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Moonlighting | 
| Artist: Tanya Morgan
Label: Loud Minority Music
Category: Music
Buy New: $15.98
Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 22701
Format: Explicit Lyrics
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 724101877827
EAN: 0724101877827
ASIN: B000FHYYJG
Release Date: April 4, 2006
Shipping: Eligible for Super Saver Shipping
Availability: Usually ships in 10 to 14 days
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| Tracks:
| • | The Record Spot (Intro) | | • | The Warm Up | | • | Paper Thin ft. Jermiside | | • | We Be | | • | Skit #1 | | • | Take The L | | • | Ode To Tanya | | • | Ha Ha Ha | | • | Skit #2 | | • | We Right Here | | • | Just cause I Got Locs | | • | Rough U Up | | • | Skit #3 | | • | Pretty | | • | Hooks | | • | Want You To Want Me | | • | We Bad | | • | Skit #4 |
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Product Description
Although the name evokes something of a neo-soul songstress, the music is overtly hip hop. Making matters even more complicated, this womans name is actually the pseudonym for a group of three male MCs. Not confused yet? Well try this on for size: Tanya Morgan is a group comprised of Von Pea and Ilwil (Ilyas and Donwill) - two totally separate acts. Within the span of a year, the collective of four recorded all the material that would become their debut, Moonlighting. The tightly knit 13-song set is bound together by the story of a misled record shopper and his unwanted purchase. The albums title is a nod to the fact that Tanya Morgan is really two acts in a group together who are, in a sense, moonlighting on their respective jobs by working with each other. And what sound should one expect from three men who named their group after a fictitious woman? Expect the unexpected. There are no neo-soul, rap/r&b hybrid songs on the album. Lyrically the three saturate their clever content with enough personality to push the listener through songs at rewind button-breaking speeds. Tanya Morgan has, in effect, dubbed their sound Running Man Music, and that descriptor is two fold. When the BPMs arent cranked up to a pitch frenetic enough to induce the dance itself, the emotion evoked by the music is enough to remind the listener of a time when Hip Hop was urgent. The album is a clever tongue-in-cheek look at what it means to be a consumer in todays single-driven market where the album format is slowly dissolving altogether. Collectively and individually, Tanya Morgan has worked with Nicolay, The Justus League, Fat Jon, Main Flow and a long list of others. Along with getting a nod of approval from several of their peers, Tanya is now making her rounds in various publications and websites as the buzz-worthy group to watch.
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 Roots+ January 25, 2008
C. W. Hall (Atlanta, GA USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Tanya Morgan is one of those internet spawned projects that makes an old cat like me cringe just a little bit. You could call it a Fed Ex project. Brooklynite Von Pea meets Cincinnati residents Ilyas and Donwill on Okayplayer and a group is born. I'm naturally inclined to hate this. But I don't and I didn't hate Foreign Exchange either. An old head might be coming around to this internet stuff.
Von Pea is an incredible production talent. He makes classic hip-hop tracks. Nothing fancy, extra pretty, or overtly progressive. Just hard-hitting, throw-back boom-bap that any MC worth his baggy jeans and Tims should salivate to rock over. Cincinnati-based producer Brickbeats takes the tracks Von doesn't do and while he's not nearly as consistent as Von, he has some noteworthy joints here as well.
There's something about MCs who don't take themselves too seriously that makes everything they do sound better. Think Pharcyde, Little Brother, and any other crew whose music sounds like it was fun to make. By way of example, check out "Ode to Tanya" where the crew takes turns bad-mouthing each other to the fictional Ms. Morgan. Something makes me love a crew that's cool enough that one MC can say about the producer "I ain't sayin' dude is wack, but he couldn't pawn a beat."
The most ironic thing about Moonlighting is that it's a project spawned on The Roots web-site that outshines anything the Philly group has put out in years. While ?uest, Black Thought, and company have transformed to a jam band, groups like Tanya Morgan are picking up their legacy and surpassing them.
 Worth It's Weight in Platinum September 24, 2007
J. Johnson (Milwaukee, WI USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Real quick. I must admit that I recently just bought this album about two days ago, and all I can say is: "Rapp music may be dead, but hip-hop lives forever." I listen to a lot of underground and unknowns in the industry, and by far, this is one of the tightest albums of 2006. No diss at all to my brother Donwill, but if you want to hear those fire lyrics, you all better ask somebody about Von Pea. I first heard him on the Nicolay Mixtape (1st Date), but I didn't know that he was in a group. Now, I want everything that got this brother on it. I haven't stopped listening to this album since I bought it. Buy it. Trust me, it's worth every penny. It's a shame that this is another tight group that will probably sit on the shelf because people want to listen to garbage and keep up with who's going to sell more albums between 50 cent and Kanye. Donwill and Von Pea will serve all these suckas. Peace.
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