Def Jef followed up Just a Poet With Soul with the equally likable Soul Food, which regrettably didn't bring the underexposed L.A.-based rapper the commercial success he deserved. The CD's more sociopolitical songs are also its best, including Get Up 4 the Get Down, Don't Sleep (Open Your Eyes) and the reggae-Influenced Voice of a New Generation. But Jef is also quite enjoyable on more escapist tunes like Cali's All That (a duet with Tone Loc), Fa Sho Shot (which samples L.T.D.'s 1977 hit Back In Love Agai...   [ read more ]

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Raised in Harlem and the Bronx, Def Jef is a talented rapper who hung out in the same neighborhoods that gave us Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five, Kurtis Blow and the Treacherous Three and was exposed to their music at an early age. When he moved to Los Angeles and signed with Delicious Vinyl in the late 1980s, the influence of hip-hop's old school remained. Jef's debut album, Just a Poet With Soul, wasn't as big a seller as the albums Young MC and Tone Loc had recorded for Delicious, but jams like Dro...   [ read more ]

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