planet asia - "handlin business" (1998)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSRuBuqjW0s
sick beat.🔥
― ミ💙🅟 🅛 🅤 🅡 🅜 🅑💙彡 (Austin), Tuesday, 22 November 2022 22:34 (one year ago) link
another lowkey west coast heavy hitter from 95. this time proper g-funk—
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCtWq5jl0ws
twinz featuring warren g and bo roc — "journey wit me"
warren g was so good in those days on the beats. it's basically like g funk smooth jazz vamps. very wah'd out aquatic sound. he was certainly doing more consistently better stuff than dr dre at the time. he had a hand in several albums and they're all very solid. some questionable sample choices at times, but i really do feel like he's been underrated in hindsight. he never really did "HARD" beats, so i can see why some people were not into it. maybe he should've been working with r+b acts the whole time? anyway, the whole twinz album is great and i don't think it's a coincidence that the best tracks are the mellower ones with r+b hooks. it's been a personal classic to me since it first came out. in the bigger picture, it's probably a solid 3.5 mics.
here's one of the singles and a tie-in, because i know how much ilxors like "free" by deniece williams. you'll either love or hate this one—
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_45vTXgMes
"eastside lb"
― Oh, Stevie, you are my number one gypsy goddess. (Austin), Wednesday, 14 December 2022 16:59 (one year ago) link
hehe who doesn't love "free"?
nice songs Austin, thx for sharing
― corrs unplugged, Thursday, 15 December 2022 07:57 (one year ago) link
rest in peace random old rapper grandaddy i.u., hempstead's finest
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsR7A6ZRv54
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 15 December 2022 14:23 (one year ago) link
og juice crew, too — rip! good jam.
here's one that's been on repeat lately. more twinz:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHZhPTTZdk4
da 5 footaz featuring the twinz — "players play" (not sure — probably ~98). very sick beat.
(andy: "this might be andy's favorite song right now."<—which means it 100% is)
― Oh, Stevie, you are my number one gypsy goddess. (Austin), Wednesday, 21 December 2022 00:26 (one year ago) link
great stuff indeed, Warren G funk
― corrs unplugged, Wednesday, 21 December 2022 09:56 (one year ago) link
"life is a circus, so i be clownin with no purpose"
5 footaz lowkey some of the best of the 90s. shame that album never got released. but i do go on.
always were there, too:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zW79tyiNktE
warren g featuring jah-skillz — "super soul sis" (1994)
i'm at a point in life where i have nothing to prove to anyone; so anyway i used to rap this in the mirror to myself. i can't even begin to describe just how classic this is. it's almost as if it's part of the example upon which my idea of "classic" was built. i guess that's how i got the motherfucken super on my chest?
― judging the world through jaundiced eyes (Austin), Wednesday, 21 December 2022 19:32 (one year ago) link
you've got a hold of something good Austin, thx for sharing
― corrs unplugged, Thursday, 22 December 2022 07:34 (one year ago) link
thinking of compiling a jah-skillz playlist.
should her and snoop dogg have done a collaboration? probably, ya.
shame it was queen pen on "no diggity" instead of her. she certainly had the connections.
"why oh why oh whyyy but WHY NOT - shouldn't i represent this shit called hiphop?!"
https://centralsauce.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/warreng_jahskillz.jpg
dunno when that pic is from, but what a fucking badass.
random thoughts about random old rap you are loving.
― judging the world through jaundiced eyes (Austin), Thursday, 22 December 2022 18:27 (one year ago) link
and i may have posted this one before, but here it is again in context. probably one of the most listened to songs of my life-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyLg0dLlb8c
warren g feat the twinz, jah-skillz + neb love - "we brings heat" (1997)
"heavyweight champs known for blowin out your amps"
― judging the world through jaundiced eyes (Austin), Thursday, 22 December 2022 18:34 (one year ago) link
i'm not even gonna post it but there's also that classic freestyle track on the first warren g album where she completely embarasses warren. he has to go after her, that's all i'm gonna say.
― judging the world through jaundiced eyes (Austin), Thursday, 22 December 2022 18:38 (one year ago) link
okay, last one but the way she trades lines with trip locc is just jesus christ the fucking swagger of this woman-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELMDqQrlL1s
neb love also dope as fuck on the opening verse.
there's also this track from 2020 featuring a rebooted 5 footaz. it's alright-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sl1ZyIpFXHY
"life goes on"
― judging the world through jaundiced eyes (Austin), Thursday, 22 December 2022 19:07 (one year ago) link
sry that first video on the last post is the twinz feat neb love + jah-skillz - "hollywood" (1995)
― judging the world through jaundiced eyes (Austin), Thursday, 22 December 2022 19:24 (one year ago) link
some rare warren g production-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cY44rNacKYI
kam - "keep tha peace" (1995)
couple years later and ice cube inspired kam to stop keeping the peace lol-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjUKPIYbmyQ
dj pooh feat kam - "whoop! whoop!" (1997)
"shoulda beat yo ass in chicago, don't need security wherever i go."
sidebar: kinda wondering how this "whoop whoop" factors into the juggalo timeline.
― "guys, remember andy?" remember him?! i am him!! (Austin), Friday, 30 December 2022 17:09 (one year ago) link
also between that and "the bitch in yoo", ice cube was getting completely eviscerated in the mid-90s. i guess friday was entertaining enough that i didn't really notice.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBVqGYPe1Qs
common - "the bitch in yoo" (1996)
"from gangsta to islam to the dick of das efx"
― "guys, remember andy?" remember him?! i am him!! (Austin), Friday, 30 December 2022 17:22 (one year ago) link
lol, the cover of that "classics" album
― “Cheeky cheeky!” she trills, nearly demolishing a roadside post (forksclovetofu), Friday, 30 December 2022 17:52 (one year ago) link
love this thread
― corrs unplugged, Sunday, 1 January 2023 11:47 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQtKJbptcns
Been playing this a lot lately for some reason
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 5 January 2023 14:28 (one year ago) link
no reason needed, classic
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 5 January 2023 14:49 (one year ago) link
otm
― i'd rather do music and chill tf out (Austin), Thursday, 5 January 2023 14:58 (one year ago) link
I made this playlist two years ago for a friend who wanted to explain her rap palette. I've been spinning this a lot lately as it's a microcosm of what I like about hip-hop.
Some obvious, lots of album cuts, and somewhat missing the Golden Age of hip-hop (not intentionally, I think I just figured I'd get to it later)
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1vK7oYXE9RxcxbZ8rQYjg2?si=gLiHn7puRAyvY7wYnN-jRg
― paranormal bully romance (Neanderthal), Thursday, 5 January 2023 15:06 (one year ago) link
xp mos def famously a big fan of that wonderful song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTBIvIDnnv8
― corrs unplugged, Thursday, 5 January 2023 15:34 (one year ago) link
Mos Def OTM, hilarious song
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 5 January 2023 17:46 (one year ago) link
rip raheem "tame one" brown
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARkoJwm0qhA
brick city kids (a/k/a artifacts) - "what what" (1997)
― i'd rather do music and chill tf out (Austin), Monday, 9 January 2023 06:09 (one year ago) link
(he passed back in november, just now heard the news)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1P90NkYgruI
"art of facts" (1997)
and of course-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7d2X0WXcQZI
"wrong side of da tracks" (1994)
― i'd rather do music and chill tf out (Austin), Monday, 9 January 2023 06:17 (one year ago) link
one more. you know i had to post the david axelrod beat!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljjv7gNI_6k
artifacts feat busta rhymes - "c'mon with the get down (buckwild remix)"
― i'd rather do music and chill tf out (Austin), Monday, 9 January 2023 06:29 (one year ago) link
weird coincidence, had been listening to brick city kids the past two weeks, but their other track, the self-titled one that starts the first soundbombing “mixtape”, was thinking of posting it but everyone’s heard it million times …
there’s a funny line in it though, something like “high tech like inter-net web sites / downloading mega bytes every time i touch the mic”
― the late great, Monday, 9 January 2023 07:16 (one year ago) link
didn’t realize he’d passed, must be why a bunch of expensive copies of the single (the one with “brick city kids” and “what what”) suddenly materialized on discogs (which is why i had been listening to that track, actually)
― the late great, Monday, 9 January 2023 07:19 (one year ago) link
Been listening to Snoop's overlooked 2017 album Neva Left, uneven of course but some cool old school west coast vibes on it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4y99h3Dlt0A
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 9 January 2023 14:39 (one year ago) link
i skipped it at the time, so checking it out now. the list of features is promising.
― i'd rather do music and chill tf out (Austin), Monday, 9 January 2023 16:10 (one year ago) link
ahhh man, this is damn solid. really appreciate all the nods to east coast hiphop, but definitely feels like a quintessential l.a. album. older i get, the more i like snoop.
also how did snoop and too short never get around to doing a collab record!? at least an ep or something.
― i'd rather do music and chill tf out (Austin), Monday, 9 January 2023 16:42 (one year ago) link
neva left was solid for sure
― im a beacon of light (Spottie), Monday, 9 January 2023 17:01 (one year ago) link
bush is still my fav latter day snoop album, but neva left was very solid
― sault bae (voodoo chili), Monday, 9 January 2023 17:43 (one year ago) link
Never checked out Bush will do
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 9 January 2023 19:29 (one year ago) link
I love that s l o w e d down sample of Billy Joel's 'Rosalinda's Eyes'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMH_05ez1Y4
― MaresNest, Friday, 13 January 2023 20:47 (one year ago) link
tenashus reppin sacramento and the verbatum crew-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yc4IXeyNKOA
"aeonian" (early 2000s)
― kiss me while the world decays (Austin), Thursday, 19 January 2023 16:07 (one year ago) link
that choclair beat rules
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 19 January 2023 16:11 (one year ago) link
brings a smile, brings a tear
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwAcM8BiBckLil Fame x Sade By Your Side
― corrs unplugged, Friday, 3 February 2023 07:25 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gf5dTsdQJxMabstract tribe unique - through these streets
― la vie wokisme (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 22 February 2023 00:26 (one year ago) link
a group i slept on completely. heard ab rude guesting on some of the living legends stuff but yeah, my bad.
― up and down. SO FAST! stay together.💙 (Austin), Wednesday, 22 February 2023 01:50 (one year ago) link
was just listening to another Ab Rude project: Haiku D'Etat. He's always an enjoyable listen
― husked, tonal wails (irrational), Thursday, 23 February 2023 15:39 (one year ago) link
that whole scene (ab tribe unique, freestyle fellowship, etc) is so underrated. i was there at the time and chose to sleep on all of them. these days everything i hear sounds great. big sigh. have wondered on and off over the past few years just how familiar the top dawg crew is with that stuff. seems like a big progenitor of the whole "black hippie" thing kendrick was doing for a while.
― up and down. SO FAST! stay together.💙 (Austin), Thursday, 23 February 2023 15:50 (one year ago) link
quarterbackin is one of e40s best, and the quik remix is really fun https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGUVJvNGcTQ
― four square ups... no punches thrown (Spottie), Friday, 24 February 2023 00:08 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89ED2DNja90
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth - Appreciate
― corrs unplugged, Friday, 24 February 2023 13:24 (one year ago) link
^^satisfying as hell
there's no dogg pound topic!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bajNCewcAXE
tha dogg pound feat tray dee — "reality" (1995)
thought about polling this album but since snoop got the rights to death row, none of it's on streaming!
― up and down. SO FAST! stay together.💙 (Austin), Saturday, 25 February 2023 21:22 (one year ago) link
Let's Play House is a fav
― waiting for a czar to fall (Neanderthal), Saturday, 25 February 2023 21:36 (one year ago) link
And "Dogg Pound Gangstaz"
about 90% of the album is still damn good. "respect", "smooth", and "so much style" were always my favorites.
― up and down. SO FAST! stay together.💙 (Austin), Saturday, 25 February 2023 21:46 (one year ago) link
this beat is so dreamy.
pete rock+large professor — "the rap wrld" (1996)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQs_HJ7szXQ
in retrospect large professor was pretty trash on the mic.
― .austinuos, plug forth. (Austin), Thursday, 9 March 2023 18:09 (one year ago) link
*"the rap world"
also yeah, that's a grap luva cameo.
― .austinuos, plug forth. (Austin), Thursday, 9 March 2023 18:10 (one year ago) link