they reminisce over you by pete rock & cl smooth

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holy fuck it's still good

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Saturday, 19 February 2005 03:30 (twenty years ago)

o fo sho. This is one i always try to dig out at least once a summer. I still wonder what happened to Pete Rock. He just seems sorta here & there since the mid-90's. Its just strange condsidering how huge he was at one time and how defined his production style was in his heyday.

Wish it were summer.. I wanna hear Digable Planets - Blowout Comb too.

― Johnny Badlees (crispssssss), Saturday, 19 February 2005 06:20 (twenty years ago)

This song gave me chills the first time I heard it. I just hear so much feeling coming through the speakers at me. I'd never heard a beat and the rhymes come across so together. They belong together. It really sounds like the beat could have come out of the lyrics. The hook with the horns.. the little "oooh" vocal thing in the background.. just a perfect feeling to match CL Smooth's rhymes. That was the first time I'd ever heard an instrumental hip-hop beat that had so much feeling - and they didn't let it go to waste. This is just one of those songs thats so great that I could just talk and talk in circles for hours about it. I said "feeling" 3 or 4 times. This song will always be "still good".

Thank you for makin me wanna dig a classic out..

― Johnny Badlees (crispssssss), Saturday, 19 February 2005 06:48 (twenty years ago)

notice how the drum pattern is different in virtually every measure, something that pete does frequently and lazy mofos should take note (har har) of

― ()ops (()()ps), Saturday, 19 February 2005 06:58 (twenty years ago)

YEAH. One of the finest things ever. What was this, '92 or so?

― edd s hurt (ddduncan), Saturday, 19 February 2005 15:26 (twenty years ago)

something like that... a lot of good shit from around then.

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Saturday, 19 February 2005 15:28 (twenty years ago)

Yeah--it was '92. If I remember right, Christgau (who gave the orig. "Mecca and the Soul Brother" CD a "N" [which means, what, a B-minus??]) got the message on them recently, on the release of a best-of...

― edd s hurt (ddduncan), Saturday, 19 February 2005 15:29 (twenty years ago)

Absolutely, 100%, undisputed CLASSIC. One of the most PERFECT hip-hop songs I've ever heard, and still almost unchallenged in terms of emotional impact.

― Tantrum (Tantrum The Cat), Saturday, 19 February 2005 17:03 (twenty years ago)

three years pass...

would anyone care about CL if pete wasnt his producer though? i like quite a few pete and cl songs, but apart trom troy (which is one of the best songs ever made in any genre obv) and a handful of others, he isnt really that good an emcee is he? some of what he says is just complete nonsense, even though hes obviously trying to make it sound like it isnt.

― mr x, Thursday, 29 May 2008 22:57 (seventeen years ago)

That’s his opinion, and he could never say that to me personally. If that’s how Pete Rock lives his life, talking through the media, go ahead. I love you anyway. It takes a whole lot to be me, so I imagine it takes ten times more to be you. He knows me and his family knows me. They know how I get down. True indeed, I smack n***as heads off their shoulders! If you want to talk on the swings and talk s**t to your peers, that s**t doesn’t bother CL. It bothers CL when you lie and create a false image. Snoop Dogg said, “Come holla at me, homie, you know I love you.” How does Snoop love me and my n***a Pete don’t love me? How does Raekwon, Method Man, and the whole f***ing Wu-Tang Clan talk about how they really love me and Pete Rock don’t love me? I walked on blocks that Pete Rock can never walk on. Pete Rock, I love you baby. I’ve got nothing to be ashamed of. I got a good woman and a good life, so what should I be ashamed of? Pete Rock can’t ever disrespect me and not get his head smacked off. He can never say that to my face. I love him anyway. All I’m asking him to do is do the beats. The proof is there. CL Smooth is the biggest s**t on your project and you are a walking contradiction, man. We don’t have to sling no more mud. Make my beats, f****t! Stop playing games and throwing rocks at the dome. How are you going to say without you, I’m not going to make it? You got to say that about yourself. That’s kind of scary, because you are basically saying that I’m going to drown myself trying to drown this n***a. Pete Rock doesn’t have to talk to me. Make my beats though! I’ll cut you a check, you go in the studio, and make my f*cking beats, man. I don’t see anything else happening if you don’t facilitate CL Smooth.

― rev, Thursday, 29 May 2008 23:37 (seventeen years ago)

anyway, "Magic Hour" w/ AZ = heatness

― rev, Thursday, 29 May 2008 23:38 (seventeen years ago)

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