New/Sealed
FAT BEATS DISTRIBUTION 0005157
UPC: 659123515719
Release Date: 7/31/2012
 
Following the success of two collaborative releases (EMC "The Show"/2008 and Ace & Edo G "Arts & Entertainment" /2009), Masta Ace joins forces with the metal faced MF Doom for Son of Yvonne, a highly personal concept album that celebrates the life and legacy of Ace's recently departed Mother. Like his 2004 landmark Disposable Arts, Son of Yvonne is meticulously constructed with stories, settings, and characters that resonate with flesh and bone humanity. Interstitial vignettes provide a thematic backbone to the experience, and each track complements and completes the previous to form a narrative whole: a sometimes visceral, sometimes nostalgic slice of Ace's young life in Brownsville, Brooklyn. Entirely underscored by MF Doom's iconic Special Herbs instrumentals, Son of Yvonne features the Juice Crew general Big Daddy Kane, new comers Pav Bundy (The Bundies), Reggie B and even MF Doom on the mic. It's Masta Ace's no frills flow, however, that looms largest above the dusty samples and digger loops that define Doom's production. Ace's photo-realistic rhymes about stick-up kids, spraycan artists and wack emcees add extra gravity to his already celebrated reputation as "truly an under-appreciated rap veteran and underground luminary". Like Eminem recalls in his 2008 autobiography The Way I Am, "Masta Ace had amazing storytelling skills. His thoughts were so vivid."
 
Track  
Title
1
D Ski's Intro
2
Ninteen Seventy Something
3
Son Of Yvonne
4
Da'pro
5
Store Frontin'
6
Me And My Gang
7
Crush Hour Feat. Pav Bundy
8
Think I Am Feat. Big Daddy Kane &
9
Fresh Fest Reggie B
10
Hoe-Tel Leftovers
11
Slow Down
12
Home Sweet Home Feat. Pav Bundy
13
Dedication
14
I Did It
15
In Da Spot Feat. Milani The Artis
16
Outtakes