Razah's Ladder

Razah's Ladder is a collaborative studio album by American hip hop production duo Blue Sky Black Death and American rapper Hell Razah. It was released by Babygrande Records in 2007.

Razah's Ladder
Studio album by
Blue Sky Black Death & Hell Razah
ReleasedOctober 23, 2007 (2007-10-23)
GenreHip hop
Length45:28
LabelBabygrande Records
ProducerBlue Sky Black Death
Blue Sky Black Death chronology
The Holocaust
(2006)		 Razah's Ladder
(2007)		 Late Night Cinema
(2008)
Hell Razah chronology
Renaissance Child
(2007)		 Razah's Ladder
(2007)		 Welcome to Red Hook Houses
(2008)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Prefix7.5/10[1]
RapReviews.com8.5/10[2]

Production

The album title refers to the Bible story of Jacob's Ladder. Razah stated the album "reps me escalating in my career", and will lead-in to his next solo project, titled Heaven Razah. After the recent death of his father, Razah decided to take the album in a deeper, spiritual direction.[3] Blue Sky Black Death stated that the album's production is not as dark or as sinister as the production on their last project with Wu-Tang affiliate Holocaust, calling it an "uplifting album" with more soulful beats requested by Razah.[4]

Release

Blue Sky Black Death stated that there would be no singles released from the album, calling them "obsolete" for underground artists. Instead the entire project was released on vinyl as well as CD.[4]

Track listing
No.TitleLength
1."Elevation"1:32
2."Razah's Ladder"2:34
3."The Cube"3:41
4."Halos" (featuring Crooked I)4:23
5."Most Merciful"1:53
6."Audiobiography" (featuring Shabazz the Disciple)4:34
7."Pray Together"3:58
8."Poor Righteous Dreams"2:59
9."Better than Jewelry"3:18
10."Project Prophecy" (featuring Ill Bill and Sabac Red)4:10
11."Painted Jezebels"4:10
12."Written in Blood" (featuring Prodigal Sunn)3:16
13."Stairway to Heaven"2:55
14."Sun of Man"3:26

Personnel

Credits adapted from liner notes.

  • Hell Razah – vocals
  • Blue Sky Black Death – production, arrangement
  • MadAdam – turntables (3, 4, 5, 7, 9, 10, 11)
  • Evan Gordon – keyboards (2, 4, 8, 10), synthesizer (3, 10), guitar (5)
  • Crooked I – vocals (4)
  • Shabazz the Disciple – vocals (6)
  • Ill Bill – vocals (10)
  • Sabac Red – vocals (10)
  • Prodigal Sunn – vocals (12)
  • Crown Prince Universal – vocals (1, 14)
  • Ashley Wise – vocals (14)
  • Michael Tabie – design
  • Jesse Stone – marketing
  • Willy Friedman – marketing
  • Ben Dotson – marketing
  • Milo Pullman – marketing
gollark: It looks nice? Or would, if it wasn't broken.
gollark: It's actually just a port of a Haskell one.
gollark: I feel thingy today so I'm going to try and fix my old FractalArt program.
gollark: This is isomorphic to two (2) bee.
gollark: Also, it's proprietary software.

References
  1. Barshad, Amos (February 8, 2008). "Hell Razah - Razah's Ladder". Prefix. Retrieved August 9, 2015.
  2. B., James (November 13, 2007). "Hell Razah :: Blue Sky Black Death presents Hell Razah: Razah's Ladder :: Babygrande Records". RapReviews.com. Retrieved August 9, 2015.
  3. "Video interview with Hell Razah". Retrieved October 15, 2007.
  4. "Wu-International interview with Blue Sky Black Death & Hell Razah". Archived from the original on February 9, 2013. Retrieved October 15, 2007.
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