Album Notes

Take A Penny Leave A Penny is the new solo record from MC Exposition of Audible Mainframe.

At this point there’s no contest, Exposition is one of hip-hop's superlative front man. While his live band ,Audible Mainframe, snatched the “Best Live Band” award at the 2006 Boston Hip-Hop Awards, he took home the trophy for “Best Underground Artist.” The polls are in. The people have spoken.

Just two years after dropping The Metro, Exposition puts forth his Sophomore LP, Take a Penny, Leave a Penny. Like his debut, Penny is highly inspired; not only in the lyric department, but in terms of the canvasses that Expo gets to paint on. On his solo outings, Expo writes freedom manifestos that celebrate hip-hop and inspire socio-cultural revolution. The party vibe still burns, but more so than on Audible tracks his own albums are deep collections of poem-driven rhythm; the sort of new millennium New England native tongue baths that few rappers still deliver. Tracks like the Evil Earn produced “How They Used To” won’t just make you say, “That would be the biggest jam of the millennium if commercial radio program directors weren’t unrepentant whores;”

To date Expo has played shows with such national and touring acts as: Common, Damian Marley Slick Rick, Jeru tha Damja, Immortal Technique, Boot Camp Klik,Lyrics Born, Arrested Development, Devin the Dude, Kool Keith, The Coup,Royce the 5'9, Cage, EDO G,Tame One, Zion I, DJ Logic, Mr Lif and Akrobatick (The Perceptionists) and others

Yes – there are a lot of underground rappers. And sure – many of them flood their rhymes with anti-establishment riot baiting. But few of them have the natural rhythm or highly accessible lyrics that Exposition packs into each verse, effectively luring you toward his cause and emotion. .