random old rap you are loving

hi i'm a pendant. can we please post artist and track titles in addition to videos?

going back to spottie's first post, we have:
mr doctor - '40 oz+chronic dice'
the jacka, fed-x+rydah j. klyde - 'the same thing everyday'
and then ums with smoothe da hustler's 'broken language'

(smoothe da hustler+trigger tha gambler-- there's a sorely forgetton ultra charismatic 90s duo!)

lol don't fuck with me, i'm a PENDANT YA'LL.

(pedant, obvs lol)

yeah that's a good idea esp when the youtube links go dead sometimes

xpost I don't know why Smoothe's Once Upon a Time in America isn't held up with stuff like The Infamous or Cuban Links

im always on the hunt to find tracks where rappers take on the broken language flow
ie chance the return
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npgLWoBZZfU

what does "ignorant lyrical box cutter shit" mean, serious q

was an thing old ny street rappers would mention, sneaking a box cutter into a club as a weapon

Kind of became shorthand for a certain type of raw East Coast street rap

ah okay, thanks for the context. and ignorant in this case means "dumb" like "stupid good" ? haha sorry to be a square

Smoothee seemingly went on to become a ghostwriter, worked on the mythical Detox album.

oh wow! i didn't know that, good for him

ignorant in this case means "dumb" like "stupid good" ? haha sorry to be a square

oh haha no worries, i guess in this context it means like uh not exactly interested in uplifting or educating the listener, just thugged out violence threat/outrageous type stuff, ill lyrical content for its own sake guess?

He also claims he wrote Foxy Brown's verse on Jay Z's "Ain't No..."

interesting, honestly it wouldn't surprise me, he was so skilled and also seems like ghostwriting is so much more prevalent than i always thought

ty ums. i did love the track btw

xpost I don't know why Smoothe's Once Upon a Time in America isn't held up with stuff like The Infamous or Cuban Links

wasnt the record out of print or something? im too randomly old to say for sure but i do remember trying to buy the cd and not finding a copy

xpost I don't know why Smoothe's Once Upon a Time in America isn't held up with stuff like The Infamous or Cuban Links

wasnt the record out of print or something? im too randomly old to say for sure but i do remember trying to buy the cd and not finding a copy

ums otm- i was very into that stuff at the same time as mobb deep, cnn... the nyc thug rap phenomenon, y'know? have we already forgotten about that stuff? dang.

i always wondered what became of smoothe da hustler. dmx came along shortly after and that was that, far as that stuff went. makes sense he would move to a behind the scenes role.

Just threw on an old compilation Quannum Spectrum from 1999 and it's top to bottom amazing. The beat that rolls into the opener with J5 is incredible and I forgot how great a track Storm Warning was.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzBy72f1UtQ

nobody burned the flag like 2 Black 2 Strong MMG

this is good

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

saer posted this on Techno/House Bobbins of the past

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

Kurupt, Big Tray Deee, Slip Capone - C Walk

fits the bill

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4Wn5jDw6N0

Hadn't heard this until this morning. Great Talking Heads sample.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_QzZQCs7VE
Shadez Of Brooklyn - Change

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSNYX7CTSRM

Citizen Kane - Blackrain (Dirty)

Been enjoying that new Thirstin Howl III remix album. Underrated rapper from that era I think.

got damn, c walk ...

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

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