z-ro - king of the ghetto

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3da48euY6Y

themes: substance abuse, not being able to trust family members, inability to have normal relationships, being fated for some kind of vague fucked up disaster, impending violence (against him).

not sure if there's a general z-ro thread. i heard the life of joseph w. mcvey at a crucial time and i was really serious about houston rap but i was pretty clueless about fucked up blue collar houston rap, like street military or ganxsta nip, and i knew way too much about, like, lil keke. z-ro still raps in that kb/lil flea mode, to me. so, i dig hearing him rapping at a time that he was at the source of that, when that new style (screwed up click style [like pat, keke, whoever], i guess) was just getting off the ground and the main thing was still THIS. but, whatever, still fucking dope to hear.

BONUS:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VjZQda_O0U&feature=related

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TF8h24h8J4

it ain't that i sound like pac, i sound like stress
just like an automatic when i'm down and depressed
i shed tears cause i do it so good
thanks to my nothin-ass homies off the block
nigga, fuck my hood
i couldn't shit, shower, or shave 'less i was willin to pay
that was why i wasn't willin to stay
i could do bad by myself
i ain't even have no money for me
and yall was laughin like me sufferin was funny to see
so wonder why i don't give a fuck about being here
on the other hand, i murder motherfuckers
do we have a problem here?
if you beat me to the trigger..... i ain't mad, homie
least i ain't got to cry no more..... no more feelin sad, homie
god lead me not into temptation, deliver me from evil
if it's my time, i'm ready
if it ain't, i'm gonna ask myself
is life worth livin, should i blast myself?

BONUS:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8dzEgNon-A

wanna put a hot one in my brain
it's cold out here and i can't stand the rain

nah, no, don't get the wrong idea. i'm good. but sometimes z-ro... you start rolling with it and it gets later and later and this is the only thing that sounds right.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMdq-mXfLOw

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/610Jpmchc+L._SS500_.jpg

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEstx1jhs1w

"blue collar houston rap, like street military or ganxsta nip"
tales of personal crisis gospel rapping
trae uses the word "pain"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bw2gOffLTq0

"first tape i jumped was a al g screw tape, g love." (freestyle there is very much like to me this identifiable formal houston style to me -- technical elements = rhyming plex, 84s, brick... ralph lauren on my body, triangle on my jeannnnn).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMv0D2xMzbw

100 Enraged, Hectoring Vocalists Seek Explosions Over Which to Deliver Apocalyptic Screeds

Eric B and Rakim "Paid In Full - Seven Minutes of Madness" - Classic or Dud?

Which DJ Screw cd is worth buying?

some z-ro posts i made

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJ7p48IG2xA

cause i saw you mentionin it

i always sort of think of z-ro as being part of a sort of tradition that includes stuff like ganxsta nip and street military. same sort of fatalism and anguish as z-ro but he did it a little more straightforward and dispensed with a lot of the psychotic imagery, horror movie shit, gangsta setpieces. but i dunno, it's more than a little straightforward and does more than dispense with those things... i dunno i'm too high to get into this right now

man that fucking line about

they tell me all the liquor aint good for me
but it drowns out the vision of my casket

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDhZiTWZ2UA

lately i been thinkin about rhonda and i miss her
but i don't miss my could-be wife, i miss my sister
i saw you on the news and i'm sorry for your loss
another babydaddy dead and one more kid around the house
i made "i hate you, bitch" about you and you know that
but check this out, sometimes i be wishin i could go back
and undo it, never go through it
try to keep on livin our lives
all i can say today is: i apologize
even though you did me bad, i ain't mad cause we both did dirt
but you didn't have to steal from me and make it hurt
told the laws that i hit you, tried to send me to jail
then called my phone screamin you loved me, and i loved you as well
but after that wasn't nothin left except to let my wheels spin
now everytime i meet a good woman i'm afraid to let her in
cause i don't wanna repeat 2003
i know you mad but if you and the kids ever need anything, holla at me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qY0xcXGDiFE

miss rhonda wanna put the laws in my life
although i'm happy i never pictured you not at all in my life
solo that's how i'll kick it the rest of my days
but i want to thank you for making possible some of the best of my days

i prob on avg listen to something off relvis presley 1x per day

dope track. but lol Shaq sounds respectable here, minus the faux-south accent. obviously ghostwritten, probably by Z.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9U86B9lOIBs

since '96

i won't stand for this Fu Schnickens erasure !!!

'94 baby. what's up shaq?

can we raq

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nboo7jRPi7c