The Jacka RIP: A Jacka/Mob Figaz tribute/listening thread

bc he was the DOPEST FORREAL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUGCXT9rqTc

It actually, like, bothers me that I'd never heard of this guy until now, so much material and what I've sampled thus far is great

ahhh wtf RIP

For real? Damn.

http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Rap-fans-mourn-slaying-of-The-Jacka-in-East-6060062.php

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUtdbnu7lp8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alPg1aLM8RY

Whaaaaaat? Holy shit I was just listening to his last tape and old mob figaz today! RIP

Not to be reductive but I always felt this guy was one of the best at really wistful street rap

Summer don't love me no more

deej def put me on to him, really love him. feels like one of the last of a dying breed like lyrical but not in your face w/"skills" street dudes that just spit the real and reward repeat listenings, kinda in that zone of d-block, beanie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_OTNlHzo1w

this was off the tape that was hot when deej was talking about him and this song really grabbed me

but yeah wistful for sure, sort of haunting feel to his stuff

this interview is heartbreaking but he (his manager) speaks some nice words:

http://abc7news.com/503396/

havent heard that release. Actually haven't heard a ton of jack so wondering where to go next? So many collabo albums.

what I've heard I made bold:

Solo albums

2001: Jacka of the Mob Figaz
2005: The Jack Artist
2006: Jack of All Trades
2008: The Street Album (U.S. R&B #80[7])
2009: Tear Gas (U.S. #93[8])
2010: Broad Daylight
2011: Flight Risk (U.S. R&B #70)
2011: We Mafia
2011: The Indictment
2012: The Verdict
2012: The Sentence
2013: The Appeal
2013: Murder Weapon (TBA)[9]
2014: What Happened To The World (Street Album)

OST

2005 Side Industry & The Jacka Presents Ghetto Gumbo Raw Uncut Vol. 1

Mixtapes

2005: The Jacka: The Mixtape
2008: Shooterz
2008: The Jacka Is the Dopest
2010: GSlaps Radio Vol. 1

Compilations

2008: Slappin In The Trunk Vol. 5 Starring The Jacka
2009: The Jacka Hosts And Presents B.A.R.S Awards
2010: The Dre Area Volume 2 Starring The Jacka
2011: The Jacka Presents Mobbin Thru The West Vol. 1
2011: Best Of Frisco Street Show
2011: Retrial: Million Dollar Remix Series Vol. 1
2012: The Jacka Presents The A.R (The Artist Records)

With Mob Figaz

1999: C-Bo's Mob Figaz
2001: The Comp
2002: Camp Mob Figaz - Street Soundtrack
2003: Mob Figaz
2011: Mob Figaz Reunion (TBA)

Collaborations

2005: 3 da Hard Way (with Husalah & Marvaless)
2005: Str8 Out da Slums (with Lil' Keke)
2006: Mob Trial (with AP.9 & Husalah)
2006: Shower Posse (with Husalah)
2006: Explosive Mode 3: The Mob Gets Explosive (with Messy Marv, San Quinn & Husalah)
2006: Animal Planet Mixtape (with Husalah)
2007: Mob Trial 2 (with Fed-X & Rydah J. Klyde)
2007: Devilz Rejectz 36 Zips (With Ampichino) most of this, anyway
2008: Outbreak: The Epidemic (With Kel of the Western Conference)
2008: Drought Season (with Berner) U.S. R&B #55[7]
2008: Mob Trial 3 The Verdict (with AP.9 & Fed-X) U.S. R&B #91
2008: The GoBots (with Lee Majors)
2009: The Price of Money (with 12 Gauge Shotie) U.S. R&B #88[7]
2009: Drought Season 2 (with Berner) U.S. R&B #66
2010: Neva Be The Same - 20 Bricks: Season One (with Laroo)
2010: The Gobots 2: D-Boy Era (with Lee Majors)
2010: Devilz Rejects 2: House of the Dead (with Ampichino) U.S. R&B #83
2010: Jonestown (with Messy Marv & Blanco)
2010: My Middle Name Is Crime EP (with Andre Nickatina)
2011: Spiritual Thug (with Ampichino)
2011: Spiritual Thug 2 (with Ampichino)
2012: The Chicken Hill Project(prod by - Hallway Productionz)[10][11]
2012: Obey (with Blanco)
2012: Border Wars (with Berner)
2013: Misfits (with Blanco)
2013: Game Over (with Blanco)
2013: Futuristic Mob (with Dubble-OO)
2013: Bullys Wit Fullys 4 (with Guce)
2013: Straight Dope (with M Dot 80)
2013: The Bobots 2.5 (with Lee Majors)
2013: Never Be The Same: Season 2 - No Mercy (with Laroo)
2013: Write My Wrongs Mixtape (with Freeway)
2014: Highway Robbery (with Freeway)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3LsBPPvfX8

"get on 1" from neva be the same was always a favourite

just realised the netta b who sings the hook is probably netta brielle of last year's rnbass hit "3xkrazy"

these are my picks :

Solo albums

2001: Jacka of the Mob Figaz
2008: The Street Album (U.S. R&B #80[7])

With Mob Figaz

2001: The Comp
2002: Camp Mob Figaz - Street Soundtrack
2003: Mob Figaz

Collaborations

2006: Shower Posse (with Husalah)
2006: Explosive Mode 3: The Mob Gets Explosive (with Messy Marv, San Quinn & Husalah)
2006: Animal Planet Mixtape (with Husalah)
2007: Mob Trial 2 (with Fed-X & Rydah J. Klyde)
2008: Drought Season (with Berner) U.S. R&B #55[7]
2008: Mob Trial 3 The Verdict (with AP.9 & Fed-X) U.S. R&B #91
2009: Drought Season 2 (with Berner) U.S. R&B #66
2010: Devilz Rejects 2: House of the Dead (with Ampichino) U.S. R&B #83

thanks sisi

neva be the same was rly good

seems like kind of an outlier too maybe? more r&b influence

"Red and Blue Lights" is a J. Stalin song but Jacka's last verse is definitely crucial. One of the most affecting rap songs in recent memory IMO, just that sense of pervasive dread in the back of the narrators' minds

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

For levity, this still of Berner always makes me LOL:

http://i.imgur.com/gz8HojD.png

i'm still pretty proud of my "end to end berners" DN

woahhh widescreen embed

RIP JACKA

I hate that it took this dude getting murdered for me to know that he existed, but I've been enjoying digging into his discography

Loving this Traxamillion song he's featured on:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2v2e2Dvg_g

cool of Tom to write about him idk why he kept emphasizing how he was definitely not a star & never would have crossed over, though

like, that's always true until its not? and lots of rappers w/ dark stories crossed over? i mean, biggie's debut ended w/ him killing himself

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

good jacka verse on this

sorry but who is tom?

:-(

"Don't Be Scared" still one of my favourite rap tunes of the last however many years

xp spottie: tom bre1han http://popist.com/s/00b4d23/

thanks

At some pt I'm gonna go in on here ...

This is still so heartbreaking

deej do you know if he had anything slated for 2015?

My understanding is he was gearing up to push his 4th "official" album. Ill know more once I can talk to PK again but I think he's probably a bit overwhelmed right now

Anu how do you rate the LP with Marvaless? Some good shit on there ...

only this but its a good one. i'll have to listen to the other stuff posted here, shame it took this new to remind me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sf6XpTsmA0

I haven't listened to the marvaless album in ages, and i don't really remember it...

its got joints
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdhIqo9LZ-w

this was the big record of it i believe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EY-EH_lJpQA

and one of several songs he has called "Mobshit":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0RXb9zljZs

Also really feeling this recent record he did with berner and currensy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zyagea6dnE

thats a good one

may have mentioned already but i really loved Laroo & Jacka's release last year. Pretty much front to back.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6OiC5X26oQ

i never spent time w/ it but really should

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEZnU5TLAa4

^ one of my favorites

thats great!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrdDm0GevUM

thx to ANU for posting that 2005 mixtape on their blog

^^DOPE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wFF6USzs3c

oh snap dj fresh flipped the jets track <3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWlNk25RwY8

i miss jacka

what did you think of the posthumous album? i dug this one

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

legend in the boring street rap game 🙏

https://www.whosampled.com/sample/992969/The-Jacka-Million-Miles-At-the-Drive-In-One-Armed-Scissor/

this blew my mind

Wow that’s cool

whaaaat