Until the Break, Break A Dawn...

Substance - Pep Love
Trinity Lost - Pep Love
After Dark - Hieroglyphics feat. Pep Love
Talk Dirty (Video) - Opio feat. Pep Love

Man the Wiz got their proverbial arse handed to them yesterday. What did they shoot? Like 30 % or something? Yikes. Here is to hoping that Jamison is gonna be alright and that they can take their Cedric Ceballos covers off and hit some dag gum shots...

What a wonderbar kinda day it is here today in the Nations Capital area. If luck holds out, I'll be outta here by 1:30 at the latest and off doing something in the sunshine. There is a period of time in the spring around here where it's really nice and enjoyable to be outside before the pollen hits and then right after it becomes oppressively humid and not worth even going out to get a Slurpee. But we have at least a few days to a week or so before that happens. So I'm gonna enjoy it.

Today we thought we'd bring you some more of our favorite Hiero material, this time from my man Pep Love. Here is a rundown of his story:

Pep Love, aka PL, an often slept-on member of East Oakland, CA's Hieroglyphics family labored as an MC for many years, earning only shout-outs and the occasional guest verse on Hieroglyphics projects. While lending a creative hand on Souls of Mischief's debut '93 Til Infinity and even getting background lyrical credits on two tracks ("When Ya Lost" and "Batting Practice"), Love's first shot at an actual verse came on the B-side "Undisputed Champs" alongside Del tha Funkee Homosapien and Q-Tip. After appearing on Casual's debut album, Fear Itself, on the track "Who's It On" and Extra Prolific's "Like It Should Be," Pep Love would vanish as Souls of Mischief and the Hiero crew went on a relative sabbatical for a couple of years. PL finally resurfaced in 1998 on the Hiero compilation album Third Eye Vision; his verse on "After Dark" again serving notice to this underrated giant, making listeners do an auditory double-take in the process. During his years as a Hiero understudy, Pep Love formed a close alliance with fellow Hiero member and producer Jay Biz. A human thesaurus with a knack for high-speed wordbending, Love's metaphysical talent would finally be unleashed in full panoply on his debut solo album, Ascension, in August of 2001 (with his pal Jay Biz doing most of the production). Ascension was released on the Hiero/Imperium label maintaining loyalty to the crew that originally put him on.

Ascension was and will be one of my favorite all time LPs. If you have not picked it up or ripped it off the net, do yourself a favor and get on it. It's worth the time and or money.

But today we bring you three of the best non Ascension tracks for you to sink you mind into. As an added bonus, we've included the new video from Opio's latest LP, "Triangulation Station", "Talk Dirty" which features Pep Love. Check it out!

Misc. Notes:

Thank You Lord!. About dag gum time...

How does this clown keeping getting work? Shouldn't there be a law against this kind of atrocity?

At least there is some justice in the biz...

Until next time,
Brother B.