Brother Ali - Rites of Passage (CDQ Cassette Mix, Cassette Rip, CD Rip WAV/CUE/LOG) (WAV)

Original Cassette art, scanned from the insert

Unused CD or Vinyl scaled version of the art from the Rhymesayers website

2004 CD remaster which did not come with any art

CDQ Cassette Mix:
This version of Rites of Passage is a custom made version I put together that reverts the slight mixing change on the CD remaster and makes them identical to the original Cassette version. This change is "So Dearly" fading into the track after it, "Voices In My Head". This was done by finding where the outro loops and repeating it, and fading it out accordingly using Audacity's "Adjustable Fade" feature and comparing it with the original Cassette rip. This also fixes the outro from "So Dearly" being listed as a separate track. The intro to "Voices In My Head" was fixed by taking the intro from the Cassette rip, removing the noise, and splicing it back in.

Cassette Rip (24bit 192khz):

This is a rip of the original 2000 released Cassette done using a Technics M65 tape deck and a Schiit JIL Analog-->Digital converter. It sounds VERY good for a tape (especially one that's 21 years old) due to it being on chrome tape thankfully. Though, the CD remaster does sound better. More so uploaded due to it being a crucial part of the artist's discography in my opinion.

CD Rip:

This is a rip of the 2004 released CD remaster done using Exact Audio Copy. This CD has a few changes (some I mentioned above) but will reiterate.

• So Dearly fades out into Voices In My Head
• So Dearly's outro is split off into another track, "Music In My Head", but is not different musically in any way
• 2 bonus tracks are added at the end, "The Phoenix (feat. Musab)", and "Eighty-8 (feat. BK-One)"

No other changes are present in this remaster thankfully, Rhymesayers did an AMAZING job on it, I'm very surprised that they didn't like how it came out. Id go as far to say this deserves a Vinyl release at the very least.

TRACKLIST:

Intro

Whatever

Think It Through

Nine Double Em

Eye Of The Storm

We Will Always B (feat. Desdamona)

So Dearly

Voices In My Head

They're Finished

Tofuti (feat. Queen Aminah)

Ali Boombaye

You Never Know feat. Madson

Three Day Journey

The Session

CD BONUS TRACKS:

The Phoenix (feat. Musab)

Eighty-8 (feat. BK-One)

DOWNLOAD:

YUhSMGNITTZMeTl0WldkaExtNTZMMlp2YkdSbGNpOW9ZM0JFTVZsU1V5Tm5TR1oxYjBaSVpUUlZjVTVxTW5GbE1tVjFhamwz

Copy the string of text above and decode 2 TIMES with Base64

SUPPORT THE ARTIST!!! This upload is in no way intended to screw over anyone involved with this artist's recordings, nor the artist himself. The CD of this was limited to 300 and has been out of print since 2004 with a limited cassette re-release in 2014.