Danger Mouse & Jemini - Ghetto Pop LIfe (2LP)

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Danger Mouse & Jemini - Ghetto Pop LIfe (2LP)2LP, Reissue, Embossed spot varnished sleeve Lex Records (2024) UK Ghetto Pop Life is Danger Mouses first full length album on Lex and a hip hop classic, harking back to the sound of the early 90s East Coast and resurrecting Brooklyns most soulful thug MC, Jemini The Gifted One. Incorporating a full church choir on the title track, Danger Mouse also brings in heavy hitting guest rappers J Zone, Tha Alkaholiks, The Pharcyde and Prince Po. In the words

the album is an unflinching self-examination

Something is off

He gave me the confidence to be loud and to scream my rage and feel founded and justified in my own pain

The album features twelve new recordings of songs by legends and unsung heroes including Merle Haggard

LP Merge Records - MRG324 (2008) US

Later they filmed the video for title track "Rio" in Antigua - which became an MTV classic

willing to excavate the parameters of intimacy and agency in songs both stark and raw

exclusive lyric and photo book

Ken Sluiter

Frontman Mike Kerr's spiralling bass riff casts an hypnotic allure as it grows in intensity

Blue Marbled Vinyl

Armstrong’s collaborative work with Massive Attack on the 1994 album Protection is an influence that can be heard throughout As If To Nothing