Fastlife
2005
Family Feud
About This Album
Time and time again it seemed like the Dayton Family had fallen off for good, not for lack of talent or motivation but rather because the group had been dealt a difficult hand from the get-go. The Family's debut album, What's on My Mind?, released in 1995 on the teeny-tiny Po' Broke label, was an unlikely success, for sure. Again, not because of the Dayton Family itself, nor because of the album, because in fact both were quite impressive. Instead, it was because the group was from Flint, MI -- a dilapidated industrial town an hour north of Detroit, not exactly a prime market -- and because it was 1995, a few years before the hardcore rap underground began flourishing with the advent of No Limit, Cash Money, and so on. But What's on My Mind? became a remarkable underground favorite, from Michigan to Atlanta to California. The group then, unfortunately, encountered problems with the law in years to come, which put operations on hold for a while. But the Dayton Family proved resilient, regrouping for a series of solo albums in 2001 followed by a comeback album in 2002, Welcome to the Dopehouse. Then another lull, a long one that finally came to an end in summer 2005 with the release of Family Feud, yet another remarkable comeback album that proves just how hard it is to keep the Dayton Family down.
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