Champagne On The Blog

Big Scoob - Say It Loud (American & Proud)
(From Say It Loud (American & Proud) 12" single; 2002)


Here's a rap song which wasn't on the internet so I've uploaded a video of it to YouTube. Some proto-Top Shelf 8/8/88 Rap by Big Scoob FKA Big Daddy Kane's ex-dancer Scoob Lover, taken from the early 2000s when Scoob was dropping nice 12" singles like Kryptonite and U Got It, Can Du and Brooklyn Flava and Floss Filthy. Say It Loud (American & Proud) is Scoob's ode to the U.S.A recorded in the aftermath of 9/11, which basically means it's 30% patriotism/70% braggadocio. Don't get it twisted tho, this song would make a way better American national anthem than The Star Spangled Banner. That's one thing the U.K and the U.S.A will always have in common: national anthems which are tuneless dirges.

My Gran bought me the portable turntable in the video back in the early 80s and it's still going strong. I dunno how to rip vinyl to MP3 so Step One said he'll do it for me if I post him the Big Scoob 12". I'm gonna take him up on his offer, but first I'm gonna take a punt on a couple of the other early 2000s Scoob 12"s I've never heard which have never been uploaded to the internet. If they're legit jams then I'm gonna hit Step up with that Scooby pack.

We're All In The Same Yang

"Sauced up, bossed up
Just got a few dollars she coughed up
All in a bitch mouth like cough syrup
Can't help this the way I was brought up"

Ezale - On The Radar freestyle
(From P-Lo's For The Soil cypher for On The Radar; 2025)


A mere freestyle, but it's the first time Ezale has rhymed over a P-Lo production and it's a great fit like tighty-whities. I'm down for a proper Ezale & P-Lo collaboration, preferably an EP together like the LARussell & P-Lo EP where Ezale does the raps and P-Lo does the slaps.

Speaking of which, it's very weird to hear the word slap enter Britain's normie vernacular. Just last week I caught an episode of British soap-opera Coronation Street and one of the zoomer lads said "this curry slaps!" O rly? Nane 3 Mac Dre songs, m8.

Generic list post: March 2025

Obligatory wrap-up post of those songs I've played most during the month when Babyf×ce E brazenly bit 70th Street Carlos and thought nobody would notice.

Three Below Zero AKA MOOD - Mr. Everything (1995)
Ezale - Hang Wit Them (2025)
LARussell & Wiz Khalifa - I Might Be (2025)
Seiji Oda ft. Young Bari - Mobby Miyazaki (2025)
EBK Jaaybo - F**k Everybody (Free Maxx) (2025)
Murs - Silverlake Rec League (2025)
Pookie F'n Rude ft. E-40 - Da N***a (video mix) (2025)
YG ft. Buddy & The Gang - 2004 (2025)
Supahbadd - I Am (2025)
Mello Buckzz - Barely Chew (2025)
Real Lies - Towards Horses (2025)

Bonus bloggin: 1nce again I'm gonna use my monthly wrap-up post to keep track of the best movies and TV shows I've been watching. * indicates rewatches dunnit.

Movies I watched and liked:
PlayTime (1955)
The Boys (1962)
The Lost Boys (1987) *
Decision To Leave (2022)
Flow (2024)

TV shows I watched and liked:
What We Do In The Shadows (series 5) (2023) *
Neighbours (new episodes) (2025)
Only Connect (grand final) (2025)
Newcastle vs. Liverpool (league Cup final) (2025)
Athletico Madrid vs. Barcelona (2025)

You know there's otha posts in the sea there is: my list of great late-career singles; EttelThun found the O.G version of Can I Live when it was a LOX song featuring Black Rob; Spartan on Looking For Mr. Goodbar.

Don't Get Caught

Babyf×ce E ft. Mello Buckzz - Tweakers
(From Tweakers single; 2025)


On one hand, this is tuff and I have a crush on Mello Buckzz. On the other hand, Babyf×ce E has shamelessly 'borrowed' lyrics from 70th Street Carlos' Government Shutdown and thought nobody would notice. It's not just me who clocked it either because various people in the YouTube comments have picked up on it. Should have tried to disguise your plagiarism with a different flow, m8. You can drop your song, kid, and it don't matter that it's hot, there's still one rule, playa - don't get caught.

Late pass!

Three Below Zero AKA MOOD - Mr. Everything
(From Unreleased 93 - 95 EP; 2016)


I've heard a few of the unreleased mid 90s songs MOOD recorded as Three Below Zero but I'd never heard this one. And this one has gotta be a top 3 song they ever recorded. Some black belt in rap hands judo Boom-Bap to make you walk with a bop. What we're they thinking not releasing this shit back in the 90s?

Still active upload to the unreleased songs EP can be found on this blog.

Ain't no tellin' what the bitch will do, I was all on her face like barbecue (part 3)

Ezale - Hang Wit Them
(From Town Taxes album; 2025)


Ezale Duz It. And by Duz It I mean Ezale duz sausage-fest music videos better than 99% of other rappers. But then you already knew that if you've seen the videos for 5 Minutes Of Funktown and Foreal Foreal. Plz believe the spirit of REAL HIP-HOP™ is pulsating through this video's 4k pixels: dancin' in the street, gold teeth and Levi's jeans, gettin' chased by coppers and vintage motors. As for the song, it's that hella hyphy dirtbag Charlie Hustle mob music innit. Nobody in California Duz It better right now.

My Mind Spray 18.5

I'm starting my own offshoot of the Conservative Rap Coalition for those of us who aren't stuck in a Boom-Bap rut but also aren't interested in Playboi Carti and his disciples. For my fellow peeps who don't think Godfather Don's comeback album is the only good release of the past 5 years, but who've never heard a Destroy Lonely song in our lives. Do you enjoy the music of Spoonie Gee and Seiji Oda? Then come join. There's rules, guidelines and codes we obey tho: you must be able to name 3 songs by YZ, 3 songs by Young Bleed and 3 songs by Yuno Miles.

Mac Dre & Khayree performing an acoustic version of Times R Gettin' Crazy on Billy Jam's radio show in 1991 was the original Splash Bakery.

I very rarely check for those teen-gangbanger Stockton rappers, but EBK Jaaybo's F**k Everybody (Free Maxx) piqued my interest. The song is some grandiose Mob-Drill which is probably supposed to be a sequel to Boogieman, but I prefer it as a NorCal spin off of Treal Lee & Prince Rick's Dallas classic Walk Around The Club (F**k Everybody).

Kids and casuals don't even realise that the video for Craig Mack's Makin' Moves With Puff was the inspiration for Suge Knight's infamous Source Awards speech. TBF, Knight did have a point.

Wear your funkiest pattern, grab your hat and come get crazy with me if you agree with me that the Q-Tip remix of Craig Mack's Get Down is better than the Flava In Ya Ear remix. Shout out to British TV show The Word who had Mack perform the Get Down remix live in 1995 where he did the 3rd verse from the original mix in the place of Q-Tip's cameo.

NOLA Girl

Supahbadd - I Am
(From I Am single; 2025)


Most effective interpolation of Estelle's American Boy since Max B or wot? I came across this shit in YouTube's recommendations on OnlyHeaven's In Here video a while back, and in a perfect circle of life, OnlyHeaven claimed that Supahbadd was a big influence on her when Johnny The Boxxx interviewed her a week or so later. I've since gone through Supahbadd's back catalogue and come to the conclusion that I Am is the best song she's ever recorded. Bonzer R&Bounce that's as rowdy as it is bawdy. She'll rule your dong with her iron can, Supah Pum-Pum AKA Filthy Triggawoman.

**EDIT** Shout out to the YouTube algorithm for just recommending me I Need A Hot Boy by Tha Hot Girls. Nice to see BlaqNmilD is still out here producing even tho 5th Ward Weebie is gone. BlaqNmilD was also behind Maine Musik's Social Media Thuggin' AKA the greatest Foxx song not actually recorded by Foxx.

These are the breaks

Caveman - I'm Ready
(From Positive Reaction album; 1991)


The classic U.K Rap single by the one and only U.K Rap group to be signed by Profile Records. I'm gonna call I'm Ready the most Rave-friendly U.K Rap song of the early 90s based on the empirical evidence it got played at a local Illegal Rave I went to in 1992 at the tender age of 14. Dubbed The Melt Down Zone, the party was hosted in a disused former Agri-Electrics building by some local pikeys who weren't fussy about letting underage kidz in as long as we had the £5 entry fee. The DJ was an ex Hip-Hop head who'd had his head/dick turned by the drugs and girls at Rave parties, but would still play some uptempo Rap tracks in amongst the Rave choonz. I have very specific memories of hearing I'm Ready and Naughty By Nature's O.P.P that night because they were 2 of my favourite singles of that era and it was the first time I'd heard Rap music played in what was, essentially, a club. I also have very specific memories of having to leave early because my parents wouldn't let me stay out beyond 10:30 PM. They f**k your adolescent nights up, your mum and dad.

I've always wondered whether Percee P & Ekim and/or T-Ray heard Caveman's Fry You Like Fish. It's plausible innit since Profile Records would have ensured the single made its way into New York's record shops.

Rude Awakening

Pookie F'n Rude ft. E-40 - Da N***a (video mix)
(From YouTube; 2025)


New bumper-bonker from Pookie F'n Rude AKA the fat fella responsible for two of my favourite L.A singles of the past few years with Hold Up and Put That On Everythang. Part Kokane, part E-40, all west coast offkey bam-bamthems you can step to. This video mix differs from the version on his Rebirth Of The West album due to a 2nd Pookie verse after the E-40 cameo. A 2025 Rap song by 2 guys with 3 verses? How novel.

When did it become acceptable for rappers to walk around with septum rings looking like crusty Punk-Rock beezys? Holla at me, pop a leather collar at me, send a freaky white bitch like Beki Bondage at me.