Hello you are looking to buy the RARE LATEEF & THE CHIEF CD MAROONS: AMBUSH released in 2005 on QUANNUM Records UPC: 045778070220. THIS CD WAS USED FOR PROMOTIONAL PURPOSES. COMES WITH COLLECTIBLE DIGIPAK WITH RED PROMO STICKER ON FRONT SHRINKWRAP FOR FEATURED TRACKS.  ITEM IS SEALED, BRAND NEW & IN MINT CONDITION. CD COMES STORED IN A POLYBAG SLEEVE. NOTE: THERE IS A BLACK SLASH DRAWN ACROSS UPC CODE UNDER THE SHRINK WHICH DENOTES PROMO STATUS. International buyers please inquire about shipping rates. Thank you for looking and Happy Buying. SEE OUR OTHER ITEMS FOR THIS ARTIST

Maroons borrow from two of Quannum's best-known groups, pairing Blackalicious producer Chief Xcel with Latyrx's chatterbox Lateef. Though the two have worked together many times before, the focused collaboration on this nine-song effort helps to reinforce each artist's strength. Compared to the more mellow beats that Xcel often concocts for Blackalicious, the production on Ambush is more energetic, even aggressive at times. You hear that most explosively on the funk bomb "Lester Hayes, " but even the slick, disco-flavored "Don't Stop " benefits from this more vigorous approach. Likewise, Lateef's mercurial sing-song flow gets a thorough workout, swinging a more seductive lilt on "Beautiful You " while hitting a brisk pace for "Best of Me " (which also features Xcel's Blackalicious partner Gift of Gab). Though clocking in at less than 40 minutes, this offering is still more than a sufficient tease of what new experiments Quannum might produce down the road. --Oliver Wang Product DescriptionLateef & The Chief, a.k.a. Maroons, are Lateef The Truth Speaker, one half of the critically acclaimed Latyrx, and Chief Xcel, Blackalicious' musical mastermind. On this collaboration, they turn battle rhymes into statements of peace and celebrate survival, solidarity, and the sistas. Afrodiasporic beats effortlessly bring together jazz, samba, charanga, dub, and funk through hip-hop and fluid whirlwind rhymes rippling with metaphors and ideas.