For the second post of the day, I wanted to drop another old skool hip hop classic. Unfortunately You Tube won't let me embedded this video, but click here for The Flavor Unit - "Roll With That Flava".
Treach from Naughty By Nature leads off with a solid, Treach-like verse. Then you got Chip-Fu, from the Fu-Schnickens, the group that gave Shaq a chance in the hip hop:
Here's Chip-Fu's Myspace page, in case you want to hear what he's doing nowadays. I can picture him still doing the speedy rhymes. Then you got Freddie Foxxx batting third. I had forgotten how he used to do cameos on Naughty by Nature and BDP albums, and only remembered him from his awesome verse on Gangstarr's "The Militia". I took much solace in the fact that even his Wikipedia entry agrees that it was his most memorable verse.
Queen Latifah rolls fourth, and then comes Heavy D!
Yo, I miss Heavy D. Seriously, can we get some work for the overweight luva? The last time I saw him was, what, A Different World? You're telling me he can't take some of those movie parts that Anthony Anderson always gets cast in?!? I am starting the Bring Back Heavy D. movement.
Sixth is D-Nice. D-Nice is best known for the old skool classic hip hop jam "My Name Is D-Nice", which features a great sample of The Turtles' song "Buzzsaw". Buzzsaw deserves to be played somewhere - if I could load mp3s to this site, I would. So instead what I will do is post this crazy You Tube video of Ghoulardi that contains Buzzsaw twice - once at the 38 second mark, and again around the 1:40 mark, lasting for a minute. For the record, if you are from Cleveland (I'm not), Ghoulardi will excite you. For everyone else: Who?
Dres from Black Sheep finishes the track with the best verse. I had forgotten what that Dres actually had some talent. Black Sheep fell off too quickly, as did a lot of these guys.
I would have a longer post, but I have to get going. I have a birthday party to get to - my own. Like OutKast said " I made it to another year/can't ask for much more..." All the players. All the hustlers. Yah know what I'm saying? Peace.
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Freddy Foxx!
Yeah he put in work on BDP and NBN albums (he's also got one recent, fairly decent, album out on an independent label, one that I know of).
But damned if he didn't rip that shid on the Militia. You can't talk about it, SML, without giving the readers a taste:
N*ggas feel my presence, like I'm right in they palm
Cuz a stormy day is coming, when you see me so calm, it's on
No more twin glocks, they jam up my plays
Now its twin .40 caliber Walther PPKs
I'm in control of my game, you must respect me like the ref
Uh-huh, you disrespect [gun clicks] you get the tech...
I'm the illest n*gga doin this, dead or alive
Gloria Gaynor on you muhfuckers, I Will Survive
There's so much more, it aint what he says, though, rather its how he says it. He spits the rhyme like he's the hungriest rapper in the game, starvin even. All the great rappers have their own cadence, style, and delivery, its what makes them great, and its what most of today's artists sorely lack.
But I gotta be cool with the kids today, because its "ol skoo" rhymes like this (although shit aint really that old...) that keeps me from jumping on the kiddies and their taste in music. I mean, I absolutely loved this shid when it hit; meanwhile ol Bumpy aint really talking bout "upliftin the race" or anything like that. I still turned out alright, tho. I know its more complicated than that today, but we still gotta play fair with the kids when we're criticising their music. After all, it aint like we grew up on Duke Ellington, Sarah Vaughn, Ella Fitzgerald and them, know what I mean?!
This just in....Shaq was a beast back then. Wow