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Boaz - Steel City
Artist: Boaz
Producer: King James
Album: The Audiobiography
Label: Rostrum Records
When you hear “Northeast hip-hop,” it usually means rap music from New York, New Jersey, or Philly. Despite Pittsburgh’s high-standing status as one of America’s strongest blue-collar cities, it has never been viewed as a viable landscape for urban music. Looking to change all that is rapper Boaz, who is ready to hit the ground running side by side with Wiz Khalifa and labelmate S. Money when he drops his debut album, The Audiobiography (not to be confused with Novel‘s debut of the same name) this January. Following in the footsteps of such city anthems as Welcome to Atlanta and Still Tippin’, Boaz gives a blow-by-blow description of life in the Steel City and how its residents are doing it big in all the world’s trades. Produced by King James, Steel City will quickly become a local favorite; question is, will it convince the rest of the hip-hop world to see Pittsburgh in a new light?
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This is a good hard hitting street song. The melody on this song is boring but the background piano is dope!. Chorus is iight and so is the lyrics. I'll throw it in
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| Posted on Dec 05, 2008 |
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Booth-heads, I propose a toast! To us sensible reviewers; leading by example, we have helped WOW:) evolve from a brash young commenter into a wise, experienced reviewer (which her upcoming comment will show when she makes it)! Salute! (watches members clang glasses, then makes toast)
OK, now to the song: Solid on its own, but the reason it's not quite a classic along the lines of the two songs I mentioned earlier is because there really isn't a new sound attached. That's OK...I'll be patient here and give Boaz some time...I believe he can do it. |
| Posted on Dec 05, 2008 |
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This beat is hot and I like his rapping. Also though, I agree with M. Burmy on there not being a new sound attached- it's just kind of a oh-I'm-here-listen-to-me type track. It's definitely in rotation though.
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| Posted on Dec 05, 2008 |
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Tastemaker  Total Ratings: 2281 |
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I feel like I've heard this before.
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| Posted on Dec 05, 2008 |
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Sadly, I don't think that Wiz, S. Money and Boaz will be able to flip the national script on Pittsburgh. Cities like Seattle and Milwaukee have MAD talent and have been overlooked for YEARS without any just due.
With that said, this is real solid. Wow:) - the beat is real hot, I agree. 
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| Posted on Dec 05, 2008 |
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Rep yo city!...
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| Posted on Dec 05, 2008 |
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Tastemaker  Total Ratings: 360 |
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real nice joint, listened to it earlier today walking around, took me a second then i realized who it was.. solid.
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| Posted on Dec 05, 2008 |
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Tastemaker  Total Ratings: 312 |
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wow and Z are on point about the beat..it....is....crackin!! Its a banger..his flow slighty reminds me of Juelz Santana.
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| Posted on Dec 06, 2008 |
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i'll have this track playing for days...fire
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| Posted on Dec 06, 2008 |
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steel city?? Sounds like Hamilton to me
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| Posted on Dec 06, 2008 |
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Tastemaker  Total Ratings: 3210 |
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Another decent track which may go in rotation but it's not that excellent. The production is really good, it has energy and it's catchy and his flow is smooth but there's something which bores me after a while...song is a lil repetitive! Maybe it would need a better hook
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| Posted on Dec 07, 2008 |
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yeah that was harder then i expected .... beat goes hard on this one .... Boaz did his thing and did his thing on this one ..... saquid production .... in rot
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| Posted on Dec 08, 2008 |
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glad to see another 412 dude do his thing.
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| Posted on Dec 10, 2008 |
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