L.A. Underground.
Hotsauce84
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This new 2Mex song has me reminiscing like crazy.
Please refresh my memory and blow my mind, friends.
This new 2Mex song has me reminiscing like crazy.
Please refresh my memory and blow my mind, friends.
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(Batmon and Phill, I know you two are Murs fans. Are you familiar with this? It's about 13-14 years old, I think.)
???Now 99% of these motherf*ckers out now don???t know sh*t about selling their own tape, but give these n*ggas a deal, they bad as Superman without the cape. Wait??? / when the album don???t get bought and the label drop your ass you find out you wasn???t as fly as you thought / Caught ground zero, another hometown hero turned has-been, while me and my crew just look at your ass then laugh then throw your tape out the window on the freeway / We finish at night counting our money from selling tapes the G way / And that???s tax-free, now if you ask me, all you signed motherf*ckers need to attend underground college and under me attain the knowledge on how to properly MC / I???m watching Rap City, MTV waiting for somebody to ring the gong, yeah that video???s hella fresh but ain???t got sh* t to do with your song! / Now all these crews will never know the meaning of paying dues but claimed they mastered the lessons, but when they???re holding the drink and the mic in the other hand become the meaning of stage presence / And backstage can???t protect you from the rage of this teenage wonder, make you state your name, rank and serial number before I put you under / and add another stripe to the coat, see I snipe to the throat with full metal jacket tactics cultivated on the streets of mid-city HelL.A. / where n*ggas don???t play that, you say that on a album, you better live it, or give that sh*t a rest / I???m tired of you motherf*ckas not getting put to the test, and I???m not believin??? that you sockin??? n*ggas in the face just for breathin???, deceivin??? the blind, throwin??? out swine to all these starving minds / And you???ll find none to which you can compare me ???cause I ain???t done sh*t unless it???s legendary???B*TCH!???
Plus the video was shot one-take style in the Oakland compound all these fools lived in:
(Don't know why the curse words are edited, though. Weird.)
"Is it really living when you only say 2 or 3 words to your father a day even though he sleeps in the living room only 2 or 3 feet away? That's why today, I give this song for you to initiate / SunGodSuns lives to appreciate the sunsets..."
The first time I heard this I played it over and over and over for at least an hour straight. Then I called my Dad just to say hello and to tell him I loved him.
I found this comment on the YouTube page:
"Let's burn all the money and crash all the cars, smash all our dreams of becoming a star / Let's go and hug our parents until we start to cry / And watch the world die, watch the world die."
Dope! Did he produce "Feet Up On The Table" too? I remember Cut Chemist telling me that he co-produced and/or found the sample for "Greatest Show On Earth" (which was also used on "Jazzy Jeff's Theme" on the Nuyorican Soul LP).
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i have always loved the spontaneity of this whole scene.
low budget.
do it yourself.
in many cases it seems like the process may have gone like this:
got the idea for a track at 10am,
smoked four blunts by noon.
had the fuzzy-sounding sample looped up an hour later.
played with the dog at the park for a while.
recorded the lyrics in two takes in someone's living room at 3pm
and were slangin the cds at a show that same evening.
lo-fi thesaurus rap ??
iPhone is buggin.
I was trying to say
WHERES THE KRS "I was there" gremlin??!!
b/w
I should've titled this thread Can You Find The Level Of Difficulty In This?
All this stuff totally brings me back.
A bunch of my friends went to Hamilton High and they were buddies with the 3MG.
I remember my friend playing me "Sunsprayed" on cassette and thinking that was so dope that they sampled Nirvana.
That song had pretty much just come out and they were already using it!
I also used to street rep for Hive and GoodVibe records so they were always sending me Medusa 12"s and Fat Jack comps.
That was a good fuck'n time for Hip Hop!!!
Thanks again for bringing me back for a little bit!!
Shouts to Stein!
shouts to Thes!
b/w
"Walk like a whale"
you say tomato, I say a tomahto
I have never even remotely associated Fresno with LA at all but I did think about this once: In Cali there is a lot of difference between LA and the Bay but outside of this state we all Cali with far more similarities than differences compared to elsewhere.
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