Public service announcement: Blackalicious’ “The Craft” kicks ass. So bouncy! Perfect workout music.

“Powers” and “My Pen & Pad” are available as MP3s from their site, and you can stream “Your Move” and “Rhythm Sticks” from their Myspace page. And as for my favorite tracks, here are samples of “World of Vibrations” and the awe-inspiring “Side to Side.”

(I was on a train not too long ago when “Side to Side” came on my iPod. I literally could not stop dancing in my seat.)

The backing tracks are all quite simple, actually — they’re just wound up so tight you worry a stray bass thump might bust loose from your headphones and coil around you boa-constrictor style. And Gift of Gab, that man can rap something fierce.

Here’s a video of some Japanese kids dancing to an earlier Blackalicious track, the uniquely geeky “Chemical Calisthenics.”

Note: This video is not, in fact, a Blackalicious video despite being labeled as such. But it is awesome nonetheless.

This has been a public service announcement.

30 March 2006

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