RIYL: M.O.P - Ante Up

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I recently came to the realization that Ante Up is my all time favorite hip-hop song. If one were to put together a whole mix of hip hop songs with a similar style, what would be included? Going for the overall vibe, not just music from a certain time or geography, or songs with similar lyrical themes.

makeitpop, Sunday, 8 June 2008 21:40 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMM1uwT0cqA

The stickman from the hilarious "xkcd" comics, Sunday, 8 June 2008 21:41 (seventeen years ago)

Are you talking about the remix or the original?

C0L1N B..., Sunday, 8 June 2008 21:47 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzcdmGINcqI

The Reverend, Sunday, 8 June 2008 21:59 (seventeen years ago)

C-Murder - Down For My Niggas
DMX - Where The Hood At

The Brainwasher, Sunday, 8 June 2008 22:01 (seventeen years ago)

Not quite the same type of thing, but I recently realized that the beat to Beyonce's "Freakum Dress" has a similar level of hypeness.

maciej recognizing trill, Sunday, 8 June 2008 22:08 (seventeen years ago)

i could hear MOP over that beat.

The Reverend, Sunday, 8 June 2008 22:13 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uK-jjJFlxnU

^^^ should have been a hit

The stickman from the hilarious "xkcd" comics, Sunday, 8 June 2008 22:16 (seventeen years ago)

get some screwball, onyx, blaq poet, early ice cube maybe, killer mike.

titchyschneiderMk2, Sunday, 8 June 2008 22:17 (seventeen years ago)

Word to Onyx.

maciej recognizing trill, Sunday, 8 June 2008 22:20 (seventeen years ago)

Damn, I forgot about "Stomp the Shit Out Ya". That was my hardcore shit for a sec. "I'm quick to bloody a crip and cripple a blood"

The Reverend, Sunday, 8 June 2008 22:26 (seventeen years ago)

hooray for teflon & remy martin. particularly like the part where they play 2 secs of "nautilus" during remy martin's verse: "wish i could bring pun back ..."

video is ... interesting.

moonship journey to baja, Sunday, 8 June 2008 22:45 (seventeen years ago)

The video is the one with the proto-"Party Like A Rock Star" vibe, yes? And some Suicide Girl writing "MOP" in lipstick on a mirror?

The stickman from the hilarious "xkcd" comics, Sunday, 8 June 2008 22:47 (seventeen years ago)

yeah, sort of like the promoter booked them to open for limp bizkit or something. except they don't seem to meet much resistance from the crowd (and why would they, IRL?) so it sort of undercuts the idea. a real half-assed attempt at one of the oldest gags in the book.

great for the panoply of bad rap-rock fashion, though

moonship journey to baja, Sunday, 8 June 2008 22:50 (seventeen years ago)

maybe the theme was "MOP @ SXSW"

moonship journey to baja, Sunday, 8 June 2008 22:51 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoFI4O91Y8U

The Reverend, Sunday, 8 June 2008 23:54 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPC1C3eN8Io

am0n, Monday, 9 June 2008 04:09 (seventeen years ago)

good video to all friends

J0rdan S., Monday, 9 June 2008 04:09 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTApiJrZwkI

alkaholiks - "goin' crazy" has a pretty similar beat.

Jordan, Monday, 9 June 2008 14:08 (seventeen years ago)

Simon Says?

Bee En Juan, Monday, 9 June 2008 14:39 (seventeen years ago)

two years pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pDF-OBJCt8

yap that fool

Princess TamTam, Wednesday, 9 February 2011 17:37 (fourteen years ago)

this is a weird thread. like, has the person already bought every MOP album or are they looking for MOP-like songs only by other artists for some reason?

some dude, Wednesday, 9 February 2011 18:22 (fourteen years ago)

pretty sure it was somebody's sock tbh

Y Kant Torres Red (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 9 February 2011 18:26 (fourteen years ago)

to be fair, it is the best beat

bows don't kill people, arrows do (Jordan), Wednesday, 9 February 2011 18:32 (fourteen years ago)

makeitpop was always kinda suspect but was there ever any strong evidence that it was a sock?

the MOP/Styles P. song "Bang Time" that was on albums they both put out in 2009/2010 is pretty killer btw

some dude, Wednesday, 9 February 2011 18:35 (fourteen years ago)

entirely valid thread, Ante Up has such ferocity and rhetorical dynamite in its delivery

acoleuthic, Wednesday, 9 February 2011 18:36 (fourteen years ago)

It is an excellent driving song.

ENBB, Wednesday, 9 February 2011 18:38 (fourteen years ago)

Got nothing but love for "Ante Up", was just saying that if somebody round here didn't invent makeitstop then they should've done.

Y Kant Torres Red (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 9 February 2011 19:11 (fourteen years ago)


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