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Dilated Peoples is a hip hop group from Los Angeles , USA, founded in 1992 . It consists of Evidence , who acts as a rapper and producer, the rapper Rakaa Iriscience and DJ Babu , who is also a member of the Beat Junkies.
They are mainly known in underground hip hop, but they were hardly known in the mainstream apart from the song This Way , a collaboration with Kanye West .
Career
In 1992 they recorded the album Imagery, Battle Hymns & Political Poetry , which has never been released on a regular basis and can only be found as a bootleg .
In 2000, they released the album The Platform after signing a deal with Capitol Records . The following year, Expansion Team was released, which included the Alchemist-produced song, Worst Comes to Worst .
Their third album, Neighborhood Watch , was released in 2004 and included the two singles This Way with Kanye West and Who's Who , which could be heard on the Need-for-Speed: -underground soundtrack, among others.
Her album 20/20 was released in 2006 and included, among other things, the single Back Again , which was produced by The Alchemist and was also featured in the soundtrack for the video game Fight Night Round 3 . The name Dilated Peoples (in English "extended peoples / people") comes from the fact that their name was first "Dilated Pupils" (enlarged pupils), which they had to discard due to a dispute over the copyrights of this name.
Discography
Albums
- 1995: Imagery, Battlehymns & Political Poetry
- 2000: The Platform
- 2001: Expansion team
- 2004: Neighborhood Watch
- 2006: 20/20
- 2007: The Release Party (DVD)
- 2014: Directors of Photography
Singles
- 1997: Third Degree (feat. Defari )
- 1998: Work the Angles
- 2000: No Retreat (feat. B-Real )
- 2000: The Platform
- 2001: Worst Comes to Worst ( feat.Guru )
- 2002: Downtown
- 2004: This Way ( feat.Kanye West )
- 2004: Love & War
- 2005: Back Again
- 2006: You Can't Hide, You Can't Run
- 2007: Spit It Clearly
- 2014: Good as Gone
- 2014: Show Me the Way
Solo albums
- 2005: Likwit Junkies LP (DJ Babu & Defari)
- 2007: The Weatherman LP (Evidence)
- 2008: The Layover EP (Evidence)
- 2010: Crown of Thorns (Rakaa Iriscience)
- 2011: Cats & Dogs (Evidence)
- 2013: Lord Steppington (Alchemist & Evidence)
- 2018: Weather or Not (Evidence)
Features
- Goons Stampede feat. Rakaa (Dilated Peoples), Reks & Sicknature on the Snowgoons '09 album The Trojan Horse
Web links
- Official website
- Dilated Peoples at laut.de
- Dilated Peoples at Allmusic (English)
- Dilated Peoples Video Interview on Mixery Raw Deluxe.TV
- Dilated Peoples on Myspace