more and more willing to work with people outside of their artistic circle's. Take Pacewon & Mr. Green; even aside from the fact that Pacewon is a tall raspy voiced black man, and Green is a short, soft-spoken white male, these two really don't seem like the type that would get along, much less meet-up and make a rap album together. No matter it's a good thing they did, because together these two talents have the capacity to make some of the dumbest Hip-Hop you'll ever here (in a good way).
Right off the first cut ("Four Quarters") a sample taken from "He Got Game" sets the record straight; "Your black, I'm white, and this is green. When making a business decision, the only color that matters is green." Combined with the song's chorus the message is made crystal clear: green = dope music, and Pacewon & Green have come here to create it.
After "Four Quarters," the duo kicks the album into high gear delivering what can only be described as one of the hottest tracks all year with "Children Sing." Pacewon kills it to be sure, but the real show-stealer here is the ridiculous beat. As the title suggests, the beat consists of a chopped and screwed sample of a singing Sunday school choir. The end result is possibly the best example I've ever seen of simple but effective production.
Following "Children Sing", Pacewon & Green breeze through the next three tracks, delivering throwback beats and rhymes with "Eye of the Needle" and a couple 'kick in the door' hustler's anthem with "I Need Money" and "Let a Shot Go", before proceeding to tackle the wackness in todays Hip-Hop scene with "Who I Am", "Hip-Hop", and "Childhood" (all of which are flawlessly executed and delivered). A throwaway beat on the next track "So Straight" holds it back a little, but the album quickly bounces back with"Won on Won" a surprisingly respectful lady track backed by a hectic horn-rocking beat.
Finally the album reaches its climax with "She Can Be So Cold"; a perfect follow-up track to "Won on Won." While that track had Pacewon preaching his respect and dedication to woman, "She Can Be So Cold" is his **** you dedicated to the female(s) that tried to play him for a fool. Combined with the unbelievably dope white-stripes sampling beat, this track is not only as good as this album gets, but as good as Hip-Hop gets. Period.
Unfortunately the follow up track (the downright whack Eminem diss "The Joker") is anything but a culmination of Hip-Hop. Just peep the quotables on this one: "Don't give him no frickin shoulder to cry on/or his frickin shoulder will be the shoulder you die on." To make matters worse, the album just ends after it. No redeeming track, it just ends. While it's beyond me why they even included this track on the album, if they had to include it, why couldn't it of been a hidden bonus track?
Regardless of the painfully executed album ender, "The Only Color That Matters Is Green" is an exercise in hardcore Hip-Hop excellence. The album is remarkably cohesive, the beats are topnotch, and the lyrics and rhymes are excellent. If this album is anything to go by, we can expect great things from both Pacewon & Mr. Green.

4 1/2 Stars