Grand Puba

Released in 1992, after parting ways with Brand Nubian, Grand Puba released Reel To Reel. Fusing Afrocentric wisdom, quick-tongued bravado, and love for the females, Puba's renowned lyrical skills are in top form throughout. DJs Alamo and Stud Doogie add some nice cuts to the mix, while thick loop-fueled beats provide a neck-bending backdrop.

Brand Nubian's 1990 debut album, One for All, has been canonized as a hip-hop classic.
Since then the group's leader, a diminutive, mustachioed slacker known as Grand Puba, has
gone solo. While Brand Nubian's devotion to the Five Percent Nation of Islam was in
evidence on almost every track on One for All, on Reel to Reel, Puba restricts his political
views to one song, "Soul Controller," a droning chant that asks who is responsibl... More >