random old rap you are loving

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5g2Isz-1NIY

this is one of the best beats ever -- seagulls in memphis??

Listening to the Pandora "I Got It Made" channel. No obscure tracks, but all good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtIGCGu9L90

i used to watch this video all the time on MTV

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6VVCX6JA8Y

O.G.

that's great too, meant

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwB5ddAVpNs

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

turns out the oc album is secretly just as good as lifestylz ov da poor and dangerous

enjoyed that on utube just the other day

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYSMXG4M6NI

Oh, I thought you guys actually meant old.

naw we meant what you meant by old

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1m-gHa-kgU

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szSuautV-DA&feature=related

69 Boyz - Tootsee Roll

The Alkaholik's... great group

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lC57FNW3xyI

Coincidentally am listening to the O.C. - Word... Life album this morning. Never thought to call it "old" but then I suppose I am old myself so n/m.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hi2Zdy6wp3g

sens unik - "le repas"

stetsasonic - "all that jazz"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGucD4k1exo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YybgC9V5Yaw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vldvtc56q28

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29jRWS7y7bA

this shit is so monochromatic

spearhead - "red beans and rice"

i recently discovered how awesome Schoolly d is

all day last sunday:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Fg2NRCB9Sc

great thread

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QdgC6w0gL4

no one could do it better

lol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IEuJkYRggA

watch out you don't get any on you @ 1:34

I like my pockets fat and not flat.

yeah, schoolly d - "psk/gucci time" is all-time classic, especially played at 45rpm

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCn-dvtO-PA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxpwfm6G1ZM

damn, that was the rong one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4anAKdiIf8Q

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCn7nVOV4wM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rk6YhfpXUSs&feature

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZVMT_itVC4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nj31LWPjFoc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBgvwO-i6ls

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

HA! <3 for bringing back the treacherous3

http://vote08.freedomblogging.com/files/2008/08/time-machine.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lhJ5o53G9I

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKvl1kzbp-k

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

Brutha Lynch Hung
Black Moon - enta da stage

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrSgpusp7PA&NR=1

Floating into my head now and then for over 30 years since I heard it on Tim Westwood's original Caputal Radio show but I only recently got round to ID'ing Earle the Poet's 'High Noon'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOYbX4w3DA4

Rest in Peace BOSS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYjwGXoXI8A

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=El9W7_795Og

Dope track from an unexpected source

I always liked Lil Cease, I rocked the Junior Mafia album a ton

LOL at the last seconds of that Earle The Poet video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIOM8mCS1fk

lotsa good ones in here since my last visit. love that SoM! although imo sadat x should be talib kweli status by now. the dude has displayed too many instances of ignorance to be given a pass any longer.

back where i come from, this is about as certified as one can get-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8KWK7LvXSo
dimples d + marley marl - "sucker djs (i will survive)" (1983)

ums thank you for the post re:bo$$. didn't realize she was og from detroit! found this in the tmz news piece about her-

DJ Premier also weighed in, praising Bo$$ as a talented legend, and made a public plea for Def Jam to release a collab he'd recorded with her in 1993.

i'd like to join our friend mr. martin in his plea to def jam. unreleased 93 premier beats, are you kidding!!??

"cab fare" is the greatest

old school memphis rap

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

/\/\unclear on the artist/title info in that one. here's c+p from the video description:

Gruesum Twosum (skanless K & Bloodybones) · playa 1playa 2 & tha frayserclick/d.j.sound productions

been going back to bahamadia a lot lately. what a hero.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFEmytvRco0
king britt feat bahamadia - 'transcend' (2003)

no jams to post today, just wanted to call attention to fatlip shouting out self jupiter on the pharcyde's "devil music." random old rap shoutouts you are loving.

theoretical random old rap i am loving

nas "...i am" vocals over madlibs beats :)

https://soundcloud.com/user-228038562/i-am-naslib-explicit-nas-madlib

Has anyone done this for Immobilarity?

yeah, these will always be worthwhile imo.

i used to do whole sets on blend tapes like that ― i had an outkast ep produced by havoc, pharcyde produced by dj premier, yvette michele singing over "waterfalls", etc. etc. ofc back then, it was limited to whatever accapellas would show up on singles. i have firm opinions re:the validity of tge fan/dj made blend/remix.

i know next to nothing about mr. bigg. he was from alabama, had a diamond in his eye. "trial time" was a surprise minor sensation of two decades ago now. he sold "poppin my collar" to dj paul. dead almost nine years. i can't say much more. i never heard much apart from "trial time." "traffic king" sounds familiar. i never heard "time served," the celebratory conclusion to "trial time," until earlier tonight. a good use of his voice.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuJ5A4I14H0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y89aXhy26k8

Kurious - I'm Kurious

mr bigg has couple nice tapes

some old school conscious stuff...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqoXM7BX3QI
the basement khemist - "everybody (l.i.f.e.)"(1998) prod. by dj spinna!

on an alternate timeline, Spinna is part of the production team on Beats, Rhymes & Life and it's a 9/10. I do love that Basement Khemist record, but on the whole, wayyyy too many of his beats went to lackluster MCs. What coulda been!

this one is lovely too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FKZiWJKUZs

yeah, some of spinna's old beat tapes from the 90s are on spotify. definitely in the right line. oddly the compositions albums aren't on streaming. some really dreamy samples on that stuff.

amazing, thx for sharing

i can promise you that i owned a copy of this cd. or i must have. i wrote on ilm about sheek louch releases in the early 2000s, so my record is not up for debate. there's no way that i didn't have this. no, i saw it countless times in pawn shops and discount racks and never picked it up. that must be what happened. thank goodness. i could still be swept away tonight by swizz beats plicking at the keyboard on "all for love." the rest, if i had heard it twenty years ago, might have been forgettable. this is random old rap i am loving.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sifS-gle0Qs

along the same lines, i heard it on lox dipset verzuz which somehow, despite being intended for my demographic, until the youtube algorithm delivered me the repeat of the "who shot ya" freestyle had passed me by.

I love Tha LOX esp that era

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8JZ91TansA
Grand Puba, Masta Ace, Main Source & The Brand New Heavies - Heavy Rhyme Experience Theme

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

good music for working

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-84mS7YMJy0

Hurricane Starang · O.G.C.

love that one

feel like it would be impossible to sound wack over that beat

big tune, loved ogc! da beatminerz were so consistent too. boot camp deserves a proper retrospective or something.

sidebar: the second ogc album was one of the places i initially encountered david axelrod-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvJTN-i55tM
ogc - "you're not sure to see tomorrow" (1999)

Starang
Gun clapper number
One on the set
Man I’ll cut ya like lumber

Is a lyric that calms this thug down.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTMSvdYZJ8o

WTF

ice mike is such an amazing producer

https://soundcloud.com/fitze-fatze-3/the-boulevard-connection-sut

I've no idea what the origin of this is but I'm digging it atm

oooh, that's a nice one indeed - the things one forgets! love the redirect to the web address that was based on the sandbox webstore domain.

anybody remember bball's best kept secret, the mid-90s compilation featuring nba players rapping? it was fun! cedric ceballos scored a sick warren g beat, but i was always into malik sealy's super pos raps on "lost in the sauce"-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABzPR_FX2Uc
malik sealy - "lost in the sauce" (1994) (prod by dj alamo)

gone way too soon. check him out ballin on the 76ers!

I just saw that DJ Clark Kent died. Coincidentally, I've been listening to Rakim's first two solo albums lately, on which Clark Kent is the credited producer for many tracks--including my favorite, "It's the R":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkCbsREaLO8

Also coincidentally, I recently listened to a podcast interview with Ski Beatz, where he talked about how crucial Clark Kent was to his early career. Really made it seem like that was the professional connection that made everything possible for him. And Ski is one of my favorite beatmakers ever, so as far as I'm concerned, that alone is a major contribution

loving this

clark kent rmxs permanent mixtape favs. always likened him to easy mo or pete rock in radio mode. classic unsung producer. rip.

found this blend:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnT__jfC-wQ
jay-z f/mecca - feelin' it (project 9 mash-up)

beat is sound providers / jim hall. more of this, all the time, everywhere. CONFLUENCE IS NEEDED.

also rip saafir. bay area legend.

random old shelf worn rap album cover art that is on spotify as official album art that i am loving:

https://i.imgur.com/UEtZxtZ.jpeg

(dru down - can you feel me?)

title track on that is real west coast gem. the battlecat produced one is good too. and the posse cut at the end.

hustlin aint no thang is a personal classic tho
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UINg36aw0ls

i met dru down at an in-store on the promo tour for that album. was fun.

i've been going back to diamond d's mid 90s instrumentals. he sampled vibes a lot. something about those original quantized mpc drums just does old blue note loops justice:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTKuoSv9kDs

diamond ― "this one (instrumental)" (1997)

also prefer the version of this without busta rhymes screaming "THIS ONE! RIGHT MUTHAFUCKIN HERE!!!!" on repeat.

and if i can get fourth dimensional for a moment: put some funky chicken pickin guitar stabs over a lovely vibey slightly higher fidelity instrumental like that and you basically get fishmans beats:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4V72ZJEWII

fishmans ― "pokka pokka" (1997)

also fishmans beats remind me of chops from the mountain brothers:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVU4DAHg5us

the mountain brothers ― "galaxies: the next level" (1999)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HR4HTtnKhjY

the mountain brothers ― "paperchase" (1999)

embeez also some of the first asian american created hiphop i remember. philly definitely the house.

I knew the Beanie Sigel/ODB version since it came out but only heard this recently and it's fire:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U651gZ_YfKY

damn that diamon d beat has me all emotional

cool c is definitely part of that "important footnotes of hiphop" scene. that beat tho! it's become a proprietary philly beat. here's an old backpacker feature from 98 with black thought+malik b:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxjjSQyGRwM

rahsheed+ill advised feat. maylay sparks, black thought, and malik b ― "1.9.8.6. (remix)"

i heard a few weeks ago odetta's "sakura" that reminded me shamefully not of "tried by 12" which i am sure i had heard before
but the shady 2.0 cipher with yelawolf and slaughterhouse which is old enough to be old rap. there was a time when i had a dvd that had this video on it that we would watch at the end of the night because there was nothing else to watch so we drunk each time numerous times explained to each other budden's lines
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kv8KtM1uYzM
let me say that i love it