Jacking this one from Thomas : Messy Marv integrates Shaggy's It Wasn't Me with The Ghetto's Tryin' To Kill Me by Master P & Silkk :
Messy Marv ft. some uncredited R&B dude - What Mess Talkin' About
(From Cake And Ice Cream Volume 3 mixtape; 2012)
This cut isn't so much the Rap Game Mario Balloteli, more the Rap Game that bit in Chopper where Mark headbutts Tanya's mum and then blames Tanya for it :
"Have a look what you've done.... have a look what you've gone and done..... your mum's upset!"
Can't believe nobody has ever made a GIF of her infamous pistol toting scene from Shady's Go In video before now :
Important K.G.B update : in recent weeks Katie has been compared to a potato, Caillou, Maino and The Brain from Arthur in the I Need A Hitta comment section.
Young Bleed ft. C-Loc & Maxminelli - Better Than The Last Time
(From My Balls And My Word album; 1998)
If you're not up to speed on Baton Rogue's original exponent of "I'm a ordinary person but I'm paid!"-Raps then there's no better way to acquaint yourselves with Max Minelli/Maxminelli than Better Than The Last Time, which is essentially a Max song bookended by small supporting roles from C-Loc and Young Bleed. If you are familiar with Better Than The Last Time and the rest of Max's cameo verses on My Balls And My Word but you've still never bothered to delve any deeper into his admittedly vast catalogue then here's a quick primer compilation made up of ten of my favourite Minelli joints from his solo albums.
Specialising in the sort of everyman Country-Rap that's now become shorthand for Joe-The-Rapper earnestness thanks to its more modern apostles like Big K.R.I.T, Max avoids the pitfalls which plague most of K.R.I.T's material due to his old fashioned hard-nosed arrogance, his sense of humour ("watch how they jock my style/mayne, I kicked more bitches out than Destiny' Child"), his sharp wordplay ("I stay fresh ta death but that's so irrelevant/the same closet I hang up my clothes I keep skeletons") and the varied production of his main beatsmith, Baton Rogue minor-genius Happy Perez.
In summary, Max doesn't Rap like an ol' Bud Fox's dad-soundin' ass bluecollar bore, the production he uses successfully apes Mannie Fresh and Beats By The Pound as well as Pimp C and N.O Joe and even hints at the Lex Luger Trap-banger with Thug Thang remix, and this compilation is a pretty swell little introduction to him if I do say so myself :
Max Minelli - Illmaxic
1. Max Minelli - My First Verse
2. Max Minelli ft. C-Loc - Whas Hapnin' Thug
3. Max Minelli - Dyin' To Come Back
4. Max Minelli ft. Boo Rossini - Immuh
5. Max Minelli - R.N.S
6. Max Minelli ft. Boo Rossini & Boosie - Throw It Up
7. Max Minelli ft. Russell Lee - We Run Dis
8. Max Minelli ft. Mystikal - Thug Thang remix
9. Max Minelli - I'm That N*gga
10. Max Minelli - Louisiana Sky
Perhaps we're biased because we used to have a dog called Skippy or maybe we're simply just huge fans of Juvenile's weedcarriers, but whenever the Martorialist posse notice that U.T.P member Skip has new music out we feel compelled to give it a listen. There's a song on Skip's new Happy Motherfuckers Day mixtape by the name of Concrete Jungle which is probably the worthiest pick on there since it distils the various sounds of New Orleans into a carnival companion to Juve's early street-talk classic Jivin', but, ever lowbrow and proud, we're drawn to Bandana like it's got us in a tractor beam made from the fumes of the soft-toed Reebok classics Juve and his mate who looks like Bodie from The Wire wave around in the air in the Solja Rag video :
Skip ft. Wacko - Bandana
(From Happy Motherfuckers Day mixtape; 2012)
Note to all Nolia Rappers : make songs which sound like lost instrumentals Soulja Slim would've Rapped over with lyrics about wearing camouflage rags and we're guaranteed to post them on The Martorialist.
In no specific order, the top five greatest Rap songs of the nineties that were somehow hijacked by sample clearance : the original version of AZ's Your World Don't Stop, G'z Up Hoes Down by Snoop, TRU's Smokin' Green, Nothing Move But The Money by Smif-N-Wessun, and this, the original version of Gang Starr's Japan-only bonus cut Doe In Advance with the Ohio Players sample which was eventually released 6 years later as the B. Side to the only Big Shug single its acceptable to own :
Gang Starr - Doe In Advance (original version)
(From Hard To Earn sessions; 1994/The Jig Is Up 12"; 2000)
Posting this today for three reasons : because I woke up with the "like Max Julian I'm the authentic Max" line in my head this morning, because I wish Guru and Primo would've sacrificed both F.A.L.A and Comin' For Datazz on the Hard To Earn tracklisting to include this so the album could've ended on a high instead of just petering out after Mostly Tha Voice, and because we still need to know whether Guru and Solar were buggering each other since a Rapper of Guru's standing deserved far better than the cock of a glorified Soundclick producer. If only Guru and Mister Cee's eyes had met in the Hot 97 toilets one day back in 2003 when Gang Starr were on the verge of disbanding things could've turned out so differently. C'est la vie, c'est la vie.
A gentleman's agreement permitted me from posting a downloadable MP3 of this yesterday since its going up on iTunes for sale, but now its sneaked its way to Youtube its pretty much fair game. 2012's most anticipated Rap song is finally here and its even better than the snippets suggested :
King Louie - Val Venis
(From Dope And Shrimp album; 2012)
Sure, dedicating a song to Val Venis instead of Ravishing Rick Rude is as ass backwards as calling Razor Ramon the poor man's Carlito, but Louie gets a pass on this one since he's under the age of 30 so he pro'lly just remembers the Ravishing One as "dook who was on Raw and Nitro on the same night back in 1997". This and I Don't Like need to square off for the rest of the year and see which of them emerges victorious as thee Chicago anthem of 2012.
In other news related to odes to white ppl icons by Rappers, the highlight of N.O.R.E's latest otherwise underwhelming mixtape recently became a viral single, with Gordo who sips the Champagne that's impordo being one of the few Rappers who can justice to a song called Kenny Powers given his beerbelly and penchant for ig'nant gibberish. *Kay Slay voice* - "ONLY N.O.R.E COULDA DID THIS, YO!!!" :
The O.G slime went from buyin' out the bar at the white boy club to havin' the most disrespectful white in town. Given that he's been washed up since his unfortunate experiment with Reggaeton, his knack of somehow managing to knock out two N.Y classics a year every year since 2008 is something we should all be grateful for.
What's your take on Boo's 601 now we've finally heard it, mon ami? I'm thinkin' Ima is one of the great Concentration Camp tag-team cuts and my Camp compilation now feels incomplete without it:
"Now Ima Hennessey sipper
can make a dollar triple
can take a innocent hoe and let the homies flip her
pierced clits and nipples? We'll let you fuck quicker
if you had Boss game you wouldn't need change to get her"
Boo ft. Lay-Lo - Ima
(From 601 album; 1999)
Whether it's mugshots or magazines we all in the picture! Pity Boo & Max Minelli didn't record more songs together because they had great chemistry on this and it's sequel Immuh from Max's Me & My Hustle album.
It was a long, hard slog trawling through Bo Deal's previous two The Chicago Code mixtapes looking for those all elusive JAMS amongst the indistinguishable slew of post-Brick Squad generic bangers, but sitting through the pair of them was made worthwhile when coming across 2010's Bananas and last year's classic Safe Sex where Bo temporarily deviated from his his usual Trappin' For Dummies game plan to have some fun. Alas, the third installment's token party cut Clap is just aiight, but, HALLEJAH!, he's finally made a kosher Trap thumper that's as 'ard as G Check but which still manages to display some of the humour that made Bananas and Safe Sex go good :
"I'm a boss, I make the moves
I do what bitch n*ggas wanna do
post up on a n*gga block, strapped up with a hunnid tools
I'm Killa Klan, whether win or lose
B.S.M, whether win or lose
Bo Deal, I been a fool
y'all wastin' time like an interlude"
Bo Deal - N*gga Rich
(From The Chicago Code 3 : Revelations mixtape; 2012)
FYI bloggaz - N*gga Rich is way better than the 'tape's single with Waka and Chief Keef that some of all y'all have been championing recently.
