And what about Ra The Rugged Man? this comp isnt complete without him.
I don't think even the Rawkus collect-'em-all obsessives f**ked with that record.
You gotta take the good with the bad. Shabam Sadeeq also. Not fair for Rawkus to pretend they were something that they weren't. They should be honest and rep the whack shit too.
01. Talib Kweli - Get By (Album Version (Explicit))
02. Mos Def - Ms. Fat Booty ((best of decade I version))
03. Black Star - Respiration ((best of decade I version))
04. Pharoahe Monch - The Life ((best of decade I version))
05. Pharoahe Monch - Oh No ((best of decade I version))
06. Hi-Tek - The Blast ((best of decade I version))
07. Black Star - Definition (Album Version (Explicit))
08. Mos Def - Beef
09. Big L - Flamboyant (Album Version (Explicit))
10. Mos Def - Universal Magnetic ((best of decade I version))
11. Mos Def - UMI Says (Album Version (Explicit))
12. Common - 1999 (Street)
13. Hi-Tek - The Sun God (Album Version (Explicit))
14. Mos Def - Body Rock (Dirty Version)
15. The High And Mighty - B-Boy Document '99 (Album Version (Explicit))
DISCUSSSSSS
Well, at least no one's hating on these tracks. Ms. FatBooty and Respiration have aged fairly well, if you only listen to them once in a while. Can't say the same in retrospect for more than half the Rawkus catalogue. I'm not much of a "head" anymore (grown out of it), but where's "Simon Says?" Is Toho not letting the sample go? Or has the song been played to death?
Discuss: If there was no Rawkus (or Common, for that matter), how would KanYe's impact have have differed?
Speaking purely for aesthetics, Company Flow also made the label's transition from putting out Scorn records to putting out club bangers for guzzo's private mind garden a more fluid one.
Speaking purely for aesthetics, Company Flow also made the label's transition from putting out Scorn records to putting out club bangers for guzzo's private mind garden a more fluid one.
I need Plur to speak on the Rawkus adventure into jump-up jungle
And I can only imagine Simon Says suffered the axe due to clearance issues cuz that is really one of the few defining moments (at least singles-wise) of 'Rawkus First Decade'
And what about Ra The Rugged Man? this comp isnt complete without him.
I don't think even the Rawkus collect-'em-all obsessives f**ked with that record.
Get half a page in The Source maybe, if that.
That comp is definitely incomplete without R.A. the Rugged Man. Anyone who disagrees is plain wrong. I am partial, but on Stanley Kubrick, R.A. had one of the illest flows that rawkus ever saw on any of their releases. On the Block (Golden Era) from soundbombing fame is also one of if not the greatest hip hop tribute songs ever recorded. Isn't that why Bob ended his show with it?
as for the rest, very few Rawkus releases will stand the test of time past Blackstar and P. Monch, but R.A. is a no brainer.
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You gotta take the good with the bad. Shabam Sadeeq also. Not fair for Rawkus to pretend they were something that they weren't. They should be honest and rep the whack shit too.
Well, at least no one's hating on these tracks. Ms. FatBooty and Respiration have aged fairly well, if you only listen to them once in a while. Can't say the same in retrospect for more than half the Rawkus catalogue. I'm not much of a "head" anymore (grown out of it), but where's "Simon Says?" Is Toho not letting the sample go? Or has the song been played to death?
Discuss: If there was no Rawkus (or Common, for that matter), how would KanYe's impact have have differed?
Yeah I've got this racked away somwhere, it may be promo only tho, I'd have to check....
I need Plur to speak on the Rawkus adventure into jump-up jungle
not again
MANIFESTO
this is actually really good.
i'll add talib kweli "good to you", one of the best kanye productions evar.
7xl with grand puba and sadat X is raw too.
seconded!
I can't see this- what is it?
BTW, love Big L but I remember thinking Flamboyant was kind of a stinker...
The record pictured is Black Attack - My Crown b/w Correct Technique, a real nice record with some Beatnuts involvement (if I'm not mistaken).
No mention of Ghetto Pros or whatever it was? The other record with that label.
Man, we need to have a "glory-era underground rap records that AREN'T terds" thread
really one of my favorite songs EVAR.
on the RA tip, they should've used "til my fuckin heart stops" so they could get some scans from Dipset completists.
do you mean the Brick City Kids 12''?
enjoy.. the RA 12 off soundbombing 1 is raw too.. "flipside"
[R.A. the Rugged Man]
Yo, yo, they asked me where the fuck I been for all this time
I been fuckin' poor out of my fuckin' ass
Eatin' fuckin' shit, fuckin' ugly bitches
Cause everybody knows that pretty bitches ain't down to fuck nobody poor and shit
But that shit don't even matter
It's all about you faggot-ass motherfuckin' rappers
Thinkin' y'all dope, drivin' Lexuses and shit like that
"Every Record Label Sucks Dick"
But yo, yo, but but but you be suckin' on your record label's dick
Word up!This is just a little somethin'
For motherfuckers to let them know I didn't fall off the earth
You know what I'm sayin'?
At 5, 4, 3, 2 in the morning, losing my fuckin' mind about to murder people
(Fuck them motherfuckers)
Yo, yo, yo, yo, check it out, yo yo yo yo yo, like this
and the line about "mr a&r man is about to get fucked in his asshole but im not even GAY!"
i love that record
That comp is definitely incomplete without R.A. the Rugged Man. Anyone who disagrees is plain wrong. I am partial, but on Stanley Kubrick, R.A. had one of the illest flows that rawkus ever saw on any of their releases. On the Block (Golden Era) from soundbombing fame is also one of if not the greatest hip hop tribute songs ever recorded. Isn't that why Bob ended his show with it?
as for the rest, very few Rawkus releases will stand the test of time past Blackstar and P. Monch, but R.A. is a no brainer.
C'mon guys, seriously--I like Black Attack's first 12" on Correct Records (can't remember what it was called), but this record is just boring.