C.V.E. -CHILLIN VILLAINS-WE REPRESENT BILLIONS (Col.Vin -NYEGE NYEGE TAPES / CARGO LP Grooves.land/Playthek

Details / Tracklist:

01. "ALL OVER DA GLOBE"
02. "THUGS AND CLIPS"
03. "C.V. VAULT (C.V.E.)"
04. "MADE IN CHILLZ VILLE"
05. "BRING IT ON"
06. "CALISTYLICS"
07. "NO FEELINS"
08. "LET'S GET IT ON"
09. "TODAY WAS A FUCKED UP DAY"
10. "UNTITLED (FREESTYLE)"
11. "UNICYCLE (INSTRUMENTAL)"

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Extra-Infos:

.. Reprensent Billions / Black Gold Splatter

Description:

Chillin Villains - We Represent Millions by C.V.E., released 17 June 2022, includes the following tracks: "C.V. Vault (C.V.E.)", "Bring It On", "No Feelins", "Today Was A Fucked Up Day" and more. This version of Chillin Villains - We Represent Millions comes as a 1xLP. The vinyl is pressed as a opaque disc. - .. REPRENSENT BILLIONS /BLACK GOLD SPLATTER

It's hard to believe it's taken this long for a proper retrospective of legendary Los Angeles collective C.V.E. "We Represent Billions" is a crucial portrait of one of the West Coast's most low-key influential crews - a hydra-like collective of rappers, producers, designers and engineers who were key members of the Good Life Cafe's open mic scene, going on to inspire artists like Jurassic 5, Kendrick Lamar amongst many other. Initially called Chillin Villain Posse before morphing into Chillin Villain Empire in the late 1980s, they eventually centered around the core trio of Riddlore, NgaFsh and Tray-Loc. The crew were years ahead of their time, self-producing music without samples and pioneering stream of consciousness lyrics that still sound fresh and innovative. CVE were self-sufficient and motivated from the beginning, named "Chillin Villains" because that's how they were perceived by white America. This social motivation was channeled into their groundbreaking performances at Good Life Cafe, the South Central session that evolved into Project Blowed and later on came to influence LA club night 'Low End Theory'. It was chronicled by Ava Duvernay, herself an MC in short-lived duo Figures of Speech, in her "This is the Life" documentary, where she interviewed CVE alongside Jurassic 5, Freestyle Fellowship, Abstract Rude and Busdriver. On "We Represent Billions", we're treated to a snapshot of the CVE sound from 1993-2003, their most prolific era. The retrospective collects music from the handful of albums the crew released on their own Afterlife Recordz label (mostly as limited edition CD-R's) plus many previously unreleased tracks and highlights their untethered eccentric creativity and sheer breadth of influence. Whether twisting twitchy West Coast electro on 'All Over Da Globe' or free associating over horror synths and foley sounds on 'Made in Chillz Ville' there's a sense that their music was just too future for its time. Assembled from heaving industrial samples and graced by back-and-forth tongue

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00152576

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