1. Can Du
2. Brooklyn Flava
Some more Big Scoob 12" gems from his brief early noughties renaissance. A-side Can Du is some 45 King produced Hard Knock Life-core with a sample from Guys & Dolls; B-side Brooklyn Flava is some hard Rock Brownsville shit-talk with young Uncle Murda on ad libs (allegedly!) Both songs strike the ideal balance between Brooklyn thug-Rap and Golden-Era fun. Not so much Tunnel Bangers as Tunnel Woppers and that's word to B.Fats.
Big Scoob's career trajectory was proof that a Dancer-Turnt-Rapper could drop hotter music than the Rapper they danced for if they were willing to persevere long enough. Scoob hinted this was possible when his 1996 single Champagne On The Block was lowkey better than anything on Big Daddy Kane's 1994 album Daddy's Home, and achieved it fully in the early 2000s when songs like Kryptonite, U Got It, Can Du and Brooklyn Flava bodied anything on Kane's boring 1997 album Veteranz Day. Patience is a virtue, chess not checkers etc.
In hindsight, I wish I'd named this place Champagne On The Blog.
8 comments:
where'd you find out Uncle Murda is on the adlibs? If thats him doing the "thats that flava I'm talkin bout son" I always thought that was sampled off a Das EFX song
Someone in my comments. Damn, is it bullshit?
sounds too random to be false!
I only thought it was Das because of the voices, I never actually heard the song it wouldve been taken from.
I'm gonna be so disappointed now if it isn't Uncle Murda 😄
scoob ditched the b-real voice on these records, good move
Yeah, thankfully he'd ditched that by the time he dropped Champagne On The Block.
Ashamed to admit I never heard anything off Daddy's Home except for Show & Prove when it was constantly played on BET's Rap City.
Me either until years later when I downloaded it. Not a good album,
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