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Cydeways: The Best of the Pharcyde

The Pharcyde

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Album Review

If rap music has taught people anything, it's that even the annoying shimmer of a Mercedes Benz and a pool of high-price hookers can't overshadow true talent. Surprisingly enough, it became clear that the Pharcyde is one of hip-hop's few modern ensembles that stares down modern-day rap and challenges it to a fight. Crafty and cool, Cydeways isn't necessarily genius. Its off-beat and stylistic rhythms and rhymes are an acquired taste at best. But the album still carries innovation that hasn't been touched in years: rap music thriving on a genuine mix of fact, fiction, humor, and memory. "Runnin," "Ya Mama," and "Oh S**t" are creative excerpts from a diary that these boys have carefully crafted. It becomes a kind of coming-of-age story, from making jokes about each other's mother to getting their ass kicked in school. Its undeniable soul is what makes the Pharcyde an underappreciated addition to hip-hop's overplayed and overrated existence in the coming century. So if you still believe in hip-hop, but have become intimidated by its current barrage of smut, simplicity and stupidity, fear not friends — the Pharcyde's got your back.

Customer Reviews

Quite honestly the guy below me is a dunce!

Pharcyde is phenomenal; jazzy, well orchestrated and even hilarious, you cannot help but to nod and have a good time while listening! !

Profound!

A group like Pharcyde is so rare and fleeting! Its a true accomplishment to take music and make it something more. It's timing, recordings, friendships and turmoils. Band members that fit together like puzzle pieces. A music groups edge years too often don't last long. But for a record like "bizzar ride to the pharcyde" the stars did align. This is why i am not surprised to see so many songs from that record on this compilation. Along with there more mature if less profound classics "runnin' " and "Drop"...

A good start for new listeners

This has many of the pharcydes good hits but many are missing of course as with any greatest hits compilations. In my opinion almost every pharcyde album has been gold. If your a new listener to pharcyde or just want to see what they were all about. Start here and work your way down. <I am real Hip-Hop>

Biography

Formed: 1990 in Los Angeles, CA

Genre: Hip Hop/Rap

Years Active: '80s, '90s, '00s, '10s

An influential alternative rap quartet from South Central Los Angeles, the Pharcyde was formed by MCs/producers Tre "Slimkid" Hardson, Derrick "Fatlip" Stewart, Imani Wilcox, and Romye "Booty Brown" Robinson. Hardson, Wilcox, and Robinson were all dancers and choreographers who met on the L.A. underground club circuit in the late '80s, worked together for a while, and served a stint as dancers on In Living Color. Stewart, meanwhile, performed at local clubs and eventually hooked up with the others...
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