# Rap Legend LYRICS BORN Releases Acoustic Album On 5/10… 2nd To Last Album (At Least For Now)

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- Published: 2024-05-08T09:00:00-05:00
- Author: Eugene Tierney

### **LYRICS RE-BORN**⏎ **Lyrics Born Strips Down His Most Iconic HitsFor Acoustic Album󠀁[_That 1 Tyme In The Studio: Acoustic Selections_](https://reybee.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f67b4587af2b2ef9aa80ed984&id=ef7b6ab017&e=615f2b8493)󠁿Out May 10, 2024

#### **Second To Last Album Before Taking An Indefinite Hiatus from Music**

**MAY 7, 2024 (Berkeley, CA) – **“I love recreating my songs live to include other
grooves, genres and influences,” says rap legend **LYRICS BORN** about his new acoustic
album **_That 1 Tyme In The Studio: Acoustic Selections,_** which gets released_
via_ **Mobile Home Recordings **on **May 10, 2024**. Digging into the crates of 
his critically hailed musical oeuvre, the Berkeley-based artist Born has reworked,
remade and remodeled some of his biggest hits and transformed them into stripped-
down and refreshed versions of their former selves.

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**LYRICS BORN**
Photo credit: Mark Chua

Sometimes, staying relatively close to the original to highlight the songwriting
from the studio versions, like his jazzy New Orleans take on “**Chest Wide Open**”(
from 2015’s _Real People_) to the reggae-flavored “**Callin’ Out**” (from his 2003
solo debut _Later That Day_), _That 1Tyme In The Studio_ reveals a more organic 
side of the rapper. When asked how difficult it was to transform the songs, he replies,“
It was a lot of fun. It was a lot like the live experience, where you know the song,
you just get in and knock it out, and the energy that’s captured with no editing
or revisions.”

Turning up the drama on the James Brown staple, “**This Is a Man’s World**” (from
2018’s _Quite a Life_) showcases his vocal range amidst a smoky nightclub musical
backdrop. His takes on “**I Like It, I Love It**” (from 2008’s _Everywhere At Once_)
and “**Do That There**” (from _Later That Day_) made him most excited to tackle.“
I really love the way those tracks turned out,” he beams. “The energy is just so
much fun.”

As Lyrics Born dives deeper into the entertainment world, having had a cameo on 
Boots Riley’s 2018 sleeper hit film **_Sorry To Bother You_**, a role on Netflix’s
hit film **_Always Be My Maybe _**(alongside Ali Wong, Daniel Park and Keanu Reeves),
and a hit YouTube cooking series on its fourth season with **_Dinner In Place_**,
it seems as if his musical journey may be coming to a close. Starting in the in 
the late ‘90s as a vital part of the intensely influential Bay Area hip hop collective**
Quannum Projects** that spawned DJ Shadow, Blackalicious, Lifesavas and Latyrx, 
of which he was half with Lateef the Truthspeaker, Lyrics Born broke countless barriers
as the first Asian-American solo rapper to perform at Lollapalooza, Coachella, release
a greatest hits record, etc. There was never a glass ceiling that he wasn’t able
to break.

“I am doing more on-camera and multimedia productions,” he explains about moving
away from music and toward other media. “_Dinner In Place_: Season Five is on the
way and it’s received over three million views across all platforms! It’s really
been rewarding to use all those other sides of my creative brain.”

As a retrospective of his first 14 albums, _That 1 Tyme In The Studio_ is a solid
note before he bows out in the Fall. “I have one more album after this for 2024 
and then I’m gonna take an indefinite hiatus from releasing albums,” he says contentedly.“
In the fall will be my 16^(th). I think that’s enough for now.”’

**_That 1 Tyme In The Studio: Acoustic Selections_** will be released _via_ **Mobile
Home Recordings **on **May 10, 2024.**

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**_That 1 Tyme In The Studio: Acoustic Selections_**

 1.  Rock-Rock-Away (Acoustic Version)
 2.  I Like It, I Love It (Acoustic Version)
 3.  Do That There (Acoustic Version)
 4.  Callin’ Out (Acoustic Version)
 5.  I’m The Best / Rules Were Meant to Be Broken (Acoustic Version)
 6.  This Is A Man’s World? (Acoustic Version)
 7.  Same But Different (Acoustic Version)
 8.  Chest Wide Open (Acoustic Version)
 9.  Something Better (Acoustic Version)
 10. Bonus: Heaven and Armageddon*

**Credits:**

Lead Vocals: Lyrics Born
Background Vocals: Joyo VelardeUriah Duffy – Upright Bass,
Kala U-BassBen Misterka – Acoustic Guitars, Lap SteelImanuel Junaedy – Piano, Melodica,
AccordionChristian Pepin – Congas, Cajon, Minor Percussion 

Album Producer: Lyrics Born
Executive Producer: Lyrics Born for Mobile Home RecordingsRecording,
Mixed and Mastered: Count for Vertebrae ProductionsProject Manager: D4 Nguyen 

* Producers For Heaven and Armageddon: Jordan Blackmon and Grey Goon 

Cover Art: Paul Lukes
Original Photos: Mark Chua 

℗ & © 2024 Mobile Home Recordings, LLCRecorded at 25th Street Recording on November
4th and 5th, 2019.

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