GZA in Alaska

Funny ass video of Soulja Boy's pimple getting busted. Also funny is this interview:

On GZA: I wouldn’t even rap against the Genius. I’d put up someone who was born in ’66 to go against the Genius so it can be a tie. He’s got like 50 years on me. I wouldn’t even associate with the Genius. [In the video] he was looking like I stole his money or something. He’s in Alaska. He’s cold. I just heard 50 Cent talking about the Genius saying he had an Impala his age. Well, that’s the Genius for you. [Laughs.] He has no choice. He got famous for five little minutes, but he had to sacrifice a relationship with Soulja Boy. Now it’s gone. I ain’t gonna be like “F the GZA” ‘cause I ain’t never met that dude. But he says, “F Soulja Boy” ‘cause he needed a buzz. Now he’s back in Alaska.
On Pop It Off Boyz’ “Crank Dat Batman”: I know POB. They cool. They getting their money. It’s all a movement. What I started, people want to continue. They can do that. I stopped cranking it in ’07.[In] ’08, we getting the brand new money. It’s no animosity. The Batmans, Spidermans and the Fantastic Four are cool. Maybe the GZA need to make “Crank Dat GZA.”

Years Later....

Magnolia Slim aka Soulja Slim
Soulja Fa Lyfe
(Parkway Pumpin,1994) &
Dark Side (Hype, 1995) @ 224 kbps.

5 years since Slim passed and its still nearly impossible to check his early work, with the exception of "You Got It" which slipped through the cracks onto No Limit's Bouncin'& Swingin double-disc. How much time must pass before some boutique European label with an endless cash supply starts reissuing long lost NOLA bounce classics on 180 gram double vinyl?

I have no idea what the cover to Soulja Fa Lyfe looks like, though if its as good as 39 Posse's 39 Automatic (also on KLC's label) then you aren't missing much. Rest In Peace.

Bitch U Ride the MARTA Bus

SHAWTY I GOT THAT BREEZE CARD! Youtube Crank Rap gets game stepped up enough to remain funny. And Luch Million$ responds: "dis dat nigga luch millions .. i fucks wit dis shit allday .. holla at me 404-425-9216".

Holy South

Not exactly new news, but news to me: Chuckwick undergoes miraculous Christian conversion? It appears from this clip that he's also on some David Icke shit but he doesn't stay on topic enough to verify. Now I'm sitting here sorting out which parts of "Dr. Wolfgang Von Bushwickin the Barbarian Mother Funky Stay High Dollar Billstir" need changing. Here's wondering if his conversion lasts longer than Lady Boo's and I'll take this chance to get off topic and express deep interest in the future Gangsta Boo / La Chat collabo, We the Hardest. What I'm also wondering is how come Boo didn't fear for her life when she found god like fellow ex-triple-6-er Mr. Del, who insists Paul and Juice put out a hit on him. "I was so afraid because I know what they are capable of. I know what they've done." Luckily, through the power of Jesus he found the strength to return to Memphis. Also, I found out today that Gangsta Boo listens to Alanis Morissette.

Lifted Links to Mr. Del's Hope Dealer in 2 parts: 1, 2

Y2G's

Year 2 thousand remake of the Showboy's 1986 Bounce/Buck construction set "Drag Rap". James Brown may deserve the Lifted Samples Lifetime Achievement award, but I can't think of another track thats been pillaged so boldly and so completely. And considering the near infinite love and respect these 2 either get or deserve, how come they couldn't get something above this highschool photoshop job for the cover to their only full-length? I'm not bitching too hard because I love when record a title incorporates the expression 'Y2K'. I would also love to see a list of titles they actually received royalties from. I imagine Mannie Fresh contemplating the reissue of CM's pre-universal discography and then writing it off like, "Goddamn, I'm tired of sending all my cheese to those motherfuckers." Complete discography to follow shortly (as soon as I replace my needle).

30318

Born Hustler Inc (BHI)'s 30318 Project. 2 covers here and I can't prove either one is legit. My copy has the incoherent space theme featured to the right and is a CD-R with a printed surface that features a "Snap King" parody of the Burger King logo. Bootlegg begets bootlegg. The link is the full shit and at a bit-rate too booji for the casual rap.zip hoarder.

Lord Infamous

Selections from Scott Bejda's interview with Lord Infamous from the latest Murderdog (Vol.5 #1). Dude asks him if he was nervous the first time he performed as a 9 yr old, Infamous says "yes". Actually, he says a lot of shit (no help from Bejda), like inadvertently (or maybe advertently?) revealing what went wrong with Three 6. Yall got your grammy, now get back with the dark arts:

I switched up my style because Paul use to always tell me, “You need to simplify your style because some brothers don’t read the stuff you read, and they are not into the dark arts like you are.” I tried to simplify, but it wan’t my fault that people weren’t educated or into the things that I was into. I was diluting my own style and I had to stop doing that. I felt that unless you put them up on some knowledge then they won’t be on no knowledge… …I love cats like Spice 1, MC Eiht, WC and DOC. They got that sick flow. I also like the dark rappers like Gangsta Nip, Point Blank and K-Rino. I have always been on the wicked side of things. I call it the dark art…We live in a world of turmoil. This is Satan’s Realm. This is not God’s realm at all. I try not to love things of this world because if you’re a worldly man then you’re not a godly man. That is why I don’t glamorize the bling. I only have one song about that and it’s a mockery of ice. I’m talking about robbing the rappers who support that shit… …I’m not one of them cats who will just hop on a record and wear all this jewelry because I don’t do that. I don’t drive no big fancy-ass car. I roll with my girl because they took my license a long time ago, and I don’t drive Bentleys either! The money that is spent on a Bentley can feed many children. What would you spend 100-200 grand on? When I get a check like that I give some of it to my mom. I might take my girl out, pay bills and I just try to survive…Do you think you will ever be in Three 6 again? I’m always Three 6 Mafia. I am one of the founders of the group. I am the one who came up with the name “Triple Six Mafia”; a lot of people may not know that. I created that name. Me and Paul grew together and one of the first places we ever did song was in church. How old were you? Were you nervous? I was only 10 years old. I was nervous as hell. We did “Amazing Grace”.

Sista Sista

4 of the better tracks off Silky's Bouncin in a 6 Tray. Best known for her 1992 "Where They At" answer record, "Sista Sista" (Profile 1992). Not to be confused with Snoop Dog’s character in Doggy Dog World or the male Baton Rouge MC.

Calm like a lawyer, bad like a 2nd grader

Tim Smooth's seminal "I Gotsta' Have It" from 1991 on Yo Records (produced by DJ Lil Daddy). One gets the impression Tim could rap for days without falling off (or asleep).

The All Music Guide claims he was ghostwriting lyrics for rappers on the Big Boy label under alternate pseudonym Playboy Sha-Burnke. It seems if you need a moniker its not 'ghost', just 'writing', though if there was a Big Boy artist at the time in need of ghosting I bet you a cassette tape copy of DJ Jimi's Where They At it was Mystikal, who you can check (lil braids and all) mouthing the chorus to Tim's Comin Real from 94.

A bonus for the dirty minded: J-Dawg (of Black Menace) f/ Playboy Sha-Burnke "Freak Nasty"

An Army, A Navy

Enough Cash Money .rar files to make even the most dedicated bling devotee bash their brains in here (not always at the most desirable bitrate). Most essential (besides the obvious Ms. Tee full-lengths) is Baby's lone independent production, I Need A Bag of Dope. I'm hooking it up direct because rap board trading german link protector karma bullshit gives me a headache, though I understand the attempt to hold on to some notion of authenticity in a world gone inter-nutz. Bird was going by B-32 (as in Baby with the 32 Golds) at the time (92 or 3); Mannie listed as "DJ Crackout". Its a short release, only approaching EP length thanks to Fresh's bonus beats which are the real meat here anyways. For more of that checkout "Mannie Fresh Mix" from UNLV's 6th & Baronne.

As a bonus I'm throwing in the Ninja Crew's "We Destroy", the earliest Crackout production I've landed my virtual hands on. A fairly small 'crew', just Sporty T & Gregory D with Fresh manning the boards, but I'm not holding that against them.

U Know U Ghetto

2001 regional hit worth well more than the sum of its parts. Kind of like David Banner producing Skillet & Leroy, but with better production and less dirty jokes (to make a meaningless analogy more meaningless). The light-hearted melody and children's chorus make this a more coherent prototype for Joc's "Coffee Shop". Here's the the original and club mixes for your listening pleasure.

Young Pups Part 2 : 1-800-Lil-Mac-Needs-A Car

Next Pup Up: No Limit Soldier and 504 Boy Mac. Prior to his No Limit records Shell-Shocked and World War III, Mac was aligned with the other NOLA rap dynasty (Ca$h Money), or at least its founding father, Mr. Mannie Fresh, who you can check below bobbing his head on the Lil Mac bus (priceless). Mac may be the true Michael Lee here, now serving 30 years for manslaughter (in the video below you'll notice some Donut aspirations too). Like Mike, he's confident as hell, a "young barbarian on the move", usually eschewing the ABC's bullshit of other novelty child-rap as best a midget can, though not quite as raw as young thugs Lil Wayne & the B.G.Z whose talent Fresh went on to cultivate.

Compare Mac's MCing on the title track with Local 580's relentless Local 580, which cops the same Fresh instrumental (or at least the same break).
Of course, I'm more than eager to hear
something from the Mac's body of work
between this and his No Limit soldier
years like this duo cassette with Storm.
Don't hold back if you're holding.

Young Pups Part 1: The Puppies

Watching the Wire's fourth season, I couldn't help but be reminded of these other 2 "Pups" (maybe it was the school theme, or maybe just that Dukies name is Dukie). One of the best child groups since Joe Jackson put a gun to in the face of a young Michael, and by far the most solid preteen bass rap I've stumbled upon. The Puppies had 2 minor hits: 1994's "Funky Y2C" and in 1996 "Hokey Pokey", the former breaking into the Billboard top 40 by a hair, and the latter, well, not. Their most memorable performance, though, was their no-bullshit back-up vocs on Disco Rick & the Dogs' bassploitation classic "Yo Mamas On Crackrock", offering inspired interjections like "yours too", "so what" or just plain "shiiiiiiit".

Big Boy kills it on some new shit too, making claims on a forthcoming record, "Happy Music", I'd be happy as hell to see make its way to actually existing. Fingers crossed.

Check it: Dukie Green from Recognize.

Minds on the Prize

Trap Boiz Mind on the Prize & Never Again Family Death Before Dishonor: 2 top notch clearance bin full-lengths from 21st Century Atlanta connected by their style (low-budget Gangsta), their proximity to dance-craze rap (D4L & Trap Squad foreshadowing, respectively) and dubious font choices (I’m trying to imagine the guys at Pen & Pixel contemplating the use of Comic Sans for P’s Ice Cream Man). Try an imagine a better spent 99 cent.

Bossman and Hotrod of the Trap Boiz take the more artful approach - ergonomic beatmaking, calculated vocal delivery. Production credits go to the man Big Cheezy, who I'd like to hear more from but has slipped thru the cracks without the slightest internet data trail. Never Again is more like Strength in Numbers, but I'm not holding that against them. Besides, they have name you can't fuck with (despite their explanation:"I Chose The Name Because We Are Never Again Records And We Are a Family So It Was That Simple!"). Members: Young Shone, Gold Mouth, Thuggio, JG, Collar & Dolley.

Trap Boiz - Click of G's
Never Again Family - Everything on Me


As a bonus - a slice of Tight 2 Def era Fabo.
Fabo - Hell That Pulled the Trigger