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

love Paris

digging Makin' Trouble, the first Ghetto Boys release (before Scarface and Willie D), a little spotty of course but the highlights are pretty great, like a super violent street Run-DMC

hi i am aware of where i am posting. thanks for listening. i thought someone here might be able to do something re:"lost in the sauce" by malik sealy that i posted a while back...

some artist named chipinkos is claiming the song on content i.d. systems and it's obviously completely dubious. i made a youtube short showing it playing from spotify, and if you play "lost in the sauce" into shazam it tells you it's chipinkos.

i know this happens probably a lot more than gets noticed but this one feels extra slimey. idk how to report this kind of thing. i can appeal the claim on my short video which may get it put into 'fair use' but that doesn't help malik sealy's legacy. any ideas? share my video if needed, who knows how long it's been like that.

(not that it matters, but that chipinkos artist has about a gazillion releases on spotify which is highly sus imo)

also if anyone wants to assign me to find discrepancies in digital catalogue music like this, i accept all jobs pro bono. i try not to get lost in the sauce, after all.

honestly I don't know that much but from what I understand these things are kind of a nightmare to deal with and it seems like it would be pretty difficult to contest given that you yourself are not the rights holder (or frankly it's quite possible that Sealy himself didn't even hold the rights to his own song), not super helpful I know

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9xwCxMpd9o
Poet - All Hell Breakin' Loose

nobody ever got at Jay Z better than Jaz O

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kObkabiv0j8

joke's on you - you heard a bitin' ass crew

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K50hR8dJDVU

oh damn is that where black thought got that line from?

haha yeah, Solo was underrated!

I know he had a long standing beef with DMX over the song "Spellbound", they were in prison together and both claimed to have written it, there's shots at Solo on "Get at Met Dog"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27uilq9Vs88

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpp7khRoQZE
G. Dep - Everyday

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhRkDzW13BM

that's cool

Kwame! Justice for Polka Dots!!!

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

Mia X - I'll Take Ya Man

8Ball and MJG - Armed Robbery

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAgXON4CAYc

lbc crew ― "beware of my crew" (1995)
features roger troutman, tray d, forgotten femcee south sentrelle, and snoop receives a producer credit. a little late to the g-funk party at the time, this hits like a natural classic in hindsight.

hell yeah I love that one

Jay-Z rapping over "Shook Ones Pt II" by Mobb Deep (1995) pic.twitter.com/X4RBE2yWQk

— Jeff Weiss (@Passionweiss) July 12, 2026

he's been in decline for so long you start to forget what a staggering talent he was

I was thinking that recently when, on a whim, I played The Blueprint and The Black Album over the course of the weekend and remembered that there was a time when he really was on of the all-time greats

these new Festivus Airing of Grievances "freestyles" are just dire, awful billionaire score settling

Fell from 'Top Ten mansions' to 'not mentioned at all'
To your bodyguard's Bugatti Veyron better than yours

I vaguely remember passing over this when it came out, but I've been loving it lately

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5tDDNulWNI

(Herbaliser/Latryx - 8 Point Agenda)

On Jay-Z, never really forgot, he's always been one of my top rappers and I just kind of ignore the weaker later stuff. I tend to forget he has a full 13 studio albums, but at a minimum four of them (Reasonable Doubt, Hard Knock Life, Blueprint, Black Album) are wall-to-wall classics and plenty of great tracks and verses scattered throughout the rest.

that new reasonable doubt target exclusive vinyl reissue is $50, and it's not even a gatefold cover. he should bring back his flow from big l's "da graveyard."

genuine thoughts:
hiphop without him feels incomplete, even though i haven't actively been listening for a long, long time. even though i've never thought of him as a 'villain' type figure --like the way i often have with kanye-- he's always been problematic, despite his sporadic good moments. more good material than ll cool j, i'll give him that. and at least one acknowledged certified classic album, with convincing arguments to be made in a few other cases. i hope his next surprise freestyle has product placements.

hey ums+vc, i see you guys were posting jt the bigga figga beats a few years back. idk if this was one of them but it's pretty fitting on a hot july friday afternoon: "it's going down" (1995). i've been going back to that mid-90s 'yeigh area' sound a lot recently; jt definitely one of the scene's unsung heroes.

stupid clipboard, here's the correct link to jt's "it's going down"

I was listening to the radio and heard an Audi commercial where the tagline was "Game recognize game" and thought of JT and how ubiquitous hip hop slang is and how far it travelled

it's going down is so great, those little minor key synth riffs ♥️

back to the backpack beats, here's one i never bought properly on physical because it showed up on so many mixtapes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AANEO6M15Hg
paw dukes - "amazin" (1998)
very fondly remembered, and mostly on account of the beat. put together by highly recommended mpc producer and loose gang starr foundation affiliate dialek. dialek went on to do beats for krumb snatcha and edo g, repping boston all the way. he died in 2023.

the "amazin" beat has been sporadically stuck in my head on loop since at least late july. i'm not even mad. rip dialek.🎧

great one, thanks!

been listening to Lord Finesse lately. sometimes you just want really meat and potatoes, like there's no big storyline behind it...might not even really be historically significant about it, just a dude who loved to rhyme and had great old school boom bap beats

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

he's goated just on beats alone imo. my best friend growing up always had 2 favorite rappers that didn't line up with most folks in 96: treach from naughty by nature and lord finesse. "funky technician" refuses to get old. he shows up in the best places, too -- ever notice his co-producer deep in chronic 2001 liners?

no! that's wild. would love to see a historical breakdown of how much of Dre's production was actually done by other people

this ones new to me, what a banger

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1N7-pp2C3s

xxpost I think Eminem was a big fan of Treach too.

yeah I've seen an interview with him just raving about Treach

Em is actually super charming when he's talking about old rappers he loves, a real fan

this was my fav lord finesse single. I felt like it got at that sort of queasy feeling pitched for the subject matter better than a lot of music

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cT7sHiasHZo

my fault I thought I shared the video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTlqiD0ubKk

Diggin in the Crates was such an elite crew overall

this revive in mind, i'll just state something i've held onto since about 2007/dipset era: big l is the most influential rapper in hiphop history. if not that, at least most respected. "your favorite rapper's favorite rapper."

and on that note----
1998, independent king of ny:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76ibcCbJETk
"size em up"

he is so flippant lol smh

yeah I actually... I dunno, he's obviously a great rapper, but his style is so mean, I can't really enjoy it, he's a bully

He’s really not. It’s annoying how new gens act like he was this important rapper actually. The year his debut came out ego trip listed 24 albums above it on their 25 albums of the year list, now ppl act like that’s low for an all time list

listen I love Big L, bought that CD right when it came out based off some hype from the Source and obviously that kind of stuff was extremely up my alley, but at the time I'm not sure it was considered more hype than, say, the Smoothe Da Hustler album or stuff like that.

I guess, imo, to be the most influential you'd have to say that a rapper really changed the course of hip hop, and I'm not saying that Big L wasn't great, but I think if he never existed the course of hip hop doesn't really look much different, he was a a brilliant practitioner of a certain style that was pretty established

i love big l. always have, always will. i hear his patterns and polyrhythms in a lot of new school rappers.

since i had some folks attention in here i wanted to ask about some old 90s hiphop controversy that i haven't ever really seen get addressed. before i say anything, i have to say that i always liked boot camp click — never loved. beatminerz were some of the best sp1200/mpc beats in that boombap era. sean price of course got his start with them. they made good east coast hiphop.

. . .why did the white guy get away with saying n on their records?

to be fair, it was only once on enta da stage. but still???????? the source gave that schitt like 4 mics wtf

On a similar note, I don't remember much fuss when the more hardcore white rappers of the Rawkus era--Cage, Necro, et al--would use that word. I'm always loath to ascribe these things to "welp, different times (shrug)", but in retrospect it is weird

Dru Ha had a CEO pass.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9n1AtC07EgA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yu2NqfISm9k
i'm in tears why did noone ever tell me abt the hitler rap?

Had a blast driving around to "Jazzmatazz" yesterday -- especially "Le Bien, Le Mal".