C/D : Pharcyde

But I have to admit one thing: the black ones seem funnier for some reason. The white ones mostly seem pathetic. The reason for this, I'm not sure.

-- punis (ad...), May 17th, 2006.

i love Pharcyde, but i can't get behind this... 'better' production? clearer perhaps, but i love the murk of early ATCQ.

Tribe's productions have always struck me as kind of so-so on the whole. I like the vibe they're going for, but most of the beats have never felt very memorable to me.

This thread needs some major work.

Bizarre Ride was great due to the playfulness/age of the group and the focus of J-Swift as a producer.

Similar can be found with Da Wascals album, as also produced by J Swift before his crack addiciton:

The Wascals - The Dips

The Wascals - Hard Rhymes

The Wascals - Class Clown

Labcabin was the first time J Dilla came to full prominence, and the group (with LA Jay) were equally on point.

For all the shooting fish in a barrel that was dismissing 90210 Brian Green, his 1996 album was basically another chapter in this with Slim Kid 3 and LA Jay all over it (despite the weakest song being the lead single).

Anyone seen the reformed full group live? They’re playing a festival here next year and I’m wondering about spunking the $120 on it.

I'd be curious. But not THAT curious.

still luv bizarre ride II

Anyone seen the reformed full group live?

Really, really great. Super-fun, all four totally engaged, everyone performing to be entertaining visually, no wastes of time with endless shout-outs to SYDNEEEEEEEEEY! or call-and-response, no wastes of space with four dudes standing at the back drinking water and towelling their own faces. Pretty much all the hits except Soul Flower, Bootie Brown did Dirty Harry, Fatlip did a cover of My Prerogative with the others throwing synchronised boy-band dance moves, they came back to do What’s Up Fatlip for the encore.

Odd couple in the crowd: Har Mar and Justin L0ng.

The idea of the group doing What's Up Fatlip kinda makes my day.

When I saw (half of) the Pharcyde circa 2005, they were immensely boring

reformed full group

I saw the full group in the August 1995 in Atlanta headlining for a lineup billed as "The Soul Explosion" that included

Ben Harper
Brooklyn Funk Essentials
Omar Lye-Fook
Michael Franti and Spearhead
The Roots

Pharcyde debuted some of their Labcabin material that day and SMOKED nearly everyone off the stage (The Roots were on their game that day, and I'm a big Omar fan, but still...).

Also learned about D'angelo and (oddly) Insane Clown Posse that day thanks to heavy promo on the grounds.

That was a great era for live music in Atlanta thanks to:
www.myspace.com/rudyliciousness

i dunno if this was posted here yet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CBsxCUhNu0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXoC7s_AtUk&feature=related

labcabin is the shit, can't understand why it gets dissed so frequently

I prefer it to their first.

Goddamn Bizarre Ride is so fucking fun.

perhaps it's obvious but the influence on OFWGTKTA-gen rappers is evident, in subject matter and rap style if not beats

This is fucking lame:

http://www.laweekly.com/music/pharcyde-producer-j-swift-facing-deportation-to-spain-5403265

man that's depressing

damn :(

That first Pharcyde album was awesome at the time and what a truly dispiriting story :(

ugh

Michael Ross the genie

"at the time"?

still awesome imo

I know, I just meant haven't listened to it for years

you should listen to the first two again, they're great!

the 2nd one has a couple songs that have stuck w me over the years, but man was I disappointed in that when it came out

I was as well tbh, I was really disappointed with it at the time.

the singles were good but the rest, oy

yeah, bizarre ride is flawless, labcabin has moments

Labcabin is so underrated imo

^^^

think i like it more yeah

i broke up with a girl mostly because she said Black Sunday was a better album than Bizarre Ride when it came out.

warranted

i think labcabin was a bit of a let down after hearing Drop. It was so out there and different sounding to us as the time and the album didn't have that immediate sound.

http://www.moveforwardmusic.com/events/event/fatlip-slimkid3-performing-bizarre-ride-ii/

oh shit imna try and go to that

say what's up to fatlip for me (and he say coolin')

I hope his mother (with a penchant for drinking whisky out a bizoot) and with a wooden legs and real feet and a glass eye with a fish in it, is keeping well!

30th ann'y tour of Bizarre Ride is happening ... apparently under the name "The Far Side (formerly of The Pharcyde)"

Anyone know who owns the real name / why they can't use it, etc.?

no big news, just upping to remind everyone of tre hardson's wonderful 2002 album liberation recently showed up on streaming (at last!). you hafta search slimkid3. it's really good, very neo soul, and captures that early 2000s boho moment perfectly. the goat kim hill features on a few tracks. recommended.

...and i mean, i know it's just some rappity-rap bullshit, but fat jack's beat here is godlike and the chemistry between him and chali 2na just feels right.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAQDhgS9vgQ

tre hardson/slimkid3 feat chali 2na — "follow, i'll lead" (2002)
prod by fat jack

probably in my top picks of the 2000s, tbh.