Underground Fossils is run by Dimxsk and often by Trylemma, who is on a hip hop spiritual journey in the Himalayas and may not be back for a bit. Posts are every Friday, usually some quality old sh*t but sometimes promotional posts or "reviews". We do all we can to make sure we don't post stuff that (1) You can still reasonably buy from the artist directly, (2) You can reasonably buy secondhand for cheap, (3) You can download easily elsewhere, (4) The artist(s) asks us not to for any reason. Rips will include our own personal rips, old scene rips, and random web rips.

Friday, March 25, 2022

Intelligentlemen - Face Value EP (2010)

 

For this week's upload, we're staying in Canada, but this time heading to the prairies with The Intelligentlemen's "Face Value" EP from 2010!

Intelligentlemen was a 5-man group from Saskatoon, SK. Beats Me and DJ Known handled production while Rewind, Polty, and Gescha handled the raps. "Face Value" was the group's third release and was, I believe, meant to lead into another full album release that never came to be. The project consists of 5 tracks and is just a really fun quick prairie crew EP. The lead-off track, "Wasted Years," is a personal favorite (Factor on the beat :)) 

I don't believe The Intelligentlemen are active any longer. From my understanding, the rappers never really had aspirations to make music any sort of career so when grown life came around, they were happy to pursue other interests (I'm not sure about the producers.) The group's most known member is likely Gescha, who released a solo album produced by Factor and Muneshine (with features from Awol, Moka, Kay, and others,) is now a photographer/videographer I think. 

The EP was originally released for free, but the links are long dead, so we're reviving it here. Props to the DITF scene crew (RIP.) Enjoy!

Face Value EP

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