Wednesday 12 June 2019

Generic list post: best late pass discoveries of the 2010s

1nce Again fuck waiting until List Making Season™ when I've already got 50 unfuckwithable choonz right now. The best Rap/Rap & Bullshit songs from decade's past that I've discovered in the last 10 years: a mixture of tracks I prefer as instrumentals, slept-on singles, B-sides, original versions I prefer to the re-recordings, tracks which ended up on promo 12"s due to sample issues, album cuts, compilation exclusives, mixtape cuts, hit singles which didn't find their way into my orbit, future-hit singles which didn't blow up until 2010, regional anthems, slept on remixes, street DVD singles, beatjacks I prefer to the originals, and obscure loosies. Honourable mention of sorts goes to the lesser-heard uncensored version of the Firm Biz (World's Famous Mix) as finally found by Step Won.

Whodini - Magic's Wand (instrumental) (1982)
Disco Four - Throwdown (1983)
Positive K ft. King Of Chill - Step Up Front (3 Heineken Technique) (1988)
Mac Dre & DJ Cee - Donkey Ain't Free (1989)
Filthy Phil - Deadgiveaway (1992)
2Pac - Fuck All Y'All (O.G mix) (1994/1998)
Dolamite - Hustlas (1995)
Teddy ft. Dru Down & Yukmouth - Are You In The Mood? (LP mix) (1995)
Herb McGruff - Creep (1996)
Cheeky Blakk - Keep It On The Real (1996)
Khayree ft. Mac Dre - Back 2 My Mission (1997)
Young Bleed - A Fool (1997)
Total ft. Missy Elliot - What About Us? (1997)
AZ ft. Jermaine Dupri - Rock Me (Hey AZ So So Def mix) (1998)
Raheem The Dream - Freak No Mo' (1998)
Juvenile ft. B.G. - 187 (1999)
Jiggs & Cheeks - Hustle Til I Die (1999)
Z-Man - White Girls Wit Ass (1999)
Mista Madd ft. Slim Thug & Yungstar - Down South (1999)
SPM ft. Baby Beesh - Oh My My (2000)
Jagged Edge ft. Jermaine Dupri & Loon - Promise (Cool JD remix) (2000)
Tim Trees - Bank Roll (2000)
Camu Tao - Hold The Floor (2001)
Dubee & Mac Dre - You Ain't My Dog (2001)
Casual - Studio D (2001)
Twista & Legit Ballaz ft. Johnny P - Ball With Us (2001)
Edan ft. Skillz Ferguson - Adrenaline Rush (2001)
Dru Down - Gangstafied (2002)
Lil' Jon - Play No Games (instrumental) (2002)
Fat Tone - Ima Getcha (2002)
5th Ward Weebie - Supa Sunday In N.O (2003)
Loon - This Ain't Funny (2003)
Max Minelli - My First Verse (2003)
A-Mafia - Mafia Anthem (2003)
Husalah - Inshallah (In God's Will) (2003)
Agallah - Gun Go (2004)
N.O.R.E ft. Peedi Crakk - N*ggarican (2004)
J. Valentine & Bailey - Go Dumb (I'm Sprung Yay Area remix) (2006)
A-Wax - Gatez (2007)
Jim Jones, Max B & Mel Matrix - Anniversary (2007)
DB Tha General - Intro (2007)
BallGreezy - Shone (2007)
Max B & Styles P - Kill That Faggot (remix) (2008)
Yelawolf - Beer Buzz (2008)
Uncle Murda - Anybody Can Get It (2008)
3 Deep - Say What I Wanna Say (2008)
Newcleus - Programmed 4 L.O.V.E (2009)
Grand Puba ft. Q-Tip - Good To Go (2009)
Jae Millz - Sober (2009)
Waka Flocka Flame - Hard In Da Paint (2009)

Some bloggas and self-styled tastemakers will swear they were up on Hard In Da Paint when it first dropped in 2009 but, other than Rey, they are ALL lying through their fingertips. Don't front because ya boy is out back ready to Google your best of 2009 list if you come through flagrant.

14 comments:

Dank said...

I hit the n@@@a with the gauge and all I saw was lots of sausage

Kelvin Mack10zie said...

Max out-nastying Styles on Styles' own track int'it. No mean feat.

GGGGGG said...

Who is gonna come with the zip?

Yeldarb said...

You must have heard 'Magic's Wand' before this decade?!?

Kelvin Mack10zie said...

Of course. But I hadn't heard the instrumental before.

SE said...

That Jae Millz go hard. I had high hopes for him a singles artist in '09.

Kelvin Mack10zie said...

I reckon he's Wayne's main ghostwriter.

A. Percazette said...

Unrelated but thoughts in MoStacks new album? Major disappointment for me...

Kelvin Mack10zie said...

Only song I've heard from it is Wild which is aiight.

A. Percazette said...

Yeah basically all of it is that same level of middling to me. Production sounds too much like a generic Dave album imo

Kelvin Mack10zie said...

J Hus where u @?

Yohan said...

That Play No Games instrumental is absolutely lovely, great find.

Kelvin Mack10zie said...

Hold The Floor is what El-P + you Cannibal Ox fanboys WISH The Cold Vein sounded like.

Anonymous said...

My submission would be the full version of Bricks & Walls from Coke Wave https://youtu.be/QwfNt6pG0bU