To de-clutter my life, I embarked upon the task of digitizing my old LPs.\u00a0 One of the jewels in my collection was the debut album of one of the first Latin Hip Hop pioneers, Mellow Man Ace, Escape from Havana. Mellow, the brother of Sen Dog, who was 1\/3 of the seminal Cypress Hill trio, signed to Capitol Records before his Cypress Hill was signed. So let’s get right into this Mellow Man Ace Album Review.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I originally purchased the 12-inch single, Mentirosa<\/em> (Liar), which some of you may remember came out in 1989.\u00a0 The song lifted a Santana chorus and told the tale of a young man whose woman was stepping out on him.\u00a0(I believe Mellow\u2019s sister was the female voice in the song.) <\/p>\n\n\n\n After hearing that record, I was smitten with the possibility of bi-lingual rapping, and I had to hear more from this young Cuban sensation from the West Coast. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Ironically, one might have expected a record like this to come out of Miami, not L.A. Nonetheless. The album used some heavy-hitting producers of the time, specifically the Dust Brothers and Def Jef.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n My 7th-grade\u00a0brain would never be the same after listening to this Mellow Man Ace album. I had the dubbed cassette version of the album, which I think I wore out.\u00a0 Eventually, on a trip to a Miami record shop, while passing through, I purchased the LP years later. With all its early hip-hop cache, the photo on the front was worth a few bucks alone.\u00a0 If you get a chance, click the links below and do a little memory lane stroll.<\/p>\n\n\n\nNo.<\/th> Title<\/th> Producer(s)<\/th> Length<\/th><\/tr> 1.<\/td> “Hip Hop Creature”<\/td> Dust Brothers<\/td> 4:01<\/td><\/tr> 2.<\/td> “Mentirosa”<\/td> Tony G<\/td> 4:20<\/td><\/tr> 3.<\/td> “Rhyme Fighter”<\/td> Tony G<\/td> 5:12<\/td><\/tr> 4.<\/td> “If You Were Mine”<\/td> Dust Brothers<\/td> 4:41<\/td><\/tr> 5.<\/td> “River Cubano”<\/td> DJ Muggs<\/td> 4:26<\/td><\/tr> 6.<\/td> “Rap Guanco”<\/td> Tony G<\/td> 4:27<\/td><\/tr> 7.<\/td> “Mas Pingon”<\/td> Dust Brothers<\/td> 5:17<\/td><\/tr> 8.<\/td> “Gettin’ Stupid”<\/td> Johnny Rivers<\/td> 4:53<\/td><\/tr> 9.<\/td> “Talkapella”<\/td> Mellow Man Ace Tony G<\/td> 3:56<\/td><\/tr> 10.<\/td> “B-Boy In Love”<\/td> Tony G<\/td> 4:40<\/td><\/tr> 11.<\/td> “En La Casa”<\/td> Def Jef<\/td> 4:11<\/td><\/tr> 12.<\/td> “Enquenteran Amor”<\/td> Dust Brothers<\/td> 5:09<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>