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- Date Released: April 22, 2008
- Genre: Hip-Hop/R&B
- Style: Hip-Hop
- Label: Lewis Recordings / IODA
A disarmingly honest, occasionally heartbreaking dispatch from an idealistic rap everyman
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We Say...
Ever since Common's "I Used to Love H.E.R." popularized the woman-as-hip-hop metaphor, rappers have made a sport of backslapping themselves for being clever enough to romance/save/chide/change hip-hop by method of transference. For Boston's Dagha — formerly of Electric Company and a touring mate of Edan — The Divorce is not figurative; it has nothing to do with any unresolved feelings he might have for the rap game. Rather, it is a fierce and occasionally heartbreaking forty-five minute chronicle of his relationship's sad demise, after too many years juggling work and life, dreams of hip-hop semi-stardom and his duty to his family. "It took 10 years to put an album out with my name," he raps on the ironically cheery-sounding, tears-of-a-clown anthem "My Luck." On "Changed Locks" and "A Man's Question" he re-shuffles his priorities, coming across as a well-meaning but idealistic everyman just trying to get by. What saves The Divorce from being an eternal buzz-kill is Dagha's wit, as he embraces the absurd ("My best friend is white and he says 'Peace, God!'") and the uncomfortable — "People think I'm Insight," he shrugs, referring to one of his frequent collaborators, "my name is always spelled wrong." Not for long, one guesses.
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| 01. |  |
The Setting |
1:37 |
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| 02. | |
Devil's Work |
5:28 |
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| 03. | |
Changed Locks |
3:35 |
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| 04. | |
My Luck |
2:59 |
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| 05. | |
Cliché |
4:19 |
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| 06. | |
Playhouse |
2:54 |
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| 07. | |
Monogamy |
0:51 |
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| 08. | |
A Man's Question |
3:22 |
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| 09. | |
She Left |
2:20 |
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| 10. | |
Whatever It May Be |
4:13 |
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| 11. | |
Try |
2:55 |
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| 12. | |
What I'mma Do? |
3:36 |
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| 13. | |
Scat |
3:29 |
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| 14. | |
Ashy Knees Outro |
1:39 |
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14 Total Tracks, 43:17 Total Length
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