TEAM RNS PRESENTS

ARTIST: Pete Rock

TITLE: Lost and Found

RIPPER: Team RNS

1hr 44min total-150.8mb

RELEASE DATE: 2003-10-21
RIP DATE: 2003-10-06

CD1 - INI - Center of Attention

03 The Life I Live                4:20

05 Mind Over Matter               4:43
06 Center Of Attention            5:22
07 To Each His Own                4:36

10 What They Say                  4:36

CD2 - Deda - The Original Baby Pa

03 How I'm Livin                  4:51

From the back catalogue of the ultimate
backpacker G-O-D, Pete Rock, INI's
'Center Of Attention' was apparently
finished after Pete came out of his
prolific relationship with CL Smooth.
One which spawned two of the
mid-nineties' greatest hip-hop albums.
Even if the second of those albums was
marred somewhat by the excesses of CL 'Mr
Loverman' Smooth. INI was composed of
Pete, his little brother Grap Luva,
Rob-O, Marco Polo and Ras G. No CL

Essentially, it's an outing for that
beautifully laid-back, smoked out and
polished up production style that Pete
had perfected by '94. With relative
unknowns, he concentrates on purely
street sentiments as he sculpts
effortlessly graceful, bass-heavy
grooves shimmering with keyboard fills
and muted horns. Somehow, Pete Rock's best
music seems to transcend the
possibilities of hip-hop and the SP1200
and drift on a sativa cloud closer to
the soundscapes of dub reggae, filtered
through a nostalgia wave of black
American musical history.

Highlights come from the Mobb
Deep-sampling 'Fake N' Jax', the
Spaghetti Western dub of 'The Life I Live'
and the Q-Tip and Large
Professor-featuring 'To Each His Own'.
And that's without even mentioning the
other album that makes up this
compilation, Deda's 'The Original Baby
Pa', another project that Pete helmed
only to be shelved by his label. Even
less is known about this one but it's
generally closer to what Pete was doing
with CL Smooth on 'Main Ingredient'.
Fascinating stuff for connoisseurs,

And to top it all, this is a mere
taster, a whetting of the appetite for
the 'Soul Survivor 2' album that Pete is
planning to release next year as a
follow-up to, arguably, one of the
greatest 'producer albums' ever made.
So, no need for that new Jurassic 5 album,
if it seems like you've been through
every rack in search of more hits of
that elusive classic sound, BBE have
gone that little bit further to rescue
a dose from the cutting room floor. Who
knows, they may even turn up that missing
Large Professor solo project one day.