Length 61:46 Release date 24 October 1995 Genre Hip hop music | ||
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Released October 24, 1995 (1995-10-24) Recorded Kitchen Sync Studios; Hollywood Sound Recorders, Hollywood, CA Similar Aceyalone albums, Hip hop music albums | ||
All Balls Don't Bounce is the first solo album by American rapper Aceyalone. It was released in 1995 on Capitol Records. In 2004, it was re-released on Project Blowed and Decon as All Balls Don't Bounce: Revisited with a bonus disc. It was chosen by OC Weekly as one of the Five Classic West Coast Rap Albums Turning 20 in 2015.
Contents
Aceyalone all balls
Critical reception
Steve Huey of AllMusic gave the album 5 stars out of 5, describing Aceyalone as "one of the greatest lyricists the West Coast has ever produced, twisting his fluid rhymes around and off the beat with the improvisational assurance of Rakim." He also commented that "[the production] is solid if unspectacular, usually spare and jazzy, with lots of piano/keyboard samples and some fitting nods to the abstract side of hard bop."
Writing for The Austin Chronicle, Rashied Gabriel thought that the album's production and Aceylone's "various styles" worked to complementary effect. He went on to label All Balls Don't Bounce "a sureshot record", and felt that it delivered "verbal calisthenics that astound with fresh insight as well as lyrical wizardry."
Songs
1All Balls4:32
2Anywhere You Go4:11
3Deep and Wide2:33