Apr 24, 2020From The Infamous 25th anniversary expanded edition
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Apr 24, 2020
d--- is this like the non-remix version of ignition?Ordinary Joel, DKC, Fire Squad and 5 others like this. -
Apr 26, 2020
The song's been around, I know I've heard it before and it's been sampled before (ie Pun).
25 years of The Infamous. 25 years since I first heard it on cassette. This isn't just a major Hip Hop album but if you're from Queens, this album is a gospel. Illmatic is another gospel, The War Report is another, Low End Theory is another. Mobb Deep always repped Queens heavy. Even the song QU-Hectic is about how people in NYC would look down on Queens but they kept their heads high. It's such a pivotal project for this borough, it instilled a lot of pride in us. Queens Get The Money is forever our motto. When P died, that hit hard. First rapper I ever met and I've seen him live a couple of times. I hated how his mural in QB was vandalized. I visited several times before and after they messed it up. QB Politics is a real thing.Last edited: Apr 26, 2020Ordinary Joel, Buddha, Zeugma and 4 others like this. -
Apr 24, 2020
Thanks Sav. I’m dating myself here but I’m pretty sure I had this on a cassette single when I was a kid. Well really it was my brothers tape. Or maybe it was actually a CD? I think it was the official shook ones part 2 single for The Infamous and it had this song as well.
Also back then, if you bought the h--- on Earth cd, you could put it in your cd rom drive on your computer and access “hidden” content. It was so stupid looking back but me and my friends would constantly throw it on the computer and look at the content. It was revolutionary for its time but boy it would not stand up well at all to todays standards lmao.
Also, since we’re on the subject of forgotten originals to classic NY hip hop songs, don’t forget this one! It was the Reasonable Doubt promotional single but it was ultimately replaced by Dead Presidents 2 when the album officially released.
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Apr 25, 2020
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Apr 25, 2020
Next time the question for best produced rap album comes up, guys please remember Havoc and Q-Tip were on one when they made The Infamous.
RIP Prodigy, listening to the Mobb been hitting so much more differentSav Stanfield, Ordinary Joel, Buddha and 3 others like this. -
Apr 24, 2020
In all these years it never came to my mind to search for shook ones pt. 1 lmao. I like this instrumental as wellOrdinary Joel, Fire Squad, Sav Stanfield and 3 others like this. -
Apr 26, 2020
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Apr 25, 2020
according to wikipedia it was first released as a street single between juvenile h--- and the infamous before shook ones pt ii was even a thing, but I didn't know that tbhBuddha, Sav Stanfield, Ordinary Joel and 2 others like this. -
Apr 26, 2020
Also: if y’all have never read Prodigy’s memoir, it’s prob the best rap bio I’ve ever read and one of the best memoirs I’ve read period. Full of stories about his time at G-unit as well as the early days with Nas, Wu, etc. When you really get to hear about the trauma in his life from his perspective you really start to understand why Mobb Deep could be so bleak.
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Apr 24, 2020
smoked my first blunt to the face to this back in the day. underground classic if you're from the hoodlil uzi vert stan, Ordinary Joel, Zeugma and 1 other person like this. -
Apr 24, 2020
Funny how I consider myself a dusthead and yet never really heard it untill now, living in pandemic worldOrdinary Joel, Fire Squad, Sav Stanfield and 1 other person like this. -
Apr 26, 2020
I appreciate that but I don’t think I have much else to add outside of anything I posted on RB/SL.Ordinary Joel, Buddha and DKC like this. -
Apr 26, 2020
Let me live out my dreams, until my heart give out
Involved with cream, you know exactly what this is about
F*ck y'all mean, handlin' since a teen
Like LeBron or Sebastian, high school graduates
Straight to the league, I ain't waitin' for my knee to blow
Yesterday I was needin' this dough
Get it? I was kneadin' this dough
Long as your math is fast even if your readin' is slow
That whole first verse is bananas.Ordinary Joel, Zeugma and Michael Myers like this. -
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Apr 24, 2020
e and j got my mind flipping
classic over here manOrdinary Joel, Fire Squad and Sav Stanfield like this.