Fettle down

Fetty Wap might be the first east coast rap dude to be able to trot out the tired old "I'm not a rapper" cliche and actually have a point to stand on: his vocal stylings on Trap Queen and RGF Island are far closer to Mavado than they are Max B, Westwood is currently making excellent use of Trap Queen in his sets as the ideal transitional record between rap and bashment, and RGF Island sounds like it'd be best experienced as you're stood on Jamaica's Blue Mountain peak busting 2 semi-automatic weapons into the sky in orgasmic joy like you're Stitches in the Brick In Yo' Face video.


Fetty Wap - RGF Island
(From Soundcloud; 2015)


Linked this one in passing twice now but it definitely deserves a post of its own, dunnit?

Generic list post: No Limit Richmond, California edition

Far be it from me to suggest what the Grand Imperial Percy Miller should be doing with his money in 2015, but surely his disposable income would be far wisely spent paying to upload the Richmond, CA-era No Limit Records back catalogue to iTunes/Amazon/Spotify than shooting videos with n-bomb dropping AZNs for the Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull runt of the Bout It song franchise? After all, how can the chil'ren truly get caught up in the magic of the festive season if they've never heard the West Coast Bad Boyz High Fo' Xmas album?

Strictly 4 the K.I.D.Z here's a generic list post of 20 essential No Limit tracks from the Richmond-era that'll make you howl with laughter at their black comedy one minute and then stun you into silence the next with their vivid depictions of the dangers of being a black man in AmeriKKKa. Never has anyone in rap made biting sound as effective a blueprint as the brothers Miller & their Richmond cronies who were blatantly pillaging the rap personas, song concepts, rhymes styles, and production choices of the popular Ruthless/Rap-A-Lot/Death Row gangsta-rappers of the day, but doing so in the most eccentric and distinctive manner that they ended up being pioneers of low-budget northern California Mob Music.

1. Master P - Somethin' Funky For The Street (1994)
2. West Coast Bad Boyz - High Fo' Xmas (1994)
3. Master P ft. Silkk - The Ghetto's Trying To Kill Me (1994)
4. Master P - Bloody Murder (1992)
5. Young Cellski ft. UNLV - Stressed Out (1994)
6. Master P & C-Murder - Hood Carols (1994)
7. Ray Luv & Tha Link Crew - Born Hustlaz (1994)
8. TRU - Ghetto Is A Trap (1993)
9. Master P ft. Simply Dre, King George & Silkk - Playa Wit Game (1995)
10. Master P - Ooh Shit (1992)
11. E-A-Ski - Straight Business (1992)
12. West Coast Bad Boyz - No Limit Party remix (1994)
13. E-A-Ski - Just For The Radio (1992)
14. The Real Untouchables - I Wear A Bullet Proof Vest (1992)
15. Master P - 99 Ways To Die (1995)
16. E-A Ski - Mama Used To Say (1992)
17. Master P & C-Murder - Christmas in da Ghetto (1994)
18. TRU - Life Of A Gangsta (1993)
19. Master P - I'm Going Big Time (1992)
20. Master P ft. RBL Posse - Tryin To Make Dollar Out Of 15 Cents (1994)
(Strictly 4 My P.E.D.A.N.T.Z: a handful of these tracks by P, The Real Untouchables, and E-A-Ski weren't originally released on No Limit back then, but they're still absolutely canonical and would bear the official No Limit stamp in the late '90s when were reissued by Percy's then burgeoning national empire.)

It's Lil' Chris who smells of the onion rings in this relationship

"Gurl, I ain't Future but I'm lookin' for ya
Head so good, got me cookin' for ya
Pussy smell good like detergent
Pussy so tight like a virgin"

Lil' Chris - Bad Lil' Chick
(From Made It Thru The Struggle mixtape; 2015)


Because if there's one quality a man wants from his independent woman, it's the aroma of Dettol wafting from between her legs. Production on this highlight of the new Lil' Chris mixtape sounds like what would happen if Stephen Hawking's electronic voice generator thingymebob actually caught up to the speed of his alpha waves. Like the first comment on Soundcloud succinctly sez - 1st time hearin some shit like this str8 heat too.

Coming soon: the top 5 Lil' Chris video GIFs that shoulda been Vine hits.

Musical Youth's debut LP aside, Reggae was a terrible genre until 1993

1993 being the year when Shaggy released Oh Carolina and Super Cat dropped the Bad Boy remix of Dolly My Baby.

22 years on from Oh Carolina, Shaggy is still Reggae's saving grace: Night Shift is the song which finally makes amends for him & Maxi Priest not recording a remix of That Girl with Super Cat back in 1996, and his return to form is the only thing that can possibly save the genre from the indignity of Drake's unfunny ginger mate OB O'Brien speaking in patois on Schemin' Up. How is this not number 1 on the pop charts in at least 27 different countries?

Shaggy ft. Maxi Priest & Super Cat - Night Flight
(From Out of Many, One Music (XL Edition) album; 2014)


Conclusive proof the music internet was useless in 2014: everyone went apeshit over D'Angelo's comeback album even though it only contained four good songs, yet nobody noticed Shaggy dropped his hottest joint in over a decade until one of the Irish lads from that ILX message board posted it this week.

Generic list post: february the 13th

Is your significant other basic enough to wanna drag you along to the 50 Shades Of Grey movie this weekend? Never fear because ya boy Quepid is here to ease your pain with another pre-Valentine's Day romantic-rap generic list post for all lovers and haters alike. When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie, that's amore! But when that Loon cameo hits their g-spots like one of Betty from Corrie's hotpots, that's a Martorialist lover's rap playlist!

LL Cool J - I Need Love (1987)
Jagged Edge ft. Jermaine Dupri & Loon - Promise (So So Def remix) (2000)
Baby Bash ft. Frankie J - Suga Suga (2003)
Snoop - Sensual Seduction (2007)
A-Mafia - Love Train (2011)
Salt 'N' Pepa ft. En Vogue - Whatta Man (1994)
Twista ft. KanYe West & Jamie Foxx - Slow Jamz (2003)
Legit Ballaz ft. Dejion - Ride Slow (2006)
Kurtis Blow - Hello Baby (1985)
A-Wax - If Time Was... (2004)
Mannie Fresh ft. Lil' Wayne - Lady Lady (2004)
Jennifer Lopez ft. 50 Cent - I'm Gonna Be Alright (Track Masters remix) (2002)
Dude 'n Nem - McDonalds (2007)
Bobby Brackins - Jon And Kate Plus 8 (2010)
Kid Capri - Whisper (1991)
Mary J. Blige ft. Kid Capri - Love No Limit remix (1993)
Rich Kidz - Sunrise (Interlude) (2012)
Rich Gang ft. Rich Homie Quan - Milk Marie (2014)
P Diddy ft. Ginuwine, Loon & Mario Winans - I Need A Girl (Part 2) (2002)
Fetty Wap - Trap Queen (2014)

Re-Up Gong

The Divshare links for those 2 unreleased MobStyle tracks their producer Fred Flak hooked me up with a couple of years back have long since expired so I upped 'um to Audiomack. Both were recorded in 1989 for MobStyle's The Good, The Bad, The Ugly album but neither ended up being used. Sadface emoji @ Azie's "we got 'Po, still runnin' the show/Rich, on top of a bitch" line during the third verse of Cypher - perhaps the most tragic "it was all good just a week ago" couplet in all of rap?

MobStyle - Cypher
(From Fred Flak's vaults; 1989)


MobStyle - Freestyle
(From Fred Flak's vaults; 1989)


On the real, if the N.W.A biopic doesn't include a reenactment of when they were chased offstage at the Apollo by Pretty Tone Capone from MobStyle & a bunch of his goons then the movie is some sentimental Hollywood revisionism. The only thing that can save it now is if they do the sensible thing and let Iggy Azalea fulfill her destiny by playing Tarrie B in a movie.

This is the first Tink song I've paid 99p for

Tink ft. Charlamagne Tha God - Around The Clock
(From Around The Clock single; 2014)


Still spendin' money from 2008, still findin' songs from 2014 I'd missed previously. Almost drowned in the sea of unmerited praise for Tink this past year or so, but ol' girl's the recipient of the best Timbaland beat in donkey's years with Around There Clock here and she's got that rebirth of Ladybug Mecca flow goin' on - 68 inches above sea level, 93 million miles above these Dej Loafs.

Or Dana Dej/Tink Got Gunz/Cruella Black as that biter is known around these parts.

A Spoonie Gee compilation 4 u

Here's a compilation of songs by Harlem's knight in white linen Spoonie Gee. As rap's O.G smooth-talking convivial raconteur and the first rapper to rhyme in his own mellifluous God-given voice, Spoonie birthed Uptown legends like Ma$e and Max B as well as G.O.A.T's like Slick Rick and Too $hort. Rhyming in his own dulcet tones also gave him an advantage over his fellow class of 1979 rappers, in that his flow always never sounded dated throughout rap's ever-changing sonic backdrop's of the '80s, whereas his more stentorian peers such as Melle Mel and Kurtis Blow were left floundering by 1985 give or take the odd Free Style.

What you'll find on this compilation: his three early disco-band classics as well as his two more polished disco-band recordings for Sugar Hill Records, a 1982 live routine as over the break from Liquid Liquid's Cavern, the two mid-80s tracks with Davy DMX behind the boards, his one stellar song from the 1985/1986 drum-machine era, Teddy Riley's ghost-remix of Take It Off with those Go-Go drums that were the trademark tic of his productions between 1985 - 1987, and a trifecta of his golden-era tracks with Marley Marl working his magic on the production tip. Find 'em all below like you're trapped in a virtual reality Manic Miner:

Spoonie Gee - Harlem Knight In White Linen (compilation)

1. Spoonin' Rap (1979)
2. Love Rap (1980)
3. The New Rap Language (w/ The Treacherous Three) (1980)
4. Monster Jam (w/ The Sequence) (1980)
5. Spoonie Is Back (1981)
6. Sex (live at Danceteria) (1982)
7. The Big Beat (1983)
8. Street Girl (1985)
9. Get Off My Tip (1985)
10. Take It Off remix (1986)
11. Spoonie Gee (1987)
12. The Godfather (1987)
13. She's My Girl (1987)

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If you wanna explore the Spoonie Gee catalogue any further then you're gonna have to go discover them 1987 new rap swing tracks with Teddy Riley for yourselves - Did You Come To Party would be the best one to start with, and you'd have to be rollin' like Davros or Degrassi Drake not to bust into the Cabbage Patch when you first hear I'm All Shook Up.