naughty by nature appreciation
tonyphrone
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inspired by a post on spinemagazine.comhttp://www.spinemagazine.com/music/november/naughtynynature/writtenonyakitten_rmx.mp3 is it me or are these jams starting to sound good again?"Everything's Gonna Be Alright""O.P.P.""Guard Your Grill"/"Uptown Anthem" "It's On""Hip Hop Hooray (Pete Rock Remix)" "The Hood Comes First" "Written on Ya Kitten""Klickow-Klickow" "Clap Yo Hands" (1995) "Feel Me Flow""Mourn You Till I Join You"Remember when Treach was briefly considered top 5 dead or alive? This is pre-Biggie. 
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Peace,
Dress
Yes. I dont know about Top 5 though. They have certified Bangers. I liked when Vinnie stepped up.
I can only take so much of Treach.
i'm not saying I did....personally when they were out i thought they were sorta corny. Too earnest- must be the jersey roots (the e street band of hip-hop?). But now when I hear the singles- i'm really feelin it? There's some real quality production and songwriting that i took for granted in the 90's.
I read an interview awhile ago where somebody was saying that Treach was really the last great eighties MC, he just came out slightly too late, and I think that there's some truth to that. If you consider him as being part of that lineage, he holds up--it's just that the changes that occurred in rap music in the early nineties made the group sound obsolete really quickly.
I keep a copy of their first album.
Pac got all that shit FROM Treach.
Also, "Jamboree" is my official birthday song ever year.
Ity just seemed that Treach jumped on the "Introspective Thug" steez after Tupac blew up.
yeah, pac makes a cameo in the uptown anthem vid and appears to be treach's lackey...yall need to go back and listen to that 1st naughty album again...dude was somethin fierce on the mic....cant vouch for 2nd album or any after though...
KayGee = Underatted Producer. Dude had balance. Polished Street shit that can work in the clubs.
DJ Fuze told me a really funny story a few years ago about getting a in a three-way fight (PAUSE) with Treach and Pac. "We were all really out of it, but I did OK."
From the Salt N Pepa show, it sounds like Treach beat on Pepa though
So the Tupac Cultists are actually Treacherous Cultists????
Paging HarveyCanal.......
Peace,
Dress
Also, cosignature on what faux_rillz said. Treach was real, real nice with it.
Who's the dude who isn't Treach or Vinny? Kay Gee rockin' the mega-hi-top?
Yes
on a side note, they blatantly stole the OPP beat from Tony D. Feel bad for him.
p.p.s.... Anyone ever dj for them at a club back in the day???? They had to have the deepest posse of any rap group ever. It was like Wu Tang posse plus 50
I didn't know that for a long time until my homie played me the Tony D record. Talk about a blatant beat-jack. Yikes.
No, but my homie (different one from the one who played me the Tony D record) opened up for them back in the day and said, yes, the posse was large and also that Treach was not to be fucked with at all because he would beat your ass without hesitation.
He also said that the other group on the bill was a then-unheard of act called Cypress Hill. The Hill got booed roundly, and when they gave out promos of "The Funky Feel One," the crowd just threw 'em back on stage. Ouch.
thats the CRAZIEST!
Actually, UMass people are the craziest. I know because Treach told us when he played UMass.
Except he didn't call us people.
I love NBN, up the to third album even. The video for "Uptown Anthem" always got me hyped.
I was checking out some archives of the hip hop usenet group (rec.music.hip-hop?) that I used to read in college. Treach and Grand Puba were always in everybody's top 5 emcees list but they seem to have fallen out of favor over the years.
Talk about a rapper you couldn't understand... I couldn't understand Treach (or often vinnie) half the time.
I still fucks with Grand Pub-a-la!
He's still in my top 5...maybe top 10.