TRUE ELEMENT "Take A Look Around" (Free Download) 1997

by DJ Kraze One

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1.	Take A Look Around 04:36	lyrics	buy track
[[Kraze One]] Initiation, mind power deep in concentration Searching more and more try to assess the situation Complication times by fusion going deep Looking to awaken those who've fallen in a sleep Of negativity, reaching out to the community Kraze One come alive spreading the peace and love and unity I multiply, one now becomes many Cos situated by me is the P-O double S-E Easy, as my vocals amplify From the depths of the earth right up in to the sky So high, I'm looking down wondering why A mother's giving birth but there's a tear in her eye And a sigh, as she's lying in the hospital The father's getting smashed out of his brains down at the local Full throttle, but there's no message in his bottle He's sitting and he's thinking slowly watching his life crumble And tumble, slurring words as he mumbles It's hard life being skint as in the UK it's a jungle Depression, lead to aggression in recession A suggestion to the question is drop the politician To submission, but your still unforgiven For blaming the young mother for the problems in the system The vision, is one that's true to life The rich are getting richer while the poor are getting nuff strife. [[Mr Lusta]] Dwelling in the world all the crime and corruption With the whirlwind spinning enticing eruption The whirlpool dragging down the individual Have to step back and kick a verbalistical mystical lyric like ya Lesley (Lesley) Plug in the mic hook me up and connect me Got the pressure pushing down got to pay all the bills But the factor is low on the incoming shills It's a vicious circle spiral down helter skelter Thank my lucky start that I have the shelter And somewhere to lay down my heavy head And contemplate all the statements a being said Governments changing, rearranging In the system searching for someone to blame so Don't get caught up or brought down Contemplate, wait, so take a look around And view your condition take a look at your position Liberate yourself from all the aggravation Pushing down upon your brain Can't you see this world can drive you insane Sit back and think at my free will And then realise you just gotta chill.
2.	Detonate The Funk 03:49	lyrics	buy track
[[Kraze One]] Original bad boy explode as I activate devastate and simulate the mission to to create In a state of meditation yet causing much damage My mouth the weapon firing the English language Totally twisted terrorist in the terror dome Mad mercenary maintaining a microphone Systems clear, punishment severe True Element break with an original idea The lyrical abstract to attack Subcontract the rap while making contact In turn, to teach but to learn To bring forth the funk is the main concern So confirm there is no compromise We don't commercialise or categorise So open your eyes to rise like a rocket We got more funk than you can fit in your back pocket (Drop) Kraze One planting semtex Inside the speaker straight to the decks To blow downlow the psycho Man on a mission to let the funk flow. [[Kraze One]] Detonation, process elimination Lyrical information straight to the nation Through a wave form, reborn and on form Kraze to the one just cooking up a storm So take cover, we move undercover Original flavour the microphone nutter With wisdom there is no restriction True Element crew funking up the system (Sound from the underground bringing down walls) Obliteration fools and breaking all rules The prescription is fact and not fiction I face conviction but my musical addition Is pure, there is not a cure The outlaw is raw straight from the sector I generate, the funk we come to detonate Speakers disintegrate the system just can't tolerate The force from fine through to course Unlimited resource descendent from the source. Of energy, the poison the remedy Countdown reaches zero detonation is ready.
3.	Take A Look Around (Instrumental) 04:35	info	buy track
4.	Detonate The Funk (Instrumental) 03:49	info	buy track
5.	Take A Look Around (Original Studio Jam) 03:25	lyrics	buy track
[[Kraze One]] Initiation, mind power deep in concentration Searching more and more try to assess the situation Complication times by fusion going deep Looking to awaken those who've fallen in a sleep Of negativity, reaching out to the community Kraze One come alive spreading the peace and love and unity I multiply, one now becomes many Cos situated by me is the P-O double S-E Easy, as my vocals amplify From the depths of the earth right up in to the sky So high, I'm looking down wondering why A mother's giving birth but there's a tear in her eye And a sigh, as she's lying in the hospital The father's getting smashed out of his brains down at the local Full throttle, but there's no message in his bottle He's sitting and he's thinking slowly watching his life crumble And tumble, slurring words as he mumbles It's hard life being skint as in the UK it's a jungle Depression, lead to aggression in recession A suggestion to the question is drop the politician To submission, but your still unforgiven For blaming the young mother for the problems in the system The vision, is one that's true to life The rich are getting richer while the poor are getting nuff strife. [[Mr Lusta]] Dwelling in the world all the crime and corruption With the whirlwind spinning enticing eruption The whirlpool dragging down the individual Have to step back and kick a verbalistical mystical lyric like ya Lesley (Lesley) Plug in the mic hook me up and connect me Got the pressure pushing down got to pay all the bills But the factor is low on the incoming shills It's a vicious circle spiral down helter skelter Thank my lucky start that I have the shelter And somewhere to lay down my heavy head And contemplate all the statements a being said Governments changing, rearranging In the system searching for someone to blame so Don't get caught up or brought down Contemplate, wait, so take a look around And view your condition take a look at your position Liberate yourself from all the aggravation Pushing down upon your brain Can't you see this world can drive you insane Sit back and think at my free will And then realise you just gotta chill.

about

This project was compiled in association with www.breaktothebeat.com for the purpose of documenting Hip Hop culture that evolved in and around Milton Keynes, England, during the 1990s.

True Element were a Hip Hop collective founded by rapper/producer Kraze One during the mid-1990s. Kraze One produced and funded several independent releases for the project during its inception and nurtured its evolution towards becoming one of Milton Keynes’s pioneering Hip Hop crews. True Element eventually evolved into a full live band that incorporated several of the city's musicians and vocalists. For a detailed account of True Elements musical legacy please visit: www.breaktothebeat.com/mk-hip-hop-culture-part-three-1996-2000/true-element-part-1-the-foundation/

"Take a look around/Detonate the funk" were the first recordings created for the True Element project that was originally released as a cassette single and limited-edition CD in the summer of 1997. Both recordings were produced and arranged by Kraze One and feature performances by rapper Mr Lusta and DJ Maniphest with artwork for both cassette and CD releases created by Matt Meech Design.

The roots of the True Element project date back to 1995 which is when the original studio jam of "Take a look around" was recorded at Audio lab studio, Buckingham. Both Kraze One and Mr Lusta were in the final stages of undertaking a sound recording course and as part of a practical assignment created the live demo recording with DJ Danny Cooley. The trio worked together on several local music ventures at the time under the collective name of Crazy Options.

Kraze One progressed to work part time as a studio engineer using downtime to experiment with Hip Hop production and it was this opportunity that led to the construction of the "Take a look around instrumental". Kraze One used the original studio jam that was created using pre-recorded instrumentals and turntables as a guide for the arrangement and re-recorded the vocals with Mr Lusta during the summer of 1996. The recording was finally completed in 1997 when DJ Maniphest added the scratches and cuts.

“Detonate the funk” was produced and recorded in 1997 and features scratches and backup vocals by DJ Maniphest. A previous unreleased demo version of “Detonate the funk” created in 1996 with rapper Killa Joul now forms part of the digital release of Kraze One’s “Straight from the sector” recording project that is also available to play and download free from Bandcamp.

The “Take a look around” cassette single that was released in 1997 contained vocal versions of both True Element recordings and the limited edition CD included an extra three bonus tracks that featured performances by Kraze One, Mr Lusta, Danny Cooley and several other members of the Buckingham Hip Hop community. Several of the bonus tracks formed part of Kraze one's debut recording project "Straight from the sector".

The digital re-release of "Take a look around/Detonate the funk" contains the vocal versions of both recordings from the original release as well as the previously unreleased instrumental versions and the studio jam from 1995 used by Kraze One as a guide to construct "Take a look around".

credits

released April 1, 2023

Vocals written & pefromed by Kraze One, Mr Lusta.
Scratches & cuts by DJ Maniphest, Danny Cooley.
Produced & arranged by Kraze One for One On One Productions.

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DJ Kraze One England, UK

Kraze One is a pioneering Hip Hop practitioner from Milton Keynes, UK and has been actively involved in local Hip Hop culture since the early 1990s.

Initially a graffiti artist, Kraze One progressed to master Rapping, Deejaying, and Production breaking out of the local scene on several occasions with various releases and eventually establishing Hip Hop archive:

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