Happy Biggie Smalls Day! It’s been a whopping 13 years since his passing but he’ll forever be a huge presence in hip hop.
I always thought Biggie sounded the illest over west coast Dr. Dre beats (go figure) so I thought I’d dig into the vaults a bit to bless you with these two slices of funkadelic pie.
NOTORIOUS B.I.G. – REAL NIGGAS FREESTYLE
As you may have heard, Gang Starr’s Guru recently suffered a nasty heart attack that has him in a coma and undergoing surgery in a New York hospital. Say it ain’t so Primo!
Thoughts, prayers, love and well wishes goes out to the gifted unlimited rhymes universal. Here, here to a full recovery.
GANG STARR -WHO’S GONNA TAKE THE WEIGHT?
BALDHEAD SLICK – I WIN / U LOSE
Goodie Mob has reunited and rest assured that the world is now back to normal. Outkast is cool and all but these 4 long time friends are the real Dirty South.
Since blessing us with their debut “Soul Food” back in 1995 they’ve gone their separate ways (mostly due to the obvious and inevitable departure of the caramel voiced Cee-Lo for solo pastures) and then came back into the public consciousness with a jaw dropping return-to-form performance on the Jimmy Fallon show with the Roots backing them up. Check it out!
If you’re here in L.A., do yourself a big favor and catch them at the Nokia theater this Saturday night for what will no doubt be a barn burner. Tickets HERE.
To get your shrimp n’ grits boiling hot I”m gonna hit you up with a couple odes to the fairer sex. The first of which must be, in my humble opinion, the best “mama” song ever laid to wax. The emotion is so RAW!
That masterpiece is followed up by a silky syrup serenade to the ever beautiful black woman off their slept on sophomore album “Still Standing”. Soul food so tasty.
A couple of stone cold classics from everybody’s favorite Floridian thug, Trick Daddy, to start the short week off right.
Was digging through some old music last night and was getting into this classic bumper from the king of the keytar, George Duke. I knew knew knew I knew that sample from somewhere but couldn’t pinpoint it. It was driving me nucking futs.
Then with a tingle in my spine and a twinkle in my eye it came to me, Frankie Cutlass! This was the jam way back when on the east coast with Frankie bringing back the old school Juice Crew to prove to the world that they could still rip shit. Shante simply shatters it with that “Roxanne Shante stay creepin” line.
Turns out there was a west coast sibling to the track in WC’s “West Up!” feat. Ice Cube & Mack 10 before they formed like voltron for Westside Connection. Apparently this thing was all over the radio here in L.A. and had people losing their minds. Crazy that I never even heard of it until now, especially since it came out before Frankie got his hands on the sample. I got some learning to do!
GEORGE DUKE – REACH FOR IT (AFRO JACKSON EDIT)
- WEST UP! FEAT. ICE CUBE & MACK 10 -
- THE CYPHER Pt. 3 FEAT. THE JUICE CREW -
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