Lucy Ford: The Atmosphere EPs is a compilation that collects the previously released EPs: The Lucy EP, Ford One, and Ford Two. It was released on Rhymesayers Entertainment on Febraury 1st, 2001.
Tracklist:
1: Between the Lines - 0:00
Samples = "Virgo" by Cannonball Adderley, "I Am Love" by The Jackson 5
2: Like Today - 5:20
Samples = "Since We Said Goodbye" by The Counts
3: Tears for the Sheep - 9:24
Samples = "Cry Like A Baby" by Aretha Franklin
4: Guns and Cigarettes - 12:16
Samples = "Oh Babe" by Cannonball Adderley
5: Don't Ever Fucking Question That - 16:38
Samples = "Just As Long We Have Love" by Wilbert Longmire
6: It Goes - 20:57
Samples = "Walking With The Blues" by Ben Sidran
7: If I was Santa Claus - 25:26
8: Aspiring Sociopath - 29:18
Samples = "Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta" composed by Béla Bartók aka music from Stanley Kubricks The Shining
9: Free or Dead - 34:43
10: Party for the Fight to Write - 39:31
Samples = "Shu Ba Du Ma Ma Ma Ma" by Steve Miller Band, "Like A Seed" by Morgana King
11: Mama Had a Baby and His Head Popped Off - 43:26
Samples = "Sensuality" by The Isley Brothers
12: They're All Gonna Laugh @ You - 47:51
13: Lost and Found - 49:57
Samples = "Glad" by Traffic
14: The Woman With the Tattooed Hands - 54:35
Samples = "Blue Sky & Sliver Bird" by Lamont Dozier
15: Nothing but Sunshine - 58:03
Samples = "Virgo" by Cannonball Adderley
16: Homecoming (feat. El-P) (Hidden Track) - 1:02:56
Samples = "Driving Me Backwards" by Brian Eno
17: Just Tryin' To Make Friends With Your Deejay (B3 on Ford One Vinyl) - 1:07:35
18: Travel (B1 on Ford Two Vinyl) - 1:12:00
Sean Michael Daley (born September 7, 1972), better known by his stage name Slug founded Atmosphere with Derek Turner (Spawn). Turner has since left and Anthony Davis (Ant) produces Atmosphere with Slug. In 1995, Slug, in collaboration with Anthony Davis, Musab Saad, and Brent Sayers founded the Minneapolis based independent hip hop record label Rhymesayers Entertainment. The son of Valerie and Craig Daley, Slug's nickname comes from his father's; his dad was known to his friends as "Sluggo" and thus they began to call Sean "little Sluggo," which he shortened to "Slug". Before fully establishing himself as an official artist, Daley spent much time making music with fellow Minnesota rapper Nic Lehnertz. The two worked on projects together, and Daley recognizes Lehnertz as a contributing factor to his success. Lehnertz quit rapping after high school, while Daley went on to pursue a professional career. In Atmosphere's early years, Slug DJ'd behind the scenes and let Spawn handle lyrics. The group eventually formed a strong relationship with Ant (Anthony Davis) and began collaborating on music. Along with solo MC Musab (then Beyond), and groups Black hole, Phull Surkle, and the Abstract Pack they formed the mid-1990s crew Headshots, with Slug appearing on the underground tape series HeadShots (1-7). A prominent theme in Slug's lyrics is his allegorical usage of women, especially in his earlier work. A notable use of women by Slug is in the song "Woman with the Tattooed Hands", which Slug has said is "a metaphor for that same stuff that everybody has already made songs about". Further uses come in the form of the song "Abusing of the Rib" from Headshots: SE7EN: it has been said that the "lover" that Slug speaks of is actually an allegory for hip-hop. A character Slug refers to as "Lucy", who has been purported to symbolize a range of different entities, is the most notable of these allegories. In earlier Atmosphere songs, it is believed that Slug used Lucy as a means of writing about ex-girlfriends. Lucy became so prominent that Atmosphere's 2001 album bore her name, Lucy Ford: The Atmosphere EPs, with the record itself concentrating fairly heavily on women and relationships, in songs such as "Don't Ever Fucking Question That" and "Mama Had A Baby And His Head Popped Off". Slug himself has since said of Lucy that he originally believed "her" to be a representation of the dichotomy between himself and women. He acknowledges now that Lucy became a demonization ("Lucy Ford" being a play on words for Lucifer) of himself and his dependency on alcohol, drugs, sex and validation. Slug raps in an introspective style, as seen on the song "Little Man", in which he confronts the complaints that people have about him by looking at his relationship with his father and son. This introspective style has become less prevalent as of Atmosphere's 2008 album When Life Gives You Lemons, You Paint That Shit Gold in which Slug navigates through other people's lives. Slug has stated that in and around the year of 2005, he began to move in a new direction lyrically as he became more aware of the effect his lyrics would have on kids, especially his own son who was becoming a teenager at the time. Because you read this much God loves you and because of that here's the answer to the age old question, Lucy was "Rita Puskas" Slugs ex.
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