seagrammiller

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Member Since: 07/11/2006
Band Website: www.myspace.com/seagramrecords
Band Members: Seagram Miller, was born in 1970 in the notorious 69 ville a projects in East Oakland California. He was the first west coast rapper to be signed with the down south rap label Rap-A-Lot Records, he release three albums with his time with the label: the first one was title "The Dark Roads" it was released in 1992, his second one was title "Reality Check" and it was released in 1994, his third and final one didn't come intill three-years-later and it was title "Souls On Ice" and that was released in 1997. Seagram had a short lived life probably just as violent as the lyrics he spitted! In 1996, he was shot and killed by a unknow gunman, when he was trying to save a friend's life. A year later his final album was release and it featured the joint call Sleepin In My Nikes which feat: Scarface and this joint also appear on Face's double-album title "My Homies". seagram's brother is releasing seagram's greatests hits cd in january and a all new cd in 2007 with unreleased material to pre order [email protected]
Influences: Like 'Reality Check' taken to the next level., February 9, 2006 By Joseph B. Goodwin "The Dark One" (Memphis) -Here we have a compilation of the best of Seagz unreleased material recorded prior to his assassination. Before that he had released 2 other LP's, The Dark Roads in 92 and Reality Check in 94. TDR stands alone as a masterpiece of hard but intelligent gangsta realism. Personally I think most of RC's lyrics are in the right place but the production went from the raw kult thuggish vibe of TDR to that laid-back west coast style diminishing much of the impact it could have had. The result of Souls On Ice resembles RC kicked up a few notches, a little more hardcore, a much more solid album. 'Gotta Stay Down' is one of my personal faves. As usual Seag is amazing!Soul Of Seagram, July 24, 2005 By Carltouis Stevenson (Angeles Mesa, Los Angeles)East Oakland, California's own, Seagram's last album before his death, Souls On Ice. To start this lp off about drug distribution and gangster tales with "Sleepin In My Nikes" featuring Scarface and "Slingin The Yea". "Flinstones" about the cartoon charaters is a good song with imagination, but could have been better without the bridges / hooks. The slow banging drums with a live guitar lick "One 2 The Two" is a good display of Seag's Mob stories. "Gotta Stay Down" is another spotlight with a hint of insightful lyrics like "...the only way to come up is you gotta stay down..." This album has a lot of good instrumentation with a West Coast mentality.RIP SEAGRAM THE KING ( i feel seagsta from the heart), January 28, 2005 By saj_lexus (london uk) - See all my reviewsWHAT CAN I SAY??? i 1st heard seag back in 97 it was strange i was reading the source mag (neva heard of seagram then) the article went on to say souls on ice was to be his 3rd and final album i dunno why but when i read that it made the hairs on my back stand up. i just had to explore deeper. i purchased souls on ice and man o man sleeping in my nikes was a sad track but at the same time disturbing (knowing deaths around the corner. havin listened to this album i just had to find the others i got reality check straight away but it took me 6 years to get the 1st album it cost me 50 uk pounds. beleave me when i tell u no one ive ever come across has heard of seagram but its the same ole bull 2pac this biggy that. pac and biggy combined aint never touched me i have near enough 1000 rap cds but dont own a single biggy or pac (i dont feel em).i was listening to seag when i was broke with no hope and his trax motivated me u all need to get to the core of his lyrics to understand me. remember the lyric the only way to come up is u gotta stay down. seagram is gonna remain the pride of my selection if there were 3 things to rescue from my burning house they would be all 3 seagram albums 1 love seagram like a brother (rip) c u on the other side of the road PEACE!!!!Seagram was deepest rapper and realest rapper there was, March 13, 2004 By B. Law (Bay Area California) - See all my reviewsI listen to this cd every day of my life and I feel compelled to write a review for this album. I was reading the review by misterme ( january 2004 ) and its like his opinion of Seagram and this album was spoken from my own words. In my heart I believe Seagram was the deepest rapper to ever grace the mic. His words get deep into your bones , he moves you. It really sickens me to hear that 2pac was the deepest and Biggie Smalls was the greatest rapper ever, people you must dig much deeper than that. First of all if you are from or familiar with Oakland, California you will know that Seagram came up in the notorious 69 Ville housing projects and with Darryl Reed and Tim Bluitt these brothas ran a drug dealing operation that would make A-Z, Rich Porter, and Alpo from Harlem( you know the based on a true story movie Paid In Full with Cameron ) look like Welfare recipiants. This man Seagram puts his experiences, his life, and especially his pain, and the situations that unfold when you are too deep in this street life and made it an artform. This man and his passion for his craft were no joke. You feel his anger,his pain, and his knowledge of the game with every word he speaks. I admit his beats for the most part are not on the level of his rhymes but they are solid, but were 2pac's before he got with Suge. When I hear rappers rappin about all the dope they sell or how they turf controllin the streets need to stop lying, but when Seag' tells you about the streets he comes from and his experiences please believe you are listening to the million dollar dope game put on wax without dry snitchin on his peers in its REALEST form. Getting directly to the album Souls on Ice in my opinion every song is good mainly for the lyrical content. The best songs in my opinion are Sleepin in My Nikes and Gotta Stay Down and I recommend this song to anyone from Oakland to New York who's from a turf where there is a small war going on for control of the drug market and the large amounts of money that comes with it and anyone who feels no hope witnessing the deaths of their peers and the need for vengence that takes place. Seage's greatest asset is that he captures all the pain that comes with trying to survive and get paid when you are living the street life. Unfortunately Seagram died a violent death in the late summer of 1996 when he and a friend were fired upon by an unknown assasin. Seages partna was shot in the head and just as real as his rhymes Seage suffered a majority of his fatal wounds shielding his partna from further damage. RIP Seagram Miller the realest and greatest rapper you never heard of. 1970-1996My favorite., January 4, 2004 By misterme - See all my reviewsI tried to write a long, deep review on why I enjoy this album so much, but in the end, I couldn't find the words... Seagram, in my mind, was the greatest, for the same reasons 2pac also was; deep, heartfelt, realness, and a real passion for his music. What he said, you could feel it, plus he could flow like muthaf***a. He also has great song-writing ability, when it came to knowing what would sound good with what, hooks, etc. The beats on this are also some the finest I've heard, and really demonstrate how versatile and diverse mobb music can be, Oakland-style. Anyone who says they ain't so dope, needs to take a second listen. Terry-T did most of them, Tone Capone did two-two of his best, as far as I'm concerned (Gotta Stay Down is probably my favorite track of all), and one of Rap-A-Lot's producers did one- can't remember wich producer it was... It's a cool beat, the first track, that features Scarface. Wich brings me to... featurings. Seagram came from an era where you rarely had more than 3 or 4 guest rappers on their album, meaning that 1)the album is personal, and really lets the rapper shine his best and touch personal topics, and 2)every featuring mattered. We have three here, and they ain't just any three random rappers: Scarface as I mentioned before, Spice 1, and Yukmouth! And they're all at their best here... And like a lot of bay area albums that came out from the early to the mid 90s, you won't have to skip one single track. Everything is consistent and solid, and the album is just long enough so you want to listen to it again when it's finished, rather than get tired of it halfway through because there's 12 more tracks coming and most of them are filler... To sum it up exactly... This is how I feel an album is supposed to be done. No one is as underrated as Seag was, R.I.P. Check out his two previous albums too, both classics...
Sounds Like: YOU WANT THIS ALBUM! If you want ol' skool ganksta rap that's HARD, with intelligent lyrics about the truths and consequences of ganksta life, thrown in with ambiguous references to gangsta and an underlying darkness that permeates pure evil, YOU WANT THIS! Seag was the HARDEST rapper to come out of the West coast! The ONLY west coast artist to be signed to Rap A Lot Rex! This man was REAL and probably would have seen big things happen in his career had he not been blown away in '95, a mere 2 years after this one's release. Allegedly he was involved in a huge dope ring and various other ganksta activity, which goes to show that Seag KNEW what he was rapping about. He gives explicit details about things in his raps that only someone who really experienced such things would be able to communicate. He wasn't very big on flash, metaphor or boasting in his raps. He just told it like it was and when he did do those things he did it in a way that was sincere, and only to give you an idea of the mentality that you must have to survive in the ghetto streets. This powerful album contains an aura of real darkness and evil that can be felt even though it can't really be heard, and let me tell you, NOT a lot of artist at all are able to do such things. Seag did. And this debut stands as an authentic document to the life of a REAL ganksta. This man totally understood the world he lived in on a physical and existential level, an awareness that onle few are born with. His work NEEDS to be re-released and given its due!!!
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Record Label: Seagram Records LLC
Type of Label: Indie