random old rap you are loving

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

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9xMHJddPIM

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQ_-IyTX6JU&feature=player_embedded#at=103

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOn3V0EQK0c

this whole album is a stone-cold classic - how is there no suga free thread?

"Only reason that girl wear panties is to keep her ankles warm"

So good he used it twice on the same album, the other being my choice cut off Street Gospel:

Doe Doe and a Skunk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bk58yokXtAw

Probably the bounciest rap album Ive ever owned, also one of the best.

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