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Quite possibly the worst, if not one in the top 5 worst rap songs of all time. In fact it is so bad, that if you were to Google it. It doesn’t even come up. Take a listen if you dare. Yes it’s about a Nissan truck. It’s terrible I’m done talking about it.
P.S. The flip side has an instrumental version for all those who want to remix it out there.
DJ Scrunchyface Flatbroke sent me this to post up on the site, for your listening pleasure Here’s Notorious BIG doing microphone fiend without all the DJs screaming and radio drops that my file had.
I picked up this while browsing through the turntable lab website. I have to admit that this has been my guilty pleasure listen of 2008. I would sneak tracks of “The Bake Sale” into my sets and watch the crowd go nuts. Most of them didn’t know who it was, which made it even better! I have to admit that I did not hear a single radio station around the area drop a single track from this album, nor did any City Paper review. This album seems to me that it was one of the more over-looked albums of last year.
From day to day it gets more and more difficult to find real hip hop elements in today’s rap music. For the most part lyrics help. While there are plenty of artists that won’t rap about bitches, bling, guns, and violence many of them don’t have the means to. With bitches, bling, guns and violence off the list many of them rap about how they’re never going to rap about bitches, bling, guns and violence. As if they deserve some sort of metal for not killing anyone. The Cool Kids take a different approach to that and seemingly sum themselves up in the first few minutes of the album by stating, “Come check the noise, it’s the new black version of the Beastie Boys.”
Now hearing that lyric, and being a huge Beastie Boys fan, I guess I should be thinking. “How dare they have the gonads to say something like that.” Actually, that lyric got me to pay attention to the rest of the album. I am very happy that I did. These guys really are paying homage to the golden days of rap and do a good job at making the ideas of that time relevant with today’s music scene. Each tune is relatively catchy with good party rhymes. No lyrics about bling, no lyrics about Bentleys, none of that stuff. After listening to the intros to tracks on the album I feel like getting my white ass on the dance floor.
However, I do have to be a purist and say that there is very little funk and soul sampling in this album and that they have no DJs that they are rhyming for. Which stops this album from being a 10 for me. The reason for this is that they are paying homage to the golden age of rap in nearly every track on this album, but they excluded a main element of Hip Hop. So it’s almost like they are talking the talk but not walking the walk.
Don’t let that stop you from adding this album to your collection though. If you want a good party album, this is a good choice. DJs if you aren’t dropping tracks from this already, you need to be up on this level. The tracks are solid.
Track Listing:
1. What Up Man
2. One Two
3. Mikey Rocks
4. 88
5. What It Is
6. Black Mags
7. A Little Bit Cooler
8. Gold And A Pager
9. Bassment Party
10. Jingling
Just thought I’d throw this up here! This is a video that my Capoeira instructor Jesse Colon made to help promote our group Capoeira Charelston. Not bad for a first movie. It’s a flipping good time!
I was going through some old funk albums this weekend, looking for the perfect beat as usual, and I ran across this old gem that I semi-forgot how some of the tracks sounded. So, I loaded it up on the decks and took a listen. From what I understand Kool and the Gang’s self released album was an unexpected success. After listening to their first single on the album, also self titled, it’s not hard to understand why this album was a success. The single climbed both pop and R&B charts at the time, reaching #19 on the R&B and #59 on the pop. Subsequent singles “The Gang’s Back Again,” “Let the Music Take Your Mind,” and “Funky Man,” followed and moved steadily up the charts. However, there were still many notable tracks such as “Raw Hamburger,” and “Chocolate Buttermilk.” This record is a total ruckus to listen to and contains the trademark styles of the band before the late disco era: smooth melodies, brassy horns, and funky-as-all-hell drumming. This album has stood up to the test of time and has been sampled by many early rap artists and is considered a classic in the eyes of the stoic vinyl collector and breaks from this album still surface in b-boy competitions across the world. I have listed the artists that sampled from this album below:
Song: Give it Up
A Tribe Called Quest - “Scenario”
Beastie Boys - “Professor Booty”
Compton’s Most Wanted - “Compton 4 Life”
Cypress Hill - “The Phuncky Feel One”
Deee-Lite - “Deee-Lite Theme”
Eric B and Rakim - “Don’t Sweat the Technique”
GangStarr - “Take a Rest”
Greg Osby - “3-D Lifestyles”
Lionrock - “Morning Will Come When I’m Not Ready”
MC Brains - “Everybody’s Talkin’ about MC Brains”
NWA - “Real Niggaz”
Organized Konfusion - “Intro”
Uptown - “Dope on Plastic”
X-Clan - “Shaft’s Big Score”
Song: Chocolate Buttermilk
Chubb Rock - “The Night Scene”
Eric B and Rakim - “Keep ‘em Eager to Listen”
Eric B and Rakim - “No Omega”
Heavy D - “Let it Flow”
Marley Marl - “Simon Says”
Masta Ace - “Simon Says”
Pete Rock & CL Smooth - “Straighten it Out”
Special Ed - “Ready 2 Attack”
SL2 - “On A Ragga Tip”
Stetsasonic - “The Hip Hop Band”
Style - “Set the Mood”
YBT - “Proud to Be Black”
Song: Let the Music Take Your Mind
Beastie Boys - “Lay it on Me”
Boss - “Process of Elimination”
Ice Cube - “AmeriKKKa’s Most Wanted”
Ice T - “Freedom of Speech”
Jungle Brothers - “What’s Going On?”
Ultramagnetic MCs - “MC Champion”
Song: Breeze & Soul
Dr. Octagon - “Bear Witness”
Jimmy Jay - “Les Cool Session”
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I did hear this from the owner before it hit the papers, but it still saddens me to hear that B’Zar is shutting its doors. B’zar was a lot more than just a clothing store. I’m not entirely sure what I’m going to miss the most. Maybe it’s the chic styles they had and the attitudes that it embraced, maybe it was owners Gustavo and Andrea Serrano’s way they made you feel when you entered the store, maybe it’s the way that B’Zar stood out from many shops in Charleston. I’m not entirely sure. But what I do know is we need more shops like this in town.
As stated above and from my point of view B’Zar was not just a clothing store. B’Zar was a place that you could go to get a different taste of something not entirely Charleston. It was a place that you could go there and really find out when and where all the great parties and shows were taken place. You could pick up the latest mixtapes from local bedroom DJs or underground DJs. (Thanks to them doing that for me I made some really good friends out of it and met some great new people.) Local visual artists hung out there. Gustavo let his dog Roxy run free in there. New under the radar music was always a topic of discussion. And in the end it just so happens that they sold clothing there as well. I got a different feeling when I walked into B’Zar. It was personal, unlike places like American Apparel where you were always greeted with the same cookie cutter store greeting. With rows and rows of the same cookie cutter merchandise that tried to portray originality with its overstock of designs with plentiful quantities hanging from the racks.
B’Zar was the first place that I ever brought a pair of designer Nikes or even spent $65 for a shirt to dress up in. I still get complimented on all the clothes I bought from there. What can I say, chicks dig clothes from B’Zar.
I hope that with B’Zar closing down, that it’s not the end of all the great things that came from the owners of B’Zar. I’m talking about fashion shows, Kulture Klash, and the like. Gustavo and Andrea had their hands in a lot of Charleston happenings. They are even a sponsor of our Stone Groove events.
Well I am sad to see them go and I will still rock my B’Zar shirt when I’m doing shows. I hope this is not the last we see from Gustavo and Andrea Serrano.
Now you can be more like everyone’s favorite reporter Brian Fantana! Buy the real deal Sex Panther cologne! Now it’s not mentioned if it smells like burnt indian food in a diaper or if it contains bit’s of real panther. I can make assumptions about the way it might smell, but I’d say stick your Axe deoderant guys. That stuff stinks and will leave more chicks for me.
