For whatever reason, when Lil Wayne's The Block Is Hot came out in '99, it didn't hit me as hard as Juvenile's 400 Degreez, BG's Chopper City in the Ghetto, or the Hot Boys' Guerilla Warfare most definitely did. So since then, I haven't listened to it at all. Yesterday I stumbled upon a cassette copy and I've been jamming it in my car. HOT DAMN! IT'S GOOD! And let me go ahead right now and nominate Mannie Fresh as the BEST RAP PRODUCER EVAR! Over a 20 year span, he has truly done it all...so much versatility, including being the very one to shape what good modern rap has become over the past 10 years, and at his apex he was UNTOUCHABLE FIRE!
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Mannie produced Gregory D's ish going back to at least '88.
Yup. Doing his thing. "Freddie's Back" came out in '87. And I think the first full length was out by '89.
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Apparently Mannie has been dj'ing professionally since he was 10 years old circa 1984.
I'm telling ya...genius of all geniuses.
Damn that's wild, I never knew he was a pre-pubescent rap producer!
Somebody gotta post some pre-90s audio of Mannie Fresh please!
ehhh...its not good enough to go through the hassle. At least not the '87 single I have of himand Gregory D. I have an LP of theirs too, but I think it's 90's...maybe '89. Still, it ain't nothing compared to the better of their contemporaries.
It's mostly basic samples, kinda generic sounding, at times reminds me of early UGK production but not as soulful, more party oriented and surpisingly peachy...especially considering that Gregory D could be so unsavory.
IMO the first beat that shows Mannie coming into his own was "Buck Jump Time" which was on that D Rules the Nation album from '89 and has Mannie trying to apply NOLA second line aspects to hip-hop.
No threadjack, but while we're on the subject of Lil' Wayne, has anybody heard this yet?
well...co-producer, at least. Gregory D and Steve Hurley still had a hand in a lot of the production duties at that point.
so you're saying you slept on an important Southern rap record and are only now coming on board because dude is major?
sorry, but you would clown the hell out of anyone else who created a post like this.
Just wondering, rootless...how does it feel to be a total waste of dna?
Even calling you a meathead is an insult to meat.
now what, deej & edpowers?! now what
It's okay, a few blends, freestyle over Can't Tell Me Nothin' (with TPain and Rick Ross) and a couple of those leaked tracks from Carter III, not bad but not essential.
I do like the "Outstanding" track produced by Dr. Dre and "Bandana on the Right side ft. The Game"
He needs to go ahead and drop Carter III and then drop a proper album with Juelz Santana (I Can't Feel My Face material was hot) and then start doing some new shit for the mixtapes.
Regarding the Block is Hot, I never got into that one, I always found it to be pretty mediocre. I'll give it another listen and see if it strikes me differently now.
so you're saying you slept on an important Southern rap record and are only now coming on board because dude is major?
sorry, but you would clown the hell out of anyone else who created a post like this.
Naw dude, it's an "important Southern rap record". So either pretend to have listened to it a thousand times by now or face the wrath of anti-Southern, ameobas-posing-as-men at every turn.
Forget that you could probably recite every Wayne verse off of Chopper City in the Ghetto and Guerilla Warfare since they came out...you're only interested in The Block Is Hot now because Weezy is "major".
^^^TRUTH
Carter III is gonna be huge
what do u think of it harvey? i know dude is like the ringo of the hot boys but he's actually a great mc i think
Never messed with the Turk album, although I'll be sure to check it next time it shows up in a used casseette bin. In other news, I was born in Florida instead of Texas and my penis isn't quite playa porn star long.