random old rap you are loving

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

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

DJ RED ALERT IS GOIN BESERK

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTfP4iyw8AI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNz6qqG56u8

Kiss You Back by Digital Underground.

I just cannot get Gasface Refill by KMD out of my head today

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyXe-ZIyTR8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZe7jeZmYxQ

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

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

sorry for dup post

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

I had never heard Raw Breed's Killa Instinct before now - what an album!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ig0sAHrJnI
Fonky Expedition (Remix) - Conscious Daughters

ear to the street is a great album

this beat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6b8zbMVhVVM

I had never heard Raw Breed's Killa Instinct before now - what an album!

― Tim F, Thursday, July 24, 2025 8:34 PM (two weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink

Seconding this - absolutely amazed I’d never heard of this until now!

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztaf9IpaHwc
o.c. ― “born 2 live” (1994)

been going back to the outer rim of early d.i.t.c. stuff lately and there's a spiritual trilogy i want to talk about. to immediately divert, let me briefly explain the impetus behind this post: youtuber f.d. signifier made quick mention a while back about his “salute to mid-tiers” and he talked about how much he loved busta rhymes in his formative years. of course in hindsight, busta made enjoyable records and was not meant to be very profound, like a lot of mid-tiers. as a schizo-affected mind, i was drawn to a more introspective and reserved mood, so my mid-tier go-to was omar credle. the `trilogy` that i was thinking of consists of the first two albums by organized konfusion and word. . .life, the first album by o.c.

organized was _not_ mid-tier, btw. those first two albums of theirs are as classic as music ―or at least hiphop― gets. they captured a wild moment of post-native tongues euphoria elevating into proper coordination. the first o.c. album finishes the vibe with plenty of soul searching and i have to think of word. . .life as one of the first `adult contempo` hiphop albums. if illmatic was the raw critic’s choice, not really for top 40 airplay, o.c. had a less complex, radio friendlier variation on that vibe. buckwild’s early production is riyl buhloone mindstate’s acid jazz adjacent grooves, or maybe it proposes a more tuneful hard to earn. the album is my favorite of this little sub-scene: a soulful, rainy day hiphop masterpiece. check out this deep cut with his mom on the hook.

by the time jewelz and the equinox came around, the internet and backpack scenes had bloomed, and d.i.t.c. was releasing proper singles. organized konfusion went to the medicine man with their high concept album; a hard-to-follow sound movie that introduced me to apani b fly and still leaves me wondering when interactive albums will become reality*. the beats were fucking sick!

jewelz otoh tried to split the difference: dj premier beats, heavier reliance on d.i.t.c. cohorts, r+b features, and plenty of simple ass rhymes with a ton of charisma. the beats were even better, but o.c. was just too lowkey to really catch on. i like the album still, even if it was kind of a disappointment back then. it wasn’t a blatant sellout, but there was probably no chance of a track like “sabotage” showing up in 97.

looking at o.c.’s streaming profiles these days, he’s kept recording steadily ever since. while skimming that material, i can’t say any of it will change anyone’s mind about o.c., and even as a fan, i lose interest fairly easily. but i have to commend him, as he is one of the few people from that era who has copyright dumped all of his initial material onto platforms. some of it can be a little frustrating because there’s very little info on the provenance, but all those remixes and bonus verses from the original wild pitch “time’s up” 12” are there in one way or another.

and with his old d.i.t.c. crew mate fat joe getting dragged lately on social media for being fake, it's really refreshing to revisit one of the most genuine dudes of the era.

ok+o.c. "fudge pudge" reunion when?

*i mean, how did we skip straight to “VIDEO” games? i have always wanted to play an audio action adventure game. imagine if j-live’s first album was an interactive first person rpg type of game! you’d literally get to experience the birth of hiphop culture, learn about it first hand like an apprentice, and then decide if you want to pursue rapping, dj’ing, or graffiti. like… this is some irl leveling up that i need.
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I love 'word...life,' its so personal of an album in a way that is hard for me to bring external critical frameworks to, 'born 2 live' is really one of the most beautiful songs about grief ever, up with tragedy khadafi's 'grand groove' remix

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gf68J5iqK6g

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

these songs are actually hard for me to listen to sometimes

I think one of the things when people talk about "nostalgia" in music they seldom talk about how much it can be attached to grief and grieving ... it becomes so much more about people being too attached to the past or childhood or buzzfeed posts about ninja turtles or whatever ... an implied 'not living in the present' kind of thing...or thinking the past is better and draining stuff of its charge by just looping it to meaninglessness. that can happen to me w certain rap albums the way the canonization of everything makes you more distant from what you liked about it, at least until you listen to it again.

but when I was young nostalgic rap from young rappers about their even younger selves felt like a very dominant theme ... "back in the day" by ahmad, its the subtext of a lot of songs on biggie's debut, many Scarface songs...theres a lot in here about people dying too young and so on, echoes of what the crack era did, then of course within dance music 'nostalgia' has all these subtexts from the AIDS epidemic. I got real into the fire island pine walk mixes that were going around on mixcloud and in the article in the Times they talk about how for many people certain songs in those mixes were synonymous with a person, for them, that a lot of the subtext of those mixes was about mourning and grief. The early 90s when I was a kid I think was steeped in these kinds of echoes of a real existential darkness but sort of at the margins or slipping through the cracks of popular culture

This wasn't a song I knew at the time but it's such a deeply poignant distillation of this moment ... sometimes the really sad music is too much and other times you need to go to that place

Sinister - I Won't Forget You G

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDikYN5XJFE

big shouts for those picks ― i have never heard sinister before right now. thank you for posting!

these songs are actually hard for me to listen to sometimes

obv pick but I feel this way about ugk "one day"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ly5LHkdbcqI

A to the mothrafruging K

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcZ8N3Xrwkw

69 Boyz - Tootsee Roll

― Phoenix in Flight (Cattle Grind), Tuesday, April 13, 2010 4:35 AM (fifteen years ago) bookmarkflaglink

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mf8S5XbNu1g

d-40 i've had this vibe in mind since our exchange and i just have to share a couple more grief/regret/life-affirming raps.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23KjsR1IATg
goodie mob - "the day after" (1995)
t-mo absolutely godlike on his verse.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzW33uCdUCI
wc and the maad circle - "the creator"
west coast always had the best beats for these kinds of songs imo.

and here's a dreamy mpc beat to get lost in afterwards:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFSanrEluhI
swollen members - "consumption (instrumental)" (1999)
beat by evidence

whoops, that's "i didn't ask to come" in that good mob link. also somewhat relevant to the topic; most of the second half of soul food is, come to think of it. anyway, here's "the day after"-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-S67fsIzH8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ed2q_b5rhvo

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

also all the p.cutta street wars stuff is up on archive.org, beef it's what's for dinner

https://archive.org/details/P_Cutta_-_Street_Wars_1_-_15

Silver Bullet, UK rapper...super hyped up feels almost like proto-drum and bass by way of Paris or PE

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9F7Ox2cv2A

the way that bassline knocks...NORE killing the hook, just beautiful

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usIb05ceGWI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfi0RHFi1-c
G Depp - Head Over Wheels

rad pick, corrs. rip g depp!! the jenevieve song "head over heels" from earlier this year is a great homage to the g depp.

i might be back sporadically throughout the day for further shoutouts, but mostly wanted to post because i'm running an impromptu marathon of wc's early trilogy of albums: low profile's we're in this together, and then the two maad circle albums. we're in this together especially seems like a hidden gem of classic proto g-funk:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70wgmUTYZoU
low profile ― "keep on flowing" (1989)

classic single+video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3paaAsXrZw
wc and the maad circle ― "the one" (1995)

"just clownin" from 97 not far behind―
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2fl_46G4Lk

dub c! great stuff

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxI1afqG8r0
The Delinquents - My Mind Trip

i was today years old when i first heard gangsta boo. i think i'm just gonna let this kid feed me good stuff.

I took a trip to Memphis the week Gangsta Boo's "Enquiring Minds" was released and there were tons of billboards and radio ads for it. I'd never heard of her or 3-6 before. I think it was my first time realizing that regional rap stars were a thing.

the first X-Clan album is such a masterpiece, love this off-kilter beat so much. RIP Professor X

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86tkUdqf7Yo

the second album goes too

Young Gunz, got overlooked in the State Property eras but damn Young Chris and Neef could flow

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

that album is a personal classic of mine.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_P4E73i_geE

i heard "circles" by crime mob on possibly armed forces radio whatever was playing in a pizza place in the suburbs. i thought it was new just playing nostalgia with the way "got me goin in circles oh r-r-r-r-round and r-r-r-round i go-go-go" sample is flickered. i found it by searching the lyrics to the startling diamond verse -- becoming aroused by the sweat smell of her significantly older lover (their love is illegal she notes). i had no idea crime mob put out a second album.

Back on my Paris vibe lately

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