random old rap you are loving

yeah it's great. if you like classic early 90s bay stuff you should check out IMP (Ill Mannered Playaz). Both 'back in the days' and the s/t albums are great.

Back In the Days
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8S3lgruvwo
Bang Bang
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoQMlKgUE7c
Cougnut is the guy who has the real gruff voice, died in 2001.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5WNUMMPuw4

this is my fav off the IMP album:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2V6jAKS0-w

good choice. absolutely perfect alb cover too.

always loved the "Ill Mannered" in their name - "we've got attitude! we're dangerous! okay well maybe not *that* dangerous, but our table manners are genuinely terrifying..."

lol

rip cougnut

random old rap albums i listened to this weekend :

yo gotti - life
webbie - savage life
pastor troy - pastor troy for president
mac dre the game is thick vol 2
lil flip, lil ron & big t - 3 headed monster
dsgb - the last supper

i love rap music.

Scienz Of Life- Powers Of Nine Ether

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDgO-VSGpP8

lot of old memphis tapes on youtube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_D1bb0wJ54k

tommy wright.

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

lil ramsey produced by dj tommy wright.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5sPv65HV08

niggaz of destruction. listen to the first ten minutes of this. if nothing else here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-38G3iQpiN0

gime sum family.

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

i never really recognized the distinct memphis sound, and i never really even got into three six mafia that much even though i used to buy every hypnotize minds release i saw in used cd stores. maybe it's because it never had an impact beyond the midwest and the south, so there were never popularized records like houston has records that came out in the 90s and have been sampled and redone and quoted from and interpolated dozens of times in houston and way outside, and the sound was mostly gone by the 2000s. these tapes sound similar to old midwest and south album, kind of... but there are similarities, the creepy nintendo shit and cheap crispness. i'm into it.

i don't even know what this mack 187 is, really. to me it could have been made in 2005 or 2015 because i don't really have any context for it, instrumentals and chants over.... i want someone to listen to it and explain what i'm hearing here.

maybe it's some memphis rap vaporwave shit, i dunno.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8G2O1cCF_g

this is good, too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iv3T2ayN3MI

Love "dippin"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyngFurWy14

thread rules

So this series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TB2enM7afA

led me to search to download that World Renown track (which itself was sampled in something. the "feel the vibe" line. blanking on what sampled it). Only thing I found it on was this Dj Premier compliation: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00BN2FCH0/ref=pd_mp3_als_qp_pa

There's 3 volumes of that and they're all really good. Had only heard a few of the cuts before.

those are cool. thx.

most of those don't seem particularly special/weird - except for that first Cypress Hill one, I had no idea

Buggin Out came on at my lunch place and damn, it kicks. Phife so good

lovin this young bleed, reminds me of b.g.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PasS777nRJ0

It's off the hook this year, gettin mad money off the books this year

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbDoh6A9VME

oh man haven't listed to co flow in a long time ! good revive

was loving "i'll bee dat" by redman and "da rockwilder" by method man/redman this morning

you ship off keys, we ship grand pianos

was loving "i'll bee dat" by redman and "da rockwilder" by method man/redman this morning

― na (NA), Friday, December 1, 2017 10:17 AM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

these have aged so well. redman in particular is so underrated bc of the nas-centricity of the convo

Is there another mc as fun as Redman, past or present? (not rhetorical. wondering if there's someone I've missed out on).

been going back to old raps all morning now and speaking of fun raps currently bumping Tha Alkaholiks

first two albums

yep good call

wtf no The Beatnuts - Street Level on spotify? have to dig that CD up when i get home

ahhhh this will work !
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIKiThGuD-E

so good

man this is def my hip hop sweet spot and my main old-man gripe about modern stuff. there's gotta be someone coming with playful fun shit now right??

a lot of the beatnuts stuff is missing (or missing certain tracks) on streaming bc of sample clearance issues, same as w/ de la soul

as far as stuff in that redman/beatnuts vein today I really like the Chris Crack and Vic Spencer albums from this year & the year before, though they're maybe a little more vituperative (Redman) than the more brolic party rap beatnuts style

thanks deej, will check them out

deej otm and right on cue

#NewProfilePic because Redman is my idol and I’m keeping this picture up until he hears my music. Somebody has to help me make this happen. I don’t want to leave earth until it happens. I think he’d love my shit. #fan #idol #hardcore #legend pic.twitter.com/gImlBQgR8r

— The King of Living. (@VicSpencer) December 4, 2017

just came across this 12 inch, Musab - "Where My Mama Chill", he was one of the original Rhymesayers guy (known as Beyond) but I think it was kinda "off brand" for what they evolved into in terms of being more street than emo rap, works as Sab the Artist now and lives in Vegas I think...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7AtcTFuh5Q

I am pleased at the recent love and respect Redman has been getting from younger cats

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdLdeu2nIFc&list=RDOdLdeu2nIFc&t=59

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5ubzreiEso
So do you know where you're goin' to?

This one gets in my head all the time. Which I guess makes it not random cuz it's ingrained.

kinda interesting using two big east coast references (slick rick and tribe) on a west coast song then

good tune

that dude's outfit is unreal

that song was huge

carne your link is broken

romeo & juliet is a classic

such a memorable chorus

THis is what Carne posted

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdLdeu2nIFc

oh didn't realize i screwed that up . thanks deej

ras kass was so ill on this

Someone posted the phrase "bro down" and it made me think of Crucial Conflict - Showdown, which I perennially return to:
https://youtu.be/i8YdbycIkSE