Track Listing

1. Long Story Short
2. Bounce
3. Give the Drummer Sum
4. Without U/Electric Ribbon (Interlude) - Black Milk, Colin Munroe
5. Hold It Down
6. Losing Out - Black Milk, , Royce da 5'9"
7. Hell Yeah - Black Milk, , Fat Ray
8. Overdose
9. Reppin for U - AB, , Black Milk
10. Matrix - Black Milk, DJ Premier, Pharoahe Monch, , Sean Price
11. Try
12. Tronie Summer
13. Bond 4 Life - Black Milk, Melanie Rutherford
14. Elec (Outro)

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #40415 in Music
• Released on: 2008-10-28
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Explicit Lyrics
• Dimensions: .16 pounds

Album Description
Explicit Version. His 2008 album Tronic shows that Black has grown tremendously as a producer, as he's adopted more live instrumentation and he is introducing more complex arrangement than his previous sample-heavy work. He also shows marked improvement as an emcee, and carries most of the album himself with only three guest verses on the entire album (from emcee royalty Pharoahe Monch, Royce Da 5'9", and Sean Price). Not even two years removed from his breakthrough release, Black Milk proves on Tronic that not only is he growing as an artist, but that Hip Hop music as a genre still has room to grow.

Customer Reviews

Black Milk Delivers!!
The comparison between Tronic to Black Milk's previous album "Popular Demand" is kind of hard as the sounds of the albums are really different from each other. To be honest Popular Demand is a better album in terms of sound and quality. However, if this is your first time hearing Black Milk you'll definitely become a fan after listening to this release. The overall sound of the album can best described as organs over electronic jazz breaks. TRONIC indeed describes the sound. Airy, atmospheric electronic organs sounds and electronic drums.


'Long Story Short' a great song to start off the album! The third best track off this release. Some people may recognize the drum snares from Dilated Peoples classic song "Work The Angles".

'Bounce' is nice,funky and well...bouncy. Check the rhyme from Bounce:

"It ain't just us with the pain struck /Even old school artists feel like the game is f*cked"....so true Black so true.

'Hold It Down' is the second best track off this album and 'The Matrix' featuring DJ Premier,Sean Price & Pharoah Monch being the best of all the tracks.

'Hold It Down'is a club banger type joint. It has lots of energy.

'Losing Out' featuring Royce Da 5' 9".Royce & Black Milk do I really need to even speak about this track..it's Royce Da 5' 9"..you better know. It's the fourth best track.

'Try' is similar in sound to 'Losing Out'. It's great track as well. It contains ,I believe , a Gladys Knight sample.
'Overdose' and 'Bond For Life' featuring Melanie Rutherford I really enjoyed. I would say 'Bond For Life' is the fifth best track on TRONIC.

'Summer' is a fun little instrumental track. Those who liked A Tribe Called Quest's song "Find A Way" will probably like this song.

'Reppin For U'> featuring Ab is something I know underground heads will feel.

The two songs I wasn't feelin were 'Without U' and 'Give The Drummer Sum'. I'm not saying they're bad just I wasn't really into them.

'Hell Yeah' featuring Fat Ray is the WORST track on TRONIC. It should have been left off this album or reworked. The drums on the song are good but the organ sounds are down right annoying.

Well 14 songs total and only one filler joint. I would say that's a good strong album. So far El Da Sensei & The Returners "Global Takeover" is the best Hip Hop album released this year but Black's album is indeed in my top five best albums of 2008.

Go grab that it's definitely worth your support and money.
BUY THE ALBUM

Fire!
This cd is a must have, defenitely one of the best cd's of the year. Popular Demand was a nice cd, but the sound on tronic is cleaner. The beats are crazy and the flows are nice. Like Larry said before, if you like the dilla, atcq, madlib style beats you better pick up this one cuz this kid is the future o f hip hop!

Spend money on good music !!!
Black is droppin' so heat once again!! If you love real hip hop just get this album. This is what today's hip hop can sound like, if every mainstream radio rapper would stop doing what the other guys doing. No copycat trends(no autotune)here, just straight originality, live instrumentation, and Beats. Black's a beast with the beats, and he stepped up his lyric game. If Black Milk name is on it, cop it, guaranteed to bring da heat!! Hate on him if you want, no other rapper/producer coming out this consistent in a while. A must buy for Dilla, Madlib, ATCQ, Slum Village fans. More of that Detroit sound, like Berry Gordy came back... don't lose out!