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The Platform

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Released
  
May 23, 2000

Genre
  
Hip Hop

Label
  
Capitol

Recorded
  
1998-1999

Length
  
64:20

Producer
  
Dilated Peoples, The Alchemist, T-Ray, E-Swift, Joey Chavez, Beni-B, Kut Masta Kurt

The Platform is the debut album of the West Coast hip hop group Dilated Peoples. It was released in 2000 under the Capitol Records label, and represents a movement of several California underground hip hop artists away from the violence and misogyny of gangsta rap, towards a more traditional, conscious form of rap.

Samples

  • "So May I Introduce to You (Interlude)"
  • "Put Your Hand in the Hand" by Ocean
  • "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" by Bill Cosby
  • "The Platform"
  • "Crane" by Dominic Frontiere
  • "Come Clean" by Jeru the Damaja
  • "No Retreat"
  • "Flower Pot" by Loadstone
  • "Next Level (Nyte Time Mix)" by Showbiz & A.G.
  • "Guaranteed"
  • "I Can't Please You" by Loading Zone
  • "Right On"
  • "Memoirs of the Traveler" by The Jaggerz
  • "Impeach the President" by The Honeydrippers
  • "Service"
  • "Soul Lady" by Don Sebesky
  • "At The Fair" by The Counts
  • "Just Rhymin' With Biz" by Big Daddy Kane & Biz Markie
  • "Ear Drums Pop"
  • "La Ballata Di Hank McCain (The Ballad of Hank McCain)" by Ennio Morricone
  • "Annihilation"
  • "Snidely Whiplash" by Alexander Review
  • "Clones" by The Roots
  • "Expanding Man"
  • "Busy Aggregation" by Johnny Pearson
  • "D. Original" by Jeru the Damaja
  • "The Last Line of Defense"
  • "Is Anyone There?" by Hookfoot
  • "Third Degree" by Dilated Peoples
  • "Triple Optics"
  • "Funky to the Bone" by Freddi/Henchi and the Soulsetters
  • "Light My Life" by Tammi Lynn
  • "Work The Angles"
  • "The Big Boss" by Peter Thomas and Wang Fu Ling
  • "Resolution" by Mahavishnu Orchestra
  • "Ear Drums Pop (Remix)"
  • "D.A.I.S.Y. Age" by De La Soul
  • "Third Degree" by Dilated Peoples feat. Defari
  • "Work the Angles" by Dilated Peoples
  • "The Platform (Erick Sermon Remix)"
  • "Seventh Heaven" by Gwen Guthrie
  • "Keep Risin' to the Top" by Doug E. Fresh

    • References

    The Platform Wikipedia
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