Expansion Team [PA] by Dilated Peoples

Pros: Great lyrics, production, and guest appearances. Classic Hip Hop feel.
Cons: Needs just a few more high-energy tracks. A live performance would have been good also.

The West Coast has always been considered the primary bastion of “gangsta” rap. Following the success of such hardcore groups such as N.W.A. and Ice-T, the majority or rap acts coming out of that region quickly adapted their lyrics to include gun...

Pros: Great intelligence/braggadocio lyrics mix. Wonderful production. Lack of skits. Freestyles.
Cons: Runs out of steam. Lyrics not in enough depth?

The Westcoast hip-hop scene is very easily stereotyped into a one dimensional, thugged out gangsta rap scene with bouncing beats and less lyrical skill than it’s Eastcoast rival. There are many artists that defy all of the above points, who remain...

Pros: One liners, beats, addictive songs.
Cons: Sometimes not deep enough? Slows down a little...

It's often difficult to picture mentioning the words 'West Coast' and 'Lyriscism' in the same paragraph, let alone the same sentence. However, in recent years, groups such as Jurassic 5 and Blackalicious have begun to disprove the trend....

Pros: A small cadre of highlights
Cons: Boring for the most part

Dilated Peoples represents all that I love and hate about hip hop. These guys make traditional legitimate hip hop records with scratch samples, break-beats, and braggadocio. For as much as I loved that in the 1980s and early 90s, it's clear that hip hop ...

Pros: Lyrics, production and beats, guest appearances, originality, no intro's or interludes.
Cons: A few more freestyles could have been included.

Dilated Peoples, are, unquestionably, one of the best Hip-Hop groups yet to not emerge from the Underground. Having heard their debut album The Platform, I had high hoped for this album. Blending social and political consciousness, battle...

Pros: A great since of growth from their debut.
Cons: I didn't find any...

As rapper/producer/MC Evidence of Dilated Peoples stated in The Platform, "Dilated is to grow, we are people of expansion point blank," I was left to expect their new release, Expansion Team, to be just that; dilated. Their debut C.D, The Platform,...

Pros: Great lyrics / production; Few skits; Guest appearances
Cons: Last 3 or 4 tracks aren't quite as good

MCs Evidence and Iriscience really have it worked out now. Their lyrics have improved greatly since The Platform, and so it would seem has the production. Alchemist lends his hand on some tracks, and you have DJ Babu to thank for the rest. His scratches...

Pros: typical Peoples CD
Cons: less intellectual than previous CDs

The Dilated Peoples have done it again, releasing yet another CD you can set around and listen to while smoking from your favorite glass piece of paraphernalia. Great beats as expected as well as original flows give this CD that certain Peoples quality...