Word Power
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| Word Power | ||
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| Studio album by Divine Styler | ||
| Released | 1989 | |
| Genre | Hip hop | |
| Label | Epic Records | |
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| Divine Styler chronology | ||
| - | Word Power (1989) |
Spiral Walls Containing Autumns of Light (1992) |
Word Power is the debut album by Divine Styler, released in 1989 on Epic Records. On this album, Divine raps about been proud of hertitage (hightlighted on It's a Black Thing), and features Bilal Bashir (who made later instrumentals for the likes of Dr. Dre, Ice Cube and Everlast), who later re-released this album in instrumental form, in 2005. The album is best known for the songs 'Ain't Sayin Nothin' which featured a sample scratch noise similar to the sound used in House Of Pain's song, Jump Around and Cypress Hill's Insane In The Brain, and 'Freestyler', which features samples of James Brown.
[edit] Track listing
- "Introduction" - 0:48
- "Free Styler" - 5:16
- "Get Up on It" - 4:41
- "The Last Black House on the Left" - 6:46
- "It's a Black Thing" - 5:12
- "Play It for Divine" - 2:48
- "Koxistin U4ria" - 3:40
- "Ain't Sayin' Nothin'" - 4:17
- "Divinity Stylistics" - 4:12
- "Tongue of Labyrinth" - 5:23
- "In Divine Style" - 1:46
- "Rain" - 4:31
- "Word Power" - 4:48
