Hey shoutout to this man from the Backstage DVD when Jay, X, and him were all freestylin… wherever he is in life. His flow is such a specific vibe you can get in a trance and miss what he’s sayin … but the bars are hard af too!
That ending was 🔥🔥😤😤
I just realized my birthday is a historic hip-hop day.
August 3rd.
1995 Source Awards
2021 Lox Verzuz Dipset
“Any artist out there that want to be an artist and stay a star, and don’t have to worry about the executive producer trying to be all in the videos, all on the record, dancing… come to Death Row!”
“CAM YOU LIVE IN MIAMI, DROP THAT SHIT TECH!”
In case you missed it … The LOX, Ma$e, and Camron did a show together at The Apollo in 2023 and performed all the HITS, some Clue tape freestyles (🔥🔥⚰️), and all the 🔥 posse cuts from that era. SHIT IS EPIC.
Cam and Ma$e performed Horse & Carriage for the first time ever (for those who don’t know: their beef started over this song so between them recording it and the music video, they were basically enemies for the next 20 years)
Kiss and Mase both did their Who Shot Ya freestyles
Mase & the Lox did If You Want It freestyle
They had Herb McGruff come out for Reppin Uptown…
I think Sauce Money got everybody else on Reservoir Dogs. He had the schemes and wordplay and hardest raps.
Styles P is the close runner up though because he was goin at Hov on his own song. He didn’t have a ton of wordplay or metaphors… just blunt “fuck you” raps which I also love.
Hov did have the best flow … the pockets he was hitting were fire but substantively… he got got.
Beans explained how to take over an entire town in the crack era in like 2 bars though, that was hard.
What y’all think?
I’m making a Nate Dogg playlist … what do I have to include?
Obvs:
Next Episode
Lay Low
Regulate
Xxxplosive
What else?
And RIP to Nate the Great
Been bumpin hella Dynasty Roc La Familia and best posse cuts lately — N*ggas Done Started Somethin, Banned From TV, 24 Hours to Live, Reservoir Dogs, etc.
I gotta be honest … I think Bleek got Hov AND Beans on You Me Him and Her. (And Amil, duh). The intensity in his voice + how young he sounds on it… then his flows, word choices, performance of them… he didn’t waste a single bar until “the hoes they email us”💀
And I think Sauce Money got everybody on Reservoir Dogs, in terms of his lyrical schemes, brashness, and originality.
- However - I think Styles P is neck and neck for this. Sauce was more metaphors, imagery, similes, and original schemes. SP’s verse is just clear, aggressive, and there are a couple lines he didn’t need. Sauce’s whole delivery was just a little tighter and more intriguing.
Am I the asshole? 🤣🤣
Dame talkin shit to Clue about his hair, and you think he’s surely exaggerating. And then the camera cuts to Clue, it’s worse than I remember every time I watch.
“You got a Caesar/wave right here, you got a blowout right here, & you got a fade in the back….You gotta rep for all your boroughs.”
Every time I hear Oh Boy, I think of this video 🤣🔥🔥😤
JUST BLAZE LOST HIS GD MIND ON THIS BEAT. … went all the way 730. And the way Killa uses the sample to adlib. 🔥
“Guns, we got a lot of em. Matter fact, Guru, start poppin em! 💥💥💥💥”