Hip Hop Twosdays

BIGGIE’S ON THAT WEST COAST

Tuesday, March 9th, 2010

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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

NOTORIOUS B.I.G. – BIG POPPA

(J. PERIOD MARCH 9th REMIX)

IT’S THE GIFTED, PROLIFIC ONE

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010

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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

(PROD. BY SQUEAK E. CLEAN)

THE SOFTER SIDE OF GOODIE MOB

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010

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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.

GOODIE MOB – GUESS WHO?

GOODIE MOB – BEAUTIFUL SKIN

TRICK DADDY DOLLAR$ CLASSIXX

Tuesday, February 16th, 2010

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A couple of stone cold classics from everybody’s favorite Floridian thug, Trick Daddy, to start the short week off right.

TRICK DADDY – I’M A THUG

TRICK DADDY – TAKE IT TO THE HOUSE

WAX & EOM “A DATE CALLED QUEST”

Wednesday, January 27th, 2010

A LADY LIKE B IN STERI-ERI-OH

Tuesday, January 19th, 2010

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Bahamadia had that butter flow.   Damn so smooth.  Both the tracks below are from her landmark album, Kollage, that dropped back in ‘96.

BAHAMADIA – U KNOW HOW WE DO

BAHAMADIA – 3 THA HARD WAY

REACH OUT WEST UP CYPHER PT. 3

Tuesday, January 12th, 2010

DUKE

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)

WC & THE MAAD CIRCLE

- WEST UP! FEAT. ICE CUBE & MACK 10 -

FRANKIE CUTLASS

- THE CYPHER Pt. 3 FEAT. THE JUICE CREW -

DA FREESTYLE CYPHER RETURNS!

Tuesday, December 8th, 2009

LARGE PRO & Q-BERT DIG AMOEBA

Tuesday, November 24th, 2009

ERICK & PARRISH MAKING DOLLAR$

Tuesday, November 17th, 2009

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EPMD – STRICTLY BUSINESS (AJ INTRO EDIT)

EPMD – DA JOINT (BEATNICK INTRO EDIT)