when I saw the thread title I was like "self destruction easy, are you kidding" but "same gang" never got as much play where I lived except on KDAY which didn't reach inland so I only heard it a few times back then...it seems really very good to me now, the track is great and the verses are...pretty great actually. but "self destruction" I remember the premiere of. super clear. it was a big big deal, they hyped it all week, "new track featuring public enemy," I would have been directly in front of the TV for anything new from PE and I remember waiting through the whole video for that reveal (which seemed a little disappointing, Flav's counterpoint was like c'mon man) -- but it was just such an exciting thing, all these major people whose work I was so focused on collaborating.
"same gang" I wanted to hear the verses from NWA and DU but I was not hip to the rest of the stuff. listening now, it really seems like the better song? but that could just be because I didn't buy/own it and spend a lot of time with it, whereas I could still recite most of "self destruction" from memory
― The Complainte of Ray Tabano, Friday, 6 March 2015 02:36 (ten years ago)