Sadat X 'Experience & Education' album

Experience & Education, what could it mean? For Brand Nubian’s Sadat X, it’s his life up to this point. Once a child of hip-hop is now a man amongst many children. The quite baldhead is like a bad motherfucker. Yet from the days before he chopped off his box, the brother Derek X (or DX, as he’s still known in the BX) has always been one more concerned with reality than fantasy. This, his true sophomore solo release (following 96’s Wild Cowboys debut) illustrates these points. Bringing longtime collaborators Diamond D and the Money Boss Players in alongside newer comrades like Agallah (Purple City), Edo G., even a rejoined Heltah Skeltah (Sean Price a/k/a Ruck & Rock).

In person, Sadat sometimes seems diffident or somnolent – yet put him on stage and he’s fiery and undeniable – his romanticized vocal twang igniting each line spit. As a basketball coach at the famed Riverside Church in Harlem, he runs his team like the classic leader, with authority and guidance. It’s only right for one of the Empire State’s leading scores (he was a Point Guard), who in the late-80’s left a prominent Basketball scholarship to pursue music with his Brand Nubian brothers.

Sadat’s also taught Elementary school Uptown for years now and was rumored to worked as an NYC fireman sometime back.

As a performer, he’s traveled throughout the world extensively rocking stages in Africa, Brazil, Japan, Australia, Europe, the UK and throughout North America. This course of time has seen him garner numerous collaborations along the way, with the likes of B.I.G., Jay Z & The Neptunes, Redman, Common, Busta Rhymes, & Xzibit to name only a few. He’s even been known to talk about the time him and 2Pac drove in Alamo’s (Brand Nubian’s DJ) dune-buggy from Harlem to Brooklyn sometime in the mid-90’s.

Experience & Education is the amalgamation of this all. From the sonically slicing opening track “God Is Back In Town” (produced by DJ Spinna) to the rumbling and raucous “Come On Down” (laid down by infamous UK production-duo The P Brothers). Relationships are staggeringly examined on “Ge-ology Beat” (guess who dropped the music?) and subsequently exploited on “Creep”. His city is honored on “Back To New York” and then reiterated throughout this whole effort.

Coated in years of hard work and dedication. Stinging like the barbed wire that encase a burnt-out building somewhere Uptown. Sadat X will undoubtedly be one of the most remembered pieces of hip-hop history. Not for outlandish moments in controversy, but for his pure stance on individuality through the years. Bridging generations, from nation to nation, inner-city youth to rural old-schoolers. And Sadat hopes this release relays that message. Peace to the Gods!

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Sadat X - Experience & Education