EP16 - The Hip-Hop Monstars: Hit ‘Em High (B-Real, Coolio, Method Man, LL Cool J & Busta Rhymes) - Remember The Record

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Hey yo Red, what's up man? You remember the record? What record you talking about man?
I'm talking about Hit Em High by the Hip Hop Monstars Oh man what a record You remember that record?
That record was amazing Yo friends, yo what's up Corner Stoners,
My name is Johnny Warbux and I am here with my man Kalashnikov Red and

(00:25):
welcome to our 16th installment
of Remember The Record getting up there in the number 16th man sweet 16 hey
speaking up all right today we are talking about the hit classic hit them high
which first was released as a single back on january 7th 1997 yes 97 bro this
and i tell you what this soundtrack.

(00:47):
Encompasses that era but look but before
we talk about any of that let me quickly ask you red what have you
been listening to recently what have i been listening to
recently um you know there's a couple a couple
things that come to mind but most recently you know
because we just covered and i know you probably did the same
davey fresh man i listen to a lot

(01:07):
of things refresh on point uh new music coming
out soon yes sir and that and i you know i
i've listened to uh a lot some spm going
on right now uh from straight up jail but
it's it's good stuff yeah that's what i like that one one guy
the dope house records all that stuff you listen to that
and some uh a lot of texas stuff a lot

(01:30):
of texas stuff a lot of texas stuff rap a lot
all stars all that bring it on number trouble
face mob gangsta nip all of
that man i've been busy man so i haven't really had a
chance to really like knock out a bunch of
records this month yeah man yeah for
a show like this you think i'd be just like tapped in nah man

(01:51):
a lot of debut fresh right i've been listening to a lot of posse cuts a lot
of posse cuts so just like a lot of different mcs man um there was this uh record
that juice world did with uh is it kode oh fuck that's terrible korde i don't
know but he's got We got a song called Doomsday,
and they did it over a version of this Eminem role model record,

(02:15):
this old school Eminem record.
And Eminem just put out a video and a song, Doomsday Part 2, I Know This Is Your Boy.
And I'll tell you what man, he starts going at Benzino, it's a pretty wild record,
it's a controversial record.
Yeah, both of them. Both of them. Hard. Got all their CDs.

(02:38):
Got all their CDs. You got another poster on the wall right next to Napoleon. Right next to Napoleon.
They're both my Lord and Savior. My Lord and Savior, my land.
It's terrible, yo. You know, and Eminem, boy, I can't. I mean, that breaks my heart.
It breaks my heart so much. No, man, you're crazy. My two favorite MCs.

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I've been going out of my room with the beef stock, man. And it's like 99.
That's hilarious, man. Look, look. We're getting ready to go into the stats
here real quick. But I want to tell you this.
At the time of this recording, St. Patrick's Day.
The time of this recording, it's also the beginning of March Madness, right?

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And the reason why we chose this record was like, you know, we've been doing
a lot of different types of records.
We want to do something that's like a little more fun. It's been a while since
we've done something that's like fun. You know it not on the nose would be house
of pain on the nose, but what you did last So we wanted to watch madness.
Yeah, that's the next thing that you know, everybody knows this month's Kurt
Curtis blow We playing basketball You know, it's well, I'll get okay Yeah,

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But uh, we'll go ahead and first talk about some of the stats here,
okay first off this record the monster's that's a This is a compilation of just a bunch of MCs, man.
Be Real from Cypress Hill, Busta Rhymes, Coolio, LL Cool J, and Method Man from the Wu-Tang Gang.
So like this is an all-star, monster lineup and each character,

(04:12):
each artist represents one of the monster players.
Hold up, hold up, 97s, that means we were.
Great and i was just getting in this is
like right around the time i was getting green with hip-hop and so when this
came out man like this video i was enamored by it so we'll get we'll get to
that part it's just crazy because man yeah yeah it's this this entire soundtrack

(04:36):
is is an era you know what i mean it was recorded uh back in october of 1996.
Uh the single itself released january 7th 1997, which was after the first album
appearance, which was the Space Jam movie soundtrack, which that came out October 29th, 1996.

(04:57):
Man, we're talking about the original, because there's two. Yeah,
there's that new one. What's that, LeBron James?
Yeah, OG style. Yeah, no, this is the one with Michael Jordan, man.
The GOAT. Yo, I mean, it's a fun movie. I just watched it together with my daughter.
I'm trying to refresh my mind on the movie, too. And it's got like I mean it's

(05:18):
our It's our high school Oh no no no what was it Lola Bunny Babs is from Tiny Toons.
Yo I rock Yo Lola man Sometimes it's like animal cartoons Yo it's weird,
But Lola did this she got my heart And the other redhead one It was like super

(05:38):
sexy You talking about like Jessica Rabbit Yeah Jessica Rabbit Yeah, look at this guy. What?
Man, a real person? Don't even matter, man. I'll take cartoon version.
That chick from Cool World?
Yeah, man. Sign me up, man.
Little Mermaid? Papa Hannes? Uh-huh. And then there's fucking,

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what's that? Jasmine from Aladdin?
No, no, no. Bella from Beauty and the Beast. Yeah. She reads,
man. She reads. She reads.
But, like, Crix the Cat, I don't know if you've seen those, man.
Those girls are pornography. Come on. Come on.
All that, like, Japanese, like, manga stuff. Like, yo. Heavy metal. Yeah, man.

(06:25):
Full metal alchemists and all them things, man.
Yo, Ghost in the Shell. Yeah. Akira.
Akira. All right, we're going. We're going. Yo, transients for days,
boy. All right, let's go back into the show.
Um the the record was recorded at encore
studios that's in burbank california as well

(06:45):
as the hit factory in new york city new york uh
it was released on warner this is an interesting well the hit factory is what
it is like if you go back and look at that roster like there's everybody everybody
from 80s to 90s hip-hop um a lot of rock and roll stars um a lot of pop stars,

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hip factory got its name for a reason but look they were released on Warner
Sunset which was established in 1996 and they were in existence until 2010,
they were literally made to release soundtracks for Warner Brothers films right
but they were eventually replaced

(07:28):
by Water Tower Music which was formerly known as New Line Records,
I remember New Line New Line Cinema and all that yeah yeah uh until replacing
warner sunset 2010 it was also uh put out by atlantic records uh established new york city 1947.
You hear you say new york city 1947.

(07:48):
Uh producers trackmasters man this poking tone uh you know which we previously
shouted out on this show for the work on hey lover all right so it's the same
kind of legends they were legendary for the whole jiggy era of boom bap meets
80s commercially polished records.
So think like, nah, it's Jay-Z, Foxy Brown, LL Cool J, all that.
Well, it's that era. Yeah, it's that era, dog.

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And then, of course, it was written by all the aforementioned artists,
E-Real Cool, Leo Beth and Ben, LL Cool, Jay Bustle Rhymes, and the Trackmasters, Poker Tongue.
Song is four minutes and 17 seconds.
I don't bet it's worth the listen. It's worth the listen. Honestly,
it's a breezy four minutes and 17 seconds.
The sample is the baseline of the song.

(08:33):
It's slowed down and chopped up. It's this 1970s pioneering electronics pop
record DBA by Jean-Jacques Perry.
The famous hip-hop sample used by acts such as Gangstar, Tribe Called Quest,
Orphaness, Artifacts, Dr. Octagon, even Pusha T.
A lot of heads have used this sample.

(08:53):
This one is particularly different because of the way it's slowed down and chopped up.
If you hear the original sample uh it's uh you'll immediately you'll know what
it is right right you'll be like oh that record that record you know um let's see here the song um.
So surprisingly uh did not break billboard top

(09:16):
100s really this song did not uh it's
number eight in the uk now the song that soundtrack or whatever it did not get
out of the park yeah as did all the other singles this uh this album is certified
six times platinum think about that okay six times that makes sense that makes
sense because every song there was i mean like half of the album is

(09:37):
a single like from that from that fall to that summer one of the most famous
songs i believe i can fly yeah i believe i can fly our kelly that one of the
most famous songs seriously sealed on that record which was originally done
by uh um oh my god so yeah what was that.

(09:58):
That's terrible that name is escaping my head
yeah yeah it'll come
to us it'll come to us something mellow steve miller band yeah shout out to steve miller yeah
yeah shout out to steve miller man i mean that record is still dope
by itself but seal did his thing on it now um
as far as charts number two
billboard top 200 number five for top r&b hip-hop albums hit them high right

(10:22):
the rest of it is like through the charts yeah um i will also say that like
if you go and like watch the music video if you go look up the space jam soundtrack
on youtube if you look at the views it's like a couple thousand And even for R.
Kelly and Monica and them, it's a couple thousand. It's massive.
It's like seven, ten times that number for Hit Em High. So people listen to it.

(10:46):
It's got more strength, for sure. It's very more. I mean, not to downplay their
other songs, but Hit Em High on this is the most energetic, more powerful.
It's something you listen to when you're working out. It's something that you
listen to. I got to put it in my gym thing, which, like, it sucks because it doesn't. Yeah.

(11:08):
So, traditionally, I do a Spotify playlist. And this time, because we're talking
this posse cut, like, a series of other posse cuts and cuts from, like, movies.
It's not on the streaming services. Like, you got to find this stuff through
YouTube for the most part.
But, you know, I mean, let's talk about it, right? One side note I do want to

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throw in there is that there was this extended cut of the song using that Going
the Distance sample that was made famous from the Rocky movies.
Probably most recognized by Puff Daddy's Victory. You know?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But to me, the best one is Three Six Mafia. That is hot too, man.

(11:52):
How many want to war with us? Yeah, that's a great song.
I remember that record, that record used to go on.
Nah, man, that was like 10 to club up though, so. Yeah, boy,
everyone loved it in the summer.
But like, Mystic Style, we were just talking about it before the show actually,
But what's interesting about the extended cut, though, is that if you get down to Busta Rhymes first,

(12:19):
there's like a whole other eight bars that Busta Rhymes does that's not on the original record.
And it's still all of like the basketball references and all of that.
But also the way Trackmasters did that going the distance sample,
like with the hi-hat and all that, like it doesn't rhythmically line.

(12:42):
They slowed it down yeah tremendously and then it's like.
And meanwhile you got buss ron's like give me the block so when you hear him
the the hit he's not lining up with it no but like you real it sounded great
yeah yeah he was right on point with it and i think method man's came through

(13:03):
in the book like it does it sounds like after a certain fashion the record just kind of stopped Well,
I think I feel because I from my okay, I'm mad this might I might be wrong I'm
not a track masters person,
but as a producer I can see maybe they have made the original beat They had
somebody come on and another person come on and they're like,
alright cool But then the other heads were like let's get on now You have to

(13:26):
loop the beat and I've went you can hear it when the in the actual beat of where the loop,
Yeah, and then it's like brand new like a new for eight loops loops.
So that's where you hear the difference.
And I feel like it was it's apparent you can hear it. I mean,
at least one producer's ear. But I think that's what you were more referring to. Yeah.

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Well, also, it is the remix, right? So they recorded it to a different view. They.
And then this one just kind of comes in a little look at my dog in my
opinion it's a little sloppy yeah no it is it's
there's two ways of going about it and it's
hard to find like yeah like even on youtube i had a
big the locator what i'm saying it's two ways
of course we're listening to because it's interesting because buster's got

(14:10):
like just a whole like he's he's like
stealing the show it's like his song featuring these other
cats because like it's a full it's not a full 16 you
know what saying yeah but see there's two ways of going
about it there's two ways of going about it you have where you record
to the actual new beat sorry about that
guys but my dog you know so you you

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either record to the new beat or you would take the vocals and
just put them on which i i
don't know which one was done this doesn't sound
like they re-recorded it because everybody else's verses sound
the same yeah yeah so i think that buster
had a verse right and they chopped it
yeah for time that makes sense because it's a

(14:52):
you know it's a music video and back then i mean for hip-hop records they didn't
necessarily have like you know five six seven minute records no no not at all
at that time no you know and and it's a posse cut so everybody's got to get
their share and like you know i mean when you listen to it like even be real
like he's got like a couple of.
Bars you know kulu's got a couple of bars all right

(15:14):
well let's talk about the bars real quick you want to go right into bars well no
i'm not necessarily into the into that part exactly yet
but how we we had stated that like
yeah they weren't like coming at it with like their lyrical steeze yeah so i
mean look i mean think about what they're referencing the reference in this
cartoon right and they're referencing these uh these larger than life monster

(15:35):
characters right And so they are animated and I think we were just talking about
like why was it these cats?
Yeah, see that's the thing that I wanted to bring up here because it's like
we have a bunch of different of that of different of the 90s that was possible.
Like uh self-destruction uh shout out to something we're all in the same game
yeah those are more like you know social driven right even like the posse cats

(16:00):
like friday from like right scenario now all these things made sense to me because
you had like okay scenario you got all these heads,
but then you have like when it comes to to this song it's like these mcs really have no,
Correlation Maybe I mean You can If you do like The degrees thing Like LL Cool

(16:21):
J And Busta Rhymes Work together LL Cool J And Wu-Tang Work together Right B-Real
has done Stuff with them too.
Coolio might be The one like Outlying Factor Coolio Coolio and B-Real Well not
that they Showed up in Fantastic Boys right In the video Right so I mean West
Coast Unite Yeah I'm guessing They were cool like that But like,

(16:45):
but in essence it's like i i don't know i it's kind of just full brand or yeah
the random mcs put into one place they sound amazing together they're gonna
go super like a lot of tracks together right but that was it it was a one-time
thing and then it was gone and i was like,
i went with my heart because like because right right in this record they're

(17:07):
playing around yeah yeah and it's like they're rapping about the cartoon they're
rapping about basketball but But they come so hard.
It's a real hardcore record. The beat is hardcore. The hook gets you amped up.
Now, so, you know, me, I love B-Real. He's one of my top MCs.
But in this song in particular, I got to give it to Coolio, man.

(17:30):
See, and the thing, and this is exactly what we were talking about.
And so, like, when you look at the lyrics, Coolio doesn't necessarily come with
anything hyper-complex.
It's his style. It's his style, man. And when you encompass that with the video
flow his flow is super sick I mean When we we can go into the lyrics because
I look I mean I want to I do I want to talk about the lyrics Because each each cat brings something,

(17:56):
It's be real right like.
Whatever you know like a train like yeah Everything is just like that be real personality, right?
Get out the lane i'm coming through and if
you don't want to come up right like a random weight train yeah man no no no
but like coolio though he's just like he's hyper mellow step by step i'm closing

(18:20):
in on your position and discussion is my mission so but that now your whole
crew is dust yeah that last that's my favorite part of like the whole record,
and it's not a complex part it's the way he does it it's the way
if i wrote that and spit that it doesn't sound good
it's the way he comes with these like just

(18:40):
the flow is so buttery and like you don't hear cool you'll rap like this and
that kind of like that kind of mellow bounce like the bouncy melody that's what
it is tell me who want to take over the gutter which doctor you know what i'm
saying like it's like neighborhood i guess like money after.
I think on the What is that? One, two,

(19:02):
three, four He has that kind of Ain't nobody like a much-known That was such
a great song I love that record He was trying to recapture Fantastic Voyage
in a bottle He even says it too He was like Slide,
slide But that's the pass I got something brand new for that Man,
I love Coolio, dude If it wasn't for Coolio I wouldn't be sitting here talking I mean,

(19:23):
look Coolio didn't have that much of an impact on me massive
impact on me fine but gangsta's paradise as a
gangster back in the day that was my anthem and like that's the song that got
me into it and but see but see what really got me into coolio was fantastic
and i heard that later and it's such a great song and it sounds like fantastic
boys that got me into that r b like that old soul what about uh you know what You know what I mean?

(19:49):
The, the, the, it's too hot, the eights. Yeah, it's too hot,
too hot, too hot, too hot. He's talking about like safe sex and shit,
but that record that he's doing, Oh No, It's Too Hot, Too Hot. That's a great song.
Yeah this is back in the day where like branding was like super
hard like when snoop does a record he's like snoop so

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like in that song too hot coolio you
hear them go listen to coolio the message
comes from coolio like this is
funny is that better than chump rock
hey hey hey i mean i
mean all of that stuff is still like the chubster like yeah i mean it's better

(20:31):
no it's just evolved right it's the evolution of that kind of thing even like
like even like like busted towards later it's like bust up what it is right now.
Just don't care it's always been sprinkled
with these anthem records they're like you're branded
yeah no you're right you're right but i just i don't know i find it funny like

(20:55):
i said to have these heads because it's like they all were like my favorite
at that time it's well busta's like the only one and i know it's blasphemy and
this is whatever i mean particularly in this era,
this was this was the very best of
us in this era scenario yeah what was

(21:16):
it the coming or whatever the the the coming second
coming oh the second yeah yeah yeah that was i
haven't that's the one that has um uh like it
raw like yeah i see i didn't i didn't have the album i just
said it was more into the singles but at that time
make sure everything would make you see no no no
see it's just a little too much he's he's a he's cartoon see that this is the

(21:39):
other thing we were talking about like like i'm not a fan of cartoonish rap
per se is that that's even a thing but like like missy no every every class
needs a clown yeah every class needs a clown and so you got You got Bismarck,
you got Old Dirty Bastard, you
have these cats that birth characters like Eminem. He's a crying bastard.
Well, right. I mean, that's... Well, ODB? Yeah. He's the Old Dirty Bastard?

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Nose pick your boogers laughing about picking boogers like but the other you
almost saved me the whole song was like watch your ass.
Yeah bob bob bob oh no you got me yeah we're mixing them together bob dobblinger
but yeah mr dobblinger mr bob dobblinger come on that is silly dude,

(22:28):
And then you had like the Like De La Soul That were very Very very silly Like
me myself and I Redman Redman for sure is a part of that See I mean look,
It's different like Levels of lyricism And I mean would you even say Black sheep
Black sheep for sure Yeah That whole first track On their album They're rapping

(22:48):
about being a gangster And he wakes up And he had a dream Where he was hot,
Come on dude This one's hilarious And then like
the disco go yeah yeah man i gotta go i
gotta go i gotta go yo but
buster was a big persona of that
like you see him with like the crazy outfits and like the weird yeah that's

(23:10):
where she got a little you know that's that that's what you're saying but this
rah-rah shit is what made him famous rah-rah like a dungeon dragon like that
whole thing set him off and once that happened like he ran with that. You know what I mean?
Eminem was like, being compared to AZ until he went Slim Shady.
It's like, those characters got named it.

(23:32):
Fat Boys, like, they weren't necessarily trying to sell you that until it became,
sell you tight. I mean, you're right.
It's just, I don't know. I was more into, like, street stuff.
Yeah. Big Daddy. Big Daddy. Yeah. I get it. I get it.

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And I love that shit too. It's just that I always, I mean, because for me,
the music has always been entertaining.
And when I came in, I came in like really diving deep into acts like Bone Thugs-O-Harmony.
These are cats that are like singing and creating different voices and characters and stuff.
Three 6 Mafia was really into that horror core shit. And so like, I mean, Necro.
Necro is a, come on, like that's a character if you ever look at him.

(24:14):
That's a persona anyway.
The anyways like with this particular record it's
their characters personified yes
you know like like look at the man who even comes off a little subdued when
he's just like insane like a runner boy trained i've been playing like it's
only three seconds to score to win the game i mean not to mention like one of

(24:41):
the only rappers that ever used the word mega,
Maniacal Yeah that's a hard word to rap with,
And you were Talking strange Like what the fuck did you just say You gotta Google
that I remember this particular We were I don't know what grade it was but,

(25:02):
They actually played Hit em high In like one of the pep rallies In like a dance
Oh one of our school Yeah, and I remember when they had that,
I just got on. I was like, yeah!
I was, like, jumping around hard. I was like, go straight to the hole!
Like, all that, like, that energy and everything.

(25:23):
I was, like, my voice was hoarse by the time that song was finished,
man. Yeah, yeah. Like, I remember I, like, memorized. I had memorized Method Man's.
Busta was the only one I hadn't memorized, but I was, like, halfway there.
You know what I mean? And, like, but, no, that song, and not to mention,
look, I'm going to put it out here for disclosure.
I'm a big like cartoon, like 80s. That's the other part that always kind of boggles me.

(25:46):
Like, but you like stuff like Funtubi and Superhose. Yeah, yeah.
But no, but I'm just saying it's, it's, it's that act. But you keep them separate.
Well, no, I'm just saying like, as, as an artist.
I used i wanted to be a comic book artist or a cartoonist when
i was a little kid right so what i would do is i would watch like
cartoons specifically bugs bunny and yeah man i

(26:08):
love that and put it on pause on the
tv screen oh so you could like trace it well i'm
saying like from it like look at it and just draw it
and that's how i learned how to draw like merry melodies and
all those heads like the bugs bunny universe right that's
wild but the thing was i did that with my son at the hedgehog so
when this song came out it was like

(26:29):
my childhood meets my teenage year it
was like such a beautiful thing i even watched the
movie the movie was amazing i'll still again i just watched
it recently with my daughter and it tracks man i mean i
haven't seen the new one the new one is is
is dope i like the new one i mean a lot of people are gonna compare out versus

(26:49):
in and so you're looking at it and it's like you know it's not the first one
right obviously and it is it but then you get the whole well you know we grew
up with Michael Jackson Michael.
Jordan and now it's like you have this new generation Michael B.
Jordan even the Mike Tyson Jake Paul fight now you kids are like Jake Paul's

(27:14):
gonna win and it's like yo this is where it's like separation there I'm like
nah man the first Space Jam the first,
I mean for me the first Space Jam can't be touched I
mean it's true What about LL Cool J first though.
Oh well okay So LL Cool J because he
is who he is But when he comes into the thing As in the video It's like the

(27:38):
lights turn on They give him a nice intro And the one thing in the video Cause
he was always rapping about like Being a god on mountain tops Hold on the one
thing in the video The one thing where he's like And I'm like why
why it is like a silhouette so you
don't even like show his name he said

(28:03):
lightning strikes and the court lights get dead the supreme competition is about
to begin above the bread and then he like no the way he's spinning in his head
i l cool j see this is why i'm just like whoever chose this
group chose correctly, even though they're so random.

(28:25):
Like everybody, everybody in the song came on point.
It wasn't, now there's many times where I'd be like, like even Fungubi is right.
We're like, be real and like Fungubi and Tomahawk. I'm like, well, I like Tomahawks.
Verse better than be reals in this one be all of
them are equally unique and dope they're enjoyable
every verse and it's and i think we'll we'll definitely

(28:47):
in the games like try to break and compartmentalize
i break that down um if we were talking about and this
is really hard for me i went to try to highlight some
lyrics like what i thought were highlighted lyrics and it's just like you said
like i really wanted to be like follow julio's verse because like it's and it's
But what lyric is tough It's not necessarily It's again about the personality

(29:08):
of it Right but as far as like Technical stuff L.L.
Brought it home On two counts So he's got this one where he says I'm rugged
raw my month stars Getting money when clicks get to bugging I'm snatching up their bunnies.
I get it Little Bugs Bunny
play When the clicks get to bugging I'm snatching up their

(29:31):
bunnies i thought that was dope and also and
back then i didn't really understand it but now that i
have like more of an understanding of the world behind us ahead of us
whatever he says that the refs get political dribble like bob dole right yeah
and i'm like what's that metaphor mean like you're dribbling like bob dole like
on a political level like what does that mean right but like first off if refs

(29:53):
get political this is a thing that this is a terminology in basketball right
like they They get political,
they're like choosing sides, right?
And so like, if your ref gets political and is like choosing the wrong side,
I'm gonna dribble like Bob Dole, because Bob Dole at the time was like the oldest.
Acting cat trying to become president, right?

(30:14):
And so, like, it would be like dribbling like Biden. Like today it would be
like- It reminds me of a certain president.
You know what I'm saying? Like it would be like dribbling like Biden.
He's old. Cadaver Joe. That's what you got. Cadaver Joe. I didn't say. Hey, listen.
We'll just make a reference. A point of reference. All I'm saying is that Biden

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is an older cat, right? And so, like, he'd be dribbling.
He'd be dribbling. But, like, or dribbling, you know, because you get political. No. Come on. No, but.
Listen, I mean, lyrically, I thought they were kind of like.
But even, like, lightning strikes. I mean, just the imagery.
Man, and then you hear the sound effects.
But then you also see that imagery going straight to the hole.

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All the speed. All of those references, man. Three points.
Eight is not enough. Your whole squad better done. Eight people on a basketball team.
Why don't you say that this is the best basketball?
I think so. A lot of people... Curtis Blow came out with McClain Basketball.

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That's like a... it's a pep rally song yeah and
it's one of the first ones it's a big deal but then you
have like i mean outside of that really like it's more
or less i mean connections connections so like what we gotta make them say oh
we're like no lemon is playing basketball on the court or whatever the guy from
florida which one is like really grimy and we've got fat juicy no fruit juice.

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It's like old school, no. Yeah, like the whole, like...
Video in the basketball. Well, what was that?
It's like, Florida. He's like Like the chains you won't even like made it famous
for like a year or two because of that song.
It's the Florida guy who's like like got in trouble with the for taxes Shit

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now there's so many of them.
I don't even know no, but But then you have actual basketball players Yeah,
Shaq Shaq's a big one And also tied into this movie You got What Up Doc, right?
What's Up Doc? With the Foo Snickers Can We Rock?

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But then you also have the movies like Poetic Justice Oh, Above the Rim Above
the Rim and White Man Can't Jump White Man Can't Jump?
He got game You got game, Chuck Green Public Enemy.
So you do have a lot of there's a lot more than
we are leading on to yeah yeah yeah
yeah um but no like i have to

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say that like i mean your comparison would be
curtis blow and this obviously that's the
biggest basketball record in hip-hop yeah and i would say that for us this would
be the biggest yeah basketball yeah yeah that's true but as far as like basketball's
tied into things i mean look you got shaquille doing a record for man of steel
he's got b-real on that record he's got ice cube on that record And what's Ice

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Cube famous for? Oh, yeah, right now.
What do you call it? The four.
Three or four or something like that. Whatever that is. He's got his own league.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, basketball
is tied in, man. You see all of those clips of people like Drake.
You want to know what's ironic with the tie-in, now that you say it?

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Okay, so, you know, I had an opportunity to show Cypress after the show.
And Guess what We went to the hotel room And guess what they were watching And
guess what month it was I don't know which one March Madness They were watching basketball.
And I was watching basketball With B-Real And thinking about this song That's

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really funny Did you bring it up to him?
No I didn't bring it Because he was like So stuck in the game While he was watching
the game I wouldn't have been able To help him I would have been like Going
straight to the hole Alright man Alright He's going straight to the hole But
what happened was, it didn't happen for him.
That's such a hand, bro. Like, me and Sandog and Sapok were,
like, at the side, like, blazing.
And B was, like, steady watching the game with, like, full concentration.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's where his head was at.
That. No, that's really funny, dude. That's really funny.
And I'm like, what am I doing watching basketball like San Jose Hill?
After I spoke to Joy, I was like, yo, man, what's going on here?
And then like Busta Rhymes comes in with stuff like, I mean,

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all of his everything's a reference. Everything. He's like, full court press.
Coming fast break just like the Pony Express. All of that stuff.
Give me the rock. Yeah, no, every everything is a fucking reference With nothing
left for you to see except instant replay clip.
Okay, so so I will say this though I feel like all of them all of them came with mad energy,

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but Buster came with like the extra Yeah, that's why they had him go last Yeah,
I mean if we're gonna do another bastard all time Cuz I think we talked about
this too is that you were saying that like Buster Ron's kind of reminds you
a little bit on this like mystical Yeah,
and if you look at make them say, uh, they made mystical go last two for reasons.
It's like he just was that energy You're right. Make this man Basketball Jersey

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and he's like hanging up on top of like the rim and stuff.
Me that's what I mean this this song came out before away before so way before,
Just like just like Buster like mystical did not always have that What the fuck, God damn it!

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Like, he didn't have that. He would rap like a normal human being in between that stuff.
But it was so like, um... Annoying?
I heard it from there, man. But like, it was just like, you know,
it was very gravitated to it. People loved it. So he leaned into that.

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I mean i mean in
the no limit come on like i don't think that record label would have carried
the way they did without mystical on it no he didn't carry like solo albums
but every single feature he had okay future yes but master people don't care
no master p did it yes no doubt him and his brothers but like i'm just saying

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on records like as far as like a lot of those Yeah, you're right,
you're right. A lot of those records.
A lot of those posse cuts he stood out. That's true, that's true.
And, you know, I'm, like, thinking about, like, the other ones, Birdman.
Oh, Cash Money and that. Yeah, they had, like, posse cuts, too,
man. Yep, and people were always all about Juvie. Yeah, Juvie's my man. Huh? What, huh?

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Even though, like, as, like, I'm, like, I'm older now, I'm a fucking 40-year-old
man, and I listen to that shit.
So emotional, man. And I'm like, I'm like, why?
No, but what you saying, huh? Why is it so good?
But it's so good. You take like single words like huh and make it really cool. Yeah.
What was that one back that ass up? Yeah, yeah. And he's talking about like,
break it off, yeah, make it work like a dog, yeah, take it off, yeah.

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And I really hate when heads do this. It was the hottest part of the song.
It was the hottest part of the song.
I like, so like it's funny to me because we always talk about like,
man, this cat can't write.
He just keeps using the same word at the end. and then I'd be like,
I'll let it pass. It slaps when certain people, like Juvie, did it really cool.
No, he doesn't. No, I, and then, you know, and not to mention.

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Once again, an animated character. Not to mention, though, I have heard Juvie
now, more recently. Yeah, he's still spinning.
He's still doing his thing, and it's not no more, huh, anymore.
No, it's like some more complex lyrics.
And I give him mad props on that shit.
That song he did with Dragon, where he's like, ain't no change yet.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Dun, dun, dun, nah, man.

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Drag on hell yeah we fucked that good it's like yeah fucking great right I love
that song man you know it's crazy because when it came out I was singing whatever
dude I love that song with the horns and shit I don't like it I'm like.
That's a that's a fucking he's driving down with the windows that shit I
don't care in the late night yo yo I'll fuck with it the music video real quick

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it was directed by Hype Williams oh okay that makes sense that makes sense directed
by Hype Williams it's a It's a video that is interwoven scenes from Space Jam
and then a black and white video,
where all the MCs are rocking their Monstars.
I really dug that. That aesthetic?
Yeah. That black and white shit was dope, man. It fit for this.

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And the basketball court, like, all whited out. Like, yeah, it was tight.
You got all, like, the cheerleaders and the crowd filling the court and shit.
Like, you know, wow. Nothing man's got, like, the goggles on.
They all got the jerseys and the shorts and shit. Like, they made basketball fashion so cool.
Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I mean, a lot of heads were, like, rocking real jerseys,
like, just for streetwear. Just for streetwear.

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Like, going to school. Man, we used to cast go to school. It was after that,
too. Yeah, it was nothing but.
You know what I mean? Even I had, like, a Chicago Bulls, like, jersey.
I mean, just wearing, like, the stuff you're supposed to be working out to for your everyday wear.
Like, this was definitely cool. I also had, the baseball had some cool fashion,
too, in the nights. I like the New York Yankees stripe and stripe like button like church.

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Oh, yeah, dude. Yeah. Yeah, you would always do it Yeah.
Yeah, so I mean it's it's definitely like it's a fun video.
It's a fun record Yeah, like it also is still like a very hardcore energetic
like anytime I'm gonna I'm gonna do the MacGyver shit on this.

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I'm at the button get that song and somehow put it on iTunes so I can transfer
it onto my phone and put it in my gym playlist.
Because, man, that song is what's missing in my gym playlist.
Yeah, man. I have a gym playlist and that's definitely, like,
it would be up at the top of that shit.
So, I mean, look, I can't believe this because sometimes I feel like when we

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talk, like, we're like, we gotta, like, we gotta pad the room a little bit.
But we're at that 20 minute mark. And I think we need to get into the damn games, bro.
We are at 40. We're at 40 minutes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's what I'm saying, we got 20 minutes left.
And tell you what, man, I've got a bunch of them because we're going to be talking

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about a lot of records in this particular version of the games.
So I think we should just get into it, man. So obviously, when we talk about
the game, one of the first things I always do is Singles Only.
Now, Singles Only with the soundtrack is a little different because we're not
like picking out the singles of all these artists. That shit would just like go on forever.
But so aside from the hit single hit, what other chart topic single is your

(40:58):
favorite from the Space Jam soundtrack?
Now, this is bleeding out of our wheelhouse because this is mostly R&B shit.
We got I Can Believe I Can Fly by R. Kelly, Space Jam.
Oh, man, Space Jam by the Quad City DJs. They want a jam.
Let me see your jam. Yeah, yeah. Shout out to Quad City DJs coming around.
They're trying. I love that.

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I know it wasn't them, but we did. We did. We did.
I forgot the name of that dude. He's one cat that did that. But that was also
the era when like 69 Boys Were Hot.
69 and going kind of off I like the more house yeah it's time for the percolator
it's time for the percolator,

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oh that shit was like fucking fire yeah it was we got the Space Jam by Quad
City DJs we got Fly Like an Eagle by Seal,
for you I Will Monica I Will Swim the Ocean remember that joint I Turn to You
by All For One I was all for one, man. Remember all for one? I know.
As we stroll down.

(42:03):
God damn. Yeah. Yo, I mean, this is.
Look, look, I ain't gonna lie. Look, this is a hard thing because of the fact that 90s R&B.
Was as par with, like, 90s hip-hop.
I mean, it was a part of our lives. You did not get one hard gangster from the

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90s not knowing who Monica was or Brandy was or Boyz II Men were.
Or, like, come on, everybody.
Everybody was... Mariah Carey, my big time. Me and Mariah. Go back like babies to pacifiers.
Old good dog, the liar.
Yo, I can't believe he pulled that out of the house. I forgot all about that shit.

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Yo welcome back to the show baby that was hot
man i'm a nice little pole man i like it i like it
so which one though man i believe i can fly space i gotta
say i gotta say um the the
seal it's seal right i love this yo and a lot of people are gonna be like what
i believe i can fly but like and even like in the batman see and that's another

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time like all All of these cats didn't just do like this one thing.
Like Seal did Kiss of Morose.
Method Man was the Riddler. Yeah, you're right. I forgot about that.
You know what I'm saying?
Like Ghost. I mean, again, it's Coolio would be real. Yeah, yeah. And Peter Gunn.
Ice Cube would be real. Man of Steel. And then Coolio would be real.
Like El Cooke. No, not everybody has time. I think a lot of these cats did like

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these movie and particularly like these animated style movies.
Like it's pretty interesting when you think about it. These comic book style movies.
Yeah it's dope man Yeah I know I'm gonna have to go With Fly Like an Eagle I
know I know like A lot of people Will be like Well the original man The original
is super fire But Seal Did it justice And we're talking about This particular

(43:54):
You know Soundtrack Yeah.
Now the deep cuts Is a little harder I think Because this was an album That
I didn't listen to This was an album That I saw In the music video So all the
songs We just mentioned Are the ones I heard But if we're doing deep cuts,
all right, besides those chart toppers,
you got The Winner by Coolio,

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I Found My Smile Again by D'Angelo, whoo, Upside Down, Round and Round by Salt-N-Pepa,
which I'm going to argue, every time I hear that record, I really only hear,
like, I rock the body, rocks the body.
I think it's, you know, Puff Daddy being like, turn to me, turn, like, yeah.

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And then Giving you all that I got By Robin S The Basketball Jones,
Basketball Jones That's the part where Charles Barkley is Hooping with the chicks
Right, right, right Because he can't hoop no more And so like He goes like Streetballing
with the With the girls And he's like You ain't no Charles Barkley I love I love Look,
back in the 90s I was a really big fan Of basketball Yeah, yeah I'm not a big

(44:59):
sports fan But in basketball In the 90s Basketball was my shit So Charles Barkley
Was up there They were with one of my guys, same with Jordan, obviously.
Pippen all those But Charles Barkley man, like sometimes I just out of nowhere
I'd be watching his show sometimes where he's like the guy the commentator from

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sports and the way he speaks,
I mean, a lot of comedians remember Charles Barkley for a good reason.
It's a very iconic sound.
Yeah, it's a very good one. Like some kind of cartoon to me. It's a moment.
But like, Basketball Jones got, yo, it's very white with Chris Rock.

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And get this, man, it was written by Cheech and Chong.
Really? I didn't know it was written by Cheech and Chong. Did you fucking know that? That's crazy.
That whole song that's playing while they're all like moping around,
losing their powers and shit.
It's a Cheech and Chong written, Barry White, Chris Rock. That's crazy.
Record. That's crazy. That's the crazy. This is going back to what I said earlier

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about like the rappers in the song. It's like so random.
That's about how much more obscure could you get? Like that's a deep cut.
If there ever was one, dude.
That's the way I like it. Kind of a remix by the Spin Doctors and Biz Markie.
And then, of course, Buggin', which was only on the soundtrack,
but Buggin' by Bugs Bunny, he comes out and does a little something at the end.

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I mean, oh, man.
You know, and maybe it's because it is hip-hop and I'm stuck to it.
I feel like it has to be The Winner by Kool-Aid.
One, that record is just all about, like, positivity. I'm going to go with that.
I'm going to go with it. I mean, because for me, it was going to be...
I mean, honestly, I mean, I know it sounds funny, but that record with,

(46:53):
with barry white dude that that's what it's a funny record very white just like
really gets to the first rock is mad funny and the fact that i found out that
cheech and chong wrote yeah that's
what just it's just it's like i gotta i gotta i gotta hold that down,
but no it's gotta be the winner it's just i don't know and definitely i found
my smile again about the angelo's life yeah that's that's the second one that's why i was in between,

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D'Angelo used to fucking sing his ass off. D'Angelo, man.
A couple of nights in bed. Help me out. I just made a 90s R&B playlist.
Oh, God. I got D'Angelo up in that mojo. I got Babyface. T-Sweat.
Oh, no.
God damn. There's so many fucking heads. Look, I know.

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Not a Motown. I did a New Jack Swing playlist. Okay, and it's a massive play He was the shit.
And honestly and look I gotta let the music be the music and this is so controversial
I understand look I won't buy But but the records that I've already purchased

(48:06):
that I already had those are records from high school but I mean straight up and down like,
Ain't nothing wrong with Lil Pump Ryan.
You remind me of my man, of my Jeep. Like, all that shit, man.
The rappers that he did with Big E on Life After Death. Wait,
Ronald Isley? Ronald Isley, yeah. Come on, man.

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Contagious. Fuck. Man, all that R&B. That's why I say, man.
I love that era. Everybody says my era was the best era.
And it's cliche. Dude, our era was the best. But I feel like literally... We had fantastic music.
Honestly, I feel like literally our era was the ending of all the prior good
eras. Like the 70s had great moves.

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The 80s had great music. The 60s, 50s, 40s all had great music.
But I think it ends... Not 90s really came through with it one last time.
If you listen to soul from the 70s, if you listen to R&B from the 90s,
it's... They're tangible.
Yeah. They're like in tandem with each other. But then you listen to like R&B
today, and it's like, wait, is this rap?

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Is this R&B? Well, the crossover thing has gotten so heavy that,
I mean, I just listened to a country song the other day. Yeah, yeah.
And it straight up sounded like rap music. Like, like.
I mean, it's not bad. When the ball dropped, man, they had some cats out there
that were like the number one country singer.
And Duke came out like using rap lingo, like hip hop culture in the song.

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Yeah. And he started coming to tats and all this. And he looks like he could have been a rapper.
You know, it's very interesting. It's not bad, but it's not good.
It's just the evolution. It is what it is. And we're going to find great music
inside of all that. The same way we always have. There were heads that hated our era, too.
And I know people that were from that era that hate a lot of our shit.

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Not just the hip-hop stuff, but the R&B stuff, all the pop music.
I mean... But even today, the 80s, that's what I'm saying. It's hard to hate
on 80s pop. It's hard to hate on 75. It's so good.
There's so much darkness and happiness at once. And love and sexiness.
All at the same time. I need a hero.

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Oh! Yo, what about my love is a battle tip?
What? Has that happened in time? Shout out. Yeah, it is. Man, just so many. So many.
Yo, we might have to do a Remember the 80s Pop.
Yeah, we might have to do that. We might have to break out of the hip hop record.
Sorry, we went off. Massive damage.
Let's get into the verses real quick because we now, look at that,

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10 minutes, man. I knew this was going to happen because there's just so many people.
Yeah. All right, so we're going to quickly rank the verses. This is the hardest part, I think.
That is the hardest part. We got B-Rail, Coolio, Met The Man,
LL Cool J, Busta Rhymes, who?
Well, for me, it's hardest, but it's the easiest. Because you already said it. You said Coolio, right?
Coolio, inch by inch and step by. I love how he's telling me like a story, you know?

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Now you're all cool. And now you're all cool.
That's man that that i love how he does it drop coming from my every day.
And he does it so like effortless yeah
like it's like he's just talking so like tell me who you want to see yeah it's
smooth as smooth man i'm giving it that little cool okay okay when he come in

(51:31):
dude like the whole record stuff yeah but this is this is where i'm just like
i'm like i'm like I was like, nah, because, like,
LL Cool J is the same guy in every song.
Oh, yeah, I mean, okay, okay, and Coolio came through with something else.
Something that is, and this goes for everybody.
Method Man, Be Real, all came how they're supposed to come.

(51:52):
No, but at the same time, like, Coolio came, like, just different.
It was different. It was different, and it was, like, something you haven't
heard from Coolio ever again.
Like that was it for that song That was perfect for that song Straight up perfection
in my eyes Alright so Koolio has the flawless version I think I loved it A lot

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of people are going to argue man Be real open to the nice music,
Method Man's verse is straight up one time I love all of them Busta came through
and animated this shit It's hard man,
You're going Koolio I'm not mad Any answer is the correct answer This is the
thing though In comparison to Koolio and LL Cool J J, Julio comes like a god.

(52:36):
Because he's like inch by inch and step by inch like blah
blah blah like i am yeah i hear
what you're saying like he's he's more quiet bases ain't
got to flex that yeah i'm good yeah okay okay that's fair enough that's fair
enough all right so now let's look at some of these other posse cuts i wanted
to use posse cuts that featured some of the artists from this record right so

(52:58):
we i'm breaking up a lot of these posse cuts in the different categories this
first one is records that have these cats together again at some point.
So, of course, there's Flavor in Your Ear that has both LL Cool J and Busta Rhymes.
We've got 4, 3, 2, 1, which brings back the man and LL Cool J together.
Mount Cushmore, that's Be Real.
Zip, Be Real, Bounce Up, Ice Cube, Redman. Oh, that's what it is.

(53:19):
It's Be Real, Redman, Method Man with Snoop Dogg.
Oh, I'm thinking of... You're thinking of Mount Cushmore. Yeah,
I'm thinking of Mount Cushmore.
Mount Cushmore with Snoop, Matt, Red, and B.
Beat so be real and met the man again yeah yeah yeah they ain't none of them
fools is on that record that's a great record we're gonna definitely put that

(53:40):
that's going on the show it's something we're talking about that record but
all right so clever in the air four three two one mount kushmore i think mount
kushmore is at the bottom of that for me it's a more recent record it's cool
i love the concept of it but i mean yeah really it's so from then until that i'd have to say.

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You're gonna go You're gonna go Flavor In Your Ear No, 4-3-2-1 You think 4-3-2-1?
Damn, son I'm going 4-3-2-1 See, and that's gonna upset a lot of people A lot
of people are gonna be like What the fuck are you talking about?
Yeah, I'm sorry, man It's just Flavor In Your Ear is super delicious Yeah,
yeah, but I mean 4-3-2-1 Delicious 4-3-2-1's got like,
Like rap legends I mean, and they all came with it Yeah, yeah I mean,

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even Redman got like I mean, if someone that you're not as hot to,
I'll keep coming to your poor sperm out your boots.
Disgusting. Method Man dressed up like a mummy in the video and shit.
When you got Method Man, you got O.O.
DMX and Cannabis. Cannabis for the first time. DMX for the first time.

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Master P on the remix. I know.
But even he was tight. He was like, give it up to my homie. I don't know.
Okay, but we're going for it. That's enough of that.
We're gonna bring it back to the 90s top dog holy

(55:06):
shit all right so now we got uh the big anthem cuts
this is where there's just like a multitude like you
were saying it's an eclectic around the people for this record
so now we're bringing everybody together for records like the points from the
black panther soundtrack that's got i'm not going down the whole lineup we're
gonna have to put it up here on the page but we got points it's got like biggie
it's got red man it's got phone thugs to harm any coolio's on that record too

(55:30):
um then you got uh the wake up show anthem,
swaying tech dj revolution which like star to rizza ends with krs1 you got cool
g rap the chino xl eminem tech not all these heads are on that record look that's a great record.
Okay let's flip it on the other side for your spectrum you

(55:52):
asshole we got black is black which also has
like what is that uh mc search hey all
right there you go but like come on mouse no
okay you got most death cannabis that is a
hard record real quick black is black it's off a movie
called bamboozled it's a movie it's a must watch it's a little known not too

(56:14):
much known movie by spike lee with michael rapaport and uh what's her name will
smith's wife jada Jada and Wayne's one of the way. Yeah. Yeah,
check it out. It's a great movie.
I searched most death Tully quality.
No, it wasn't Tully. There was a what's-her-name the girl who is not right there good, but it was I.

(56:38):
Charlie Baltimore. That's right. Charlie Baltimore in the movie. Yeah. And Poet from Oz.
See, this is a big hip-hop movie, too. That's one.
If we ever do other elements of this show, we definitely should cover that one.
That's one I'd love to sit down and talk about. That's a heavy one, too.

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Just real quick, Mal Mal's is a revolutionary group from Kenya in the 1950s. Check them out.
Oh, shit. it five boroughs i forgot to mention they were on that five boroughs
five boroughs was super high,
it's another great that's just that's representations from
all five boroughs man krs one buckshot prodigy
it's got all kinds of heads on that tour that's a real fire record but so but

(57:24):
we're still we're still on black and black i might have to go with that wake
up show anthem myself dude i don't know man that's a record i play like today
it's like you know So anything which you know excels in me is...
It's his fucking body, too. But...
But I don't like that song. Man. You already know why. It's so fucking stupid.
Yeah, I know. It's two reasons. Okay.

(57:46):
I know one. You know one. You know the other one, too. What's the other one? Too Much.
Too Much? Just too many MCs? No, Too Much, that guy is too much.
I'm angelic. Oh, tech? Yeah, I can't. What?
It's too much, man. He's rapping with his face under the water.
It's too much. When I woke up, I never choked up.

(58:06):
When I was summoned. I said it's too much. Dude, that shit is hot.
No, I like tech. I like, no, don't get me wrong.
You like elements of tech. I had it. In pockets. I had the angelic album.
That's a great album. Great album.
But I can't listen to the whole thing. It's just me.
It's a lot of people, though. I mean, tech, it's, he gets a lot of shade.
I mean, he's an intense personality. He's very clubby.

(58:28):
But he's an insane lyricist. Crazy hook writer.
Insane. So many voices and so many... Just delivery switches.
Very talented. He plays with words on any level.
Chino XO, the Eminem, the Cannabis. Any of those cats that do like,
oh, this is the best wordsmith, right?
He gets on that level. A lot of head sleep. I have to beat Chino for that.

(58:52):
Fair enough. Chino is the god, man. He's the god. We chopped it up with him.
I mean, I'll never forget it.
She knows the fucking man I'm gonna put a picture of when we were on my to the
thing right here right there.
You see that That's a fire right there child fucking Chino XL. We love it.
All right so now we're gonna get and I had to separate these because These have

(59:14):
more of that social conscious awareness thing and it's like if you put this
up on another record You have to pick this one because it's the most important.
It's different.
So we're talking about self-destruction all in the same game the west coast
version of that basically and then a more modern version well for example one

(59:36):
love one for love that was like most depth of all of these people,
you know it's so hard to choose because these are important but I'm gonna have to go with just because,
I am from the east coast and I grew up during that time listening to that,

(59:56):
and then I heard the other stuff later.
Self-destruction man it's a insanely yeah
vicious right yeah it's so many legends and
then with so many legends in the west coast one too but
like i said i know i go with i mean and
one for love is more of the underground thing which is probably why i'm
more gravitated towards it because like i mean carol's launch

(01:00:18):
comes in and kills it very much cool rap opens in bodies yeah you know you got
de la soul um what was the name of that group i mean it's kind of random because
it's this is how you know like this is like a specific time and place but it
was those cats who did uh we don't want no pigeons do you remember that record.
Oh sporty sporty remember them yeah they're on

(01:00:41):
that record that was a great i think i think
rod diggis on that record man one of
the best female mcs man and her verse is one
with the longest behaves like yeah it's cheap
so hard fucking goes hard in the paint with it
hard i love rod diggity she's a she's a legend no
i mean your your choice is good but like i said my choice is
just i feel it i feel it i feel it

(01:01:04):
for uh for other like just posse cuts were like again legends sort of like hit
them high we've got the symphony we've got the scenario modern records like
I shot you more modern like John Blaze which is like fucking Nas,
Ray Kwan and Big Pun on the same like there's a lot of heads on them these are

(01:01:29):
all of these man I shot you you got Fat Joe introducing Foxy Brown,
LL even being like female rappers can get it too, right
on the record just be like I don't give a fuck that you in
this room he does shit
like that you put that on fourth you're too warm but he's it's
well deserved it's dude he's the he's the goat he is one of them he created

(01:01:53):
the tight coin the praise yo shout out to ll guys but yeah and the scenario
man you just take off my shirt every time yeah look my lips real quick i know
it's a good time to take off my shirt and Look at my lips. Oh, okay.
I mean, I mean, I mean.
The scenario is a breakout bus. Symphony, it's like, to this day,

(01:02:15):
people are doing the best. This is really hard for me.
I'm going to have to, the in-between is between the symphony and the scenario.
That's where, I mean, the other two. Tell them what's iconic.
Yeah, the other two are great, but these two are like, and now this is literally,
this is going to win by literally a hair.
Okay? And I have to say that just due to the fact that he brought it so energetically,

(01:02:45):
so on point, I give it to Bust on this one.
Man. Now, Big Daddy Kane. That's what I'm saying. Master Haze. Master Haze.
But it's just it's just that that's gonna piss off a lot.
I'm gonna piss off a lot of people because I'm going with a fucking shot you

(01:03:10):
do that right there is so fucking These other ones are more iconic and more
influential and more important and more important by every stretch,
Out of all four of these records.
I listen to I shot you the most. Okay. Okay, that makes sense And it's also
my first time hearing something like that.
Because Mr. Smith was one of the very first albums I bought.

(01:03:32):
I haven't seen him in a year or two.
So I think that's where this went. And the scenario was right there on par with
it. Because once I discovered it, I was like, this is fucking nuts.
I know. And once you start digging into that 80s rap and you start really studying
these cats, the appreciation for what was happening on the symphony is astronomical.

(01:03:53):
And then when we started, yeah, we were like most mad props to the Gold Rush.
Damn, man. Yeah, because they broke it down with their podcast and they have
the episodes. Oh, yeah, they did talk about it.
Like the beginning on how the thing started with that song, Symphony,
and it was like, I would just go to the studio and just chill and watch them rap.

(01:04:13):
I never thought I'd be on. I think it was Master Ace. Master Ace. Yeah.
So it was like mad props to that because you really learn a lot from that show.
But I go, I gotta go with Scenario, man.
That's fair enough, man. I love Scenario. Just because of the fact.
On the importance of these records, the symphony is the one. The symphony.
You know? The one I listen to the most, Scenario. It's just something.

(01:04:35):
But it's right after that is the symphony.
These are all dope records. And I feel like we're kind of like,
just like putting John Blaze to the side, man. But that's just.
No, I mean. When you think about it, like, Big Pun killed that one.
Yeah, man. Not to mention like some of the bars that he says in that like end
up becoming other records.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Que que pasa, you ain't even in the closet.
Nah, nah, nah, nah. You don't want me saying it. The best, no, you can say it.

(01:05:00):
I'm the money talkers on the like steepest ago i know
it's not from that song but that's my best line though from
from beat nerds uh oh god
man big fun hello man that record is also
tight tough man because cuba links for the came with
it dude big pun is the guy yeah but my man just the way he spit that and at

(01:05:21):
the very ending he's just like i'm just one hell of a guy like i got a star
face black man you got an ak swimming make you eight no It's like M.I.A.K.
Swimming like Beirut though.
My favorite beat up verse or bar from that was like you like thieves,
roll up on you like sleaze.
I don't know why. It's such a simple bar but it's like when you hear it like

(01:05:43):
roll up on you like sleaze. It's like oh shit. With my gangsta wit.
All it takes is my face, my pretty face and my gangsta wit. God dang Pum was
a nasty motherfucker. Smoke the beans, grass my bitches got the beans.
Okay, okay. Now we're gonna try to
get into the posse cuts where these are like in-house
right so like buddy okay buddy from

(01:06:05):
native tongues that's all of the native tongues cats man queen latifah triathlon
quest de la soul everybody's on that record fucking money loves on that record
the rough riders anthem remix has everybody it's got drag on it's got eve it's
got locks it's got dma it got Everybody on it. 24 Hours to Live. Bad Boy.

(01:06:25):
Yeah, back when the locks was on. Yeah, I know already. You listen to it,
there's more. I already know where this goes. We got Mase. We got Black Rob.
Okay, okay. You gotta stop. You can't stop.
Stranded on Death, bro. Okay, that's... That's Dog Pounce, Snoop, Lady of Rage, RBX.

(01:06:47):
That's hardcore, man. Okay, so... Triumph by the Wu-Tang?
All of them!
Triumph wins, man. I don't give a fuck. Obama, Tom McClean, Socrates.
Just that opening shit. Man, just that.
Every verse, though. Yeah, no, every verse. But if it wasn't that, then I'd go to Buddy.

(01:07:10):
That's fair enough. If I was going to go from here, because Triumph,
yeah, dude, I'm sorry, man. That record is just so fucking amazing.
But Stranded on Death Row was a shit song.
Stranded on Death Row, Buddy? I was a big Death Row head.
No, no, it's a great song. And yes, you were native native tongues was after for me.
Yeah, like even now like I have to there's more studying to be done,

(01:07:33):
Yeah, no, there definitely is, you know, I've listened to all of that I mean,
let's do it more than one or two times But I mean one of my favorite death row
like I I can recite that whole fucking catalog No,
I think in death row and you definitely had it's bangers
and all those heads were fucking They were going they were
nasty shit it yeah and that particular record even snoop like
who is not necessarily the most lyrical cat like you fucking flips

(01:07:55):
it because even like like i was gonna say with buddy it's
like i like each and every one no but i like each and every one of them individually
now i i there's some of the other ones that i may or may not like as mcs that
are on it like but like you know but then And then when it comes to Death Row,

(01:08:18):
they're the exact same thing. Each and every one of those artists I like.
Just as individuals. So that's really hard.
It's going to be the same. I'm with you on Buddy, dude. Buddy is amazing.
Buddy's a fucking amazing record. It's a fun record. It's every time you hear
the next person, you smile.
Yeah, yeah. You don't smile when you listen to Stray Kids.

(01:08:39):
You grit your teeth and you get lemon in your eye. Right.
And you just twitch a little bit.
Damn. Fuck. And the other ones are more like head nodding shit,
like party shit, like Rupp Ryders. I mean, well, no, Triumph, man.
Triumph, I'm like studying. Triumph is like philosophical. I'm playing chess while I listen to it.
The other ones are party heads But Triumph That's why I put it at Triumph as

(01:09:03):
my number one Because lyrically,
Lyrically I mean The power and the energy The look, the aesthetic,
the video Everything is just Oh my god the video At the time That computer graphic
shit That was so fire I mean just like even RZA coming through Like the fucking

(01:09:23):
V-Wings Like fucking Eldritch Yo,
I guarantee there's going to be a Wu year where we're going to have a little chit-chat.
And we can go into deeper details, man. But for right now, it is now 10 past.
Yeah, it is what it is, guys. So, like, that's the show, guys.
Hit Em High has such an awesome roster.

(01:09:44):
Man. Tied to a very important era for us.
Like, I think this is a show where we could have done a part one and part two.
We must have. We must have.
Each and every one because then you would go out individually for each and every
one of those guys. We dug as deep as we could with the time we had.
But this is a wrap up. I mean, at this point, I'm going to say thank you very

(01:10:04):
much for listening to our show.
Yet again, 16th episode. It means a lot to us.
Please be sure to like, subscribe, share, comment, subscribe,
Give this to other hip-hop heads in your life, man. You know, enjoy March Madness.
Listen to a little Hit Em High. Watch a little Space Jam in between the games.

(01:10:24):
Watch the video. Watch the video. Watch the video.
Between the games. You know what I mean?
Yeah, and yeah, follow me, Johnny Warbucks. You know, Kalishnikov Red.
You'll find us on all of our social media sites.
The Rappers' Corner's on everything from fucking Facebook, Instagram, X to TikTok.
Talk uh yeah well hopefully we'll

(01:10:47):
see we'll see we'll see but like yeah man
um we have a really dope thing happening here
in the movement it's going on quite lovely we're catching
momentum guys and and keep it going it's important helping us out but you know
more than that we're helping each other out you know we give you what you guys
give us you know i mean that's love and when we talk about what we talk about

(01:11:09):
the rappers podcast like music and stuff like that that comes from here, honestly,
you know, so, like, there's a couple of notes to guide us along the way,
but the rest of this is just, yeah, man, so, like, just the love of this shit,
you guys give us your heart, we give us, we give you guys our heart,
man, and for reals, for reals, just, you know, keep, keep listening,
man, keep, keep, you know, situated, and.
And maintain with our wave frequencies, because for reals, for reals,

(01:11:31):
we do this for, for you guys, we do this for the community, we do this for the
whole, whole culture, man, for reals, and that's, that's the,
that's the fucking no-cap facts right there, Jack, so, so, uh,
peace out, guys we catch on the next one man what's the what's next nice april
yeah um you know something maybe i don't know isn't it like backwards month
or something like that april fool's day maybe,

(01:11:55):
just walk into the walk maybe catch a ride on a bus or something maybe get late or something,
dude i don't know man it could blow up like mom man but a bunch of kids we don't
want no kids don't don't don't get out get out of the yard don't want to cross
me maybe we'll see we'll see hey what what johnny warbucks peace man peace out

(01:12:17):
remember the record what happened.
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