master p - ice cream man

one of the best intros i've ever heard (counting only real intros with talking and stuff and not ones that are just short tracks that happen to be at the start of the album). "and if you bout it, you gon last through this ice cream man album cause i got thirty-one flavors, niggas kickin gangsta shit, positive shit, flippin shit, tongue twistin, slow gangsta shit but it's all real, it's all reality, and if you real, you gon feel this shit and if you a busta, you gon be hip-hoppin' it out." intro beat with all the exploding and stuff makes it all cash money dystopian/amazing and scary beats. !so you have to pay attention to what he says: he's got thirty-one flavors! no mannie-style beats, all super shitty too-fast west coast knockoffs (list of the best ones: 1. time to check my crackhouse. 2. half on a bag of dank 3. never ending game. 4. break em off somethin 5. bout it bout it ii) that suit p way better than any other sort of beat could. master p sounds filthier than anyone ever on this. just the sound of his voice. compare him on bout it bout it ii on this to the diplomats remake, which is the version i heard first. ("How Master P endorsed a jewel of New Orleans being given to a New York cat for bastardization is beyond reason" !!). he's hard as fuck. (the best parts are always the start of the track where he's just talking and singing offkey and just whatever). and it's not like he can't rap! i'd take his verse over pimp c and bun b's on break em off somethin and he totally outshines silkk and mo b dick on everything. it's those straight, overwritten-sounding verses that allude to stories but never really tell them. nothing effortless at all, i imagine him at his kitchen table in an empty house, all serious, trying to figure out a line. "i'm from the projects where we all think alike, though / and killin ain't nothing but a hobby / don't make me do a fuckin 187 robbery / and like some brand new jordans you tied up."