Rap Game Mollie Sugden

J. Stalin - The Molly Song
(From Memoirs Of A Curb Server album; 2012)


I don't know why why America had to be all fancy and rechristen the drug that the rest of the planet calls Mandy as Molly, but I'm hoping I can use The Molly Song by J. Stalin to convince a certain someone I know that MCAT is just MDMA for paupers. You Yanks have no idea how lucky you are that Mephedrone has yet to become the drug du jour in the good ol' U.S.A because they're isn't a more pungent stench/taste than a vagina sweating it out on a humid sunday morning.

Speakin' of Rappers I first heard on Never Blink, I'm all up on that real chill Dubb 20 joint with Husalah from Jacka's new weed carrier's compilation thingymebob right about now. Husalah using the word Twerp will never cease to be funny, but I'll be damned if Dubb 20 doesn't quietly kill this track on some 1992 TV movie about the plague starring Kate Jackson type shit :

"Them verses on Jack's shit got a n*gga buzzin'
n*ggas be lyin' tellin' bitches they my cousin"

Dubb 20 & Husalah - Been A While
(From The Jacka Presents The A.R Street Album ; 2012)

I'm a ordinary bloke but I blog!

Since one song on Max Minelli's new Lunch Money album sees him interpolating Pimp C's "n*ggaz talk a lot of shit in a safe place 'cause he can't look me in my eye when we face to face" lyric into an attack on Twitter thugs and, ahem, "pussy with an opinion" bloggers, it's probably best I keep my views about some of the cheesy Tampon commercial hooks on there to myself, innit? Thankfully you can't ever really go wrong with Max Minelli and Happy Perez summoning up the holy ghost of Pimp C, so that very song happens to be some panoramic emo Country-Rap shit and Max's best jam since the classic Louisiana Sky :

Max Minelli - Safe Place
(From Lunch Money album; 2012)

Ain't no fun when the rabbit got the gun

I know, I know - there's a Lil' Phat shaped cavity in your heart just waiting for a new Trill ENT-related 3rd stringer to plug it too, huh? Luckily, where the Baton Rogue Rap Gods taketh Phat back to the essence in a hail of gunfire, they then giveth us a replacement in Foxx's chief weed carrier $hizz begging for someone to shower him with bullets on Send Ya Hit Man. This, as the kidz say, goes and it wouldn't sound out of place on either of the Trill Fam compilations even though that Webbie feature credit is an okie-doke because it's just a sample of his voice for the hook :

$hizz ft. Foxx & Webbie - Send Ya Hit Man
(From Foxx-A-Mill Presents $hizz - A.D.I.D.A.S mixtape; 2012)


Turns out $hizz is also the producer behind the many of the beats on Foxx's last three mixtapes, making him the new lesser-talented Mouse On Tha Track and, thankfully, not the new Lil' Trill.

Shadrach, Meshach, a blend to go

The obligatory clerical nuts 'n' bolts you need to know about the 80s blend which inspired Nas' first great song since 2004 : a couple of years before Kid Capri's legendary Stephanie Mills routine on the 10/9/'89 tape, and a good five years before Ron G's Blends 1 tape mixed R&B accapellas over Rap instrumentals or Puffy instructed Mary J. Blige to sing over Impeach The President and play the Eurydice to Grand Puba's Orpheus, DJ Hot Day combined the vocals from New Edition's Once In A Lifetime Groove with Son Of Public Enemy (Flavor Whop Version) and a couple of classic breaks like Ike’s Mood 1 & 7 Minutes Of Funk on a 12" called Hot Day Master Mix :

DJ Hot Day - Hot Day Master Mix
(From Hot Day with Super Kids - Hot Day Master Mix 12"; 1987)


The obligatory Rap blogga opinions 4 all y'all : there are only 4 Rappers who should ever be bestowed with the honour to Rap over an 80s Queensbridge classic like Hot Day Master Mix - Tragedy is the first since he appeared on the B. side of that very same Hot Day 12", but he's currently in prison so we're shit outta luck there; The second is Poet's since he was active in 1987 and has history with Hot Day, but he'd probably go OTT and Rap about disembowelling blokes with a fountain pen when that beat calls for something a little less homicidal so he's a no-go too; Cormega's the third since he also has history with Hot Day, but we've already heard him Rap over Ike's Mood 1 on Beautiful Mind so he blew his chance; the fourth is Nas and while that gormless motherfucker is a personal bête noire of mine, he's just given Hot Day a production credit on a major label album in 2012 so I guess he'll have to do.

Greatest movie scenes ever # 47

Gonna ask this question once every couple of years until I get a satisfactory answer : why have the Beasties/Def Jam only ever released the unmastered demo of Scenario when Christian Slater played a clearly pristine CDQ version of it 22 years ago in Pump Up The Volume? (*)


Samantha Mathis' character in Pump Up The Volume = officially the only hot bird called Nora in the history of humanity, even if her take on the that-dance-white-girls-who-don't-like-Rap-always-do-to-the-Beasties only rates a 6/10.

(*) Ditto Desperado from Tougher Than Leather, obviously.

I'm still naked with no weapon, what was I to do?

Oh wow, big 'Ball just quietly dropped a song that's the most vivid storytelling joint about the perils of drug-game since Yo Gotti's Rico as well as the best storytelling track to touch on the theme of revenge over an acoustic guitar since AZ's The Payback :

8Ball - Lucky's Theme Song
(From Life's Quest album; 2012)


Heck, it even subscribes to Ice-T's axiom that Gangsta-Rap should contain some sort of subtle message, and so it ends with a chilling reminder that there are real life consequences to crime like one of Ice's old storytelling jams such as Soul On Ice. Damn, kicko, that's some Just Say No type shiznit on multiple levels, innit?

*EDIT* - 4 days later and this now has a video :

Ribbit on that other level

Rap blog rule # 19865 - on an otherwise slow wednesday when you can't think of anything else to post, flex your Rap-nerd muscles with an obscure sample source from a song by the Rap Game Clarence "Frogman" Henry :

$tarlito - Rather Be With You
(From #UW: Separation Anxiety EP; 2012)


Alright, so I can't be the only person who heard $tarlito's Rather Be With You last year and then went scrambling to Google to look up that opening sample because it sounded like it might be from some secrete old TRU song, right? Whaddaya know it actually derives from a track by O.G Three 6 Mafia member Lil' Fly/Playa Fly which, I presume, is a Memphis classic :

Playa Fly ft. Gangsta Blac & Bill Chill - Nobody
(From Movin' On album; 1998)


Solving a sample mystery and noting the uncanny similarity between $tarlito's croak-flow and Clarence Henry's frog voice - that's all I got today, lads.

Martorial elegance # 64

Problem ft. Skeme - T.O
(From the Welcome To Mollywood mixtape; 2012)


I cannae tell you shit about Problem other than he was a guest on the first single from E-40's Block Brochure, he sometimes sounds a bit like Juvenile when he's ad libbing, and his T.O single from earlier this year here is best Rack City knock-off out there. Since the beat is by that very song's producer DJ Mustard, posting it today finally presents us with a handy excuse to highlight Mustard's fondness for sleeveless denim jackets or, as they're know in the biz by our homie Nyquil, jean vests :

There's rules - got codes and lines we obey is the motto 4 life, but when a bruvva looks like a Gamorrean Guard, he's allowed to peacock in an item that's only otherwise acceptable if you're Slash in 1987, one of the greaser cast members in The Outsiders, or Pete Twist in series one of Round The Twist.