Pac Div - Slider
(From Still Sealed Vol. 1 album; 2026)
Back like deja vu it's... Pac Div soundin' nothin' like the Pac Div of old. I fuxwit this song because it's a dense, minimalist piano track which somehow sounds like it could have come out on Maybach Music Group or Mello Music Group. File Slider under 'songs which could feature cameo verses by Gunplay orMurs.'
Conclusive proof that Britain was the key early adopter of Rap music: the only #actually live TV performance of The Message in the 1980s was on late night U.K yoof TV show The Tube. Melle Mel bosses it as half-rapper/half-raconteur, Rahiem makes a perfect stand-in for Duke Bootee on both Duke's verses, The Furious Five are dressed as ridiculously as you'd expect and Grandmaster Flash looks like La Forge from Star Trek had been beamed down onto the set of Cruising. The group even end the performance by assauling a copper as revenge for getting arrested in The Message video. Old skool Rap music TV gold, which should be as celebrated/cherished as Run-D.M.C performing Sucker MC's on Graffiti Rock.
Obligatory wrap-up post of those songs I've played most during the month when Bubba Sparxxx became Brotha Sparxxx. Bubba ain't choose to tan, tannin' chose him, so he hit the track black like Soul Man.
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.
Buckshot LeFonque ft. Uptown - Breakfast @ Denny's (Uptown Version)
(From Buckshot LeFonque album bonus track; 1994)
Sum shit I never knew until this new episode of Salute The Sample: there's a bonus track remix of Buckshot LeFonque's Jazz-Rap anthem Breakfast @ Denny's featuring Uptown of Dope On Plastic minor-fame on vocals. All these years I never even knew there was any kind of vocal mix. And I'll be damned if it isn't better than the single mix and shouldn't be considered the definitive version.
Another tasty unreleased J.U.I.C.E cut from the late 90s which didn't come out back then for some unfathomable reason. This song is the polar opposite of Rip It because it's a storytelling track with J.U. Kasa as Illinois' vividest author. Matter of fact, the way J.U.I.C.E spins his yarn on here is compatible to Roots Of Evil era Kool G. Rap.
Duke Deuce - I Told Yuh
(From America Is Ours album; 2026)
Feathers Up is so my shit, I'd slept on I Told Yuh. With his new-found indigenous Injun swag, Duke has become Project Pat junior and the 79rs Gang cousin at the SAME DAMN TIME! Real Conscious-Rap fight music to knock someone unconscious to
Jayy V Vondon - Don In My City
(From NYC mixtape; 2023/Don In My City single; 2026)
I came across this song on Instagram earlier this week and thought it was pretty cool. But my epiphany with it came yesterday when Johnny The Boxxx compared it to a 2009 Jim Jones anthem. EUREKA! The video even features a sidekick homie who looks kinda like Sen City. A baronial New York banger which deserves a club like The Tunnel. Don't get it twisted tho: the remix will be an absolute shit sandwich of the usual boring N.Y rappers-turnt-podcasters + Remy Ma.
**EDIT** I just peeped this song on Soundcloud and it was #actually released 3 years and originally titled NYC. Sod it, tho - it's still a 2026 single to me ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Young Dro - They Don't Really Know Bout Dro
(From Best Thang Smokin' album; 2006/YouTube; 2026)
A 20th anniversary video for one of the most anthemic album cut on Young Dro's first LP innit. I'm a fan of rappers shootin' belated music videos for a variety of reasons, the main one being that they give new leases of life to old favourites which have long since fallen out of your regular rotation. If bloggin' is a motorcycle, you in my sidecar with these dozen 2006 anthemic album cuts which also deserve 20th anniversary videos.
