Tapes from the late 80s found in NJ storage facility, feature unheard tracks from era's classic MCs
that's what the press kit says, anyway
― J0hn D., Monday, 20 August 2007 11:25 (eighteen years ago)
there's been some sleuthing here and there (Die Hard reference = odd, since the movie had just come out in '88 & wasn't an immediate classic reference point) and the Melle Mel clip concludes "you must be smoking the same shit as Rick James"...but James wasn't arrested 'til '91, and the trial wasn't 'til '93
― J0hn D., Monday, 20 August 2007 11:29 (eighteen years ago)
Yeah, but he'd beensmokin that shit for some time before that!
― Mark G, Monday, 20 August 2007 12:38 (eighteen years ago)
well, yeah, but not on such a copious public level that you'd use him as shorthand for "you're on crack"
― J0hn D., Monday, 20 August 2007 12:54 (eighteen years ago)
He was trying to warn us!
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Monday, 20 August 2007 13:12 (eighteen years ago)
He wanted the people to know.
Maybe they were from the future, like 12 Monkeys, sent back to make sure rap would take over the planet?
― Finefinemusic, Monday, 20 August 2007 18:54 (eighteen years ago)
-- J0hn D., Monday, August 20, 2007 1:54 PM (7 hours ago)
Maybe it was shorthand for Mary Jane, dude.
― P'zone, Monday, 20 August 2007 20:26 (eighteen years ago)
yeah I don't think Rick James was ever shorthand for "dude who smokes a lot of/really strong pot," either
dude
― J0hn D., Monday, 20 August 2007 21:07 (eighteen years ago)
Melle Mel was a soothsayer.
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, 20 August 2007 21:14 (eighteen years ago)
-- J0hn D., Monday, August 20, 2007 10:07 PM (29 minutes ago) Bookmark Link
UM, the motherfucker had a song called Mary Jane.
― P'zone, Monday, 20 August 2007 21:37 (eighteen years ago)
yah it was a pot anthem, john.
― chaki, Monday, 20 August 2007 21:39 (eighteen years ago)
still is actually
Pappawheelie to thread
― Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 20 August 2007 21:45 (eighteen years ago)
half the people making records in the 70s had songs about weed but if you wanna contend that Rick James was a big weed icon go nuts I guess
― J0hn D., Monday, 20 August 2007 21:48 (eighteen years ago)
yeah, a guy who started a girl group called the mary jane girls certainly wouldn't be considered a weed advocate, nosiree.
― hstencil, Monday, 20 August 2007 21:49 (eighteen years ago)
I don't think its much of a stretch to contend that Rick James' persona was of the drug-taking, whore-loving variety - given that his two biggest hits were about weed and skanks.
― Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 20 August 2007 21:51 (eighteen years ago)
(doesn't prove anything about this comp tho)
john, rick james was a big weed icon.
― chaki, Monday, 20 August 2007 21:58 (eighteen years ago)
what's the 'die hard' reference?
lemonade was a popular drink, and it still is.
― hstencil, Monday, 20 August 2007 22:01 (eighteen years ago)
seems like it was eventually conceded to be new tracks recorded in the vein of 1988 tracks and Top Shelf guy just wouldn't quit being 'in character' and own up to it
https://hiphopdx.com/news/id.50222/title.mc-serch-addresses-top-shelf-1988-album-hoax#
― Deez NFTs (Neanderthal), Monday, 16 May 2022 01:12 (three years ago)
Straight Outta Compton is the debut studio album by rap group N.W.A, which, led by Eazy-E, formed in Los Angeles County's City of Compton in early 1987. Released by his label, Ruthless Records, on August 8, 1988.
― xzanfar, Monday, 16 May 2022 01:29 (three years ago)
thanks for the irrelevant comment!
― Deez NFTs (Neanderthal), Monday, 16 May 2022 01:31 (three years ago)