Kind of became shorthand for a certain type of raw East Coast street rap
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 23 January 2024 01:27 (four months ago) link
ah okay, thanks for the context. and ignorant in this case means "dumb" like "stupid good" ? haha sorry to be a square
― budo jeru, Tuesday, 23 January 2024 01:30 (four months ago) link
Smoothee seemingly went on to become a ghostwriter, worked on the mythical Detox album.
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Tuesday, 23 January 2024 12:57 (four months ago) link
oh wow! i didn't know that, good for him
ignorant in this case means "dumb" like "stupid good" ? haha sorry to be a square
oh haha no worries, i guess in this context it means like uh not exactly interested in uplifting or educating the listener, just thugged out violence threat/outrageous type stuff, ill lyrical content for its own sake guess?
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 23 January 2024 14:57 (four months ago) link
He also claims he wrote Foxy Brown's verse on Jay Z's "Ain't No..."
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Tuesday, 23 January 2024 15:13 (four months ago) link
interesting, honestly it wouldn't surprise me, he was so skilled and also seems like ghostwriting is so much more prevalent than i always thought
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 23 January 2024 15:14 (four months ago) link
ty ums. i did love the track btw
― budo jeru, Tuesday, 23 January 2024 15:41 (four months ago) link
xpost I don't know why Smoothe's Once Upon a Time in America isn't held up with stuff like The Infamous or Cuban Links
wasnt the record out of print or something? im too randomly old to say for sure but i do remember trying to buy the cd and not finding a copy
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Wednesday, 24 January 2024 01:40 (four months ago) link
ums otm- i was very into that stuff at the same time as mobb deep, cnn... the nyc thug rap phenomenon, y'know? have we already forgotten about that stuff? dang.
i always wondered what became of smoothe da hustler. dmx came along shortly after and that was that, far as that stuff went. makes sense he would move to a behind the scenes role.
― she fell asleep with her hand around my throat (Austin), Wednesday, 24 January 2024 01:54 (four months ago) link
Just threw on an old compilation Quannum Spectrum from 1999 and it's top to bottom amazing. The beat that rolls into the opener with J5 is incredible and I forgot how great a track Storm Warning was.
― octobeard, Wednesday, 24 January 2024 23:06 (four months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzBy72f1UtQ
nobody burned the flag like 2 Black 2 Strong MMG
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 31 January 2024 14:01 (four months ago) link
this is good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAgGBfLgKmY
― Lee626, Tuesday, 27 February 2024 10:36 (three months ago) link
saer posted this on Techno/House Bobbins of the past
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iykvtX_ptyg
Kurupt, Big Tray Deee, Slip Capone - C Walk
fits the bill
― corrs unplugged, Wednesday, 28 February 2024 09:24 (three months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4Wn5jDw6N0
Hadn't heard this until this morning. Great Talking Heads sample.
― city worker, Wednesday, 28 February 2024 14:22 (three months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_QzZQCs7VEShadez Of Brooklyn - Change
― corrs unplugged, Wednesday, 28 February 2024 14:42 (three months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSNYX7CTSRM
Citizen Kane - Blackrain (Dirty)
― corrs unplugged, Wednesday, 28 February 2024 14:47 (three months ago) link
Been enjoying that new Thirstin Howl III remix album. Underrated rapper from that era I think.
― husked, tonal wails (irrational), Wednesday, 28 February 2024 15:47 (three months ago) link
got damn, c walk ...
― budo jeru, Thursday, 29 February 2024 01:38 (three months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIJTBBMcVKc
― EMPRETY UKXEPCTED TWITS (President Keyes), Thursday, 29 February 2024 21:42 (three months ago) link
Floating into my head now and then for over 30 years since I heard it on Tim Westwood's original Caputal Radio show but I only recently got round to ID'ing Earle the Poet's 'High Noon'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOYbX4w3DA4
― nashwan, Thursday, 29 February 2024 21:56 (three months ago) link
Rest in Peace BOSS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYjwGXoXI8A
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 12 March 2024 17:30 (three months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=El9W7_795Og
Dope track from an unexpected source
― President Keyes, Saturday, 16 March 2024 01:54 (three months ago) link
I always liked Lil Cease, I rocked the Junior Mafia album a ton
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 16 March 2024 02:02 (three months ago) link
LOL at the last seconds of that Earle The Poet video
― Daniel_Rf, Friday, 22 March 2024 11:04 (two months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIOM8mCS1fk
― Chuck_Tatum, Friday, 22 March 2024 14:25 (two months ago) link
lotsa good ones in here since my last visit. love that SoM! although imo sadat x should be talib kweli status by now. the dude has displayed too many instances of ignorance to be given a pass any longer.
back where i come from, this is about as certified as one can get-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8KWK7LvXSodimples d + marley marl - "sucker djs (i will survive)" (1983)
― interstellar anthropologist+music philosopher, (Austin), Friday, 22 March 2024 20:09 (two months ago) link
ums thank you for the post re:bo$$. didn't realize she was og from detroit! found this in the tmz news piece about her-
DJ Premier also weighed in, praising Bo$$ as a talented legend, and made a public plea for Def Jam to release a collab he'd recorded with her in 1993.
i'd like to join our friend mr. martin in his plea to def jam. unreleased 93 premier beats, are you kidding!!??
― interstellar anthropologist+music philosopher, (Austin), Friday, 22 March 2024 20:15 (two months ago) link
"cab fare" is the greatest
― the defenestration of prog (voodoo chili), Friday, 22 March 2024 20:17 (two months ago) link
old school memphis rap
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBYemUHcOio
― Vintage, Monday, 25 March 2024 06:28 (two months ago) link
/\/\unclear on the artist/title info in that one. here's c+p from the video description:
Gruesum Twosum (skanless K & Bloodybones) · playa 1playa 2 & tha frayserclick/d.j.sound productions
been going back to bahamadia a lot lately. what a hero.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFEmytvRco0king britt feat bahamadia - 'transcend' (2003)
― interstellar anthropologist+music philosopher, (Austin), Wednesday, 27 March 2024 17:48 (two months ago) link
no jams to post today, just wanted to call attention to fatlip shouting out self jupiter on the pharcyde's "devil music." random old rap shoutouts you are loving.
― interstellar anthropologist+music philosopher, (Austin), Monday, 1 April 2024 18:09 (two months ago) link
theoretical random old rap i am loving
nas "...i am" vocals over madlibs beats :)
https://soundcloud.com/user-228038562/i-am-naslib-explicit-nas-madlib
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 2 April 2024 17:54 (two months ago) link
Has anyone done this for Immobilarity?
― President Keyes, Wednesday, 3 April 2024 00:51 (two months ago) link
yeah, these will always be worthwhile imo.
i used to do whole sets on blend tapes like that ― i had an outkast ep produced by havoc, pharcyde produced by dj premier, yvette michele singing over "waterfalls", etc. etc. ofc back then, it was limited to whatever accapellas would show up on singles. i have firm opinions re:the validity of tge fan/dj made blend/remix.
― interstellar anthropologist+music philosopher, (Austin), Wednesday, 3 April 2024 01:11 (two months ago) link
i know next to nothing about mr. bigg. he was from alabama, had a diamond in his eye. "trial time" was a surprise minor sensation of two decades ago now. he sold "poppin my collar" to dj paul. dead almost nine years. i can't say much more. i never heard much apart from "trial time." "traffic king" sounds familiar. i never heard "time served," the celebratory conclusion to "trial time," until earlier tonight. a good use of his voice.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuJ5A4I14H0
― XxxxxxxXxxxxxxxxXxxxx (dylannn), Sunday, 14 April 2024 15:44 (two months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y89aXhy26k8
Kurious - I'm Kurious
― corrs unplugged, Monday, 15 April 2024 06:22 (two months ago) link
mr bigg has couple nice tapes
― ANU (sisilafami), Monday, 15 April 2024 18:10 (two months ago) link
some old school conscious stuff...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqoXM7BX3QIthe basement khemist - "everybody (l.i.f.e.)"(1998) prod. by dj spinna!
― interstellar anthropologist+music philosopher, (Austin), Wednesday, 24 April 2024 18:35 (one month ago) link
on an alternate timeline, Spinna is part of the production team on Beats, Rhymes & Life and it's a 9/10. I do love that Basement Khemist record, but on the whole, wayyyy too many of his beats went to lackluster MCs. What coulda been!
this one is lovely too
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FKZiWJKUZs
― anza808, Wednesday, 24 April 2024 22:47 (one month ago) link
yeah, some of spinna's old beat tapes from the 90s are on spotify. definitely in the right line. oddly the compositions albums aren't on streaming. some really dreamy samples on that stuff.
― interstellar anthropologist+music philosopher, (Austin), Thursday, 25 April 2024 00:05 (one month ago) link
amazing, thx for sharing
― corrs unplugged, Friday, 26 April 2024 11:59 (one month ago) link
i can promise you that i owned a copy of this cd. or i must have. i wrote on ilm about sheek louch releases in the early 2000s, so my record is not up for debate. there's no way that i didn't have this. no, i saw it countless times in pawn shops and discount racks and never picked it up. that must be what happened. thank goodness. i could still be swept away tonight by swizz beats plicking at the keyboard on "all for love." the rest, if i had heard it twenty years ago, might have been forgettable. this is random old rap i am loving.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sifS-gle0Qs
― XxxxxxxXxxxxxxxxXxxxx (dylannn), Sunday, 28 April 2024 17:55 (one month ago) link
along the same lines, i heard it on lox dipset verzuz which somehow, despite being intended for my demographic, until the youtube algorithm delivered me the repeat of the "who shot ya" freestyle had passed me by.
― XxxxxxxXxxxxxxxxXxxxx (dylannn), Sunday, 28 April 2024 18:07 (one month ago) link
I love Tha LOX esp that era
― ain't nothin but a brie thing, baby (Neanderthal), Sunday, 28 April 2024 20:18 (one month ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8JZ91TansAGrand Puba, Masta Ace, Main Source & The Brand New Heavies - Heavy Rhyme Experience Theme
― corrs unplugged, Tuesday, 30 April 2024 07:00 (one month ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XaUiMcDFZs
― budo jeru, Tuesday, 21 May 2024 17:39 (four weeks ago) link
good music for working
― budo jeru, Tuesday, 21 May 2024 17:40 (four weeks ago) link