Track Listing

1. Sleeper Cell
2. Pain Language
3. Smoke
4. 9mm feat. B-Real (of Cypress Hill)
5. That's What It Is
6. Black Mask Men
7. Lions In The Forest feat. B-Real (of Cypress Hill)
8. Death Frees Every Soul feat. Sick Jacken
9. All Hail The King
10. Black Angels feat. Killah Priest, Cynic and Scratch (of Roots)
11. Drama
12. Language
13. Deadly Blades feat. Prodigal Sunn and Tri State
14. Hashashins feat. Turban and Chace Infinite (of Self-Scientific)
15. Shadows Of Hell
16. Triple Threat feat. GZA (of Wu-Tang Clan) and Chace Infinite (of Self-Scientific)

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #183103 in Music
• Brand: Planet
• Released on: 2008-09-16
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Explicit Lyrics
• Dimensions: .20 pounds

Album Description
As Pain Language, DJ Muggs and Planet Asia have changed the times yet again, delivering a record ahead of its time, yet classic in sound, feel, execution and attitude. "It's a super highly-aggressive record," DJ Muggs says. "We're saying fuck you, we're not going to follow a format. It's just us putting up a middle finger up to everybody. We're coming from that N.W.A attitude. This is rebellious music."

About the Artist
As the producer for the overwhelming majority of Cypress Hill's music, DJ Muggs learned how to create, develop and refine a sound, not chase someone else's sound or success. "I came from a group, making whole albums," DJ Muggs says. "I never got into selling beats. Instead of selling beats to everybody, I made a Soul Assassins album and brought everybody into my world. To be able to go in and just be free creatively is fun."

Like DJ Muggs, Planet Asia is a visionary. Raised in Fresno, California, Planet Asia eschewed the gangster rap stylings popular in his area and instead focused on developing his skill as a supreme lyricist. His work with likeminded rapper Rasco as the Cali Agents made Planet Asia one of the best of the new generation of Left Coast rappers, a distinction given more credence given his string of critically acclaimed albums and his Grammy nomination for his work with rapper Mystic on the song "W."

Now, Planet Asia is relishing the opportunity to work with someone as accomplished and stylistically similar as DJ Muggs. "I'm with somebody that's actually made platinum records and has had a successful career and he's telling me to do it the real way, which is how I've always wanted to do it," Planet Asia says. "It's a blessing. You don't get these types of chances. You usually get with a big producer and he wants you to do what's hot at that moment. A lot of these producers, they change with the times. DJ Muggs changes the times. There's a difference."

Customer Reviews

muggs in another planet
pure fire any hip hop fan go get this!! this is hip hop in its purest form!!

Muggs is brilliant
Probably the most underrated producer working today, Muggs never fails to deliver noise that is haunting, beautiful, and gritty. He's worked with some of the biggest names in the business -- B Real, GZA, the dudes from Mobb Deep, Kurupt, on and on -- but I'm of the opinion that no MC has ever really done his music justice. Not to say he doesn't get brilliant performances from almost everyone he works with. Pick up anything by the man, seriously.

Evokes the good ol' days of rugged Hip Hop
From the very first moment of 'Pain Language', I knew I was in for a treat. Evoking feelings in me that have long since been dormant (since the nostalgic days of 'Enter the Wu'), 'Pain Language' feels like it should have been released in the 90s, yet it just came out in 2008! Chalk that up to DJ Muggs and his insane production, I guess. His old school Cypress Hill/old era Wu-Tang Clan style beats are straight out of the 1990s era of Hip Hop, with odd guitar loops, rugged beats and strange vocal samples. The production is mad tight!

As for the vocals, Planet Asia is an amazing MC, and has no problem holding it down over Mugg's production.

This is a true Hip Hop Classic, and highly recommended to all true Hip Hop heads, and those who have felt that recent Hip Hop pales in comparison to the greatness of the 90s.