Winter Warz

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76. Mobb Deep, 'Trife Life'

I don’t care what Reynolds says, even at the height of my jungle addiction following the incredible cornucopia of 1994, when I got this home and put it on the record player it was still one of the most amazing sounding LPs I’d ever heard. This is perfect: the crisp, hollow beats; the looping, loping bass line; the Norman Connors sample; and, of course, the cold, unemotional, uncompromising lyrics. I thought this track was stunning and terrifying simultaneously. It made me feel glad I lived in Swansea where you could consider the possibility of going out with a girl without worrying about getting shot. I couldn’t comprehend how these guys could ever go outside of their apartment block, if it was like this. This wasn’t a visceral living out of other people’s lives for me, it was sheer terror. But the whole package was so compelling to listen to.

I can see why Dissensus UK Drill Sergeant Barty rates this record so much. Sorry blissblogger, you’re not often wrong but you are here.

 

Corpsey

bandz ahoy
Just imagine: a 16 track album on which "Shook Ones Pt 2" is track 15.

Shook ones is one of those sad cases where I listened to it so many times that I now can't listen to it anymore.

If it takes me unaware on shuffle I genuflect before it
 

luka

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i know what you mean. have you heard the funkmaster flex mixes of the time where he plays that doubles up and does all those effects on it maybe they are called filters or something?
 

Corpsey

bandz ahoy
The Infamous (what people think of when they think of The Infamous edit)

1. "The Start of Your Ending (41st Side)"
2. "The Infamous Prelude"
3. "Survival of the Fittest"
4. "Eye for a Eye (Your Beef Is Mines)" (featuring Nas and Raekwon)
10. "Q.U. – Hectic"
11. "Right Back at You" (featuring Ghostface Killah, Raekwon and Big Noyd)
13. "Cradle to the Grave"
15. "Shook Ones (Part II)"
16. "Party Over" (featuring Big Noyd)

(I'd chuck "Temperature's Rising" in there for the perfect 10. You can't lose Prodigy ranting about people rapping about flying saucers, either.)
 

luka

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jack understands that album. im going to make him a nice bowl of soup and remind him of how much he is loved
 

luka

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no one talks about it cos actually very few people have heard it its like a hidden track
 

Corpsey

bandz ahoy
"Prodigy: “I remember that clearly. We wrote that in the crib high on drugs. [Laughs.] Probably weed, probably was some dust in there, mad 40s, getting twisted. That was one of the first ones where we were like, ‘Whoa. This shit is ill. This shit sounds crazy right here. This is some other shit right here son. This ain’t normal.’ So we knew we was making some shit with that song. We were in the crib and we were spitting it to each other like, ‘Yo, this shit is some other shit right here son."


The influence of angel dust on new york rap, esp. mobb deep/wu tang

 
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