I Am A Rap Maniac! (This Thread Is For All The Party People)

The Nice And Smooth totally holds up against anything out today.

I'm SO fucking jealous that you got the K-Solo... so out of print.

I'd always wondered about 3XD's album. I loved the singles.

I thought Derelicts of Dialect was sweet too....I'd love that K-Solo...does that have Spellbound on it?

Chubb Rock was sweet too....god I love late 80s/early 90s rap!

I almost bought that and then I never did back in the day...

Steady B is in jail for life I think on a murder charge associated with a bank robbery...his partner in the robbery, who's also in jail, was the one and only almighty Cool C, of the Hilltop Hustlers...His album is great too...it has The Glamourous Life and Juice Crew Diss...

I gotta habit of not reading stuff.

ah, cool c and steady b. 'going steady' one of my all time favs.

Derelicts of Dialect was awesome.

Those comp tapes sound amazing, too. I had a couple of old comp tapes with UTFO, Roxanne, Rappin' Duke, etc...they gave me a real education, and I ACTUALLY remembered Rappin' Duke when Biggie name checked him. Shawn Brown, where have you gone?

This has "I Cram to Understand U (Sam)" on it, so therefore it's the best. I rate Long Live the Kane as the most-slept-on old-school album in history, pure gold from head to toe, especially Scoob Lover's verses at the end of side one

"I got the *hic* hiccups, excuse me, sorry
Score a hundred Gs every time I play Atari"

"Mr hood". Classic. Nuff said, although i do prefer "black bastards". "Derelicts of dialect" is also classic. I prefer it to "cactus".

Never really got into the Son Of Bazerk album, although everybody tells me i should get another copy.

I'm not a huge fan of female rappers but the Latifah album is great. Some classic 45 King production on there.

You're definately in for a treat with the Nice & Smooth album. It has one really corny love song that goes on for about 6 days or something but other than that it bumps throughout. From a production standpoint, it's really underrated because the beats on there are nuts. There are a few staple James Brown/Ultimate Breaks & Beats samples on there but it's mostly very original sounding. Nice throwback to Coldcrush and Super 3 with the harmonising too. That lp is near classic for me.

Agreed on the Steady B album being classic. That 3xDope album is pretty sought after these days and goes for very decent prices.

That second Marley Marl about was trash apart from the L.L Cool J "i be gettin' busy" dis track towards Kool Moe Dee and the track with Chuck D and Intelligent Hoodlum/Tragedy.

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It's called Classic Material: Philadelphia...it's got tons of great stuff on it...Cool C...Steady B....Schooly D (also Schooly rapping under the alias Pimp Pretty with a dude called Royal Ron who RAPS IN IG-PAY ATIN-LAY!!!!)

also a crazy wierd song called "Discomboobulatorbobulator" by some kid...it's a strange song....got banned because it's got a lot of kinda mean anti-chinese business owner stuff (it's sort of a la-di-da-di type story song where he gets in a fight with a chinese restuarant owner over a soda....also he kills his cat and gets sent to jail for graffiti and then does this sing-song thing based on the jefferson's theme song where he gets raped in prison)....anyway, it's kinda interesting becuz when he's imitating the chinese guy I think that's where Missy Elliot stole the "toy toy thai-a-thai-toya toy" thing from Work It where she talks about black white indian chinese boys....

OTM

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that Kool Moe Dee is good, but I like his earlier LPs better

does that K Solo have "Your Moms In My Business"?? classic

Sons of Bazerk rapped about their bozacks? or was their a group named Sons of Bozack that I'm confusing?

Gotta Have House Vol 2 was cool

3rd bass blws dead dogs

peace out

Me Phi Me I reviewed and compared to Basehead (member him?) that Young MC I wrote about too but I can't re...at all.

really, ooh, this will be good. why do you hate them? i always liked them. especially the music. they had such talented people making music with them. i could do without the master race stuff. they could be heavyhanded. or serch could. he always tried so damned hard. but how could you hate pete nice? he had such a great act. Derelicts has some really great stuff on it. (all i need to hear is that godzilla riff and i'm happy.)

I like it a lot! And the love song is the second song on the album! and it is endless. But just for the line "My jimmy is not for sale" alone, it's a keeper.

That Sway & Tech album has some great stuff on it too. These tapes make me love life.

http://www.geocities.com/telephonepolesmusic

Thanks, Brian Hall.

scott you're so REASONABLE it shames me.

always seemed liked 3rd Bass just tried WAY too hard, their "black like me" shtick made it hard to hear what they were doing musically. but yo B, they just products of the environment.

you may be right to an extent, but I will stand by the Cactus Album as having some of the best production of that era...it was pretty much a who's who of NYC producers...Bomb Squad, Prince Paul, the too often forgotten Sam Sever (who was in Downtown Science too, with that awesome Firm sample on Radioactive)....

but also Serch WAS pretty well respected in the hip hop scene, I think he got Nas signed (hence the "I know who you pay - Serchlite Publishing" line in The Takeover by Jay-Z)...Serch was a great rapper I thought....

The story about Hammer putting a hit on 3rd Bass for dissing him is classic.

He went to the early 90s rap personality/rapper old folks' home a.k.a. Power 105 FM NYC.