random old rap you are loving

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)

"it's your culture, so be very very clear:
yours is the voice that they don't wanna hear."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fALtsJIg5Nw

asheru+blue black - "setting sun" (2002ish?)

actual lost classic. it was on so many of my mixtapes. love love love.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fALtsJIg5Nw

asheru+blue black - "smiley (the woh woh song)" (2001)

blast. here's the song i was actually talkin bout there, sry-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBd8afws8tg

mobb deep - what can i do
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYssmuNpWFE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXrsuQ1-Bsw

Da Youngstas - Pass da Mic

monday nights are for keepin it real.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHp6zUYHFmg

3x krazy — "keep it on the real" (1997)

nineteen ninety two.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdZH_0cQEuc

tlc — "ain't 2 proud 2 beg (rap version)"

also guys remember that time outkast featured on a tlc track and left eye embarrassed both of them?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJBr3MgHn7Y

yeah, that was p cool

(tlc feat outkast — "what about your friends (extended mix)" [1992])

is it still cool to hate on this? was it ever?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSIRn3zBFAg

i don't think so either way.

(left eye — "the block party" [2001])

i honestly had no idea she had ever put out a solo record until like a year ago. apparently the album didn't even come out in the us??

it did not. unfortunately, it's pretty inconsistent.

here she is in 1989 (according to the description)—

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8Ig9ekXZiY

when i think of most influential rappers/musicians/pop stars/"FAMOUS PERSON"s of my lifetime, she's easily in that conversation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x361Lwf4x4E

Method Man - Say

funking love this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjsUyeR6t4E
diamond d. feat. big L - day one

very classic. also a very classic sample source. alltimers all around.

presenting this evening's feature: lyfe'n'tyme by the b.u.m.s

how was your 1995? mine was great. i saw the show. coolio was king of the summer, thanks to "gangsta's paradise." there was trouble brewin, but we didn't care because the beat was flames. however, my favorite album of the year was easily lyfe'n'tyme by the b.u.m.s, repping east oakland.

the brothas unda madness:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CC2mVQaI-uM

(the lead single, "elevation (free my mind)" with a sonorously souped up teddy pendergrass loop)

d-wyze and e-vocalist weren't the most impressive emcees, but much like the group home album, they got by on charisma and crack production (but okay, let's be honest - they were definitely better than malachi and lil dap on the mic). they had a decidedly nyc-centric sound at times; probably explains why i was such a big fan. the beats were handled mostly by sway+tech affiliate joe quixxx and remind me a lot of common's resurrection or maybe even gang starr's hard to earn - just that perfect jazzy boombap. jeep beats, i guess, is what they used to call it. kind of a conscious vibe at times, on tunes like "take a look around" or "flex uv a finga" it felt like a real earnest vibe; they genuinely wanted better. they were definitely righteous, too. just check out the spoken word closer "who gives you the right" which opens with the accusatory inquiry: "are you afraid of what can't be bought?" right on.

the album highlight -and one of my favorite songs of the 90s- applies feel good smoked out g-funk vibes to a blackbyrds sample and gives you smokey as the whipped cream. "let the music take your mind" is just pure perfection:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6TIprVmgwU

the album flopped. priority spent a lot of money on it, too. they shot two videos, did a ton of remixes, and even got bay area legend saafir for an incredible b-side appearance. they disappeared. a year later, forgotten and never to be heard from again. i like to think they weren't just talking shit; they took whatever money they could from the label and straight up dipped. whatever the case, the one album they released will forever be a personal classic.

epilogue: ya'll remember mystic? her first appearance is on this album.

my bad, here's "let the music take your mind"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2WFiRYBHfA

WOO WOO WH-WHOOOOO

fuck your bad crew

fantastic, what's not to love abt this random old rap