Mood

Mood's positive, non-gangsta style, termed “conscious rap,” has been winning fans both here and overseas. England's New Musical Express called “Snakebacks” “simply the most visionary attempt ... to improve on the Wu-Tang formula.”

The January issue of Rap Pages named Mood 1998's best new group. The Source touted Mood's “incredible promise.” Various underground papers from the Alternative Press to Transworld Skateboarding have had good things to say about the trio, which records for Blunt, a subsidiary of TVT, best known as the home of Nine Inch Nails. - Cincinnati enquirer

6. Mood – Doom
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It took a while for the Midwest to gain ground in the hip-hop game, Chicago and Detroit first establishing their presence before Minneapolis fired their own shots just a few short years later. Cincinnati still isn’t a hip-hop Mecca, but it’s produced a handful of heavyweights, most notably the long-running but less than prolific Mood, a spacy, abstract Ohio group backed by DJ Hi-Tek. Their first effort, the crackly, trippy Doom, is as spacy as the nebula on its front cover, emcees Main Flow and Donte dropping fierce flows over atmospheric production from Jahson. The real treat of the record is in its sonic treatments, the likes of which come much closer to the sample symphonies of DJ Shadow than the hardcore bumps of Primo or Pete Rock. Also appearing on the record is a young emcee by the name of Talib Kweli, who a year later would release his own first essential offering. – Jeff Terich - Trebele

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Total Comments: 7
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Name: f my name (Posted: 3/6/2014 3:04:00 PM; Partial IP: .201.65.74)
Location: az
Comment: Classick cd, Talib Kweli made his debut on here and I believe this is Hi Tek first cd that he produced! Anyways , this is a must for serious headz!
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Name: shapeless (Posted: 9/16/2013 3:41:00 PM; Partial IP: 26.197.194)
Location: bay
Comment: this album is a masterpiece. Too bad humanity is STUPID and ASLEEP...This should be required listening in all public schools and have a class dedicated to it at Harvard. There is no excuse for this planet being so god damn fucking stupid. Idiot assholes leading masses while real knowledge and wisdom and high skills are swept under the rug, murdered, smuthered, blocked etc.
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Name: McDiffitt (Posted: 12/19/2011 2:22:00 PM; Partial IP: 53.152.214)
Location: Auburn, usa
Comment: This was an instant classic. Amazing production, sick lyrics, exposing the Illuminati. I've listened to this probably thousands of times. A must have.
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Name: Nuyawker33 (Posted: 7/15/2011 3:17:00 AM; Partial IP: 210.32.240)
Location: Usa
Comment: Unknown Classic! Very early Hi- Tek. Large Pro. Classic!!!!!!
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Name: ThermanMerman (Posted: 12/6/2010 11:50:00 PM; Partial IP: 142.32.181)
Location: 802
Comment: this is a fuckin legendary album. hi-tek in his most promising younger hungry days. his work on here is great. gotta listen to this to truly hear his style. maybe a few of those cuts on black star too. fuck the hi-teknologys. besides the first one which is better than average, those suck ass. don't bother with those. many a fond memory with this album as well. very used played up cd in my collection. great shit
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Name: yHATE (Posted: 7/5/2010 11:21:00 PM; Partial IP: .137.9.119)
Location: dA bUrG, FL
Comment: I remember when I picked this up when it first came out at a record store in the Chi. I had never heard of these dudes but yo when I heard it couldn't stop listening to it. Many many sessions to this album. Wow remember the good ol days
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Name: branestorm (Posted: 4/20/2010 6:24:00 AM; Partial IP: .211.62.57)
Location: chicago
Comment: ah hell yeah, havent heard this in a minute - ughh.com

UDHH: Name projects you’ve been involved with (Past, Present, Future)

Mr. Donte: I have been involved in many, many projects starting with Mood. The
Doom album gave us international exposure and is considered a classic
by many. I now have a new group called “The Famous Mr. Nobodys”
I PLAN ON DROPPING.. SOLO PROJECT EVERY QUARTER FOR THE NEXT 2 YEARS.
Here’s some links:
www.thefamousmrnobodys.bandcamp.com (downoad or listen to whole album for FREE)
www.youtube.com/moodhiphop (MY YOUTUBE PAGE WITH 100′S OF SONGS VIDEOS)

MOOD SINGLE: DRUGS WAR AND CRIME VIDEO: http://youtu.be/Z9JkEKmRN20
MOOD SINGLE: LIVE AGAIN: http://youtu.be/oij8OYzY3Ow
MOOD LATEST ALBUM LIVE AGAIN (FOR FREE) http://youtu.be/GDMwgpT8ATU
MOOD SINGLE KARMA: http://youtu.be/6u1NKH_LelU
MOOD SINGLE HUSTLE ON THE SIDE: http://youtu.be/m2jxB1zFtPQ
MOOD E.P. LIMITED EDTION THROW BACK E.P. PRE DOOM:
MOOD TELETHAPY: http://youtu.be/iTpozzoaB7s
Doom (1997)
Mission Control Presents: Prehistoric Sounds feat. Mood (2000)
Live Again (2011)
Grey Boy Under Attack (2001)

All of Main Flow’s solo projects:
MAINFLOW FEATURING RAGGA ALL GOES DOWN: http://youtu.be/-bRx4pYhUrc
Main Flow
Castle Diplomat (2001)
Hip-Hopulation (2004)
Notebook Assassins (2005)
Flow Season (with DJ 7L) (2006)
Return of the Castle (2010)
[edit]The Flowfessionals
Main Flow Presents: The Flowfessionals (2005)

HI TEKS 1ST ALBUM:

SUDDENLY: http://youtu.be/BPUEhmzST84
BREAKIN BREAD:http://youtu.be/PSAMENAf1T8
THE UNBOUND PROJECT WITH TALIB KWELI AND HITEK, HUMAN ELEMENT:
http://youtu.be/iTpozzoaB7s

I HAVE SONGS WITH ARTIST /PRODUCERS LIKE BLACK THOUGHT, CHALI TUNA,
THE GROUCH, KILLA PRIEST, BUCKSHOT SHORTY, M1 FROM DEAD PREZ., CHASE
INFINITE, JAKE 1, D.J. KAHLIL, POKER BEATS, TO NAME A FEW….. - INKYMAN: HIPHOP UNDADOGS

DX: Fair enough. MOOD is Ohios home-grown. Where does the state stand right now in terms of Hip Hop? Are there any particular trends?
Donte: Hip Hop is in the state of Ohio, Ohio is in a state of denial [laughing]. There is plenty of talent, very few outlets. The trends are about the same that exist in most mid-size cities in America. The radio deejays are not record breakers for local acts. The big problem with Hip Hop in mid-cities is that the whole city/region can be sold out through the one station that actually plays Hip Hop. If you turn on a radio station here you would think there are only 15 artists in the world and only 15 songs the public wants to hear. The flipside of that is that the bar has been set so low: a nice beat and a hook. Now everybody that hears it feels like if the radio station is playing low to no talent artist, they can make a record too. Let me say this clearly: everybody cant rap, everybody cant make beats. Some of yall should just be fans. Real talk. If everybody is making music, who is left to listen to it? [Laughing] - by MINA JASAREVIC : hiphopdx.xom