When Gary Ly and Lung Ly used to roam around New York, they talked about returning to Houston one day and opening a restaurant together.
We balling like the Rockets.
"Son, I diggity-do my thing for the CREAM, the higgity-hip hop fiend; "Couple pulls got me feeling like a cartoon; I'm spaceship high, pass that Warren Moon. unequivocal "no". "From the city where our stadiums drop the top; Z-Ro the Crooked, my ghetto pass is good at any hood, any block they got.". In LA, Freestyle Fellowship and the Pharcyde had made their own waves, while Ices Cube and T were hardly an advert for the sing-song approach. "Strickland, Ewing, Magic, course Jordan is the Don; Isiah, Dominique, Barkley and Hakeem Olajuwon.". Wiz Khalifa's stoner-themed restaurant is coming to... TABC removes certain COVID-19 restrictions for bars, Memes mock another Sunday of Texans, Cowboys losses, Trump-Biden 'cage fight' stokes global perception of a country in decline, mired in chaos, Silicon Valley surveillance company Palantir to go public on New York Stock Exchange, Trump venerates Teddy Roosevelt, but Roosevelt would have hated Trump, H-E-B accidentally offended some Texans for maybe the first time ever with its cola packaging, Five takeaways from the first presidential debate between Trump, Biden, SFA police storm Black cheerleader's dorm room with guns after false report, family says. As a wholly independent publication, we rely entirely on our ad bookings to keep The Quietus going. So SoM had the beats and the microphone skills to carve out their own niche; the promotion and marketing muscle of a well-placed major ready to feed their music into the system; the friends-and-family support network that also functioned as a means of signalling their bona fides to fans keen to check for any new rap act's provenance; and they came from a culture that was strong, yet little-known, thus giving the group both a vibrant tradition to grow their talents within, and an exciting story to tell to the world's press. Jive never got the press or the kudos that attended a Def Jam, a Tommy Boy or a Death Row, but they'd been involved in hip hop for ages - Whodini were an early rap signing, their 'Magic's Wand' a pre-Golden Age classic, while the label also released all the early work of gangsta pioneer Schooly D - and a look at the label's hip hop roster in the early '90s is like reading a who's-who of the best rap talent alive. 93 ’til Infinity is the group's highest charting album to date (#17 Top R&B/Hip Hop Albums; #85 Billboard 200) and, in January, 1998, was named one of the Top 100 Rap albums by The Source magazine. Indeed, the clip still seems almost giddy with the sense of how easy this was to accomplish. So they wrote, as one is always advised to do, about what they knew - girls, hanging out, how great they were at rapping: all the same stuff everyone else in hip hop was writing about. "If they become a Rocket, then we Hakeem with it; Post up everywhere and live that Dream with it.". (The first, incidentally, contains the tune 'Stratus' - another track that was used as the basis of an early 90s single by an idiosyncratic west-coast hip-hop outfit, though in the case of Massive Attack's 'Safe from Harm', the coast was of England).
"Cause these hoes I bag well like Jeffrey do; All about my cash flow, like Fidel Castro.". Download Now on Beatport. "Still got the glock and I still got the 40; Put me under pressure, I’ma pull a Robert Horry. "And in Queens, I be a legend like Richard Dean; Son, I got a team that Hakeem couldn’t dream. As well as the unparalleled joy of keeping the publication alive, you'll receive benefits including exclusive editorial, podcasts, and specially-commissioned music by some of our favourite artists. That emotional investment is clear and unmistakable, and it's the secret sauce that fuels their masterpiece. Also: unlike many of the "classic" samples in rap history, the loops Souls used come from way out in the middle of the track, not the intro - and to fit the markedly snappier tempo, they need the original Cobham album to be played at 45 rather than 33. "Dope game or rap game, you know we run it; We’re back to back, back to back like the Comets.".
"Southwest SWAT, I know the real dudes that move birdies; I go to school early, baby blue Moon jersey.". The sample heavy, laid back jazz production was handled by committee with Domino, A-Plus, Del, Casual, and Jay Biz contributing. It sounds like it exists in a place that can't be explained by examining the lives and work of the four teenagers from a city in northern California who made it, because it also carries all that history of invention and reinvention that Cobham's record was borne out of. To find out more, click here. Hip Hop Is Read have compiled another of their brilliant sample sets – this time for Souls of Mischief’s classic 93 ‘Til Infinity. To answer those questions in reverse order: probably not, and yes, absolutely. Hip Hop Is Read have compiled another of their brilliant sample sets – this time for Souls of Mischief’s classic 93 ‘Til Infinity.
Souls were from Oakland, as the opening spoken preamble made clear, and - the largely unknown-outside-the-Bay Too $hort apart - that meant that scenes of local 'hood life would have, arguably, done more to emphasise the group's "realness" than any other visual signifier while still being "different" - or, at least, different enough. Despite this, the record has a homogenous sound and a consistency of approach that belies the collective nature of "But we ain't for trainin', they flyin' out; Like it's playoff time, and ain't no time, left on the clock with a tied score; I'm Van Chancellor, approachin' to her, with some alcohol and some slow music.". Hip hop classics age like fine wines. The Top 26 Places For “Online Crate Digging”, 21 Ways to Become the MacGyver of E-Digging, Point Blank’s Guide to Sampling: History, Development & Techniques, FREE DOWNLOAD: Night Moves (Jazz Mixtape). Moon; Aren't you the girl that I met last June?". Does any of this history matter? Opener 'Let 'Em Know' sets out their impressive stall, Domino ripping Ronnie Boykins' bassline from the first track of George Benson's 1964 debut album into a fire-breathing cousin of Low End Theory Tribe before the drums clatter in and the emcees pour over the track like the water in one of those Yosemite rivers, flowing over the beats and deep into the cracks and crevices between the angles of the sound. Support tQ's work by becoming a subscriber and enjoy the benefits of bonus essays, podcasts and exclusively-commissioned new music. "Just talked to Farrakhan, that's sensei; Told him I've been on 10 since the 10th grade; Got a middle finger longer than Dikembe.". ; On the break, three on one like Phi Slama Jama. Del drops in with 'Make Your Mind Up' halfway through side two, and two productions midway through side one, all of which stick to the sample-heavy melodiousness his own record had brimmed with. PHOTOS: A look at all the hip hop lyrics that reference Houston sports. Although 'That's When Ya Lost' became the second single from this LP, the pick of the three is 'A Name I Call Myself', with a lovely Benson guitar lick (this time from a Freddie Hubbard album) turned into a woozy melodic backbone for a formidable collage of samples which, whether cleverly or due to sample-clearance problems history as yet has not recorded, ignores the Mary Poppins reference in the song's title. Welcome to Beatport. It's not just about some 18-year-olds finding a record made before they were born and stealing its sound: it's about the magic of musical creation and composition, where so much that may never have been consciously intended winds up in the grooves as the idea transitions from conception and invention through performance into the historical artefact created by the recording process. They plan to have a seasonal menu at 93’ Til with a menu that features shareable items that will vary depending on what’s in season.