UnLox The Swag

The reason no one will ever write a definitive guide to rap music is because the people who make rap music also make the factual nuts and bolts behind it as confusing as possible. Like, I always thought the pre-Lox Warlocks era material was produced by the Bomb Squad but recently discovered they only went by the Warlocks moniker on Set It Off from the 2nd Main Source album and all their 1992 - 1994 demo tracks were actually recorded under the group name of The Bomb Squad despite them not being produced by the Bomb Squad or having any affiliation to the Bomb Squad whatsoever. The fuck?

About the only thing I can be certain of here is that, despite any involvement from Mr. Kill That Faggot, some of those Bomb Squad demo tracks were the hardest shit since Pretty Tone Capone. Personal favourite has to be Illegal Shit where Jadakiss, Sheek, & a gentleman by the name of Billy Loose Screws competed to see who could say the trifest shit imaginable as DJ Kasper cut up Spencer Davis Trio's I'm A Man beneath them:

The Bomb Squad ft. Billy Loose Screws - Illegal Shit
(From pre-Warlocks demos; 1993)


Pub quiz trivia: Billy Loose Screws was the late Bill Blass who you'll probably know as the teenager sitting next to Rakim in the classic Paid In Full posse picture and the guy Kool G. Rap namechecks as his accomplice in murder on the first verse of Ill Street Blues. Truth be told, he kinda murdered Jada & Sheek on their own shit here too.