Poor People's Day

Poor People's Day is a studio album by American hip hop musician Bigg Jus, a former member of Company Flow. It was released on Mush Records in 2005. The album is entirely produced by DJ Gman.

Poor People's Day
Studio album by Bigg Jus
Released	November 8, 2005[1]
Genre	Alternative hip hop
Length	44:42
Label	Mush Records
Producer	DJ Gman
Bigg Jus chronology
Black Mamba Serums v2.0 (2004) Poor People's Day (2005) Machines That Make Civilization Fun (2012)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllHipHop	3/5[2]
AllMusic	[3]
CMJ New Music Monthly	favorable[4]
IGN	9.3/10[5]
NPR	favorable[6]
RapReviews.com	7.5/10[7]

Critical reception

Stewart Mason of AllMusic gave the album 4.5 stars out of 5, calling it "the rapper's most immediately accessible album, with less fractured, smoother beats and fewer outlandish arrangements underneath his lyrics."[3] He said, "Those lyrics are as uncompromising as ever, but the friendlier settings make Bigg Jus' position statements and character studies sound easier to get into than ever before, which increases their strength considerably."[3]

Owen Strock of CMJ New Music Monthly described it as "an anti-globalization opus of dusty beats and multi-syllabic rhymes that sound like Ghostface, RZA and Noam Chomsky having a threeway."[4]

Track listing

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Everything Must Coincide"	1:18
2.	"Supa Nigga"	3:32
3.	"Energy Harvester (Swallow the Sun)"	4:23
4.	"This Is Poor People's Day"	4:34
5.	"Orbital Mechanics"	4:34
6.	"Halogen Lanterns"	6:24
7.	"Illustrations of Hieronymus Bosch... That 1467 Shit"	3:34
8.	"Night Before"	3:43
9.	"Eerie Silence"	1:27
10.	"When They Start... 1997 Uptop Shit"	3:57
11.	"Memories of You"	1:59
12.	"Anything You See Fit (Change by Design)"	4:01
13.	"Been Here Forever"	1:16

References

1. "MH-239: Bigg Jus - Poor People's Day". Mush Records. Retrieved May 27, 2017.
2. Crawford, Angus (March 8, 2006). "Poor People's Day". AllHipHop. Retrieved May 27, 2017.
3. Mason, Stewart. "Poor People's Day - Bigg Jus". AllMusic. Retrieved May 27, 2017.
4. Strock, Owen (2005). "Abridged Too Far". CMJ New Music Monthly (137): 48.
5. Fry, William (July 10, 2006). "Bigg Jus - Poor People's Day". IGN. Retrieved May 27, 2017.
6. Johnson, Christopher (March 15, 2006). "Indie Rap Hero Bigg Jus: 'Poor People's Day'". NPR. Retrieved May 27, 2017.
7. Sheremet, Alex (January 27, 2009). "Bigg Jus :: Poor People's Day :: MUSH Records". RapReviews.com. Retrieved May 27, 2017.

External links

• Poor People's Day at Discogs (list of releases)