Sample Breakdown - Center of Attention [1995] | InI

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*[Mistake]
5:21 "Holy Thursday / David Axelrod" Sample of "Think Twice"
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[InI]
InI was an American hip hop group composed of Rob-O, Grap Luva, Ras G a.k.a. I Love H.I.M., Marco Polo (now known as Jolomite), and DJ Boodakhan.

[Center of Attention]
Hip Hop Underground Soul Classics is a double-disc album containing previously shelved albums Center of Attention, by InI, and The Original Baby Pa, by Deda.

[Release Date]
Released on October 27, 2003 on BBE Records.Both albums were recorded in 1995 and produced entirely by Pete Rock, except for five overall tracks produced either by Grap Luva or Spunk Bigga. Neither album had been officially released until this compilation came out.

[Background]
Both albums were recorded in 1995, and were scheduled to be released through Pete Rock's Soul Brother Records label via a distribution deal with Elektra Records. The InI single "Fakin' Jax" was released in that year and performed fairly well. Deda's song "Blah Uno" originally appeared on a live compilation released by Elektra, which also gave a catalog number for the album that was then to be called Every Man For Himself. Rock's distribution deal with Elektra fell through, and plans to release the albums were subsequently cancelled because of issues over ownership of the masters. The Life I Live did, however, find its way onto the underground market through bootlegging.

[Critical Reception]
In its review, PopMatters wrote that "Pete Rock has no peer when it comes to the seamless graft and the spare pull of tightly cut samples with beats that boom through the basement of your speakers." The A.V. Club wrote that the compilation "affords the pleasure of listening to a production master operating at his creative apex."

[About Group]
The group started working on their debut album together with producer Pete Rock in the mid-1990s, and signed a deal with Rock's new found imprint Soul Brother Records through Elektra. The record company eventually shelved the album, releasing only one 12" single in 1996.The track "Fakin' Jax", produced by and featuring Pete Rock, became an underground hit. The album eventually became one of the most bootlegged albums in hip-hop's history.In 2003, it finally saw an official release after being included on Lost & Found: Hip Hop Underground Soul Classics, a double LP of Pete Rock's mid-1990s production work, originally canceled by Elektra Records.InI had called their debut album InI - The Life I Live, but its bootlegged name is known as Center of Attention.

Despite the fact that Pete Rock is not an official member of the group, it became synonymous with his name. He produced almost every track on Center of Attention, and his younger brother Grap Luva formed a crucial part of the group. Rock had a verse on one song in the album, "Fakin Jax", with additional ad-libs and background vocals on almost every track.

The Song "Step Up" was featured in the video game Skate It. Working with EA games, Pete Rock also has a song called "They Reminisce Over You (T.R.O.Y.)" which was featured in the video game Madden NFL 12, which was released April 2, 1992.

InI had released a demo-tape called "Krossroads", and "Concerned", Grap Luva describes this as their earliest tapes. Concerned appears to be called "For Your Own Concern" although it was called "Concerned" by the InI group. Friend of Grap Luva from France was responsible for sharing the "concerned" track. "The beat is sick" - Grap describes. The song talks about safe sex; thus the title, to be concerned. The verse Rob-o had spit on "To each his own" from InI's album was the same verse which he had used on the early tape "Concerned".

[After Center of Attention]
After Center of Attention got shelved, the group members went their separate ways, with only two of them staying in the music scene to pursue solo careers. Grap Luva released a few limited 12" singles in the new millennium and aspired toward achieving his true interest in being a beat boy and producer. He appeared, and produced on various albums and singles from artists such as DJ Spinna, J-Live, Pete Rock, Lone Catalysts, Kev Brown and Marley Marl.Rob-O released many singles through an imprint called St. Nick Entertainment and in 2006 he came out with a debut album called "Rhyme Pro", a mix of the older 12" singles with a few new songs sprinkled throughout.

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