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Quelle Chris Being You Is Great, I Wish I Could Be You More

Mello Music Group | Item No: 529416
CD | 2017 / US – Original | New
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Item Description
For the Mello Music Group release, Quelle assembled a veritable hip-hop Justice League: Roc Marciano, Homeboy Sandman, Denmark Vessey, Jean Grae, Elzhi, Cavalier, et. al. Then there’s the production, mostly handled by Quelle, but aided by crucial assists from MNDGSN, Iman Omari, Chris Keys, Swarvy, and Alchemist.

Despite the preponderance of talent sharing the stage, the guests bend to the world that Quelle created. A darker shade of psychedelia, as if Madvillain gobbled anti-anxiety pills instead of psilocybin. Or maybe a fraternal drunken twin to Open Mike Eagle’s “Dark Comedy.”

The title comes from a real-life discussion about the difficulties of consistency. How each of us are subject to both our own bad spirits and bursts of inspiration, those unavoidable Serotonin and dopamine peaks and valleys. Being You is Great is an attempt to catalog those moods. It’s about learning to love, or at least recognize, the best and worst of one’s self. It’s about loneliness and comfort. Learning to hate love and learning to love hate.

Sequenced so that extreme confidence follows casual despair, the pendulum swings back and forth, mirroring our own emotions and validating something that Nietszche and Ray Bradbury once claimed: “we have art so we won’t die of truth.”

If hip-hop is filled with everymen and superheroes, Quelle Chris has done something quietly radical. This record is almost too human—full of the sublte revelations that only come to you later in life, when you realize that heroes make plenty of errors, and anti-heroes often have merit.

It’s not an exuberant celebration of human life, nor is it a politicized condemnation of what got us here. It’s a record with beats that will make you bob your head and tap your feet, and clever lyrics that will make you laugh and scrunch your face. But most of all, it’s a record with a tremendous reserve of empathy. Something that captures the wonder and madness of being human. Something relentlessly honest. Something great.
Item Details
Item No: 529416
Artist: Quelle Chris
Title: Being You Is Great, I Wish I Could Be You More
Label: Mello Music Group
Format: CD
Pressing: US – Original
Release Date: 2017
Genre: Hip Hop
Style: US Hip Hop
Available since: 2017-05-08
Condition: New
Price: $ 10.98
Weight: 100g (plus 250g Packaging)
Tracklist
01 Intro
02 Buddies
03 Popeye
04 In Case I Lose Myself
05 Fascinating Grass
06 Bs Vibes
07 Dumb For Brains
08 Calm Before
09 The Prestige
10 The Dreamer In The Den Of Wolves
11 I'm That Nigga
12 Birthdaze
13 Learn To Love Hate
14 It's Great To Be
15 Encore
16 Don't Get Changed
17 Pendulum Swing
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