Did X-Clan ever make better songs than these?
mannybolone
Los Angeles, CA 15,025 Posts
mannybolone
Los Angeles, CA 15,025 Posts
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I'm not mad at "Fire and Earth" from "Xodus." But yeah, I feel you.
Edutainment/It Takes A Nation../One For All/etc...
They really brought the extra-steez to the era.
While everyone else was talmbout "the corner" they were talmbout Egyptology.
Way ahead of their time thread steez.
Because Egyptology is poised to be the hot topical shit in 2010?
Absolutely.. incredible album.
Ultraman where u at?
Nah.....X-Clan were on some African/P-Funk/Mythological steez that rounded out the %5 angle which was dominant at the time.
While the 2 dudes established the Native Toungues which did address Black Power issues, J, w/ X-Clan took that Black Is Black shit to a whole 'nother level...IMO.
Flow for days.
verbs of power/lou courtny loop so
anybody here carlos ninos album that had a real dope dark sunrisers song on it? i had that cd (it had another reallly really dope cut) but i lost it
did a show recently with bro. j...still so dope.
when x clan 1st dropped, they were all up in wendys in full gear, eating mad bacon burgers... mmmmmm herbs and fruits!!!??
damn, im posting again. gotta go gotta go......
I ride for "Verbs of Power" too.
Yup.
Yes, yes, and underrated, yes. J is that dude on the mic.
I think I like that second X-Clan album more than most folks, though. "Xodus" hits hard, "Verbal Papp" has J flowing beautifully, and "Ooh Baby" is like
That said, the album still had joints.
Proto-Charles Hamilton
how is qwest related?
101 was the shit!!!
no one recalls the carlos nino dark sun riders song??
heres drum riders: http://www.undergroundhiphop.com/audio/r...ge=1&InStock=No
pretty nice
Because he sampled Brother J's "like this like that, like that like this" lyric in "101 Things...."
O-Dub: Yeah, that second X-Clan album was definitely on some jacking for beats shit, but I still really enjoyed it. I suppose it says something that my favorite joints on that album were the ones that weren't flagrant beat-jacks.
Also: Those Professor X albums had some great beats on them, but not even I could take an entire album of PXO rapping.
Dudes used EPMD's shit. Impeach The President,Big Beat,and Tom Tom Club. Shit was from groundbreaking in terms of beat selection. They still freaked that shit.
From talking to J, that was always his outlook. He cares less about "has this beat already been used?" than "do I want to rock this beat?" He told me about how when they did "Grand Verbalizer," the AWB sample had already been used a couple times, but he felt he could freak it in a different way, which I think he did.
They sure did... "YEAH!"
Yeah, and when he goes from sampling "One Mint Julep" and four songs later is doing his thing over a house track... I realize that every other album had a hip house but that one was too much. I think there's one or two songs that have him actually rapping, the rest is just him in that Professor X spoken word style, or the intro and outro to every X-Clan song, but stretched out into full songs. It's an odd project from a time when people were willing to throw out anything and everything.