Poor People's Day
2005 studio album by Bigg Jus
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Poor People's Day is a solo studio album by American hip hop musician Bigg Jus, a former member of Company Flow. It was released on Mush Records in 2005.[1] The album is entirely produced by DJ Gman.[1]
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| Released | November 8, 2005[1] | |||
| Genre | Alternative hip hop | |||
| Length | 44:42 | |||
| Label | Mush Records | |||
| Producer | DJ Gman | |||
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Critical reception
Stewart Mason of AllMusic gave the album 4.5 stars out of 5, calling it "the rapper's most immediately accessible album, with less fractured, smoother beats and fewer outlandish arrangements underneath his lyrics."[3] He added, "Those lyrics are as uncompromising as ever, but the friendlier settings make Bigg Jus' position statements and character studies sound easier to get into than ever before, which increases their strength considerably."[3]
Owen Strock of CMJ New Music Monthly described it as "an anti-globalization opus of dusty beats and multi-syllabic rhymes that sound like Ghostface, RZA and Noam Chomsky having a threeway."[4]
Track listing
| No. | Title | Length |
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| 1. | "Everything Must Coincide" | 1:18 |
| 2. | "Supa Nigga" | 3:32 |
| 3. | "Energy Harvester (Swallow the Sun)" | 4:23 |
| 4. | "This Is Poor People's Day" | 4:34 |
| 5. | "Orbital Mechanics" | 4:34 |
| 6. | "Halogen Lanterns" | 6:24 |
| 7. | "Illustrations of Hieronymus Bosch... That 1467 Shit" | 3:34 |
| 8. | "Night Before" | 3:43 |
| 9. | "Eerie Silence" | 1:27 |
| 10. | "When They Start... 1997 Uptop Shit" | 3:57 |
| 11. | "Memories of You" | 1:59 |
| 12. | "Anything You See Fit (Change by Design)" | 4:01 |
| 13. | "Been Here Forever" | 1:16 |
| Total length: | 44:42 | |