(From Stone Cold Rhymin' album; 1989)
(From My Own album; 1999)
Gotta love this era of YouTube when old Rap videos I've only ever seen in shitty pixelated rips previously are now being uploaded in grown & gorgeous pristine quality. Here's two favourites by two rappers who are no longer Young. Peep how exquisite the blues look in the Give and Take video, darlings - deepest, bluest like the Indian Ocean archipelago.
Related: someone needs to steal the print of Steve Buscemi & Vincent Gallo's first movie The Way It Is that's housed in NYU and finally release that shit to the public by uploading it to YouTube. You know who else is in that movie? Rockets Redglare AKA the bloke who probably #actually killed Nancy Spungen. Sid Vicious woz innocent and you can't tell me nuffink to the contrary!
Bless the YouTube gods for quality rips.
ReplyDeleteFound out not too long ago that Anderson from Ferris Bueller's Day Off was the same guy who got off with the bird at the cinema in Young MC's Bust A Move video.
Damn. 6 degrees of Alan Ruck.
ReplyDeleteAdded an example of a movie I'd like to see uploaded to the 'Tube.
While I equally love colorful larger-than-life rap, I sometimes do miss more grounded or innocent rap by actual young people (see also LONS "Case Of That PTA" and Twista's "Back 2 School"). Principal's Office seems to fit that same mould.
ReplyDeleteNever forget Based Students by Ricefield & Seiji + their m8. Not particularly wholesome tho 😄
ReplyDeleteLooks like that Kurious album executive produced by DOOM is finally coming out next month.
ReplyDeleteReally? Those snippets from it all sounded very good.
ReplyDeleteThe "Give and Take" video is so great. It looks like they put some kind of 2024 filter on it because it sure didn't look this good when it used to run on Rap City back in the day. The video doesn't look crazy now, but back in 2000 every rap video was larger than life / big budget and we weren't used to seeing "run and gun" YouTube videos yet. I suppose Young Bleed is a pioneer of this.
ReplyDeleteWe used to be sitting in my dorm room watching this video and laughing because they didn't even bother to clean the dead bugs off the windshield...
Bleed bringing that Cinéma Vérité to Rap music.
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