Category: nostalgia

Yeah kid, Harlem on the rise


So this was Just Blaze first major placement (and also getting placement on this album was Kanye West. What a fucking coincidence!!). Me & TerrEnce been talking about, quoting and championing this song for over a decade. Which seems kinda weird thinking about it now. Hell I even threw up Baby Stase (that’s Ma$e sister btw) lyrics on tweeter @ Just and Just promptly completed the lyrics cuz we’re best friends like that. How amazing is it that he fucked with Ma$e?! Keeping count. Neptunes. Kanye. Just. All fucked with the gawd Ma$e. EARLY!!! Keep an eye out for bad boy legend and Harlem world affiliate turned and Muslim Loon in the video. Where is Stase and Cardan these days?

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Young Gifted w/ Crack


In high school all we cared about was waiting for the next Fab freestyle to drop. I knew a couple sites that listed the mixtapes from NY so me and my homies always the shit before anyone else we knew. Fab freestyles and Sqad Up tapes. Among my vast arsenal of music.

We still be quoting these joints to this very day!!! “She want me to busy in her eye so she could watch my kids” WHAT?! Fab is a genius. He’s so poetic about expelling his ejaculate onto a woman after coitus.

9/11/01

9/11/01. We all know what happened that day… JAY-Z RELEASED THE BLUEPRINT AND FABOLOUS DROPPED GHETTO FABOLOUS AND OUR LIVES WERE NEVER THE SAME! I mean I stabbed hard for the kid Fab. Hearin him on Clue tapes (which I seemed to be one of the only kids on the NY mixtape scene, why you thinks I always had the hottest mixes at school? Sellin them hoes 3 dollars a pop “I don’t care what you put on it just make me one”). Then bam he in the mainstram limelight and I was lovin it. Then you have The Blueprint. Jay’s true holy grail. I mean you could argue Reasonable Doubt and I’d probably agree, but let’s be real, The Blueprint is his seminal piece of work. And although it’s not without flaw, he proved to the world that he was light years ahead of everyone else and ruler of the rap game. Also, a legit pop star. Even white folks know Girls Girls Girls & Song Cry. Those aren’t even your typical crossover songs. And although Kanye & Just Blaze were makig names for themselves, their work on this album basically pushed them into elite terriotry. Prefacing the gawds they’ve come to be today. 9/11/01. #neverforget


There are NO early Fab video on YouTube. Prolly cuz he was on Elektra and they don’t exist and whoever has the rights is bitter…. I mean technically they do. They were absorbed by Warner cuz they died for a few years. Whatevs.

Ya Tú Sabe


Remember that time NORE saw that reggaeton became a thing in the states and embraced his halfsy puerto ricanness and decided to jump on the wave? 😦 I do. He signed to The Roc’s short lived reggaeton division The Roc La Familia and released an album I wanted no parts of. Although he was on two extreme popular reggaeton songs “Oye Mi Canto” and “Reggaeton Latino”. The latter I heard on constant loop for a couple months in electronics when I worked at target. I had infinite sad faces and suicidal thoughts everyday. I’m sure the move earned him a decent check tho. I just wish he stuck to things like “I’m half Spanish, all day roasting pollo” instead of “Toma reggaeton” smh. I guess we all can’t be perfect.
But shouts to the Latina hoes that pop they coochies to this shit. I enjoy that.

I feel so dirty now. I’m bout to listen to Chief Keef to cleanse my soul.

Pork chops & apple sauce


This shit was so trill when it came out. I don’t think niggas doin posse cuts like this no more. It’s like niggas always from the same clique (Kanye has put together a few “posse” cuts but everyone is normally a GOOD affiliate in some type of way so it don’t REALLY count, dig?). If like even half the niggas Kendrick named dropped got on the same track and just SPIT? That’d bring back this type of feel back. Just cuz Khalid got 18 niggas on one song don’t necessarily make it a posse cut. I’m talkin niggas givin you bars, no hook, & subliminal shots (like supposedly Jay & BIG trading friendly shots on Brooklyn’s Finest). But anyway NORE got the CLASSICALS!

We stoled ya watch


God’s Favorite (and Gangster and a Gentleman) ruled summer 02 for me. It was more NORE(ga) with The Neptunes and we all know that’s why it’s called Gods Favorite cuz The Lord knows this combo is just the best. (Sidebar: my auto correct made The Lord “proper” fuck you AC. Ol bitch). Armed with a new kinda shorter name (NORE is shorthand for Niggas On the Run Eatin) he had prolly his first and only MAJOR hit (Nothin; which perhaps not so coincidentally has a nod towards this song) but Grimey is grimey so fuck yeah.

The invincible, untouchable


NORE is/was always part of a little duo called C-N-N, maybe you’ve heard of em? No not that supposedly neutral news channel, but the rap group formed with, often in & out of jail, Capone. This is the joint they did with Premo. And1 mixtape enthusiasts might recognize this and prolly had no idea they were getting golden hiphop lessons when they were watching illegal moves performed on the basketball courts.
Also THIS! :

Then THIS! :

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