TSOL

by Shad

TSOL cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 25 May 2010
  • Label: Black Box
  • Country: Canada
  • Length: 41:00
  • Community rating: 3.61/5 from 3 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Winning the prestigious Juno Award for Rap Recording of the Year, the Canadian emcee delivered a remarkably literate and optimistic project. The album marries his effortless, highly intelligent lyricism with warm, organic boom-bap production, securing his reputation as one of the most vital conscious hip-hop voices in North America.

Genres

Descriptors: political, conscious, rap, storytelling, soulful, melodic

Tracklist

  1. Intro (1:52)
  2. Rose Garden (2:59)
  3. Keep Shining (3:28)
  4. Lucky 1's (4:04)
  5. A Good Name (2:28)
  6. We Are the Ones (Reservoir Poetry) (4:09)
  7. Telephone (3:39)
  8. Call Waiting (Interlude) (1:52)
  9. Yaa I Get It (3:51)
  10. Listen (2:57)
  11. At the Same Time (4:56)
  12. We, Myself & I (3:42)
  13. Outro (0:57)

Credits

  • Shad - primary artist
  • Sebastian Ostertag - cello
  • Brendan Canning - electric piano [wurlitzer], guitar [distorted], vocals [guest]
  • Diana Morgan - flute
  • Bryden Baird - trumpet
  • Allison Stewart - viola
  • Tanya Charles - violin
  • Brett Fliesser - vocals [guest]

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