Will Rap for Food

Will Rap for Food
Studio album by CunninLynguists
Released	October 30, 2001
Genre	Hip hop
Label	Urban Acres Entertainment
Producer	Kno, Celph Titled, Deacon
CunninLynguists chronology
Will Rap for Food (2001) SouthernUnderground (2003)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
RapReviews	8.5/10[1]
SputnikMusic	[2]
Urban Smarts	Favorable[3]

Will Rap for Food is the debut album by southern hip hop group CunninLynguists, at the time only consisting of Deacon the Villain and Kno. It was released October 2001 on Urban Acres Entertainment. The album is mostly produced by Kno, with contributions from Celph Titled and Deacon the Villain, respectively, on the singles "So Live!" and "616 Rewind", which was released via Buds Distribution.^[4] Will Rap for Food was re-issued in 2005 by Freschest Records.^[5]

Background

The album's title derives from a line from a 2002 Kashal Tee song, "I'm All This", in which he says: "So fuck the commercial tracks you be doin' - A brother got to eat - Yeah? Why don't you rap for food then?" It is played in the intro of "Lynguistics" and Kashal Tee is also featured on the song "616 Rewind".^{[citation needed]} In addition, the quotation could be rooted back to the 2000 album of Guru, Jazzmatazz vol.3 where, in the song "Who's There?", a featuring with Les Nubians, he says: "These distraught thoughts of a young man in a rooming house, This messed up life, this poverty, he could do without, But what options does he have when all hope is gone? A brother gotta eat, plus all the Henny and all the smoke is gone, All it takes is one quick stick".^[6]

Track listing

All tracks are produced by Kno, except where noted.

No.	Title	Producer	Length
1.	"Will Rap for Food" (Interlude)		0:26
2.	"Lynguistics"		2:28
3.	"Mic Like a Memory" (feat. Kory Calico)		4:38
4.	"So Live!" (feat. Jayze, Game & Mr. Raw)	Celph Titled	3:08
5.	"Hey" (Interlude)		0:28
6.	"Fukinwichu"		4:51
7.	"Ain't No Way" (feat. Anetra & Mr. SOS)		3:58
8.	"Missing Children" (feat. Braille)		4:56
9.	"Midnight" (Interlude)		0:33
10.	"Thugged Out Since Cub Scouts" (feat. J. Bully & Mr. Raw)		3:52
11.	"Kno's Diggin" (Interlude)		0:37
12.	"Halfanimal"		4:02
13.	"Family Ties" (feat. Anetra & Cashmere the Professional)		4:01
14.	"Dirty South" (Interlude)		0:34
15.	"Mindstate"		3:56
16.	"Takin' the Loss" (feat. J. Bully)		5:29
17.	"Not Guilty"		3:39
18.	"616 Rewind" (feat. Celph Titled, Kashal-Tee, Sankofa, and Tonedeff)	Kno, Deacon the Villain	4:16

References

1. Will Rap for Food review RapReviews.com.
2. "CunninLynguists - Will Rap For Food (album review ) | Sputnikmusic". www.sputnikmusic.com. Retrieved 2017-03-05.
3. "urban smarts . com | cunninlynguists - will rap for food | review". www.urbansmarts.com. Retrieved 2017-03-05.
4. "QN5 MUSIC :: NO RICH RELATIVES". qn5.com. Retrieved 2017-03-05.
5. "Cunninlynguists - Will Rap For Food CD Album". www.cduniverse.com. Retrieved 2017-03-05.
6. "Guru (Ft. Les Nubians) – Who's There?".