random old rap you are loving

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_QzZQCs7VE

"fuck halloween treats cause ain't shit sweet"

I liked the reference to BDP's "The Bridge is Over" on Empire

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZvAi4uRMVM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDvMv60Vfc8

aw Mad Skillz, there's one guy I'd like to see write a tell-all confessions of a ghostwriter book

alliteration has been underused, no?
"bumpin with a big black broad named Belinda..."
one that always pops in my head is Slick Rick's "it's cool when you cause a cozy condition..."

alliteration is one of my favorite rapper tools, sean price was a master at it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DY5jgwsl6pg

They say pussy and paper is poetry power and pistols

cool...I never checked out Heltah Skeltah, cause they're called Heltah Skeltah

Ah man. Nocturnal is a top 10 90s album for me.

will def check it out

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNEnYitJs1g

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qp_t75KYkWs

not 'old' so much as it is 'not new', but i can't stop playing this song these days. when I was more active in theatre, I used to play this and "B.M.F." before shows to fire myself up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ok_lsvojSjA

Slide off in my six n****
I dont want yo bitch n****
Hoes been wantin me for too long
Love this gangsta shit that im on
Ridin on chrome heavy foot
What else can she do but look
Coogied up from head to toe
Keep me a coupla stacks at the floor
Back to the floor aint I nice
Play with the cash and u playin with ya life
And anyone that u choose ya still lose
And then ima tax on them mothafuckin dues
I do it for the blues I do it for the bloods
Fuck the feds and fuck the judge
Im about to drop a bomb n****
Watch out for saddam n****

thats v triumphant. love it.

Been going through Battlecat's productions for the last few weeks. Trying to hear everything he's done. Ras Kass debut is p weak production wise but this beat is perfect:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmHESjLtkFM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpv5EhJrnE0

you couldn't find a good freak anywhere :(

little jermaine dupri poppin and lockin is so cuet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLYC7ltxOrk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlZo0Uwaja8

that's my shit

B Legit def one of my favorite voices in rap

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeYHRY6Q5qg

Cappadonna - Hook Off
on YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfsylzvSBJY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEVluBvuG1U

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=absw8UDtchQ

Various Artists

another JT the Bigga Figga song I love

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YwnsgEoD9I

Mr. Q - DJ Style

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1wC9dlmGK8

heard this on a comp somewhere and loved it. really dig the days when you could get away with stuff like this.

game recognize game is a certified bay area classic

^^ as it should be. the whole album bangs (Playaz in the Game)

yeah it's great. if you like classic early 90s bay stuff you should check out IMP (Ill Mannered Playaz). Both 'back in the days' and the s/t albums are great.

Back In the Days
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8S3lgruvwo
Bang Bang
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoQMlKgUE7c
Cougnut is the guy who has the real gruff voice, died in 2001.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5WNUMMPuw4

this is my fav off the IMP album:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2V6jAKS0-w

good choice. absolutely perfect alb cover too.

always loved the "Ill Mannered" in their name - "we've got attitude! we're dangerous! okay well maybe not *that* dangerous, but our table manners are genuinely terrifying..."

lol

rip cougnut

random old rap albums i listened to this weekend :

yo gotti - life
webbie - savage life
pastor troy - pastor troy for president
mac dre the game is thick vol 2
lil flip, lil ron & big t - 3 headed monster
dsgb - the last supper

i love rap music.

Scienz Of Life- Powers Of Nine Ether

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDgO-VSGpP8

lot of old memphis tapes on youtube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_D1bb0wJ54k

tommy wright.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZbCbbcVvxo

lil ramsey produced by dj tommy wright.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5sPv65HV08

niggaz of destruction. listen to the first ten minutes of this. if nothing else here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-38G3iQpiN0

gime sum family.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdbvjwzUIYE

i never really recognized the distinct memphis sound, and i never really even got into three six mafia that much even though i used to buy every hypnotize minds release i saw in used cd stores. maybe it's because it never had an impact beyond the midwest and the south, so there were never popularized records like houston has records that came out in the 90s and have been sampled and redone and quoted from and interpolated dozens of times in houston and way outside, and the sound was mostly gone by the 2000s. these tapes sound similar to old midwest and south album, kind of... but there are similarities, the creepy nintendo shit and cheap crispness. i'm into it.

i don't even know what this mack 187 is, really. to me it could have been made in 2005 or 2015 because i don't really have any context for it, instrumentals and chants over.... i want someone to listen to it and explain what i'm hearing here.

maybe it's some memphis rap vaporwave shit, i dunno.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8G2O1cCF_g

this is good, too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iv3T2ayN3MI

Love "dippin"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyngFurWy14

thread rules

So this series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TB2enM7afA

led me to search to download that World Renown track (which itself was sampled in something. the "feel the vibe" line. blanking on what sampled it). Only thing I found it on was this Dj Premier compliation: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00BN2FCH0/ref=pd_mp3_als_qp_pa

There's 3 volumes of that and they're all really good. Had only heard a few of the cuts before.

those are cool. thx.

most of those don't seem particularly special/weird - except for that first Cypress Hill one, I had no idea

Buggin Out came on at my lunch place and damn, it kicks. Phife so good

lovin this young bleed, reminds me of b.g.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PasS777nRJ0