It's 2014 and even your grandparents can recite
Put It In Your Mouth from front-to-back on cue during Christmas lunch, and
Vagina Diner is now rightfully lauded as an early '90's N.Y classic in certain quarters of the rap media. But how familiar are you with the rest of Akinyele's catalogue? If you still don't know the difference between your
Aktapuss and your
Anakonda then here's a zipfile of 15 Akinyele deep cuts from his lesser-known releases.
This thing is in chronological order so you can witness Akinyele's blossom from the ruffneck street-rap of
In The World and
The Robbery Song to the post-Jiggy Rap & Bullshit of
Three and
Do You Wanna? Moreover, you can also witness Ak's metaphysical progression from
Break A Bitch Neck in 1995 to
Love My Bitch in 2001, where dude went from "beatin' bitches up ain't nothin' new to me, whether you're down with social security or you're just hittin' puberty" to "I spit flows for ya, kick down door's for ya, even suck all ya toes for ya" on some Rap Game High-Heel Throat Fuck Scene From
Tenebre type shit:
(GIF via Party Sparty)
And that's not even the best Biggie interpolation here since you can find his
Juicy homage
Coochie ("it was all a dream, I used to read Playboy magazine/n*ggas gettin' their dicks licked with whipped cream..") at track number 9. Also of great note on the rap history tip is
Sister Sister, the only true heir to Biz's
Just A Friend as far as rap songs about being marooned in the friend-zone go:
Akinyele - Deep Cuts compilation
1. Break A Bitch Neck O.G version (with Kool G. Rap)
2. In The World O.G version
3. The Robbery Song
4. Enter
5. Murder
6. Juan Valdez O.G version
7. Get Up
8. Sister Sister
9. Coochie
10. Three
11. Messin' With My Cru
12. Gangsters
13. Do You Wanna? (with Uneek)
14. Problems
15. Love My Bitch (with Simone)
~~~> DOWNLOAD HERE <~~~
If I'd ruled the world in 1997 then The Firm's line-up would have consisted of Nas, AZ, Foxy Brown & Akinyele, and their album would have comprised of a 50/50 ratio of
Phone Tap-type tracks where AZ & Nas went back-and-forth with each other and filthy sex tracks where Foxy & Akinyele went back-and-forth at each other like Ak' & Uneek later did on
Do You Wanna? in 2001.
