Ground Lift Magazine gives THE GREEN ALBUM some love on their blog

Woooowwww!  Peep this post that GroundLiftMagazine put up…

Thanks brotha!  Appreciate the appreciation.  Real talk.  You’re one of  few who have taken initiative.  I appreciate that.

The following is what they posted:

This is my shit right now. Bottom line: it’s classic Hip-hop acapellas over original beats produced using only samples from Al Green. It’d be pretty tough to mess that up, and Omer Saar (Universoul Productions) straight kills it. Also worth checking out are xxx’s xxx album culls samples from Prince’s catalog, and Mike Love’s Nigerian Gangster which flips Fela Kuti beats for American Gangster acapellas.

The Green Album: (courtesy of Universoul Production’s blog)

Al Green has long-been my favorite artist of all time along with Bob Marley.  I’ve been listening to his music for years and I love it as much today as ever.

About 4 years ago, I was laying on my brother’s porch in Ann Arbor, MI after a long night of partying.  Everyone was already asleep and I just put on Al Green’s Greatest Hits.  I’m layin’ there thinking I could probably make a beat out of every single one of these songs.

So I did.

I knocked out 15 or so songs in less than 2 months.  This was around March/April of 2005.  I remember visiting my brother around my birthday and thinking that a year from “now” I want to drop the album on my birthday, so the world has it for the Summer.

Well… it’s a couple years late, but it’s all happening thanks to Al Green & ?uestlove making “Lay It Down”, and releasing it ON MY BIRTHDAY!  I mean, what kind of “coincidence” is that?  That’s the kind of magic life occasionally blesses us with, if we are conscious enuff to recognize it.  That “sign” was all I needed to get back to finishing this project.

Download: Omer Saar – The Green Album