BAPE hoodie zipped to the top, how they know it's me?"
Tay B ft. FMB DZ - Back 2 Back Part 2
(From AFLN King album; 2017)
Via ANU. Time waits for no one, but The Message beatjacks are eternal like East 1999 innit. The history books might never give Duke Bootee proper credit for the song he composed, wrote, and rapped on before Melle Mel added a recycled verse, but can't nobody hold that beat down.
For whatever reason, 2017 Detroit street rap makes the most sense to me within the context of beatjacking: this song, Doughboyz Cashout's This Is How We Move It, AllStar Lee's The Fresh Prince Of Brick Mile, and FMB DZ's Friday.
What does the Friday track beat jack?
ReplyDeleteThere Dey Go by TRU.
ReplyDeleteOh thanks
ReplyDeleteLove that Montell Jordan remake
Finally FMB DZ wave got to you.
ReplyDeleteI was gonna put Friday in my year end list, but figured 2 Detroit remakes was enough.
ReplyDeleteyou need to check Team Eastside Peezy, too, though I suspect you'll say he's not on par with another Peezy.
ReplyDeleteSada Baby - Return With My Strap is in this canon also
ReplyDeleteAll the White Gzus shit was doing something interesting w beat jacks, like sampling the rap song rather than the source/just using the instrumental. The Seen A Man Die one especially sticks in my mind. Also digging into DBC recently them lads are consistent in the same way. they're not groundbreaking either but w e
ReplyDeleteAlso in the absence of instrumentals, Trel etc straight up remaking thems class man.
Mad into someone rapping over There Dey Go.
"Friday" and "Heavy" and "The Field" featuring the equally awesome Sada Baby are some of my favorites of the year
ReplyDeleteSada's "Skuba Ruffin" is my favorite outta Detroit this year though....easy
This one's probably one of my favourite The Message jacks:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eS-s_pzqpw
Seagrams whole discography is worth revisiting.
Tune
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