Label: Below System
Released 2020
"Blackmarket Seminar, an album by Kazi and entirely produced by Madlib. Guest features by Madlib, MED, Wildchild, Declaime (Dudley Perkins) and Oh No. The album was recorded in 1996 and digitally remastered in 2016 and released on all digital stores. The CD version of the album is now available in 2020. Kazi says: 'We recorded this album in the wee hours at CDP studios back in '96. It was pretty much me, Madlib and Declaime in the lab when this album was recorded. I learned so much from Lib, cadence, rhyme patterns, timing and how to dig for records. What some people don't know is this cat actually took the time to show me how to make beats. I must say working with Lib was an amazing experience. The Blackmarket Seminar is a very raw and dark album. We came up with 'Black Market' because at the time we were doing hip hop that nobody else was doing and to us you could only get it on the 'Black Market'. When you first play the album you'll hear characters on a skit in search of the black market seminar. We really tried to make it seem like the characters were outside walking around looking for it.'"
Track listing:
- Into
- To Be Lost
- Called Your Bluff
- Beats By The Pound
- Put Your Tittle To Waste
- The Indiacator
- Mind State
- Down 4 The Kaz (The 1st Take)
- O.X. Veterans
- Battle Drills
- Sleep If You Want
- Corrections
- Snake Eyes
- Tha Unstoppable
- Friendly Fire
- Make Yo Ears Bleed
- Battle Drills
- Called Your Bluff (Remix)
- A.V.E.R.A.G.E.