Mobb Deep (feat. Nas & Raekwon) - Eye For An Eye (Your Beef Is Mines) (Loud, 1995)
There was a time in my life where this song was all I’d listen to for days on end. Still one of my favorite beats of all time, as well as one of my favorite Nas verses. “shoot at the clouds, feels like the Holy Beast is watchin’ us”
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Waka Flocka Flame & French Montana - Lockout (Mixtape, 2011)
This is surprisingly dope (and up-North). I was afraid this mixtape was going to be full of Choppa Down’s, with faux-Luger beats everywhere, but French and Waka manage to balance out their signature aesthetics equally for the tape. There’s a lot of slow, lurching beats here, as well as gothic-trap bangers. There’s even a song called Wavy, as well as recreation of Mobb Deep’s Hell On Earth, We Mobb, featuring P himself.
I reviewed Mobb Deep’s reunion record with Nas, and sorta threw Nasir under the train in the process. Sorry. It’s that No Jumper shit.. take that take that take that
Prodigy - Genesis (Relativity Records, 2000)
WELCOME HOME, P (shhh, I know it’s tomorrow)
Prodigy’s H.N.I.C. is a critcally-underrated album to this day - full of some of the realest shit Bandana P ever spit, even though he wasn’t on the same super-lyrical tip that he’d been on in his early Mobb Deep days. Genesis is the introduction track that I treasure more than perhaps anything else in the whole Infamous discography; a piano-laden track where Prodigy just spills his soul, all his twisted conspiracy theories, Muslim beliefs and sickle-cell related sickness over a bare backdrop that allowed his voice to merely splatter like an abstract artists’ paint on his canvas. Later on in H.N.I.C., P says that we can Never Feel (his) Pain, but it’s so clear from the get-go that his sentiment rings throughout the entire vibe of the album. Equally gully and emotive; we’ve missed you, P. Now grab Sid Roams, Havoc, and Alc, and get in a fucking studio immediately.
Mobb Deep - G.O.D., Pt. III (Remix) (LOUD, 1996)
I always loved The Phantasm when I was a kid, and between this remix and Master P’s Pass Me Da Green, hip-hop only made me love it more. We need more raps songs that use this sample nowadays; I miss those Angus Scrimm flows.
So, I get really bored sometimes, and need to fill my mind with useless, trivial bullshit so it can interfere with the far more serious, yet far less uplifting thoughts that should be genuinely occupying it at that point in time. Usually, that vast amount of garbage I know is the music that’s helped shape me into the person (both sonically and personally, for better and worse) I am today. There really isn’t much that ties a lot of this together, other than the fact it’s had such a significant impact on my conscience. If you care to read forward (ie. my opinion intrigues you, and your life is as equally dull and unimpressive as mine), hit the jump for some of the weirdest albums to ever be tossed into a singular group.
None of this is in order, and I only applied one rule, which is artists are allowed two albums (maximum) on here. There’s something for everyone!
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