(From Uncle Cell album; 2021)
Bona fide Dope Fiend Beat blues courtesy of Cellski - some proper mogadon mob music slap. It's a pity Uncle Cell doesn't produce more beats because that man has BEEN knowin' how to construct a Slap Classico since the Young Cellski days of Streets Of Frisco. Lest we forget that man was also behind the boards for Won't Be Right.
(From Tear Gas album; 2009)
If you can listen to Won't Be Right and not end up shirtless and screaming "I JUST WANNA CLAP ALL MY ENEMIES" by midway through the first chorus then are we listening to the same song, bro?
Bonus beats: 2 Sticks was too lowkey to be the lead single from Cellski's new album. However, if you flip it and bounce it into the B-side for Still Clappin' then its Quiet Storm subtleness hits hella different.
(From Uncle Cell album; 2021)
That off key piano is menacing. Not sure yet if I'm fucking with the hook though.
ReplyDeleteCellski is one of those rapper's that's seemingly been around forever, has a lot of respect in some circles yet is never really talked about. Aside from some songs or features here and there, like this Jacka song, I've never really checked for him. Recommendations on where to start?
Best to start at the beginning with the Inner City Life reissue of his 1st two EPs and his debut album Mr. Predicter.
ReplyDeleteI had no clue Cellski did production at all Won't Be Right was my favorite song on Tear Gas.
ReplyDelete^^ Definitely.
ReplyDeleteTop 3 Jacka single alongside Aspen and Barney (More Crime).
(No particular order of preference.)
https://youtu.be/RXR-ZV48D2U
ReplyDeleteMan am i into this.
Living in the bays one of the greatest beats ever
Stressed Out too from the Young Cellski era.
ReplyDeleteI took a college poetry class in 2015 and wrote a poem about the feeling of listening to Won't Be Right in my car and the next day Jacka died.
ReplyDeleteJesse jinxed Jacka.
ReplyDeletePost the poem.
we can disagree on Jacka's albums but we agree on his singles.
ReplyDeleteCommon ground eh?
ReplyDeleteI don’t have it. I’m a bad archivist. That’s what makes me so grateful for solid institutions like The Martorialist. Here’s some lines though:
ReplyDeleteMy car’s missing a driver’s side window
I’m always at war with the elements
Scotch tape keeps the rain from coming in, though
And inside the ashtray there’s hella mints
To tell you the honest truth I don’t think that’s from the poem I wrote about Won't be Right, but the point is I was a great poet in 2015. I remember there was a nerd kid in class who was familiar with the song and I asked him how he discovered it and he said the hiphopheads reddit.
Possibly the only good thing Reddit has ever done then.
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