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Godsville is a collaborative album between MC KRS-One and Show, from Showbiz and A.G.. The album was released digitally on February 15, 2011 via D.I.T.C. Records; although the physical release didn't hit stores until May 8, 2011. It is the 21st album for KRS-One (including his work with Boogie Down Productions). It is the second album produced by Show excluding his work with Showbiz & A.G. and follows the theme of KRS-One creating an album fully produced by a legendary New York producer, following Meta-Historical with True Master and Hip-Hop Lives with Marley Marl.
The guests are kept to a minimum with only Fred The Godson appearing on the song "We Love This".
Lawrence "Krisna" Parker (born August 20, 1965), better known by his stage names KRS-One, and Teacha, is an American rapper and occasional producer from The Bronx, New York City, New York. KRS-One rose to prominence as part of the group Boogie Down Productions, which he formed with DJ Scott La Rock in the mid 1980s. Following the release of the group's debut album, Criminal Minded, La Rock was shot dead, but KRS-One continued the group, effectively as a solo project. He began releasing records under his own name in 1993.
KRS-One is noted to be a politically active musician having started the Stop the Violence Movement, after the death of Scott La Rock, and the Temple of Hip Hop, as well as addressing political issues in his music.
Lawrence Parker was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1965. Parker left home at 16 to become an MC, coming to live at a homeless shelter in the South Bronx where he was dubbed "Krisna" by residents because of his interest in the Hare Krishna spirituality of some of the antipoverty workers By the time he met youth counselor Scott Sterling, he was also writing graffiti as KRS-One (Knowledge Reigns Supreme Over Nearly Everyone). Together he and Sterling, a.k.a. DJ Scott La Rock eventually created Boogie Down Productions, releasing their debut album, Criminal Minded, in 1987.
From L'eau Rouge 1989 * Credit goes solely to The Young Gods, for they are awesome
After a few thousand years, Godsville has gotten a little crowded and the latest residence squeeze has Jesus, Buddha, Allah, Kali, Zeus, Freyja, Cupid, Mother Nature (aka Big Mamma), Rainbow Serpent and Lara - more dysfunctional than ever before - living together under the one roof. Yep, this is the REAL city of the Gods...just like man made in his image. Its time to peek inside.
Rest In Peace Big L, Party Arty, KL, Big Pun, J Dilla, Ali Rasul, DJ Roc Raida, Cadence, Freaky Tah, ODB, Bloodshed, Notorious B.I.G., Tupac Shakur, Guru, Heavy D, Sean Price, Phife Dawg & And All The Others That Kept It Real. One Love C) D.I.T.C. Records / Released: 2011/ https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/godsville-feat.-krs-one/id417835323 / https://www.discogs.com/Showbiz-Ft-KRS-One-Godsville/release/2874490
L'Eau Rouge, released in 1989, is the second album by Industrial band The Young Gods. It is usually referred to as their masterpiece and was included in 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die in 2005. The Young Gods (TYG) are a Swiss post-industrial band. The band's lineup has generally consisted of a vocalist, a sampler operator and a drummer. Their instrumentation often includes sampled electric guitars, drums, keyboards, and other samples. The lyrics are depicted in English, French and German. Their name is taken from an early EP by the no wave/noise rock band Swans. Artists influenced by The Young Gods include Mike Patton, Sepultura, The Edge (as stated in U2 by U2), Devin Townsend, Ithak, Econoline Crush and David Bowie; asked in 1995 if his album Outside was influenced by Nine Inch...
Just one fundamental notion of the sun...
Just one notion fundamental to our blood
We're all perfect, lost in our ways
Find a hole in the ground and fall
Through to the stars
:chorus:
Look at my skin it smiles for you
The color of absent minds worn through
In moments past, fragments of a
Recollection, an utterance
Show mercy to those who act in ignorace,
For the simple fact that you too are ignorant
We're all lost, floating about (in space)
Without the love that painted the
Scene, drew everything,
All of our being (all-ways)