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| - | * http://www.megaupload.com/?d=0VIKGOEF
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| - | * Name: Victory Of The People
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| - | * Album Type: Mixtape
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| - | * Artist: Nike Laos
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| - | * Released: April 4, 2008
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| - | * Recorded: January-April 2008
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| - | * Genre: Rap
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| - | * Length: 61:03
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| - | * Label: None
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| - | * Producers: OuttaReachProductions, NonLyricalBeats, Blackout Movement, CrazyKeys, BeMajor, Swollen Drumz, LoonaticBeatz, DF Master Tee, Moses, Tony Pizarro, [[TW-1]], Anno Domini
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| - | * Last Mixtape: None
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| - | * Next Mixtape: '''Reflections Of A Fallen Angel'''
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| - | '''''Victory of the People''''' is the official debut mixtape by [[Nike Laos]], released on April 4, 2008, solely through the internet. The tape is told from the point of view of a young man deeply in love with an unnamed woman, seeing in her a partner who could help him realize all his hopes and dreams. However, the woman refuses to return the affection on the grounds that she is approached by hundreds of men and women claiming to love her just as deeply and having had many of them just abuse her.
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| - | ==The Concept: From Song To Song==
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| - | The tape is designed as a monologue aimed at an unnamed woman, from the point of view of a man who meets a woman who he loves and sees his future with and the possibility to rebuild the world with and only with her help. However, he eventually decides that if this woman does not want him as her significant other, he's willing to just work alongside her because the people need her strength as much as he does, maybe more.
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| - | '''Birth Of A Hero''': Laos starts in soft, then slowly grows louder, reciting part of a poem entitled "As We Move On," then ending with the message that one should never fear living, because a wasted life is one in which one fails to follow their dreams. Although recorded acapella, the track is raw and poorly mixed, in an attempt to give the feeling of roughness and incompleteness, much in the same way a relationship is rough around the edges at its inception.
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| - | '''Have You Seen Her''': Mimicking the spoken introduction delivered by Eugene Record on the Chi-Lite's song of the same name from which this track was sampled, Laos begins by wistfully reminiscing over dreams of finding love, then begins rapping about a woman he's seen who is innately beautiful but who has been attacked for the actions of her ex-boyfriend by her boyfriend and many others, ending the track by asking people if they have seen the real her, and the the "bad image" she's been wrongfully given.
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| - | '''La-La-La-Love''': Moving away from the stance of loving the woman from afar, Laos actually approaches her and begins an effort to try and convince the woman that he loves her. The woman aloofly ignores his attempts, categorizing Laos as just another one of those men trying to get her attention for their own gain. Acknowledging that this is true, Laos counters it by saying that even though he seeks her love for personal gain, he does in fact truly love her and promises to always love her.
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| - | '''This Is Why I'm Gold''': Seeing that the woman remains aloof even in the face of his devotion, Laos switches up his approach and begins bragging about himself in an attempt to distance himself from all the others who claimed to love her and hopefully impress her. Quality wise, the vocals were softened so give the feel that Laos was not sincerely a braggart.
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| - | '''Thoughts''': Again seeing the woman is ignoring him, Laos assumes she is ignoring him because of what her boyfriend, friends and family might think of her for loving me. Laos warns her that if this is the case, fearing what others may think of you can lead to the destruction of love and life, indirectly giving this message by telling the story of a mother who aborts her fetus because she was afraid her family would find out.
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| - | '''Pocket Full Of Money''': Convinced that the woman is just being obstinant, Laos begins to tell her about the issue of money, seeing as she seems to be infatuated with men who favor wealth, speaking on the impending recession brought on by the American-Iraqi War, rising gas prices, unaffordable college education and health care all while companies are developing higher priced cell phones and other generally useless gadgets.
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| - | '''Bang, Bang''': Breaking his approach down into nothing more than a monologue, Laos tells mentions why he feels he needs her, wanting a strong female figure in his life after God took one of them away from him. Expressing his anger through a graphic metaphor, Laos arms himself and murders Jesus Christ with a gun, the gun filled with bullets not packed with gunpowder but the blood of his deceased loved ones.
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| - | '''Redemption Song''': Feeling remorseful over the blasphemous nature of the last bit of his monologue, Laos tries to repent in the woman's eyes, speaking on the world's need for a savior. In sampling the Bob Marely track of the same name, Laos kept the verse content simplistic in honor of Marley's style of lyricism, even engaging in a call and response hook with the deceased Jamaican.
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| - | '''Sprint Laos, Sprint''': Building off of the last part, Laos tells the woman that those who try to save the world will undoubtedly come under fire from detractors who only attack the potential hero because they do not wish to hear that their world has problems. Using the analogy of a sprinting event in track and field, Laos reminds the woman that you must not let detractors stop you from fulfilling your dreams.
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| - | '''Growing Up''': Deciding that the woman is till not taking him seriously, Laos begins to bring personal elements into his monologue, speaking on the idea that as families grow older and older members who once held the family together are lost, even the closest of people just start to drift apart.
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| - | '''Wind Beneath My Wings''': Laos decides to reveal to the woman who the person was that he lost, his maternal grandmother. After recording the song over eight times, Laos decided to leave the unprofessional sounding weeping, unable to stop himself from sobbing as he rapped the lyrics.
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| - | '''Dear Momma''': Continuing off the strong woman ideal, Laos speaks on his mother, the last figure in his life that keeps him going and trying to do right, outside of potentially the unnamed woman.
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| - | '''Damage Is Done''': After acknowledging the last woman he holds dear to himm, Laos speaks on men, agreeing with the unnamed woman that some men can be untrustworthy and that some can even be destructively hurtful, a perspective Laos brings from his own personal experience.
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| - | '''The Show Must Go On''': Realizing that his monologue has broken down into a sort of sob story, Laos completely reverses direction and tells her that through the strength of his mother and stepfather, he now knows that even though life is hard, one must never give up on their dreams.
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| - | '''Oh Mercy, Mercy''': Building off of the switch in mood from depressing to motivational, Laos tells her that the world is in dire need of a savior, potentially himself alongside the unnamed woman. In sampling the song '''Mercy, Mercy Me (The Ecology)''', Laos makes a few references to Gaye himself, even singing the lyrics to the original song along with directly relating himself to Gaye.
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| - | '''Victory Of The People''': Laos finally reveals to the audience who the woman is, a personification of music, more specifically hip-hop, as a woman. Laos remarks that through the power of this global phenomenon of hip hop music, the disenfranchised people of the world can reach a state of equality with those above them economically.
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| - | '''Music''': After revealing the object of his desire, Laos tells his audience that Hip-Hop taught him to look at the world from all different angles, and that through her, and potentially through them as a couple, the entire world's fate can be re-written.
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| - | '''Good Friend''': Realizing that Hip-Hop has not exactly acknowledged him, even in the face of all these different approaches to get his attention, Laos wistfully quips that if hip hop does not want a significant other just yet, he is willing to just be her friend until she is ready for something deeper, even if this wait lasts his whole life.
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| - | ==Reviews==
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| - | Kostov: http://www.nobodysmiling.com/forum/showpost.php?p=3867422&postcount=7
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| - | [[Tha Nice One]]: http://www.nobodysmiling.com/forum/showpost.php?p=3820881&postcount=21
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| - | [[LaZy ThE DrEaMeR]]: http://www.nobodysmiling.com/forum/showpost.php?p=3820093&postcount=19
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| - | ==Track listing==
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| - | |"The Birth Of A Hero (Intro)"
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| - | |[[Nike Laos]]
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| - | |"Have You Seen Her?"
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| - | |[[Nike Laos]]
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| - | |OuttaReachProductions
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| - | |The Chi-Lites - Have You Seen Her
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| - | |"La-La-La-Love"
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| - | |"This Is Why I'm Gold"
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| - | |Blackout Movement
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| - | |Kanye West - Jesus Walks, E-40 - Tell Me When to Go, Dr. Dre - Nuthin' But a G Thang, Mobb Deep - Shook Ones Pt. II
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| - | |4:13
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| - | |"Thoughts"
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| - | |[[Nike Laos]]
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| - | |3:36
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| - | |"Pocket Full Of Money"
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| - | |BeMajor
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| - | |Young Jeezy - 22's Or Better
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| - | |"Bang, Bang"
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| - | |Kill Bill
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| - | |"Redemption Song"
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| - | |[[Nike Laos]]
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| - | |OuttaReachProductions
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| - | |Bob Marley - Redemption Songs
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| - | |4:12
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| - | |"Sprint Laos, Sprint"
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| - | |"Growing Up"
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| - | |SwollenDrumz
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| - | |Imogen Heap - Speeding Cars
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| - | |"Wind Beneath My Wings"
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| - | |[[Nike Laos]]
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| - | |Bette Midler - Wind Beneath My Wings
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| - | |"Dear Momma"
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| - | |4:02
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| - | |"Damage Is Done"
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| - | |"The Show Must Go On"
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| - | |"Oh Mercy, Mercy"
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| - | |TW-1
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| - | |Marvin Gaye - Mercy, Mercy Me (The Ecology)
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| - | |"Victory Of The People"
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| - | |"Music"
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| - | |Anno Domini
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| - | |"Good Friend"
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