random old rap you are loving

There was a really good DJ Tools primer in The Wire a month or so back and they discuss the F5F LP (which I too had never heard of)

jfc why doesn't it show up when i search for it on youtube??!?! i'm not exaggerating when i say that i've checked youtube periodically searching "black eyed peas le rox" for the last six months and it's never once showed up.

me and andy made another one of our super long spotify playlists with a focus on 90s and early 2000s hiphop. andy has a way of finding a specific vibe in beats that unifies the weirdest stuff sometimes, but there's lots of deep cuts and plenty of that soulful jazzy head nodding vibe. check it out: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/34k3fXtlyerybcdRiJTqQR?si=HTu3a-7BT6G-DmXiFpfd1w

https://youtu.be/rBLuvEwIF5E

yukmouth - do my thang ft kurupt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwxWb2-4Onw

so it's recently come to my attention that there was an entire album of mid-90s camp lo demos released some years back and holy hell i'm in heaven.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHZxHPH5zJA

the mc blowfish verse from this in my head all day; why do I still remember every word of this 30 years later?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ru7RVQs3P6o

but it also keeps morphing into this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDhdOOBbFo8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1o6y1xAO9-4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2BR0pHmizw

Be Easy was my ringtone for several years and the last one I had prior to Uppers.gif

wow, i sort of love super wolf and i've never heard it before right now.

(looks up info)

produced by denise lasalle. what a find!

as for me, xpost to the scritti politti thread:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kwjosqoNDs

(scritti featuring lee majors + mos def — "tinseltown to boogiedown (ali shaheed remix)"

not "old" but there's no thread for "random 2019 rap you are loving"

shy glizzy - volcano
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2VGlcb8Pf8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPqh57zxEpQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2BR0pHmizw

Made this for a friend

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1vK7oYXE9RxcxbZ8rQYjg2?si=Dlr_BrhgRySb0xQGaZ3YUg&utm_source=copy-link

Mama said knock you out. Marley Marl was so funky on this. Often weirdly understated too. Milky cereal is also a lot of fun.

OMG
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnefJySR1nI

(da 5 footaz — "short times" featuring roger troutman)

okay, this album is legitimately great.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgHrWqgTPTA

(da 5 footaz — "5 foot city" featuring warren g and a terrific riff on an old prince b-side i mean holy shit this beat)

and now the next track is produced by and featuring erik sermon. WHY WAS THE ALBUM SHELVED I AM ANGRY

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTMSvdYZJ8o;>ice mike</a> layin'it on the stick

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WccF90kVl78

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2avNR80F4gw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOmmLjvC8B8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRS62nccwmw

o.g. piggo

the rootin' tootin' roots

i have a pigmeat movie poster card framed in my kitchen for https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0135460/

reposting this from the ODB thread because holy shit this is a major ODB find IMO

WOW

so this is a track called "Drug Free" off the Deadly Venoms album (a Wu affiliated all-woman group - all vets N-Tyce, J-Boo, Champ MC, and Finesse) which was never formally released but I guess CD promos escaped.

anyway, this is up there with the all-time unhinged ODB performances

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fb_Plk87qwI

wow! on US spotify too.

N Tyce "Hush Hush Tip" is one of my fav songs w/ Method Man on the hook i remember hearing on the radio as a kid

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZV7aOnX7XeE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7Ae31yMfSc

`meaningless composition lacking purpose.`

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnOpB_EKY_4

treblefree featuring plee — "irony" (2008)

shoutout to schematix \m/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOFKU_hwj2o

hehe that hits the spot

I'd never seen this video before. Really incredible

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3z5aFdvE2jc

what a find!

Whoa cool, ty for sharing D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zb3TgyF1Zbc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76FaSHrH7XI

MOOD - Info for the Streets

wow i love divine sounds and mood! those are both personal classics.

also granny that reminded me of one of the best j dilla beats: his remix for mood's "secrets of the sand" from 1999.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aec2SYEXT68

that was pre-"j dilla" moniker, so it was credited to jay dee at the time and has since gotten a little forgotten, unfortunately.

"gotten forgotten" jfc what am i doing with my life

I've heard a lot of Dilla remixes but hadn't heard that before!

And lo and behold it's on streaming services

nas feat. maxwell — "no one else in the room" (2004)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htISO_yapc4

i like to dis nas for being inconsistent after illmatic, but the truth is that all of his albums have a couple solid jams. i am still legitimately salty that, to this day, this is the only hiphop collaboration maxwell has done. at least it's good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBaiRExhdK4

DJ Spinna - More Colors

I posted another Spinna track upthread. Only way I can listen to this album now is on YouTube. There's some other strong tracks on it. Thought the concept on this one was very well executed.

oooh, i love dj spinna!! that's a really good jam.

it might be approaching heresy, but i've always thought his remix for de la soul's "stakes is high" is just as good as the original with the jay dee beat.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUIl92zgRqA

Hadn't heard that before! Yeah that's nice

I’m a big fan of that spinna track. I think it’s actually a remix of the original. I probably posted about it somewhere on ilx when it came out like 11 years ago or something

Yeah I'm pretty sure it is but I can't find the original anywhere

Speaking of Dilla and of stuff that's as good as or better than the better known version, I've been loving this and thinking it's the best Fantastic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZCE8epbfXM