bg and soulja slim - uptown souljas

"you know one thing, a real nigga be on some soulja shit at all times, ya heard me? and ever since my dawg been dead, i been riding to that soulja slim and that pac-- and i been listening to pac and pac said, 'don't go to war unless you got your money right,' ya heard me? so, i got my money right-- this life after cash money, so that mean more money. but slim been talking to me saying, 'bg, don't get your hands dirty, ya heard me?' 'bg, pursue this rap shit.' so, i was listening to slim and that motherfuckin song come on, 'i'll pay fa it, i'll pay fa it, if i wann it' and i want the bitch-ass nigga that done my dawg somethin, ya heard me, and all the rumours i heard about my dawg. this is life after cash money, i ain't gonna spend no hundred gs on no watch, i got a hundred gs out on all five rumours i heard about my dawg, so that's twenty gs each rumour.... a nigga wanna spend money? i got that rap money, ya'll got that street money, ya'll know that rap money spends longer than that street money, so how ya'll gon play this? after i finish, after i feel like my dawg business been handled, then we gon throw a second line, ya heard me? big ol second line, soulja slim second line, ya heard me, on some real nigga shit. niggas don't wanna see a real nigga get no money, 'cause niggas know a real nigga shit gon get real-- and a real nigga done got some money now, so shit about to get real... we playin it like that."

the murder dog cover (read that) was really the first time i ever saw what he was really about, talking about growing up in magnolia and the robbery stuff and all the label problems, and i got give it 2 em raw right after. and i only know bg from the hot boys stuff, guest verses on other stuff. but-- this is like two legends (unfortunately, only one of them a livin' legend), "choppa city, cut throat committee, we click, eatin' off the same plate, nigga," like if _________ and ______ had done a record together in __.

i'm so surprised by this. i was kind of expecting mediocre underground mixtape stuff, sucky production (it all sounds good! crisp and lots of stuff that sounds like fake mannie, unless it really is mannie. check mind games for the cool calliope, i think, and nice drums and kids.), whatever, slapped-together and uneven.

slim has an amazing, unique style (he actually totally sounds like aesop rock on one track on here-- if you've ever heard aesop rock, it sounds totally like an intentional impression. but i sort of doubt he ever heard aesop rock and i wish i hadn't even mentioned it). and bg is of course amazing. it's all very dark, very violent.

http://www.murderdog.com/january_articles/souljahslim/SouljahSlim.jpg

guess what, i put that knife on ya, i put that gat on ya
it all depends how i feel when i creep down on ya
you wanna die quick, then fuck with me and mine
i guarantee ya t-shirts and the second lines