S/D Dungeon Family: Big Rube, Slimm Calhoun, Big Gipp, Cool Breeze, Backbone, Khujo Goodie, Sleepy Brown, Witchdoctor, C-Bone etc

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Outkast are huge; Cee Lo and Killer Mike are kinda big, Goodie Mob used to be pretty well-known.

But what of the other Dungeon family members. Are there unheralded classics out there, or are they obscure for a reason?

― paulhw (paulhw), Thursday, 18 March 2004 23:43 (twenty-two years ago)

I saw a promo copy of Slim Calhoun's solo record and Outkast was all over it... I was *this* close to buying it, but didn't cuz I haven't heard anything about it. I figure either it's a lost classic or it sucks.

the Dungeon Family album itself is fantastic. Tomita samples! D&D outfits! I love it.

― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 18 March 2004 23:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Backbone never gets mentioned enough.

― Colin Beckett (Colin Beckett), Friday, 19 March 2004 00:20 (twenty-two years ago)

the skinny is one of my fav dungeon fam cuts. i love "ALL THESE LONELY GIRLS WANNA FUUUUUCK / IT'S OKAAAAY (it's alright, girl / it's okay)." i can't find the album ANYWHERE, not even on the internet.

― $corpium ($corpium), Friday, 19 March 2004 00:22 (twenty-two years ago)

huh I wonder why that is. Does it just have shitty distro or something? what label is it on? I probably would've bought it if I'd have been able to hear it first.

― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 19 March 2004 00:24 (twenty-two years ago)

duh - it's on Outkast's vanity label. No wonder you can't find it. Whole thing's probably in limbo what with LA Reid getting the boot from Arista.

― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 19 March 2004 00:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Sleepy Brown is the hotness.

― djdee2005, Friday, 19 March 2004 01:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes, make sure you hear his (first?) solo single I Can't Wait featuring OutKast from the BarberShop 2 soundtrack.

― JoB (JoB), Friday, 19 March 2004 01:09 (twenty-two years ago)

six years pass...

i finally got the Dungeon Family's cd, it's out of print but got a used copy. Holy o_O I wish I'd heard this earlier.....slabs of funk, off kilter rhythms, six all star MCs. This will be in the player a while!

― San Te, Tuesday, 27 July 2010 02:26 (fifteen years ago)

six months pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3Isp_FHDWM

This fucking song. I miss when this used to be on the radio.

― banjee trillness (The Reverend), Thursday, 10 February 2011 12:27 (fifteen years ago)

five months pass...

http://www.tumblr.com/photo/1280/6728825131/1/tumblr_lmfccoEAzR1qzbwkj

First time I've ever seen a pic of the dungeon.

― cece peniston (The Reverend), Sunday, 31 July 2011 04:26 (fourteen years ago)

twelve years pass...

"holiday/12 scanner" is one of the best beats of the 90s. it's still unlike anything else i've ever heard.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnMXx9ssCGk

witchdoctor - "holiday/12 scanner" (1997)

some basic info on the producers, very loose dungeon fam affiliates.

― "another slice of death, please." (Austin), Monday, 13 November 2023 22:03 (two years ago)

the witchdoctor album overall has aged really well. i thought it was too dark and meandering at the time, outside of some highlights. listening now, i still don't love all of the beats, but his persona of dope dealing religious anarchist has to be some level on influence on kendrick. i know folks here have named outkast as a progenitor of kendrick and i think the witchdoctor album is a really important piece of the foundation.

― "another slice of death, please." (Austin), Monday, 13 November 2023 22:19 (two years ago)

also, search: t-mo from 95-97. he was getting straight up scottie pippen`d. but fuck! he was exceptional in those days-

I been this way since birth
Heaven upon sent a newborn to tell it like he see it
No lies thru the eyes of an angel suggest you don't table
Every angle be obtuse, ain't no truce, it's war
It won't stop, to compromise wouldn't stop the bloodsheddin'
It's Armageddon in the streets of each inner city
Ain't takin' no pity on this unjust callin' it trust
I'm on the bus starin' out of a window
Thinkin' 'bout them happy days I had
Over the summer growin' up fast to face life and harsh realities
That come wit the territory didn't know when I was young
So many get hung to hang
Take away the bad and bring back
The good that die mostly over bullshit
Takin' a gun and pulled it on an innocent friend of mine
That could have been yours
How can I stop the war and all the crime inside the minds that's
Programmed to destroy
From the beginning when will it end...
On the day after judgement

maybe more appropriate for the proper goodie mob threads, but enh i'm already here, so.

― "another slice of death, please." (Austin), Monday, 13 November 2023 22:38 (two years ago)

one month passes...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88YUTv5SnJA

also produced by Dwayne Searcy

― ANU (sisilafami), Monday, 25 December 2023 12:43 (two years ago)

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