Directed by Anthony Sylvester. The Only Number That Matters is Won 1.5” available now.

Directed by Phil Sedehi and Josh Pearson. Edited by Brian Dohn. From the album The Only Number That Matter is Won.

From the highly anticipated album “The Only Number That Matter is Won” available September 4th 2012 on Raw Poetix Records featuring guest appearances from Snoop Dogg, Lee Scratch Perry and Masta Ace.

Track produced by Mr. Green off Jedi Mind Tricks’s newest album “Violence Begets Violence.”

Produced by Balti – up on Itunes now.

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Noisemaker Media presents Ralph Dog “We Don’t Give A Fuck” featuring Papoose, Sean Price, Sadat X, Blaq Poet, Reef The Lost Cauze, Kurious, Pacewon, & Hell Rell. Old school legends get together on a rambunctious posse track and produce an indelible street anthem. Ralph Dog is an rap veteran on the comeback trail who invites fellow luminaries to lay down hard-hitting verses on this K-Def produced track.

Ralph Dog | We Don’t Give A Fuck f/Papoose, Sean Price, Sadat X, Blaq Poet, Reef The Lost Cauze, Kurious, Pacewon, & Hell Rell | Mark Carranceja [Director, Editor & Cinematographer]

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New video for the first single off the upcoming album The Only Number That Matters Is Won. This duo dropped a solid album together last time and I’m looking forward to this one.

“Pacewon and Mr. Green are back with a triumphant new single from the highly anticipated follow up to their classic album “The Only Color That Matters is Green” The new album “Only Number That Matters is Won” is coming late this summer and will feature guest appearances from Snoop Dogg, Lee Scratch Perry, Masta Ace as well as some special surprises. Be on the lookout for ‘The Only Number That Mattes is Won’”

Official music video to the Pace Won and Mr. Green song “Can You Hear Me? (A Tribute to the People
of Tunisia).” Directed by Sam Lipman-Stern of Young and Balding Productions. Pace Won and Mr. Green’s new album “The Only Number That Matters is Won” is coming this summer on Raw Poetix Records featuring guest appearances from Masta Ace, Snoop Dogg and Lee Scratch Perry.

Pace Won and Mr. Green are back with the second single from the highly anticipated follow up to their 2008 release The Only Color That Matters is Green. The new album, The Only Number That Matters is Won is coming in 2011 on Raw Poetix Records/The Orchard and will feature guest appearances from Lee Scratch Perry and Snoop Dogg. Directed, Filmed and Edited by Dru Brown of Seven8 Media in Australia. Cop the single on ITunes now.

Looks like Mr. Green’s got plenty of stuff up his sleeve for this year, including The Art of Wu Tang mixtape with DJ Critical Hype coming in July, his album with Pacewon, The Only Number That Matters Is Won, in August, and “Classic Beats Volume One” in September.

New Jersey MC and DJ duo Pace Won and Mr. Green’s The Only Color That Matters Is Green gets off to a better start than most hip hop albums for the simple fact that it actually starts with a song.  A full-fledged, meaty, five-minute-plus track with Mr. Green (not to be confused with DJ Green Lantern) laying down some rousing strings as Pace comes in to get it “bangin’ like Billy Bob Thornton.”

It sets the tone for the fairly tight package this album delivers.  The Only Color… is somewhat of a rare thing these days—a hip hop record you can just enjoy.  Put it in the deck, press play, and bob your head.  It’s not innovative or socially conscious or even that gangsta, but at only a little over 50 minutes, it’s not bloated with the requisite club tracks, southern-flavored tracks, intros, outros and skits that have you constantly hitting the skip button.

That said, the second track, “Children Sing,” employs what’s become, if not a cliché, than a hip hop staple, the children’s chorus.  It’s apparently a study in contrast producers can’t resist:  Glock-toting MC’s and the little kids who sing their hooks.  Still, Mr. Green makes it work as Pace Won takes shots at weak rappers and proclaims, “I’ma just push and push until I get it.”

Pace seems to have become a sort of journeyman of the underground.  While he gives lip-service to gettin’ cheddar (“The Only Color That Matters is Green,” “I Need Money”), he’s not ever going to be Jay-Z or 50 Cent.  On “I Need Money” he talks predictably about his spot on the Forbes list but he’s more truthful when he spits:  “Pick my pen up and just let the nouns flow/and earn/like Nature did with The Firm.” Yeah, Nature, that’s more like it.

Like most rappers, Pace is obsessed with the past, and the middle portion of The Only Color is heavy on nostalgia.  On the piano-laced “Who I Am,” he takes us through a timeline of his hip hop influences: “I’ma take you back with a heavenly rhyme/to me in kindergarten back in ’79/back to the essence/when hip hop was precious/first I heard Rapper’s Delight, then The Message.”

On the next verse, he fills us in on how he used to eat more junk food than a candy-fiendin’ Derrick Rose:  “Five-cent candies they called ‘em Jingles/who didn’t have the fever for the flavor of some Pringles … Swedish fish, Blow Pops and Chico Sticks/all before evil chicks or ego trips.” It’s not exactly a childhood reflection worthy of Ghostface talking about plucking roaches out the cereal box, but it’ll do.

The second-to-last track, “She Be So Cold,” is the unequivocal gem of the album.  Mr. Green brilliantly samples The White Stripes’ “Denial Twist,” and Pace weaves a ‘why she wanna go and do me like dat’ tale of woe worthy of Mos Def’s “Ms. Fat Booty.”  Some girl jerked Pace around for months but, refreshingly, instead of calling her a bitch he went the Project Pat route (“Don’t Call Me No Mo”) and told her to delete his number from her phone.

Unfortunately, the record closes with a not very creative diss of Eminem (who had been affiliated with The Outsidaz and didn’t exactly put Pace on his back when he reached stardom).  What might have been a bold attempt at starting a beef ends up smacking of jealousy, and threatening to “get Tiger Woods to putt you” doesn’t necessarily strike fear in the hearts of men.  Pace does raise one good point, though, where is Eminem?

The real star of this record may be Mr. Green’s startlingly consistent production.  The unheralded producer’s DJ Premier-like sound proves that you can make quality hip hop by taking a sweet sample, looping it, scratching it and letting it bump.  With so much filler and garbage out there, these beats and a solid performance from a rather seasoned MC make you wonder, is this game really so hard?  As Pace says on “Four Quarters,” the album’s opener, “It’s like fightin’ some dude that got a glass jaw/you hit him in the chin and you win/your old life ends and your new one beings.” – Stefan Schumacher

Introduced alongside his Outsidaz click on the Fugees “Cowboys”, Pace quickly became the Method Man of the Outsidaz, as his charisma and metaphorically rich lyrics made him the crews shining star. While Pace’s Won will attract scant interest from the heads who hit the Net to burn Pacewon Effect (nine of those tracks are included here) it serves as not only a refresher course, but a good introduction to those who maybe unfamiliar with him. Though previous burners, “Oriental” and “Secret” are excluded here, dated, but still moving efforts are; “Nobody” feat. Young Zee, “It’s Yours” (feat. Wyclef Jean), the bass-heavy “Sunroof Top” and the classic “I Declare War”, powered by Ski’s trill flute loop, is still as fuego today as it was on its born date.

Though Pace’s new material does not include the head nod capabilities of past efforts, Ski and Pace recreate their chemistry over the morphed keyboard stabs of “Fresh”, “Rush”, and “Cowboys & Westerns” (“Ski and Kingpin we keep people stepping”) where Pace puts his abundance of braggadocios rhymes on full-display.

While Pace’s charismatic flair and Ski’s varying production helps Won carve out a very consistent niche, at 73-minutes the LP could have benefited by trimming some of the excess fat; exemplified by flat collaborations with the Flipmode Squad’s first-lady Rah Digga (“Money Hungry”) and Kurupt & Young Zee (“What You Know”).

Undeniably its been an uphill battle for Pace, but it’s good to finally see one of the underground’s slept-on talents finally get off the snide and shine on a more prominent stage then just being the source of income for bootleggers and E-Bay peddlers. Hopefully, now that Pace has finally birthed Won, he can move on to creating a “new” LP worth of material. Lets just hope that the wait for his sophomore jawn is not as prolonged.