Thursday 6 May 2021

Try to take it all in stride, please don't keep it all inside

"Stresses are all around
Stress wants to be a verb, make sure that it's a noun
When stresses are repressed, effects can be profound
So don't be in denial when stress is goin' down"


Homeboy Sandman - Stress
(From Don't Feed The Monster album; 2020/YouTube; 2021)



Better out than in: off-kilter observational Rap that's more of an Overlord Of Overthinking handbook than Organized Konfusion's hall of famer and its equally hallowed remix. This song properly clicked for me when I realised it's got that sneaky MF Grimm Tick Tick sloppy-choppy energy in Sandman's flow and Quelle Chris' production. Brain sick, tick tick, stress will blow it up!

MF Grimm - Tick Tick
(From MF DOOM's Operation: Doomsday album; 1999)



Tick Tick definitely ranks somewhere in the upper echelon of ya host's top ten G.O.A.T guest solo songs on other rapper's albums. The other nine? In no particular order: Lady Of Rage's G Funk (Intro) from Snoop's Doggystyle; Mac Dre's Game I'm Spittin' from Dubee's AKA Sugawolf; MF DOOM's I Hear Voices Part 1 from MF Grimm's The Downfall Of Ibylis; Kurious' Fastlane from King Gheedorah's Take Me To Your Leader; Fam-Lay's FamLay Freestyle from The Clipse's Lord Willin'; Lil' Cease's O.G solo version of Crush On You from Lil' Kim's Hard Core; Lil' Wayne's Wayne's Takeover 1 from Mannie's The Mind Of Mannie Fresh; Un Kasa's Un Casa from Dipset's Diplomatic Immunity; and Memphis Bleek's Hand It Down from Jay Camel's Volume 2.

32 comments:

  1. Hov's Dear Summer on the Bleek album.

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  2. My honourable mention has gotta be Megalon's Rain Blood also from MF Grimm's first album.

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  3. Killah Priest BIBLE off of Gza's Liquid Swords.

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  4. Good call. I used to hate that song but it's grown on me over the years.

    One day I'll finally get round to checking out Heavy Mental.

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  5. SAAFIR "THAT BULLSHIT"

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  6. Luca Brasi Speaks off Starlito's Cold Turkey album.

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  7. That Bullshit is so sick. That woulda been top ten if not for the bit about where he says his arse is sweaty. Tmi imho.

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  8. MF Grimm has a new album out. The hunt for the gingerbread man 2.

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  9. Is it better than the first? That album was so shit I haven't checked for Grimm since.

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  10. Got v into killah priest lately, a development I didn't see coming lol. Heavy mental is bananas, prob some of the most scientifical science ever made

    Memphis Bleek - Dynasty intro
    All the big Tymer intros should count since their intro shit talking n actual rapping are often indistinguishable
    Them Japanese lads on bulhoone mindstate might be the worst one

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  11. NM u mentioned the bleek song

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  12. Enjoyed HBS's album from last year a fair bit.

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  13. Spart, yeah I ended up buying the CD recently.

    Donal, gotta disqualify the Big Tymers intros for not being solo. Group tracks on other rapper's albums is a whole 'nother topic.

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  14. Fuck it, I just bought a cheap copy of Heavy Mental.

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  15. all I know is Too Low's "Funky Lil" from Scarface's The World Is Yours had my middle school goin nuts

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  16. Yet another great Mac Dre song that I previously never knew existed.

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  17. Jmil, it was his "let me reintroduce myself!" song after getting outta prison, I believe.

    Drew, undeniably 'ard song.

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  18. He reused game im spitting lyrics on Mac Who? w Mac mall which is a top 10 Dre song to me n is up there w schoolly d n snoop for quasi freestyle/actual song songs. Been finding there's khayree versions of a ton of them early post prison Dre songs.

    Dubee is v underrated I've been playing him a lot lately n speaking of, the khayree mix of Billy Bad Ass goes.

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  19. What's the Khayree mix? Link me plz.

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  20. https://youtu.be/8PbFvr8C_5g

    This is p poor quality but I'll zip up the proper one on Monday if you want. think I got it off some comp yrs ago,can't remember which

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  21. Nice and Nice one.

    Related: is You Ain't My Dog from the first Cutthroat Committee album Dre & Dubee's best back-and-forth? I say YES!

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  22. 1st CC album got a lot of slaps

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  23. DMG - you don’t hear me doe again on a Scarface album

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  24. The World Is Yours was his secretly his first My Homies 😄

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  25. So what did you think of heavy Mental then?

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  26. and let's not forget My Homies blessed us with the first two Devin solo songs. He wasn't even The Dude yet. "Boo Boo'n" and "Do What You Want"

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  27. Honestly Killah Priest has a few albums i really like but in more recent years he's gotten way to carried away with all conspiracy ufo garbage.

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  28. Man if too much conspiracy UFO garbage is a problem maybe killah priest isn't for ya

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  29. Basic Instructions Before Leaving Alpha Centauri.

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