May 9, 2022 • 12 mins
Welcome to the premiere mini episode of Hip-Hop Hidden Gems named "1 Jewel: 1 Verse".
While we take our time to construct our full episodes we know we can not leave our passionate listeners without some gems. So in these shorter verses we will focus on some our favorite verses and explain why we feel they are so special.
In this first episode we will focus on the great Lauryn Hill and her verse on the song "Zealots".
While we take our time to construct our full episodes we know we can not leave our passionate listeners without some gems. So in these shorter verses we will focus on some our favorite verses and explain why we feel they are so special.
In this first episode we will focus on the great Lauryn Hill and her verse on the song "Zealots".
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(00:00):
What's up everyone, I am theEmojo King, and this, of course
is hip Hop Hidden Gems. Willieand I are going to do something a
little bit different on this one.We know our four episodes are just taking
too long to come out, butwe also refuse to cut any corners when
we highlighting artists or his song.It will be done well and it will
be done right, that's the bottomline. However, in between those four
(00:24):
episodes, we will start dropping somemany episodes. And let me put it
this way, if the full episodesare a nice sit down meal with the
rich dessert, then these many episodesare the warm bread served before dinner,
less elaborate, a little bit lessplanned, but hopefully just as tasty,
(00:44):
and we'll get to talk about someartists and some songs that probably don't fit
the normal Hidden Jem's criteria. Thankyou for listening. As always, we
appreciate you. Let us know whatyou think about these many episodes, and
with no further due, Willie tellthem about one Jewel, One Verse,
the shorter episode where we pick onesong and do a deep dive into an
(01:07):
incredible verse and what makes it soremarkable? Hip Hop Head and Jumps presents
one jewel one verse. All right, the year is nineteen ninety six,
it's February thirteenth, and the Fouji'srelease that classic album, The Score.
(01:34):
This song in particular is called Zealotsand we're gonna talk about Lauren Hills verse.
See my rhymes saw the type offly rhymes that can only get down
with my crew can if you tryto take linesly vines will show you how
(01:59):
well. Jeez. Every every timeElibilty showed up on the Score, every
time I was like, Wow,that's the one. She's dope. I
wasn't in that space of she's goodand why clefs whack and all that.
I wasn't in that space at all. It was just she's dope. What
(02:21):
happens is when you read her verses, they are doper. She sounds great
doing it, but it's even doper. It's behold as my odes manifold on
your rhymes. Two mcs can't occupythe same space at the same time.
(02:43):
It's against the laws of physics.Yeah, because it's my old man in
fold on your bombs can't occupy thesame space at the same time. It's
against the laws of physics. Now, first off, I'm gonna confess I
didn't have the first line associated withthe second and third. I thought she
(03:05):
was just basically saying, behold,I'm about to start rhyming, right,
But what she's saying is watch asthe things I say manifold and landing men
on top of what you say.But we can't do that. We can't
occupy the same space at the sametime. The formulas E equals mc squared,
(03:27):
right, huh exactly. She justdecided that she is the Einstein of
rap, and I'm not disagreeing withher. No, that was that was
genius. Absolutely, It's against thelaws of physics. Obviously, we've listened
(03:51):
to a ton of hip hop andthere's a lot of memorable lines. I
might put that in my top tenof lines I've ever heard. That just
stuck with me. Yeah, whenthey talk about an earworm, something just
won't get out of your head.Toomb seeds can't occupy the same space at
the same time. It's against thelaws of physics. And it can't be
overstated how nonchalantly she did it.M she didn't drop the beat out,
(04:17):
it wasn't over accented. It's likeI'm just explaining to you why you have
to cease to exist now, Andin case you're not clear, which of
us cannot occupy this space, You'regonna weep, so weep as your Sweet
(04:41):
Dreams break up like your rhythmics Bradrejects anyway. Wait, no, no,
no, no, no no.You're not going to just go through
that line and not say anything,so measure up now. That's one of
my favorite jams of all time.But you're right, not everyone knows who
(05:03):
the rhythmics were any linux. Nope, not everyone actually would know that they
did Sweet Dreams because it's been remadeso many times since the good call pointing
that out, go ahead, goahead, differ rhythmics. Biggest hit,
Sweet Dreams are made of these.Who am I to disagree? I'm pretty
(05:24):
sure because I don't know my yourrhythmics history. But they did break up
because she ended up doing solo stuff. So your Sweet Dreams break up like
the group that made the song sweetDreams. Yeah, you have to go
away because it's the laws of physicsrights. Who am I to disagree?
(05:53):
I love this. It's don't blameme, blame the laws of business.
Like they say today, I don'tmake through and now that we're getting into
the fact that you're breaking up,you're gonna have to go away. Your
(06:14):
dreams are falling apart. You're arap reject. What happens to rapper rejects
my tape deck ejects them like projectiles, whether jew or gentile, doesn't matter
who you are, Where are youfrom? I ranked top percentile like you
remixed, rap rejects my tape deck, jacks projectile, whether you or Jip
(06:39):
tall I rattip percentile, many stilesmore powerful and gamba raids. And the
way she says that is this waterfall, like you're walking down steps like something
rollings like rap rejects my tape deck, e jacks projectiles. You got jack
Jack Jack Jack, whether you orgentile, I ranked top percentile, many
styles more powerful than Gamma raised.She's saying, basically, her styles are
(07:02):
like the incredible Hulk. At thispoint, you know, back to something
you said earlier about you're not consideringwhite Cleft a bad rapper, right,
And I'm the same way. Butit's just tough to stand next to Lauren,
Right, That's all it is.They're gonna be some mcs where their
(07:23):
style and their skill are of alevel that they are outliers, and so
standing next to them, your dope, their dope. They're a different type
of dope. You see what I'msaying. My grandma pays like Carlo Santana
played Black Match, joined up,consuming Mango to Sundop Laris Evarius Consition Last
(07:47):
Tango with paren My grammar pays likeCarlo Santana plays. Well, if you
know Carlo Santana's you know that he'samazing on the guitar, right. But
she could have stopped there because atthat point it rhymed. She went on
to say, what he plays blackMagic Woman because taking it right back to
(08:11):
her. So while you're fuming,I'm consuming mango juice under polaris O.
So while you're fuming because you stillhaven't made peace with the factory, sweet
dreams of breaking up? Do yousee what I'm saying? And sweet dreams,
(08:31):
we figure it's happening at night.Yeah, she's consuming mango juice.
Mango. You typically think of theislands, yea. So now I'm thinking
about her sitting on a beach somewherelooking up at the sky and seeing the
north Star. That's exactly right.The polares while you're dreaming whilere you having
(08:54):
these nightmares, right, I'm chilling. You're just embarrassed because it's your last,
last tango in Paris. Do youknow how much controversy and drama the
movie Last Tango in Paris created?It was one of the movies that was
a feature film that had unapologetically,unabashedly explicit content in it. It couldn't
(09:18):
be shown in theaters today, didno matter what letter rating you put on
it, Last Tangle on Paris can'tbe shown in its entirety in a public
theater. That's crazy. I can'tremember at all. Yeah, I just
know last Tangle means it's the lastdance before you got to go, right,
And that's exactly what she's saying.So you're embarrassed because it's your last
(09:39):
tango in Paris. You're in badbecause you gotta go. You're in bad
because this is the last time youget Because her many manifold rhymes are occupying
the space, he's speed him andnow you're on your way out of the
door. You've been ejected from thetape deck as a rap reject by a
person in the top percentile. Atthis point, we just completed what is
(10:01):
effectively an incredibly dope first to startwith, and to make sure she knows
that you know that she knows howdopeeness is. And even after all my
logic and my theory, I adda mother effort so you ignorant brothers hear
(10:24):
me. So she's like, nowI did all that dopeness for the MC's,
I didn't dropped all the logical theoryfor the intellectuals. I know,
I need to add a cuss wordso the ignorant ones actually hear me too.
And she feels like now that she'sdid and she's got your attention,
crew, remember take notes, Soremember all this happened. You know,
(10:48):
as I sold my rap oats yousay she's black magic woman. That's anybody
hearing this song, they are notgoing to struggle with what Lauren can do.
(11:09):
This is an MC flexing all oftheir strength on a verse. Just
I just need to show you howdope I am from start to finish in
less than a minute. And shewas not a dope female MC. She
was not dope for being a dopeMC period. Yep, hands down one
(11:33):
of the greatest right who could writethis verse? Do you see what I'm
saying yep, not many remember teches. Is that so much repo? Inviting?
Zealous? Is this is hip hop? Hidden gems perfect? You know
man? Thank you Maxi so much. I appreciate you. A gonna molsk
(11:56):
is the Columbia. Hey, thisis Jessica and Carmen. We're the hosts
of Smalltown USA, a production ofnineteen Media Group. Join us every other
Tuesday as we rode trip through smalltown America, finding the most underrated,
unknown, and quirky places. Seeyou Tuesday, See you Tuesday.
What's up everyone, I am theEmojo King, and this, of course
is hip Hop Hidden Gems. Willieand I are going to do something a
little bit different on this one.We know our four episodes are just taking
too long to come out, butwe also refuse to cut any corners when
we highlighting artists or his song.It will be done well and it will
be done right, that's the bottomline. However, in between those four
(00:24):
episodes, we will start dropping somemany episodes. And let me put it
this way, if the full episodesare a nice sit down meal with the
rich dessert, then these many episodesare the warm bread served before dinner,
less elaborate, a little bit lessplanned, but hopefully just as tasty,
(00:44):
and we'll get to talk about someartists and some songs that probably don't fit
the normal Hidden Jem's criteria. Thankyou for listening. As always, we
appreciate you. Let us know whatyou think about these many episodes, and
with no further due, Willie tellthem about one Jewel, One Verse,
the shorter episode where we pick onesong and do a deep dive into an
(01:07):
incredible verse and what makes it soremarkable? Hip Hop Head and Jumps presents
one jewel one verse. All right, the year is nineteen ninety six,
it's February thirteenth, and the Fouji'srelease that classic album, The Score.
(01:34):
This song in particular is called Zealotsand we're gonna talk about Lauren Hills verse.
See my rhymes saw the type offly rhymes that can only get down
with my crew can if you tryto take linesly vines will show you how
(01:59):
well. Jeez. Every every timeElibilty showed up on the Score, every
time I was like, Wow,that's the one. She's dope. I
wasn't in that space of she's goodand why clefs whack and all that.
I wasn't in that space at all. It was just she's dope. What
(02:21):
happens is when you read her verses, they are doper. She sounds great
doing it, but it's even doper. It's behold as my odes manifold on
your rhymes. Two mcs can't occupythe same space at the same time.
(02:43):
It's against the laws of physics.Yeah, because it's my old man in
fold on your bombs can't occupy thesame space at the same time. It's
against the laws of physics. Now, first off, I'm gonna confess I
didn't have the first line associated withthe second and third. I thought she
(03:05):
was just basically saying, behold,I'm about to start rhyming, right,
But what she's saying is watch asthe things I say manifold and landing men
on top of what you say.But we can't do that. We can't
occupy the same space at the sametime. The formulas E equals mc squared,
(03:27):
right, huh exactly. She justdecided that she is the Einstein of
rap, and I'm not disagreeing withher. No, that was that was
genius. Absolutely, It's against thelaws of physics. Obviously, we've listened
(03:51):
to a ton of hip hop andthere's a lot of memorable lines. I
might put that in my top tenof lines I've ever heard. That just
stuck with me. Yeah, whenthey talk about an earworm, something just
won't get out of your head.Toomb seeds can't occupy the same space at
the same time. It's against thelaws of physics. And it can't be
overstated how nonchalantly she did it.M she didn't drop the beat out,
(04:17):
it wasn't over accented. It's likeI'm just explaining to you why you have
to cease to exist now, Andin case you're not clear, which of
us cannot occupy this space, You'regonna weep, so weep as your Sweet
(04:41):
Dreams break up like your rhythmics Bradrejects anyway. Wait, no, no,
no, no, no no.You're not going to just go through
that line and not say anything,so measure up now. That's one of
my favorite jams of all time.But you're right, not everyone knows who
(05:03):
the rhythmics were any linux. Nope, not everyone actually would know that they
did Sweet Dreams because it's been remadeso many times since the good call pointing
that out, go ahead, goahead, differ rhythmics. Biggest hit,
Sweet Dreams are made of these.Who am I to disagree? I'm pretty
(05:24):
sure because I don't know my yourrhythmics history. But they did break up
because she ended up doing solo stuff. So your Sweet Dreams break up like
the group that made the song sweetDreams. Yeah, you have to go
away because it's the laws of physicsrights. Who am I to disagree?
(05:53):
I love this. It's don't blameme, blame the laws of business.
Like they say today, I don'tmake through and now that we're getting into
the fact that you're breaking up,you're gonna have to go away. Your
(06:14):
dreams are falling apart. You're arap reject. What happens to rapper rejects
my tape deck ejects them like projectiles, whether jew or gentile, doesn't matter
who you are, Where are youfrom? I ranked top percentile like you
remixed, rap rejects my tape deck, jacks projectile, whether you or Jip
(06:39):
tall I rattip percentile, many stilesmore powerful and gamba raids. And the
way she says that is this waterfall, like you're walking down steps like something
rollings like rap rejects my tape deck, e jacks projectiles. You got jack
Jack Jack Jack, whether you orgentile, I ranked top percentile, many
styles more powerful than Gamma raised.She's saying, basically, her styles are
(07:02):
like the incredible Hulk. At thispoint, you know, back to something
you said earlier about you're not consideringwhite Cleft a bad rapper, right,
And I'm the same way. Butit's just tough to stand next to Lauren,
Right, That's all it is.They're gonna be some mcs where their
(07:23):
style and their skill are of alevel that they are outliers, and so
standing next to them, your dope, their dope. They're a different type
of dope. You see what I'msaying. My grandma pays like Carlo Santana
played Black Match, joined up,consuming Mango to Sundop Laris Evarius Consition Last
(07:47):
Tango with paren My grammar pays likeCarlo Santana plays. Well, if you
know Carlo Santana's you know that he'samazing on the guitar, right. But
she could have stopped there because atthat point it rhymed. She went on
to say, what he plays blackMagic Woman because taking it right back to
(08:11):
her. So while you're fuming,I'm consuming mango juice under polaris O.
So while you're fuming because you stillhaven't made peace with the factory, sweet
dreams of breaking up? Do yousee what I'm saying? And sweet dreams,
(08:31):
we figure it's happening at night.Yeah, she's consuming mango juice.
Mango. You typically think of theislands, yea. So now I'm thinking
about her sitting on a beach somewherelooking up at the sky and seeing the
north Star. That's exactly right.The polares while you're dreaming whilere you having
(08:54):
these nightmares, right, I'm chilling. You're just embarrassed because it's your last,
last tango in Paris. Do youknow how much controversy and drama the
movie Last Tango in Paris created?It was one of the movies that was
a feature film that had unapologetically,unabashedly explicit content in it. It couldn't
(09:18):
be shown in theaters today, didno matter what letter rating you put on
it, Last Tangle on Paris can'tbe shown in its entirety in a public
theater. That's crazy. I can'tremember at all. Yeah, I just
know last Tangle means it's the lastdance before you got to go, right,
And that's exactly what she's saying.So you're embarrassed because it's your last
(09:39):
tango in Paris. You're in badbecause you gotta go. You're in bad
because this is the last time youget Because her many manifold rhymes are occupying
the space, he's speed him andnow you're on your way out of the
door. You've been ejected from thetape deck as a rap reject by a
person in the top percentile. Atthis point, we just completed what is
(10:01):
effectively an incredibly dope first to startwith, and to make sure she knows
that you know that she knows howdopeeness is. And even after all my
logic and my theory, I adda mother effort so you ignorant brothers hear
(10:24):
me. So she's like, nowI did all that dopeness for the MC's,
I didn't dropped all the logical theoryfor the intellectuals. I know,
I need to add a cuss wordso the ignorant ones actually hear me too.
And she feels like now that she'sdid and she's got your attention,
crew, remember take notes, Soremember all this happened. You know,
(10:48):
as I sold my rap oats yousay she's black magic woman. That's anybody
hearing this song, they are notgoing to struggle with what Lauren can do.
(11:09):
This is an MC flexing all oftheir strength on a verse. Just
I just need to show you howdope I am from start to finish in
less than a minute. And shewas not a dope female MC. She
was not dope for being a dopeMC period. Yep, hands down one
(11:33):
of the greatest right who could writethis verse? Do you see what I'm
saying yep, not many remember teches. Is that so much repo? Inviting?
Zealous? Is this is hip hop? Hidden gems perfect? You know
man? Thank you Maxi so much. I appreciate you. A gonna molsk
(11:56):
is the Columbia. Hey, thisis Jessica and Carmen. We're the hosts
of Smalltown USA, a production ofnineteen Media Group. Join us every other
Tuesday as we rode trip through smalltown America, finding the most underrated,
unknown, and quirky places. Seeyou Tuesday, See you Tuesday.
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