random old rap you are loving

The Roots with D'Angelo and Erykah Badu — "The `Notic" (1997)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=behqXr-bdNU

Not on Spotify, for crying out loud.

Cee Knowledge a/k/a Doodlebug featuring the Arkestra — "Space is the Place" (2002)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f25cvqasYlQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dj4H3Ioxs6s

Skee-Lo — I thought he was good! Very much a cornball, but he was unique. I really liked "Top of the Stairs"; another great riff on Patrice Rushen's "Remind Me" (one of those samples that I don't mind hearing in multiple uses).

Scarface — "Mary Jane" (1997)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fz42nWqBKwQ

This beat is heavenly. Always assumed it was a sample, but I can't find the source if so. Who Sampled doesn't have any info on that front, but apparently it was recycled a few times throughout the 2000s. Amazing stuff.

This may be the most unexpected person to produce a pretty good hip hop track I've ever come across. Sounds like Rae & Christian.
BT - Love on Haight Street featuring Rasco and Fifty Grand
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HV3jI6mqs3U

Muro — "Q From A" (1997)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9HNrOcGbpA

Dreaming of the usual: A RAP BEAT.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2T-fWvfjtY

Charizma + Peanut Butter Wolf - "Methods" (1994)

wonderful

Yomo + Maulkie — "For the Love of Money" (1991)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBrJwudod7M

I met a girl, her name was Cathy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mX1xTbXTiQ

On an Eddie F marathon and the things one forgets . . .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_2B5nUxjFI

Eddie F and the Untouchables featuring Heavy D, 2Pac, Notorious B.I.G., Grand Puba, and Spunk Bigga — "Let's Get it On" (1994)

all star cast

been listening to this album again, realising it just about 20years old, where does the time go, eh. An unsung classic out of the vibrant rap/poetry/spoken word world of L.A. in the late nineties/early 2000's. Flow, check, beats, check, passion and heart and no love for the game, check.

Aceyalone - Love and Hate

would be go to add a link, right

Aceyalone - Love and Hate

https://open.spotify.com/album/6C9W3CPcxIKnimjHlF29mH?si=qjZulB70SJu8CasUI61jWw&utm_source=copy-link

About a year ago a local radio station changed format and is now basically Gen-X / older Millenial era hip-hop/soul/funk/r&b. Nothing they play is really obscure in any way but in the past month I've heard "Posse on Broadway", "The Choice Is Yours", "I Wish", "Fantastic Voyage", "Tennessee", "Return of the Mack", "Atomic Dogg", "Country Grammar", "The Way You Move", etc.

Now twice in the last week I've heard this and I can't tell you how excited I am to have it come on while driving my kid to the ortodontist:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSC9cgvtkRs

Also the station confirms for me that my hating of all the Mase / Puffy shit from the late 90s is still justified and that the piano in 'Still DRE' is the most annoying thing ever.

certified classic. really love the remix with all the other bay area folks, including shock g and humpty hump.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiZ3XtGtmQs

one of the mainstream/current rap stations i sometimes listen to plays that song as one of their occasional throwbacks somewhat regularly

maybe i'm just showing my hiphop junkieness, but it's a song that never really went away ime. heck i used to dj an "underground hiphop" night in the late 90s/early 2000s and we'd throw it on when the place was packed. always a crowd pleaser.

I’m from the bay, that song is evergreen

ha ha over the weekend there was a twitter thread where someone asked "What's a legendary hip hop song with no legendary rappers on it," and a bunch of people answered "I Got Five On It"

without looking it up, can you name the members of the luniz?

i can.🙂

(but ya, otm)

Lou Luniz
Sue Luniz
Hugh Luniz
Drew Luniz

Yukmouth, that's all I know

correct!

(his partner in rhyme was knumskull.)

pk clearly not a playa hata

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EeIggJ-_HXo

I always liked this yukmouth album cover:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/7f/Yukmouth-godzilla.jpg

the title track from that album is good.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8wlCsUYuWs
got a few others on it too. i owned the double album thugged out, was pretty good but needed to be trimmed.

really loved their second album, especially the anti-beef feature with too $hort.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmBAyIBzGJ4

"funkin over nothin" featuring harm + too $hort (1997)

yah that album was a mixed bag but had some good stuff. the quik song obv.

Lou Luniz
Sue Luniz
Hugh Luniz
Drew Luniz

― Gymnopédie Pablo (Neanderthal), Tuesday, May 31, 2022 12:55 PM

also irl lol

u forgot quentin "q" luniz tho

spottie otm. dj quik + saadiq + mid-90s = jam

this prompted me to relisten to lunitik muzik for the first time in well over two decades. just as solid as i remember. it got 3.5 mics from the source and i recall thinking "yeah, they got it right on this one." it's completely misogynist and gratuitous, but holy hot damn this beat:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmvS8x6UkZM

luniz featuring 2 live crew — "20 blunts a day" (1997)

ps the redman feature also a big highlight.

the 2 live crew song is so good, but they really were just trying anything at that time. fumbled the bag... as they say.

the debut has some great stuff on it. 5150 (w/ shock g) and put the lead on ya (w/ dru down) are classic deep cuts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDcQpiig51w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uN7F6Mmhd8

oh hell yeah, the first album i always considered a regional classic. i was a teenager in reno and it was just as popular as stuff like bone thugs and 2pac.

some delicious faux warren g funk for your thursday.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hNqts0--vE

mr mike — "where ya love at" (1996)

oh hell yea that is a jam!

jammin all the old suave house this morning. forgot about the female group they had! never released an album. sigh.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNC69kb9LYA

nola — "life is crying" (1996)

alltimer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Plhfkf2jhsk

tela — "piece of mind" (1996)

nice yeah I love this remix of “tired of ballin” that was a bonus track on the reissue:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SsrmhCarQE

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

i'd like to hear how anyone discovers these things, if it's memories being activated or something coming up on the algorithm... i recall owning a physical copy of piece of mind, which i probably picked up in a thrift store because i bought anything with a cover like that. i would not have ever thought about it again had i not seen it here. the other day, i found a picture of my bedroom that i had uploaded to photobucket in around 2005 that showed a row of cds. i couldn't pick most of them out from their spines.

before about a month ago, i had never heard the cam'ron and mariah original or seen the joseph kahn video taking the "doesn't really matter" near future japan thing to its limits. i'm sure it was somewhere at the bottom of a youtube mariah carey playlist, beside the bone thugs mariah song. and then came the remix with freeway, jim jones, and juelz. i wonder if it does anything for someone that can't plug it into memories of 2003.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEcCBH6oYmE

wow, tasty boom bap!

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

very classic.

i really love that album. pure bap

what a wonderful way to start the day

"sometimes i don't speak."

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

asheru+blue black (unspoken heard) - "jamboree" (1999)

asheru so underrated.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrDTzB48fMA

j-live feat asheru + probe dms - "kick it to the beat" prod by pete rock (???? dunno year, def late 90s tho)