The Platform [EXPLICIT LYRICS]

Dilated Peoples

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 23, 2000)
• Original Release Date: May 23, 2000
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Explicit Lyrics
• Label: Capitol
• ASIN: B00004SDQ2
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (58 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #34,070 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Track Listings

1. So May I Introduce to You

2. Platform

3. No Retreat - B Real, Dilated Peoples

4. Guaranteed

5. Right On

6. Main Event

7. Service

8. Ear Drums Pop

9. Years in the Making

10. Annihilation

11. Expanding Man

12. Last Line of Defense

13. Triple Optics

14. Shape of Things to Come - Aceyalone, Dilated Peoples

15. Work the Angles

16. Ear Drums [Remix] - Defari, Dilated Peoples, Phil Da Agony, , Planet Asia,

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

L.A.'s Dilated Peoples get back to b-boy basics with their long-awaited major-label debut. Longtime darlings of hip-hop's underground, Dilated stays true to their roots with The Platform, combining spare, churning bass hooks with Babu's epic turntable episodes. Guest artists like Tha Alkaholiks, Planet Asia, and Freestyle Fellowships' Aceyalone add fuel to the flames set ablaze by the straight-spittings of MCs Iriscience and Evidence. Buoyantly braggadocious, the fellas swap positive abstract poetics with swagger and grace--rhymes like "I never got redemption from an honorable mention / So my lyrics hug the bat with the tightest suspension" thump chests as much as they feed souls. Their constant boasting is also the album's only setback, as all the self-lauding can, and sometimes does, get tired. --Sylvia W. Chan

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Platform, May 25, 2000

By	"hipnotik" (Atl, Ga) - See all my reviews

The much anticipated Dilated have come straight with it. Packing in such guest MCs as B-Real, Aceyalone, Defari, Likwit Crew, Asia, Everlast, this album is tight all the way through. Beats by Alchemist, E-Swift, Joey Chavez, Ev, T-Ray, Babu and Kutmasta Kurt, how could this album lack stamina? If you enjoyed the Dilated single...the rest of the album is just as good, even better. Rakka-Iriscience and Evidence's flow and lyrics are unbelievable. A must have for a true underground hip-hop lover.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best of 2000, July 13, 2000

By	Thomas Magnum (NJ, USA) - See all my reviews (TOP 50 REVIEWER)

Famous on the hip hop underground scene, Dilated Peoples burst into the mainstream with what is the best hip hop album so far in the year 2000. This release has been long & much anticipated and the group delivers big time. Tight raps by MC's Iriscience & Evidence and pulsating beats by their DJ Babu create an album full of sonic pleasures. The best cut on the album is "Right On" which includes guest rappers The Alkoholics. With other stand out guests and great songs like the title track, "Annahilation", "Shape Of Things To Come" and "Guarenteed", The Platform is worth your time and money.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Dilated Peoples save hip-hop from pop artists!, May 30, 2000

By	"truehiphapa" (Sacramento, CA) - See all my reviews

this isn't puff daddy. this isn't jay-z. and its definitely NOT Eminem. This is REAL hip hop. Not POP music, ala those 3 artists mentioned above. Every track on this album you can feel. Like J5, their cult-following has reached epic porportions.....and this is the cumliation.....a major release...mtv recognition...yet, they do not try to be TRL-friendly (like those 3 above).

Everytime I hear this, I reminisce back to seeing them live in November 1999, opening up for Rage. If you ever get the opportuinty to see them live, go. They are well worth the price of admission.

Buy the CD. Don't steal it online. Otherwise, the true hip hop artists may die out.