Friday 29 January 2021

Late pass! 8 Crip Walks to perfection

Perfection ft. Snoop Doggy Dogg - Understand Perfection
(From the Please Pass The Mic compilation; 1992)



Perfection is perfected so now I finally understand what Snoop's line on Nuthin' But A "G" Thang meant. Pre-The Chronic Doggy Dogg from the L.A Gangsta-Rap cassette tape netherworld. Same Grover Washington sample as Played Like A Piano but with a tad more tinkling of the keys. Fun fact: the "one n*gga who decided to leave and get his rap on elsewhere" Snoop is throwin' salt on during his first verse was none other than Domino.

MP3 here for anyone who wants it like this, like that, and like this and uh.

24 comments:

d said...

Fuck this is nice. Interesting how much live instruments are in the beat for this era of LA rap too.

Learned recently Domino had the first verse on the Bloods n Crips album.

Need to hear Wayniacs raps now

Kelvin Mack10zie said...

Upload of the Please Pass The Mic compilation.

(This song is by far the best shit on there, natch.)

Step One said...

Wow

hotbox said...

wow never heard this before thanks for this (and the link!)

Kelvin Mack10zie said...

Glad I'm not the only person who had no idea about this song previously.

Yohan said...

Wow, great find, had never heard of this track before. So alongside Snoops appearances on The Chronic, I think this is all of his (known) pre-Doggystyle work, right?

Also, do you happen to have A-Wax's Savage Timez album? I can only find dead links and I know it's been shared on Philaflava way back in the day.

Finally, I peeped that Kwest The Madd Lad album you were mentioned earlier this year, great album. Besides the tracks you've mentioned, I also really like Disnexone, Skin Care and 125 Pennies.

Ben said...

I definitely hear the Richie Rich/Smooth B influence in his flow here vs Chronic/Doggystyle era he has more of a 3-2 style flow.

Kelvin Mack10zie said...

Definitely, Ben.

Yohan, i think I have a rip of Savage Timez somewhere. Tbh my favourite thing about that album is the unreleased snippet used in the intro. I assume it must be one of A-Wax's prison demos.

Kelvin Mack10zie said...

Another fun fact: Perfection later changed their name to Foesum of Lil' Somethin' Somethin' minor fame.

Anonymous said...

I'm surprised you only found out this one now , I think I've posted it on dwg ages ago (could be wrong).
btw it's also on the reissue of the perfection album on cd :https://www.discogs.com/Foesum-Perfection/release/1620763

they had some snoop's demo song on this release :
https://www.discogs.com/Foesum-The-Lost-Tapez/master/1664740

county blues is on this 12"
https://www.discogs.com/Foesum-The-Lost-Tapes-EP/release/2335135

mp45

Kelvin Mack10zie said...

I've definitely never heard this song before.

Plus, Lil' Somethin' Somethin' is the only Foesum track I know.

d said...

Ah foesum no way.

Ive got savage timez i can post it here tomorrow if its not been done. I rly agree bout the intro being the highlight too. that album was a bit underwhelming to me as a rob lo/wax fan after hearing bout it for yrs, some cool shit on it though.

Big fan of young snoop over Radio Activity, myself

https://youtu.be/YYJpDYxUn_4

d said...

V good shout on richie rich, first time ive heard it that clearly. never considered smooth b or 3-2 before at all but thats spot on. 3-2 had a huge impact on texas rappers flows imo eg you can rly hear it in pimp c after he hooked up w ugk.

Never rly thought bout big mike either outside the trading hooks or w e but the whole speeding up n slowing down stop start shit snoop adopted later on feels v Mike. instresting

d said...

Reading here Wayniac was in the Twinz! snoop trivia overload rn.

Never heard them outside of the warren g feature

Yohan said...

@d That Savage Timez drop would still be appreciated.

Also good looking on the Snoop demo tape.

Kelvin Mack10zie said...

Snoop's a massive Smooth B fan.

A-Wax needs to release his prison demos already.

Krisch said...

I knew this song, but didn't know there was an actual release of it.

A few years ago there was 6 tracks of this release (pretty sure it's a hoax) floating around:

https://www.discogs.com/Snoop-Doggy-Dogg-Over-The-Counter/release/1439560
http://grandgood.com/2008/08/26/snoop-doggy-dogg-over-the-counter-unreleased-demo/

One of them being "Let Em' Understand", which is the exact same song. It was also released as a hidden track on one of the Foesum CDs.

If you're looking for the other 5 songs, this link is still active:
https://morewackshit.wordpress.com/2015/12/05/snoop-dogg-over-the-counter-1991/

d said...

Here you go

Kelvin Mack10zie said...

^^ There you go, Yohan.

Cheers Krisch.

Yohan said...

Already links to a deleted file, who ratted to the feds? Lmao I think that concludes my search, I think I'll be ripping the album from YouTube. Thanks to all parties involved.

Kelvin Mack10zie said...

Damn. It's hard out here to upload shit for us Brits.

You should ask ANU on Twitter or PM him on the P.

Yohan said...

Who knew the P would have a use in 2021?

d said...

Savage times are when a man has posted for 20 yrs they give him a watch call him a brit n say a computer has deleted your link daddy, thats savage times

Yohan said...

D coming through with the heat. Cheers!