A2G
title: "A2G" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["1999-eps", "hip-hop-eps", "blackalicious-albums", "quannum-projects-eps"] topic_path: "arts/music" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A2G" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0
::data[format=table title="Infobox album"]
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | A2G |
| type | ep |
| artist | Blackalicious |
| cover | A2GEPBlackalicious.jpg |
| released | |
| recorded | |
| genre | Hip hop |
| length | |
| label | Quannum Projects |
| producer | Chief Xcel, Cut Chemist |
| prev_title | Melodica |
| prev_year | 1994 |
| next_title | Nia |
| next_year | 1999 |
| :: |
| name = A2G | type = ep | artist = Blackalicious | cover = A2GEPBlackalicious.jpg | alt = | released = | recorded = | studio = | genre = Hip hop | length = | label = Quannum Projects | producer = Chief Xcel, Cut Chemist | prev_title = Melodica | prev_year = 1994 | next_title = Nia | next_year = 1999 A2G is an EP by American hip hop duo Blackalicious. It was originally released on Quannum Projects in 1999. It peaked at number 21 on the UK Independent Albums Chart.
The EP contains the tongue-twisting song "Alphabet Aerobics", which actor Daniel Radcliffe recited on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon in 2014.
Critical reception
| rev1 = AllMusic | rev1score = | rev2 = The New Rolling Stone Album Guide | rev2score = Stanton Swihart of AllMusic praised "Alphabet Aerobics". He additionally wrote that Gift of Gab "barely outshines Chief Xcel, who, par for course with the entire Quannum Projects crew, loads the music with clever samples and newfangled beats (especially on the funk-laced 'Clockwork') to keep things ever-inventive."
Track listing
| extra_column = Producer(s) | title1 = A to G | extra1 = Chief Xcel | length1 = 2:27 | title2 = Clockwork | extra2 = Chief Xcel | length2 = 4:31 | title3 = Rock the Spot | extra3 = Chief Xcel | length3 = 4:20 | title4 = Back to the Essence | note4 = featuring Lateef | extra4 = Chief Xcel | length4 = 3:33 | title5 = Deception | extra5 = Chief Xcel | length5 = 4:36 | title6 = Making Progress | extra6 = Chief Xcel | length6 = 3:12 | title7 = Alphabet Aerobics | note7 = The Cut Chemist 2 ½ Minute Workout | extra7 = Cut Chemist | length7 = 2:13 | total_length = 24:46
Charts
::data[format=table] | Chart | Peak position | UK Independent Albums (OCC) | |---|---|---| | 21 | | | ::
References
References
- Phull, Hardeep. (August 17, 2015). "How Daniel Radcliffe made this hip-hop duo cool again". [[New York Post]].
- Swihart, Stanton. "A2G - Blackalicious". [[AllMusic]].
- (2004). "[[The New Rolling Stone Album Guide]]". Fireside.
- "Official Independent Albums Chart Top 50: 02 May 1999 - 08 May 1999". [[Official Charts Company]].
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