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Big Daddy Kane - The Beef Is On
(From Looks Like A Job For... album; 1993)



I'll have you know that I love Kane, SpaceGhostPurp guy! He just didn't make that many good songs after 1989, and wearing a pair of child's leopard skin briefs as Madonna and Naomi Campbell lezzed it up in front of him REALLY wasn't a strong look for the self-proclaimed Count Macula, was it?

DAT YOU?

Had to do a double take when Mouse On Tha Track flipped his entire script on the final verse of his new single Don't Make 'Em Like Me with a story about being arrested on a false homicide charge (Rap Game Barry George?) that's closer to Boosie & Webbie's Fuck The Police than anything in his own catalogue of jolly songs about having fun in Baton Rogue.

Mouse On Tha Track ft. Kevin Gates - Don't Make 'Em Like Me
(From Don't Make 'Em Like Me single; 2013)


Gates has come a long way from being thought of as Max Minelli's Memphis Bleek, but in all the words that've been typed about him over the past twelve months nobody has mentioned the main obstacle he faces in ever becoming a household name : Kevin Gates sounds like a bloke from your I.T department, not a Rap star. Dook has obviously never seen the Louis Theroux interview with Pen & Pixel's Shawn Brauch where Shawn snootily tells Louis he can't use Louis Theroux as his Rap name because "it's not monumental enough", nor must Gates be familiar with industry rule 4085 that Rappers are only allowed to use their government names if they have fly ones like Craig Mack.

Screens fall two by two, watchin' Winnie The Pooh

Yungstar and co's Screens "R" Fallin' is a bit of an anomaly in that it epitomises everything great about early '00s Houston Rap by bush league Screwed Up Click alumni when it doesn't particularly sound like a typical turn-of-the-century posse cut from second-tier S.U.C members. It's one of those songs which makes me feel I've been missing out by never having heard it until a few months back, but I can't make out a specific lyric during the first verse that's driving me nuts; at precisely 00:44 does Lil' James say "ballin' outta control and I ain't ten years old" or does he say "ballin' outta control at nineteen years old"?

"Ballin' outta control ___________ years old
Gimme the remote control, I seen this episode
Gas poured, pines blow when it's time to hit the road
Lil' James is the name, I put the T in Throwed!"

Yungstar ft. Lil' James, Lil' Flex & Pooh-Bear - Screens "R" Fallin'
(From Throwed Yung Playas Part 3 album; 2000)


Lil' James' being under the age of 18 is crucial to Screens "R" Fallin' (no Dids) since its whole premise is that Yungstar and his B.G. buddies are cruising around in spaceship cars and minivans watching cartoons and playing TurboGrafx-16 on some proto-Cosmopolis type shit, but how can Lil' James be a Baby Gangsta if he's 19 years old? Even more confusingly, how can a kid who "ain't ten years old" possibly sound older than Yungstar? This shit is an even bigger paradox than that bit in Soulja Boy's I Got Me Some BAPES video where he tells Arab he's just got back from his local mall with some new Bapestas when the Bathing Ape stores in NYC and L.A were the only places in America you could cop Bapestas from back then.

Speakin' of the S.U.C, how the hell do I download the studio version of Z-Ro's classic "Look Good" in studio freestyle off that new Tripolar EP of his that's only available to stream on Audiomack? *EDIT* Thanx to ANU :

Z-Ro - Look Good
(From Tripolar EP; 2013)

Rap game Scott Hall & Kevin Nash circa 2002

Very, very happy that one of 2013's best traditional hard nosed Gang$ta-Rap songs has just become a proper single with a swanky video. Woke Up isn't quite a Jeezy & Gotti A-lister like the All White Everything remix or Choppa Talk, but it's definitely a very strong 2nd tier collabo a la Four so here's hoping it can steal Act Right's thunder because that's a rare dud by the jobbing mercenary duo :

Doughboyz Cashout ft. Young Jeezy & Yo Gotti - Woke Up
(From Young Jeezy's #ItsThaWorld EP; 2013)

Diggin' in the Showbiz's mates

Try as I might, ya boy will never understand why the Conservative Rap Coalition's head honchos settled on Milano as the indie-period generic D.I.T.C weed carrier they decided was one of N.Y's great unheralded talents when Rep For The Slums is the only great solo song he's ever made in the 14 years since he debuted alongside Big Pun on Where Ya At?:

Milano - Rep For The Slums
(From Deal With A Feeling 12"; 1999)


Besides, such esteemed luddites as Robbie and DJ Ivory & the other bloke from the P. Brothers really should have known that the best Fat Beats-era D.I.T.C doja was A-Bless. Ain't gonna front like A-Bless had more than 4 good songs in him, but that's 3 more than Milano had, and dude was a Lord Finesse analogue for the S.D.E generation. What a pity we never got a proper Showbiz-produced solo A-Bless single since he made the fatal mistake of signing with a crew who still plied their trade with 12" records when N.Y was amidst the transition into a mixtape city:

"I need a mami for the don with no kids
And I love 'em in white thongs with no skids"

A-Bless - That's Bless
(From D.I.T.C Presents Wild Life compilation EP; 2001)


"Temper problem, sick in the head
Tec's a problem, clip to the head"

A-Bless, O.C & Party Arty - Bad Reputation
(From D.I.T.C Presents Wild Life compilation EP; 2001)

They can't even pronounce nothin', pass that Wuh-Taps!

Ayo 2$hin aka Mr. I Khan Do Dat aka A$AP Burt Kwouky aka Jean Paul Sartaq. Check out the O.G AZN Rap gawd spittin' dat Jin & juice like the Great Kabuki sprayed red mist on the 500th and 1000th episodes of Freestyle Friday, bruv!

"Ayo, matter of fact, you know Free is fine
Justin and M got a kiss, yo whassup with mine?"


"Yo, I walked into 106 for a standin' ovation
All I heard was "welcome back" like my name was Mason!"


Jinichi Imafofo spat acid like the fabled Mongolian Death Worm and basically spent 70% of his allocated interview time promoting CDs by Eve and Styles P, yet Dee & Waah STILL shelved his album and then dropped him from Ruff Ryders. AmeriKKKa really hates its AZN citizens on some "the sushi bar ain't mah spot!" type steez, huh?

You ain't gonna know what to call it, just know it's a drop and the sunshine jumpin' off it

Deep cuts by generic Baton Rogue c-listers that've been transformed from 3/5 jawns into 4.5/5 jams by the mere presence of Mouse On Tha Track saying "DAT ME!" and "WAAAAAAAAHHHHH!" on them part 3465 :

Mista Cain ft. Mouse On Tha Track & Mista - Hard As I Go
(From Louisicain 2.5 mixtape; 2013)


It's mad confusing to have two Baton Rogue Rappers called Mista who both sound near-indistinguishable from each other and who've both released mixtapes with the word Cain in their titles, especially when I'm attempting to parse their respective catalogues for any other jams or when I'm trying to remember which of them is the Mista that's beefing with Foxx and which of them is the Mista that's currently in the pokey on a murder charge.

I dunno, though, maybe I'm doing Mista a disservice by lumping in him in with Mista Cain since he didn't need Mouse's help for his one genuine 5/5 minor-classic It B Going Down and its anthemic no star weed-carrier remix last year?

"Phone ring, hear that noise, that must be Rashanda
sneak me in this party or I'm puttin' holes in ya Honda"

Mista - It B Going Down
(From Cain Muzik Volume 1 mixtape; 2012)

Dunn did dat already

"F**k a new friend, they just potential enemies
Open old wounds on you, hold it, then let it bleed
Can't front, the jealousy just bring out the best in me"

Mobb Deep - Cobra
(From Cobra 12" single/mixtapes/Infamous Archives 2xCD; 2005)


Never forget that Havoc pretty much pioneered the concept of No New Friends 8 years ago.