Sunday, 8 June 2025

Late pass!

Young Bari - I Rep That Blocka
(From M.O.B Pt 2 The Meeting album; 2011)



Finding out that pre-HBK P-Lo produced Young Bari's On My Own Hype has got me checking out Bari's music from the early 2010s when he was working with various HBK members. I remember the single Mob Solo which Iamsu hooked up, but that shit never much tickled my fancy. What very much does tickle my fancy, however, is this other Iamsu produced single I Rep That Blocka; a notable entry in the Bay meets Bayou soundin'-ass-canon. Youse Bird-brain squares will dismiss this song as "Crash Bandicoot music", but us big-brain connoisseurs know that Rap music is often at its best when it sounds like some ol' robotic, futuristic Crash Bandicoot shit. Doctor Neo Cortex - we comin' for you, brotha!

2 comments:

Yohan said...

It's a slapper.

Didn't know Young Bari (who for some reason is never mentioned in the spots I visit online) until I saw LaRussell put him on at one of his shows he put on YouTube last year. I think he performed So Mobby live which made me check him out.

Kelvin Mack10zie said...

Tbh, I was only up on a handful of his old singles until recently. That first M.O.B album is right up my road.