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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Coming up on this week's episode of hip Hop Now podcast,
it's five standout features in hip Hop Let's do it.
Welcome to hip Hop Now Pod. Fat ship you from
the future. You know what you do? Show as out
(00:22):
about so disrespectful leg like hip hop is say to today.
Let's get right into the business. What up, y'all? I
am your host Vegas and this it's hip Hop Now Podcasts,
a podcast specifically designed to keep you caught up on
all things hip hop, music and culture that happened throughout
(00:45):
the week. Big shout out to those listening right now
in audio form, whether it's Apple podcasts, Spotify, What Google gone,
y'all is gone. We all know this, y'all. It's gone okay,
But I appreciate you listening. You know, wherever you're listening,
(01:08):
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those on YouTube who have subscribed to the podcast, and
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(01:30):
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(01:51):
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you do. Subscribe to the podcast Make It Happen today.
Now we're doing a bonus episode, y'all. I'm going to
be on vacation right now as you're watching this. I'm
(02:15):
already on vacation. I'm not going to Islands or nothing
like that. I just don't have the money, not this time.
But nevertheless, I'm trying to get in a couple of episodes.
And one of the things about this episode in particular
is the fact that this will be the first member exclusive,
(02:36):
limited exclusive that I put out right here on YouTube.
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(02:59):
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(03:23):
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or at least try to. And you know, it is
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Hop Now podcast memberships, do it today. Now let's get
(03:44):
right into the episode. You saw the title, you saw
the thumb. Now you know what it is. This isn't
a top five, this isn't a definitive top five because
quite honestly, that's a bigger discussion, and who knows, maybe
that's something we'll do somewhere down the line. But nevertheless,
(04:05):
I mean one of the things that I was thinking about,
you know, I was listening to hip hop. I'm one
of those hip hop heads who will go back and
listen to an album I haven't heard in a while,
an artist I haven't heard in a while, because at
some point I was interested in all of it. You
know what I'm saying. So one of the things I did,
(04:26):
I was like, you know, it would be a great idea,
just five standout guests versus we all have heard them
throughout hip hop. We could think of a million guests
verses that were crazy, and I mean I mean really
good like not just oh it sounds good like. No,
it's a standout moment on that record as a feature.
(04:51):
So I have five of them, some of you know,
some of them you know, and you know, maybe some
way down the line, I'll do a part two. Also
me share my screen so we could get right into
the mixt of this. The first one I'd like to
share with y'all is off jay Z's The Dynasty album.
It's a song called This Can't Be Life featuring Beanie
(05:15):
Siegull and Scarface. The standout verse for me, it's hands
down Scarface. Now, this was a dope record anyway, right anyway,
Beanie siagules versus Dope, jay Z's versus Dope. But it
was something about Scarface's verse, and I got the lyrics
(05:36):
up here on the screen, you know, for those who
are listening to audio form, I'm gonna read some of
them for you. So this is how Scarface started his
verse right now, as I walk into the studio do
this with Jag, got a phone call from one of
my nigs said, my homeboy Reek he just lost one
of his kids. And when I heard that, I just
(05:57):
broke into tears. And see in the second hand you
don't really know how this is, but when it hits
that close to home, you feel the pain at the crib.
So I called mine and sat at my wife with
the bad news that we both depressed, counting our blessings
because Brad's too. What makeed this verse so dope is
(06:19):
the fact that Scarface said this really happened in the moment,
like it happened as he was going into the studio
to record this record. Somebody say, well, I ain't write
it beforehand. No, he wrote it because of what happened.
So he wrote basically wrote down what happened in that moment,
(06:41):
and it fit this song. You know what I'm saying
to a t this can't be life. You know what
I'm saying. And Brad is his h or is I
don't want to say it was his younger son. And
I like the way he ended it right. I could
have rapped about my hard times on this song. But
(07:03):
Heaven knows, I would have been wrong. It wouldn't have
been right, It wouldn't have been loved, it wouldn't have
been life, It wouldn't have been us. This can't be life,
This can't be life, Yo. That song is like craziest
record right off of the Dynasty album. But again, like
I said, with Scarface, he's just one of them cats
(07:26):
man where he's a true artist. He's a musician also
for those who know know, but he's a true artist, right,
like a dude who thinks this deeply about what he's
going to do. And just the simple fact that he
was able to come into the studio and still perform
with some kind of news like that that obviously affected
(07:49):
him very deeply. Now, the other record that I want
to or the other feature I want to share with y'all,
it's a Scarface record, but the standout verse isn't from
Scarface in my opinion, it's from none other than Tupac.
It's the verse off of the record smile off of
(08:13):
the man. Am I forgetting the album? Hold up? Off
of the Untouchable album? Right now? The video I don't.
I think the album was out already around the time
this dropped, but I think the video for it dropped
after Tupac was killed. So just like Tupac on I
(08:34):
ain't manage your video dropping after he passed away. Smile
dropped also, and it was just aerie because Tupac was
like channeling you know what was going to happen, basically
the future for himself. But here's some of the lyrics
for those again listening. Our lifestyles beat up my bad
(08:56):
because I don't want to rap. I'm trying not to
wrap them. I'm trying to just read them because they're
more effective when you read them. To be honest, our
lifestyles be close capturing, addicted to fatal attractions, pictures of
actions be played back in the midst of mashing. No
fairy tales for this young black male. Some see me
stranded in this land of hell, jail and crack sales.
(09:20):
Hustlers hardly think of culture or the repercussions while busting
on backstabbing vultures, selling my soul for material wishes, fast cards,
and b words because this is a family podcast, wishing
I lived my life a legend immortalized and pictures. Now,
(09:41):
some of you may say or what's that? Well, what's
so crazy about that? But let me finish a little bit,
let me skip ahead to something else. Right, here's a
message to the newborns waiting to breathe. If you believe me,
then you can achieve. Just look at me, against all odds.
Through life is hard. We carry on living in the projects,
broke with no lights on to all the seeds that
(10:04):
follow me. Protect your essence, born with less, but you
still precious. Just smile for me now. So the record essentially,
or Tupac's verse, is really about through everything that's happening,
and he says this in the intro, Right, you gotta
smile no matter what's going on. You have to smile.
(10:26):
And whether your conditions are coming up out of the
ghetto and you know you're stranded what he says, some
see me stranded in his land of hell, jail and
crack sales. Whether that's what's going on with you or
something else. But what stuck out to me wishing I
lived my life a legend mortalized in pictures, mortalized in pictures.
(10:50):
If there's anything about Tupac he is that it's he
never really got a funeral, you know, And I'm not
the type who want to see Tupac or even Biggie
in a casket unfortunately, you know, like there's pictures of
their cadavers basically on the internet. But for me, I
(11:14):
always wanted to remember Gats like that, you know, the
way I knew him right in video form, the pictures
that he took for album covers, pictures that they took
up him in general. And I feel like with Tupac's
lyrics because they talked so much about, you know, what
(11:35):
could happen and how we felt and how he lived
his life. I think in a lot of ways, this
verse was really aerie to me at the time, Like again,
I ain't mad at you. It was aery for everybody
because it was like, wow, he rapping from heaven, you
know what I'm saying. But Smile kind of played that
(11:58):
situation also. And then the beat is dope and a
way Tupac is rhyming over to beat saying those things.
Obviously I read the lyrics, but you need to go
if you haven't heard it, go listen to the song.
This is just a fantastic performance, Like Tupac, this is
the last thing I'm gonna say, but Tupac commands your
(12:18):
attention and this was one of those verses. All right,
next up, won't surprise not a soul, but that is
easy on amatic. Life's a bitch. I know I said
it this time, but you know, debut album for Nas'
(12:40):
debut for as on a feature, I think I can't remember,
y'all tell me, but I think Nas wound up getting
hip hop quotable for his verse. But everybody knows Asy's
verses crazy, and it's crazy because of the word visualizing
(13:02):
the realism of life and actuality. F who's the baddest.
A person's status depends on salary, and my mentality is
money oriented. I'm destined to live the dream for all
my peeps who never made it, because yeah, we were
beginners in the hood as five percenters, but something must
have got in us because all of us turn the
(13:24):
centers now, some resting in peace and some are sitting
in San Quentin. Others such as myself, for trying to
carry on tradition. Dog. It's one thing to line up
words from a wordplay standpoint. It's another thing to say
(13:45):
something profound at the same time. And he's kind of
doing similar to what Tupac was doing, Scarface was doing.
You see the pattern. Now, it's not just bars, it's
more than bars. It's bars on top of bars. Okay, pause,
I guess, I guess I gotta say poets and stuff
(14:07):
like that. But you know what I mean, Like, it's
it's more than just oh well, I'm gonna just talk
about the hood. No, it's the flow. It's the placement
of the words. It's the wordplay. It's what he's saying
is how he's painting a picture of his peers at
this time. Fantastic way to introduce yourself to the game
(14:33):
on one of the greatest albums of all time. I mean,
what else could you ask for? It? Like he's immortalized
from that verse. Again, if hearing all of this, seeing
all of this is making you say, you know what
(14:53):
I'm saying, y'all, there's a couple of a couple of joints.
You know, I could come up with in the list.
Put it in the comments section, because there are plenty
of verses that stand out, But just don't give me
a list. If you can, like, put in a comment section,
why right in detail, why you think this feature is crazy?
(15:19):
You know, whatever feature that is for you two more
to go. Now this next one gets told. I think
the internet, you know, gave this one some life. And
I don't say that to say that it wasn't crazy
when it dropped. It was, But I like the fact
(15:39):
that people continue to talk about it today. And that's
Mob Deep song The Realist featuring Koogi rap Or for
the Murder Music album. I recently just did a mob
Deep catalog ranking, so check that out see where I
got Murder Music placed with in their catalog. But also,
(16:04):
now you want to talk about Coke Rat. Kuji Rat
might be the father. No, he is the father of
Coke Rat in the sense of East Coast rappers for
the most part. But also Kuji Rat was on this album.
I think this was like ninety eight something like that
(16:29):
or ninety nine. Around that time. Kuji Rat was out
in the eighties and he was rapping like this and
this verse is wordplay flow, breath control and the fact
that this is a vet still spitting like this. It's crazy,
all right. Now, he cursed a lot, so I have
to do a lot of censorship. But yeah, when the
(16:50):
Gats revealed, you cats get peeled, and that's the deal.
F A b ass that switch fast, and okay, I'm
just going to say yeah, I'm sorry because I can't.
I can't keep editing, so I'll just make this explicit.
You will know before you press play. Let's start at
the top, though, Yo. When the gas revealed, your cats
(17:12):
get peeled and that's the deal. Fucker bitch ass that
switch fast. Niggas that lack Sorry, it's really low for me.
I'm getting older, y'all, I can't really see it. Niggas
that lack the real When the slugs burst, g rat
be aiming at your mug first, niggas is blood thirst.
We'll see who get plugged worse. Damn goddamn, I don't
(17:35):
remember that part we dug earth. The place where we
put the nickel plate is to your facial bullets. Ain't racial, kid,
They only hate you. Now. I know I kind of
butchered it a little bit, but that's not the point.
You're not here to hear me spit it right. This
is so you go listen to it, because when I
(17:56):
tell you the breath control the wordplay as you could
hear what he's saying. Sure, it's a threat, but this
is gangster rap. It's no different. From watching Good Fellas.
That's all it is. They painting those kinds of pictures.
But keep in mind also Cougi rap has a heavy lisp.
(18:19):
Somebody with a heavy lisp that's putting these words together.
And it's fast. This isn't a slow record, right, he
could have took a different route and you know, put
some space in between those words. Nah. He like when
the gap pills, the gut get pilled, but like he
going again. What I liked most about it was this
(18:43):
was a vet in the game, probably ten plus years
removed from his debut, and he's on a track with
mob deep in the late nineties and his verses crazy.
Last one. All right, here's the last one. Make sure
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you make sure you get yourself a membership, help support
the podcast. I'm saying take time, you know, stuff take
time to handle. But the last one that we're going
to do is from probably my favorite group of old
time of trapal Quest scenario remix. I know you're like,
(19:25):
is it buster, is it? No? It's the first person
rapping on there a cat who we didn't get to
know because he passed away before this came, before this
came out. It's kidhood and keep the context this was happening.
(19:48):
What what was this? Ninety three, ninety three, ninety four,
probably ninety three, No, no, no, hold up, Midnight Marauders
came out ninety three, so this was earlier than that.
This was ninety two, right. Kidhood is the first baby
of the coke rap, but the first time from uh
(20:11):
and I'm not saying he started this or nothing like that,
but before we got the Nases and the Wool and
the Black Moon and mob Deep, that era, Biggie j
that era of ninety spinners, but you know, hardcore records,
reality rap. Kidhood was on a record with dudes who
typically just did wordplay, and he's spitting like, you know,
(20:36):
straight East Coast gangster rap. Before it happened like that,
you know what I'm saying. So check your rhym punk
bad ass. Wait a minute, wait wait wait is this
the right choant? Oh yeah, okay, my bad check your
rhym punk that ass or gid got. I like bucksh Hood,
(21:01):
mad man, I rip up stages, laid out on your wages.
I'm wild like Larry Davis, extra extra pick up. But clip,
I tear ass out the frame and grab my deck.
All right, we're gonna say, pauls for that, for that one.
I'm a Rock'm sock and robot kid, I drop bombs.
(21:22):
I'm rugged and deadly, so I shit on the petty
a baseball bat of bastard. I'm bad news, I'm crazy
and clever, cut throats of cruise. I'm gonna read this
whole one. I'm death on the phone. No, my skills
are poor. No you say, oh no, you bitch ass homeo,
I bagup waiste electrifying, I'm prime time, I slaughter slime.
(21:47):
I'm the greatest of full time sick ass brother, nasty
ass nigga pumps slugs in your face and dump that
ass in the river to tears in a bucket, fucking
kick the can say what, say what? I'm a bad
bad man. That's that. I know. Somebody young's like word,
Why why you say it like that? End? That's how
(22:07):
it was. But you hear what he was saying. Nobody
was rapping like this except for like the godfather of
Coke Rap, Coogi rap. But I think a lot of
times when cats think about hip hop, especially from the nineties,
they kind of only thinking about the nineties. So the
music from the nineties, these lyrics are part for the coort.
(22:30):
This is how everybody was rapping. But ninety two when
the East Coast was on the East Coast stomp and
colorful videos and you know, clever wordplay and you know,
like we had songs like I'm sorry I always use
umc's but I really liked umcs. But we had songs
(22:51):
like blue Cheese, Yeah yeah, this dude like sick ass brother,
nasty ass nigga, pump, slugs in your face, dump that's
in the river. I remember I heard this. I was like,
I want, I think I want to hear more of that.
So again, it's many features in hip hop that have
(23:15):
standout versus those are just a few. Again, let me
know in the comments section what you like. You know
what I'm saying. What are some of your favorite verses
or whatever of all time? Like again, leave your comments
in a comment section below. Also, know that we can
(23:35):
do a part two of this and maybe it'll be live,
you know, but that depends on you subscribing to the channel.
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(23:57):
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with that being said, until next time, y'all, I'm not
(25:04):
a critic, I'm a fan. Pace
Coming up on this week's episode of hip Hop Now podcast,
it's five standout features in hip Hop Let's do it.
Welcome to hip Hop Now Pod. Fat ship you from
the future. You know what you do? Show as out
(00:22):
about so disrespectful leg like hip hop is say to today.
Let's get right into the business. What up, y'all? I
am your host Vegas and this it's hip Hop Now Podcasts,
a podcast specifically designed to keep you caught up on
all things hip hop, music and culture that happened throughout
(00:45):
the week. Big shout out to those listening right now
in audio form, whether it's Apple podcasts, Spotify, What Google gone,
y'all is gone. We all know this, y'all. It's gone okay,
But I appreciate you listening. You know, wherever you're listening,
(01:08):
I appreciate you on audio form, don't forget to review
on Apple podcasts. But also a big shout out to
those on YouTube who have subscribed to the podcast, and
you know, I appreciate everybody. Make sure you hit that
like button though, like whether you comment, you like the video,
but you out hit the like button on the way out,
(01:30):
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people comment. Well, I won't say a lot of people,
but there are less people commenting than the amount of
people who watch, you understand. So if you watching this
video and you like YO, you know, I got a few,
(01:51):
put them in a comment section. I read them, you know,
and big shout out to everybody watching the shorts. I'm
just spreading hip hop love across strategyy So do what
you do. Subscribe to the podcast Make It Happen today.
Now we're doing a bonus episode, y'all. I'm going to
be on vacation right now as you're watching this. I'm
(02:15):
already on vacation. I'm not going to Islands or nothing
like that. I just don't have the money, not this time.
But nevertheless, I'm trying to get in a couple of episodes.
And one of the things about this episode in particular
is the fact that this will be the first member exclusive,
(02:36):
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(02:59):
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Hop Now podcast memberships, do it today. Now let's get
(03:44):
right into the episode. You saw the title, you saw
the thumb. Now you know what it is. This isn't
a top five, this isn't a definitive top five because
quite honestly, that's a bigger discussion, and who knows, maybe
that's something we'll do somewhere down the line. But nevertheless,
(04:05):
I mean one of the things that I was thinking about,
you know, I was listening to hip hop. I'm one
of those hip hop heads who will go back and
listen to an album I haven't heard in a while,
an artist I haven't heard in a while, because at
some point I was interested in all of it. You
know what I'm saying. So one of the things I did,
(04:26):
I was like, you know, it would be a great idea,
just five standout guests versus we all have heard them
throughout hip hop. We could think of a million guests
verses that were crazy, and I mean I mean really
good like not just oh it sounds good like. No,
it's a standout moment on that record as a feature.
(04:51):
So I have five of them, some of you know,
some of them you know, and you know, maybe some
way down the line, I'll do a part two. Also
me share my screen so we could get right into
the mixt of this. The first one I'd like to
share with y'all is off jay Z's The Dynasty album.
It's a song called This Can't Be Life featuring Beanie
(05:15):
Siegull and Scarface. The standout verse for me, it's hands
down Scarface. Now, this was a dope record anyway, right anyway,
Beanie siagules versus Dope, jay Z's versus Dope. But it
was something about Scarface's verse, and I got the lyrics
(05:36):
up here on the screen, you know, for those who
are listening to audio form, I'm gonna read some of
them for you. So this is how Scarface started his
verse right now, as I walk into the studio do
this with Jag, got a phone call from one of
my nigs said, my homeboy Reek he just lost one
of his kids. And when I heard that, I just
(05:57):
broke into tears. And see in the second hand you
don't really know how this is, but when it hits
that close to home, you feel the pain at the crib.
So I called mine and sat at my wife with
the bad news that we both depressed, counting our blessings
because Brad's too. What makeed this verse so dope is
(06:19):
the fact that Scarface said this really happened in the moment,
like it happened as he was going into the studio
to record this record. Somebody say, well, I ain't write
it beforehand. No, he wrote it because of what happened.
So he wrote basically wrote down what happened in that moment,
(06:41):
and it fit this song. You know what I'm saying
to a t this can't be life. You know what
I'm saying. And Brad is his h or is I
don't want to say it was his younger son. And
I like the way he ended it right. I could
have rapped about my hard times on this song. But
(07:03):
Heaven knows, I would have been wrong. It wouldn't have
been right, It wouldn't have been loved, it wouldn't have
been life, It wouldn't have been us. This can't be life,
This can't be life, Yo. That song is like craziest
record right off of the Dynasty album. But again, like
I said, with Scarface, he's just one of them cats
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man where he's a true artist. He's a musician also
for those who know know, but he's a true artist, right,
like a dude who thinks this deeply about what he's
going to do. And just the simple fact that he
was able to come into the studio and still perform
with some kind of news like that that obviously affected
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him very deeply. Now, the other record that I want
to or the other feature I want to share with y'all,
it's a Scarface record, but the standout verse isn't from
Scarface in my opinion, it's from none other than Tupac.
It's the verse off of the record smile off of
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the man. Am I forgetting the album? Hold up? Off
of the Untouchable album? Right now? The video I don't.
I think the album was out already around the time
this dropped, but I think the video for it dropped
after Tupac was killed. So just like Tupac on I
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ain't manage your video dropping after he passed away. Smile
dropped also, and it was just aerie because Tupac was
like channeling you know what was going to happen, basically
the future for himself. But here's some of the lyrics
for those again listening. Our lifestyles beat up my bad
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because I don't want to rap. I'm trying not to
wrap them. I'm trying to just read them because they're
more effective when you read them. To be honest, our
lifestyles be close capturing, addicted to fatal attractions, pictures of
actions be played back in the midst of mashing. No
fairy tales for this young black male. Some see me
stranded in this land of hell, jail and crack sales.
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Hustlers hardly think of culture or the repercussions while busting
on backstabbing vultures, selling my soul for material wishes, fast cards,
and b words because this is a family podcast, wishing
I lived my life a legend immortalized and pictures. Now,
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some of you may say or what's that? Well, what's
so crazy about that? But let me finish a little bit,
let me skip ahead to something else. Right, here's a
message to the newborns waiting to breathe. If you believe me,
then you can achieve. Just look at me, against all odds.
Through life is hard. We carry on living in the projects,
broke with no lights on to all the seeds that
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follow me. Protect your essence, born with less, but you
still precious. Just smile for me now. So the record essentially,
or Tupac's verse, is really about through everything that's happening,
and he says this in the intro, Right, you gotta
smile no matter what's going on. You have to smile.
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And whether your conditions are coming up out of the
ghetto and you know you're stranded what he says, some
see me stranded in his land of hell, jail and
crack sales. Whether that's what's going on with you or
something else. But what stuck out to me wishing I
lived my life a legend mortalized in pictures, mortalized in pictures.
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If there's anything about Tupac he is that it's he
never really got a funeral, you know, And I'm not
the type who want to see Tupac or even Biggie
in a casket unfortunately, you know, like there's pictures of
their cadavers basically on the internet. But for me, I
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always wanted to remember Gats like that, you know, the
way I knew him right in video form, the pictures
that he took for album covers, pictures that they took
up him in general. And I feel like with Tupac's
lyrics because they talked so much about, you know, what
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could happen and how we felt and how he lived
his life. I think in a lot of ways, this
verse was really aerie to me at the time, Like again,
I ain't mad at you. It was aery for everybody
because it was like, wow, he rapping from heaven, you
know what I'm saying. But Smile kind of played that
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situation also. And then the beat is dope and a
way Tupac is rhyming over to beat saying those things.
Obviously I read the lyrics, but you need to go
if you haven't heard it, go listen to the song.
This is just a fantastic performance, Like Tupac, this is
the last thing I'm gonna say, but Tupac commands your
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attention and this was one of those verses. All right,
next up, won't surprise not a soul, but that is
easy on amatic. Life's a bitch. I know I said
it this time, but you know, debut album for Nas'
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debut for as on a feature, I think I can't remember,
y'all tell me, but I think Nas wound up getting
hip hop quotable for his verse. But everybody knows Asy's
verses crazy, and it's crazy because of the word visualizing
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the realism of life and actuality. F who's the baddest.
A person's status depends on salary, and my mentality is
money oriented. I'm destined to live the dream for all
my peeps who never made it, because yeah, we were
beginners in the hood as five percenters, but something must
have got in us because all of us turn the
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centers now, some resting in peace and some are sitting
in San Quentin. Others such as myself, for trying to
carry on tradition. Dog. It's one thing to line up
words from a wordplay standpoint. It's another thing to say
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something profound at the same time. And he's kind of
doing similar to what Tupac was doing, Scarface was doing.
You see the pattern. Now, it's not just bars, it's
more than bars. It's bars on top of bars. Okay, pause,
I guess, I guess I gotta say poets and stuff
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like that. But you know what I mean, Like, it's
it's more than just oh well, I'm gonna just talk
about the hood. No, it's the flow. It's the placement
of the words. It's the wordplay. It's what he's saying
is how he's painting a picture of his peers at
this time. Fantastic way to introduce yourself to the game
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on one of the greatest albums of all time. I mean,
what else could you ask for? It? Like he's immortalized
from that verse. Again, if hearing all of this, seeing
all of this is making you say, you know what
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I'm saying, y'all, there's a couple of a couple of joints.
You know, I could come up with in the list.
Put it in the comments section, because there are plenty
of verses that stand out, But just don't give me
a list. If you can, like, put in a comment section,
why right in detail, why you think this feature is crazy?
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You know, whatever feature that is for you two more
to go. Now this next one gets told. I think
the internet, you know, gave this one some life. And
I don't say that to say that it wasn't crazy
when it dropped. It was, But I like the fact
(15:39):
that people continue to talk about it today. And that's
Mob Deep song The Realist featuring Koogi rap Or for
the Murder Music album. I recently just did a mob
Deep catalog ranking, so check that out see where I
got Murder Music placed with in their catalog. But also,
(16:04):
now you want to talk about Coke Rat. Kuji Rat
might be the father. No, he is the father of
Coke Rat in the sense of East Coast rappers for
the most part. But also Kuji Rat was on this album.
I think this was like ninety eight something like that
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or ninety nine. Around that time. Kuji Rat was out
in the eighties and he was rapping like this and
this verse is wordplay flow, breath control and the fact
that this is a vet still spitting like this. It's crazy,
all right. Now, he cursed a lot, so I have
to do a lot of censorship. But yeah, when the
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Gats revealed, you cats get peeled, and that's the deal.
F A b ass that switch fast, and okay, I'm
just going to say yeah, I'm sorry because I can't.
I can't keep editing, so I'll just make this explicit.
You will know before you press play. Let's start at
the top, though, Yo. When the gas revealed, your cats
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get peeled and that's the deal. Fucker bitch ass that
switch fast. Niggas that lack Sorry, it's really low for me.
I'm getting older, y'all, I can't really see it. Niggas
that lack the real When the slugs burst, g rat
be aiming at your mug first, niggas is blood thirst.
We'll see who get plugged worse. Damn goddamn, I don't
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remember that part we dug earth. The place where we
put the nickel plate is to your facial bullets. Ain't racial, kid,
They only hate you. Now. I know I kind of
butchered it a little bit, but that's not the point.
You're not here to hear me spit it right. This
is so you go listen to it, because when I
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tell you the breath control the wordplay as you could
hear what he's saying. Sure, it's a threat, but this
is gangster rap. It's no different. From watching Good Fellas.
That's all it is. They painting those kinds of pictures.
But keep in mind also Cougi rap has a heavy lisp.
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Somebody with a heavy lisp that's putting these words together.
And it's fast. This isn't a slow record, right, he
could have took a different route and you know, put
some space in between those words. Nah. He like when
the gap pills, the gut get pilled, but like he
going again. What I liked most about it was this
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was a vet in the game, probably ten plus years
removed from his debut, and he's on a track with
mob deep in the late nineties and his verses crazy.
Last one. All right, here's the last one. Make sure
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you make sure you get yourself a membership, help support
the podcast. I'm saying take time, you know, stuff take
time to handle. But the last one that we're going
to do is from probably my favorite group of old
time of trapal Quest scenario remix. I know you're like,
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is it buster, is it? No? It's the first person
rapping on there a cat who we didn't get to
know because he passed away before this came, before this
came out. It's kidhood and keep the context this was happening.
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What what was this? Ninety three, ninety three, ninety four,
probably ninety three, No, no, no, hold up, Midnight Marauders
came out ninety three, so this was earlier than that.
This was ninety two, right. Kidhood is the first baby
of the coke rap, but the first time from uh
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and I'm not saying he started this or nothing like that,
but before we got the Nases and the Wool and
the Black Moon and mob Deep, that era, Biggie j
that era of ninety spinners, but you know, hardcore records,
reality rap. Kidhood was on a record with dudes who
typically just did wordplay, and he's spitting like, you know,
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straight East Coast gangster rap. Before it happened like that,
you know what I'm saying. So check your rhym punk
bad ass. Wait a minute, wait wait wait is this
the right choant? Oh yeah, okay, my bad check your
rhym punk that ass or gid got. I like bucksh Hood,
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mad man, I rip up stages, laid out on your wages.
I'm wild like Larry Davis, extra extra pick up. But clip,
I tear ass out the frame and grab my deck.
All right, we're gonna say, pauls for that, for that one.
I'm a Rock'm sock and robot kid, I drop bombs.
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I'm rugged and deadly, so I shit on the petty
a baseball bat of bastard. I'm bad news, I'm crazy
and clever, cut throats of cruise. I'm gonna read this
whole one. I'm death on the phone. No, my skills
are poor. No you say, oh no, you bitch ass homeo,
I bagup waiste electrifying, I'm prime time, I slaughter slime.
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I'm the greatest of full time sick ass brother, nasty
ass nigga pumps slugs in your face and dump that
ass in the river to tears in a bucket, fucking
kick the can say what, say what? I'm a bad
bad man. That's that. I know. Somebody young's like word,
Why why you say it like that? End? That's how
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it was. But you hear what he was saying. Nobody
was rapping like this except for like the godfather of
Coke Rap, Coogi rap. But I think a lot of
times when cats think about hip hop, especially from the nineties,
they kind of only thinking about the nineties. So the
music from the nineties, these lyrics are part for the coort.
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This is how everybody was rapping. But ninety two when
the East Coast was on the East Coast stomp and
colorful videos and you know, clever wordplay and you know,
like we had songs like I'm sorry I always use
umc's but I really liked umcs. But we had songs
(22:51):
like blue Cheese, Yeah yeah, this dude like sick ass brother,
nasty ass nigga, pump, slugs in your face, dump that's
in the river. I remember I heard this. I was like,
I want, I think I want to hear more of that.
So again, it's many features in hip hop that have
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standout versus those are just a few. Again, let me
know in the comments section what you like. You know
what I'm saying. What are some of your favorite verses
or whatever of all time? Like again, leave your comments
in a comment section below. Also, know that we can
(23:35):
do a part two of this and maybe it'll be live,
you know, but that depends on you subscribing to the channel.
So first and foremost, follow me on social media at
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(23:57):
I didn't say it earlier, but I got bars a
day also, And let's put this up here real quick.
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with that being said, until next time, y'all, I'm not
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a critic, I'm a fan. Pace
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