Hey, this is Doug Miller. Welcome to My Weekly
Mixtape with Brian Colburn. Hope you're ready
to nod your head because this one's a banger.
Welcome to My Weekly Mixtape, a podcast that
takes the classic mixtape approach to building
a modern playlist. I'm your host, Brian Colburn.
Joining me for tonight's collaboration is Doug
Miller, a good friend of mine since the days
that we played football together at St. Mary's
High School, as well as a DJ, comedian, and fellow
90s hip -hop fanatic. Doug, thanks so much for
joining me on my weekly mixtape. BC, what's going
on? Pleasure to be here. Happy to be back with
you doing this. You know, we've had some great,
great discussions. Yeah, the Over on Playlist
Wars. You were one of our regulars, and I love
it. I'm glad that you're joining me here. Now,
I'm going to start by asking you the same question
I ask every single guest to start an episode.
And I know your answer is probably going to be
one for the ages. So, Doug, what does the word
mixtape mean to you? Mixtape is, to me, the best
word is because it's such a hard thing to describe
in one word. I'm related to a bunch of these
different. things that fall under one category,
I'm going to use the word emotion. The word emotion
because whatever you were trying to evoke or
whatever you were trying to pull out of yourself
could be done with a mixtape. It doesn't matter
what genre you are. You could listen to the saddest
music in the world. You could be making a mixtape
because you're happy. This is the best time.
I got a party tomorrow night. Here we go. Whatever
vibe you're looking for, that poured out into
mixtapes. You would see people. put songs, not
just songs that swung wildly on a pendulum, but
emotion -wise or style -wise or even genre -wise,
but they would have those on there, but the ones
that they had in the order they had it would
make sense. It would tell a story. So you'd make
a mixtape to a girl. By the time she listens
to the last track, she's going to be saying,
I think there's a theme here. I think, yeah,
I think there's a theme. So, you know, you could
do a whole lot with a mixtape. And then I felt
like if somebody gave you one, it was the most
inexpensive gift, but the richest because...
The way we used to do it took time. You were
swapping double cassette decks and fast forwarding
the songs and rewind and pausing it on the right
time, staying up late or putting anything on
record when you go to bed to catch Monday night
mixtape with Clue, you know, or catching songs
on the radio if you like stuff. It's on rock
stations, whatever it may be. The time that it
took and the effort it took is what would kind
of pronounce the significance of the mixtape.
And when you received one from somebody or when
you made one with somebody, it was definitely
packed with emotion. Well, we are going to be
packing a ton of emotion into tonight's episode
because tonight Doug and I are curating a mixtape
filled with the best hip hop and rap from, and
I can't believe I'm saying this, 30 years ago,
1993. I can't even wrap my mind around that.
No, like when I still watch Dazed and Confused,
I'm like, yeah, that was like 30, 40 years ago,
right? And it's not like it's 100. It almost
pains me to say that every song we're going to
talk about tonight is three decades old. Yeah.
These songs are going to start having real hangovers
now. Because when you're 29, there's no such
thing as a hangover. The day you turn 30, you
know what a hangover is. For sure. For sure.
They're terrible. Terrible. Now, for me, 1993
was junior year in high school. So a ton of these
songs hold a special place for me personally.
But beyond that, I'm just going to go ahead and
say it. 1993 could be one of the most essential
years in all of hip hop history because it's
packed with a ton of classics. And my list is
packed with jam after jam. And I already know
that there's guilt. In my songs that I picked,
because some of my songs are not going to make
this list. And it's a shame because they're all
absolute classics. Doug, what were you looking
for in the songs that you brought to the table
this evening? Well, it's the same sentiment I
have because 93 is a pillar year in hip hop.
I would call it, you know, by far. You had probably
four of the 10 greatest hip hop albums ever made.
arguably, definitely top 15 ever made, all came
out that year. And countless songs that are on
the top 100 greatest hip -hop songs of all time
all came out that year. Just insane. From group
albums to singles to individual projects by people
from those groups, it didn't matter. You were
just constantly... bombarded with different styles,
different locations, and different... And they
were just all hitting home run after home run.
You're in the building phase of hip -hop here.
And so that's what I looked for. I looked for
the two vibes that kind of came to me the most
in the 90s. And, you know, when I was running
around, I had my starter jacket and my overalls
on. But also I had hair like I watched 90210.
It was a weird time, bro. It was a very weird
time. But the music was undeniable. So that's
what I looked for. Well, let's get down to business
tonight. As I mentioned, Doug and I are curating
a 1993 year in rap and hip hop mixtape. And we're
going to use that old cassette deck approach,
meaning our mixtape is going to be broken up
into two sides, side A and side B. Doug, as my
special guest, will begin side A with his first
song choice. And then I'll add a song that I
feel best follows that choice up. We'll then
flip flop choosing songs until we've mapped out
the 10 songs for side A. We'll then give our
mixtape a proverbial flip and we'll map outside,
be only this time, I'll kick things off with
Doug choosing second. Our overall goal for this
episode is to craft the best 1993 year in rap
and hip -hop mixtape possible through only 20
songs. At the end of the show, you can take our
conversation to the next level by visiting the
episode page at myweeklymixtape .com to give
our final mixtape a listen via the embedded playlist.
And finally, if you like what you're hearing
on the show, please consider becoming a Patreon
mixtaper at patreon .com forward slash myweeklymixtape.
Now, before we press the record button on this
mixtape, some of the fellow mixtapers chimed
in with songs that they feel would best kick
off the night with. And I want to share some
of those now. So, Doug, you and I have some food
for thought going into this. Sounds good. And
speaking of those Patreon mixtapers. Patreon
playlister Cactus Pete first wanted to make sure
he chimed in with the fact that the trick here
is that Dr. Dre's The Chronic was released late
in 92. Otherwise, that would have easily been
his first track with nothing but a G thing. And
because our rule is the main album had to drop
at 93, he wanted to make sure to point that one
out. And I totally get it. But his 93 choices
were Snoop Dogg's Gin and Juice. Wu -Tang Clan's
The Mystery of Chess Boxin' or Cream, depending
on what mood you were in. Ice Cube's You Know
How We Do It. Cypress Hill's Insane in the Brain.
Diggable Planet's Rebirth of Slick Cool Like
That. And then Naughty by Nature's Hip Hop Hooray.
Also, Patreon Playlister Too Vague Podcast chimed
in with Del the Funky Homo Sapiens Catch a Bad
One. Elsewhere on the socials, people who follow
me at My Weekly Mixtape on Twitter, Facebook,
Instagram, and TikTok all had chime -ins as well.
Sean Faust and Amy Borchin both chimed in with
Diggable Planets, Rebirth of Slick, Cool Like
That. J -Hall of the Okie Bookcast, Zach Deuce,
and Chris Darling all chimed in with Cypress
Hills, Insane in the Brain. Eric, Time to Get
Ill, and Shannon Wallace both chimed in with
Wu -Tang Clan's Protect Your Neck. Eric Chael
chimed in with Snoop Dogg's Murder Was the Case.
And sticking with Snoop, both Rachel DiNardo
and Jen Cohen chimed in with Gin and Juice. Melissa
Boilo chimed in with Paperboy's Diddy. That's
an interesting one. Ryan at the Soundtrack Your
Life podcast chimed in with A Tribe Called Quests
Award Tour. Sylvester chimed in with Souls of
Mischief's 93 Till Infinity. Anthony Monkey Noodles
chimed in with De La Soul's Break a Dawn. And
finally, Chuck Emmering and David Owens both
chimed in with Naughty by Nature's Hip Hop Hooray.
Now, I don't know about you, Doug, but pretty
much every single one of those artists is currently
sitting in my bank, along with a few that we
haven't even gotten to yet. Every single one.
Every single one. And a lot of them had a lot
of the same songs. So you have a very music IQ
crowd. Couldn't agree more, man. The fellow mixtapers
that listen to this show certainly know what's
up. For sure. So with that being said, Doug,
I'm going to officially press the record button
on this mixtape and turn things over to you.
How are you going to kick off our 1993 year in
rap and hip hop mixtape with? All right. So 93,
like I said, was a pillar year. Styles could
have been more different, but also superlatively
representative of 93 at the same time, which
is just, it's an insane, it's lightning in a
bottle. So I'm going to start with somebody.
came out with an original song that just kind
of took hip -hop in a different direction real
quick, and it was a huge thing. It was a great
start off of the 90s. They say, I'm going to
start off with the far sides passing me by. That
beat drops, and the sound was something you hadn't
heard before. You know, they went with that organ
in a weird way, and it just is very futile. beats
you know i got five on it things like that that
sounded like that so original when you first
heard them and you said what is that and then
to see a guy i don't know in my head it's like
the beat was a wave and this dude jumped on it
with a surfboard and just carved it you know
he went over it like he's tap dancing the way
somebody would for music in in a different way
than anybody had moved their feet before so that
song that kind of effort and quality into the
mc Mixed with a beat from that level. What better
way to start a mixtape? That song is so iconic.
The samples used in it were perfect. I mean,
that song was released 30 years ago. And if you
put that on right now. Banger. It sounds better
than, and I'm just going to say it. I do like
some modern hip hop, but that song slays anything
that's on the radio right now. Banger for life.
It's a banger. It's something that truly influenced.
Any hip hop artists that are out there today.
It's at a bar. And that right there in of itself
speaks volumes. But following that up, I could
go in a lot of different directions. Let's see
it. Farside gets your head moving. That's not
hitting off a party. That's kind of starting
a groove here. That's that head nod of hip hop
right there. That's a vibe. So I think I know
what I'm going to follow that up with. I'm going
to turn up the energy a little bit, but keep
that same. Flow. Going. And I'm going to go off
an album called Represent. And I'm going with
Fat Joe to Gangsta. Flow Joe. Sampling Lee Dorsey's
Get Out of My Life Woman and Morton Stevens'
The Long Wait. It makes perfect sense why in
Intergalactic, the Beastie Boys proclaimed that
everything I do is funky like Lee Dorsey. Because
this song, even though it's slower. has this
funky groove that you just cannot bob your head
to. And I think coming out of the far side, this
song keeps that vibe going in a good way. I agree.
I agree. I saw Joe do that song live. Big fan.
Obviously, he's a staple in hip -hop, but absolute
necessity. Man, I think it's a wonderful mix.
You know, that does the same thing to me. It's
such a volley back and forth, which is the beauty
of 90s 3D hip -hop. I immediately, like, I'm
thinking as far as Frankie Cutlass, Puerto Rico,
oh. I mean, how do you not play, as a DJ, I'm
thinking, how do you not play that right after
you play Fat Joe? That's where you go. Gotta
go, Joe. Gotta flow, Joe. And then Puerto Rico,
oh. Like, that's the next record. And in fact,
it's a 93 record. So it's like, it's good. But
yeah, there's just so many ways to go. That Joe
kicked it off there. That was fantastic. And
I like how when we get guys like that breakthrough.
whether it's style -wise that people borrow from
or are influenced by or just people who beget
other people. I mean, that's the reason you got
big pun albums is because Joe dropped that song
and it was dope. That's the beauty of hip -hop.
That's a direct connection, a lineage. And I
think people are still, it's young. It's not
as old as other forms of music. So people are
still carving out, you know, the little tablets
and stone here and telling the story on a cave
wall. We're not into the digital media hip -hop,
no matter how many... SoundCloud rappers and
stuff that we have, it's not that big of a jump.
The music's, what, not even 100 years old? So
when you have stuff like that and you're seeing
people do forefather work like this, it's an
awesome pick. And now you get to follow it up,
which is probably even harder now. Yeah, I'm
going to follow it up. Okay. So I was thinking
of going Vibey. Since we're on that weird vibe,
let's knock those out or let's stay there. That
original, I don't sound like everybody else,
we're doing our own thing vibe. Let's go with
what I consider probably the kings or one of
doing it my own way, staying in my own vibe.
And I'm going to go with Tribe Called Quest Award
Tour. Yes! I mean, is there any rapper, maybe
people that are as real, but... You can't tell
me there's anybody that was more real or more
themselves in hip -hop than the Tribe Called
Quest consistently. Never flip the flow for money
or riches, get a little bit of extra TV time
or anything like that, or radio play. They were
consistently them, and they were consistently
great at it, which was just what made their music
so good. It's a genuine vibe, and these guys
are super talented. So that's why I pick Award
Tour Tribe Called Quest. Midnight Marauders,
I had that exact song on my list. That song is
so iconic. It sounds so modern and so fresh.
Sampling, Weldon, Irvine's We're Gettin' Down,
Charles Erland's Lowdown, Milk Jackson's Olinga,
Jade's Don't Walk Away, and Sons of Champlain's
You Could Fly. I mean, these guys took sampling
and made it an art form. Whereas sampling prior
to in the 80s, it was sampling like Run DMC and
Aerosmith, Walk This Way, where they just took
the beat. DJ Scratches. And they just rapped
over the song. Overlay. These guys took multiple
songs and threw them together. Multiple genres
too. Yeah. And I think when I think of a thing
like Midnight Marauders, I think of like Paul's
Boutique by the Beastie Boys and all these albums
where sampling became an instrument. And A Tribe
Called Quest truly knew how to take 10 different
songs and turn them into their voice. And to
me, that is art in and of itself. Yeah, for sure.
Midnight Marauders was one of the albums I was
speaking about earlier when I said we had at
least four of the top 10 hip -hop albums of all
time. Tribe is undeniable. So let's see you following
that one up with something good. All right, well,
I am going to follow that up with something good
because we got a vibe going here. And coming
out of Tribe Called Quest, the thing I liked
about them most is... Believe it or not, artists
like A Tribe Called Quest introduced me in 1993
to jazz music. Because my parents were rock and
roll. My dad was Black Sabbath, The Cars, Huey
Lewis and the News, Led Zeppelin, The Doors.
My mom was Fleetwood Mac, Pat Benatar. I didn't
get a lot of exposure to jazz music. But when
I first started listening to A Tribe Called Quest
and the next song that I picked. Drop a chord.
It introduced me to jazz music. And this song,
by sampling a song by Art Blakey and the Jazz
Messenger, Stretching, Diggable Planets, Rebirth
of Slick, Cool Like That, took a song and made
it iconic. It took an iconic song like Stretching
and brought it back decades later and made it
iconic to a completely different subset of music
listeners. Because the people in the 1950s and
60s that were listening to Art Blakey might not
understand Diggable Planets in the 90s. But I'll
tell you right now, that music sounded fresh
when it first came out. And it sounded fresh
in 1993. And I am shocked that these guys did
not blow up to the level of Tribe Called Quest.
Because Cool Like That is a song that you don't
even have to be a big hip -hop fan. That had
crossover into pop. That had crossover into R
&B. Every genre music, top 40, every station
was playing this song. Yeah, I agree. I would
have bet my last dollar that's where you were
going. I just, I think we have similar taste.
The thing about Rebirth, just like again, is
my surfer reference from before, the way he wrote
that beat, it was, you mentioned that this song
had crossover appeal, okay? And it was just on
a funky vibe. It had a musical tone to it. So
people that were kind of a little anti -hip hop
or hadn't warmed up to it yet, they thought it
was just. talking over boom bap you know what
i mean and they don't really get it is that this
was undeniably musical you know and melodious
in the way that he decided to present the lyrics
he didn't try to be anybody else they were himself
and it was so genuinely hip -hop but it was so
genuinely jazz but it was so genuinely pop for
the crossover because it was funky enough to
move to it it was never anything but itself and
it fit every it was a master key you know it's
a skeleton key that's what it is And the flow
that he delivered the lyrics in that song was
not on the beat. That's how that song was meant
to be done. Yeah, it had a jazz delivery to it
because Rock is on one, two, three, four, one,
two, three. This song, his delivery was going
off the path. That's that wave. That's that wave.
And my thing is, it wasn't trying to be jazzy.
Like, it wasn't a guy who was not jazzy trying
to be jazzy. You know what I mean? And it wasn't
a jazz guy. trying to rap when he don't really
rap. It was genuinely itself the entire time,
but like a skeleton key, it fit everywhere. I
think that's what made it jump. It's a fantastic
pick, so I gotta raise the bar or at least match
what you did. I'm gonna stay in that group of
another group that just absolutely came out,
smashed things, changed things. Personally, I
think they're the greatest hip -hop group of
all time. It's one A and one B for me. We like
a couple of them. So I'm going to go with Player's
Ball by Outkast. Outkast came on the scene when
music was inherently East Coast, West Coast.
That was it. I mean, the Chronic had come out
in 92, which was insane. And the thing about
the Chronic was hip hop was so heavy. East Coast
before. It's the birthplace. It's understandable.
It's not, you know, not for any other, but these
are the guys that invented it right now that
are killing it. So, Tupac, you know, kind of
brought some edge to it. There were people coming
out that were individually representing themselves
as opposed to an area, but the sound themselves
were relative to certain areas. So when G -Thing
and The Chronic dropped, it blew people away.
We'd never heard anything like that before. Then
when you see the videos, You're like, oh, I get
why they don't sound like they're from New York.
Because they're not from New York. You can't
live out there where they live and be on a nearby.
It's not the same vibe. They got sunshine 11
months out of the year. You know what I mean?
We got telephones and pigeons. They got palm
trees and parakeets. Even though it's different.
It's different. So it's not any lesser or any
more of anything. It's just different. And the
way they painted that picture. I've never been
there. And that's exactly what I picture it looking
like after, you know, hearing you rap about it
the way you do. So this is what Outkast did for
the South. They came in and smashed it. And when
you see that, I mean, is there Andre 3000 is
an MC that's on the level of like the most lyrical
guys that you know, but also on a level with
some of the greats like Old Dirty Bastard, you
know, people like that, that had a flow that
nobody else had, that there's no father to their
style. You know, it was them. and nobody else
sounds like them, and nobody ever will. You can't
replicate that, you know, like a DMX voice or
something like that. You can't do that. Again,
that won't happen again. There was one of those.
And Audrey 3000 is like that. Mixed in with Big
Boy. Players Ball, Outkast, absolutely my pick.
Lightning in a bottle right there, musically,
from an artist's perspective. It's lightning
in a bottle. And following that song up, I think
I am going to bring it back to New York, but
I'm going to go with something that... might
be slightly off the beaten path. Because in 1993,
this group was already considered, while they're
pioneers of the genre, and they're, I'd say,
top three most iconic hip -hop artists of all
time. In 1993, they were the 40 -year -olds at
the 20 -year -old party. I know where you're
going. But they knew how to bring it because
they brought on features like Pete Rock and CL
Smooth. And Run DMC showed the whole country
how to get down with the king. And that song
with this side where we've got this kind of head
-bobbing vibe going, it picks up the pace a little
bit. But make no mistake, the delivery is true
Run DMC. And they took an 80s flow and put it
over 90s music. and made it feel seamless and
made them reinvent the sound that they already
invented themselves. They sampled Where Did I
Go from the original Broadway cast of Hair, which
is like so left field. But then they also sampled
themselves, putting in Run's House and Sucker
MC's Crush Groove. So these guys took their own
songs, flipped them on its side, and put out
what I feel. is an underrated 93 classic because
when people talk about 93, they're talking about
Dr. Dre. They're talking about Snoop Dogg. They're
talking about Wu -Tang. They're talking about
A Tribe Called Quest. But nobody's talking about
Run -D .M .C. And if it wasn't for Run -D .M
.C., none of those other acts would exist. I
agree completely. They are the reason I have
never been without at least one pair of shell
-top Adidas in my life from 1991 on. How many
did I run DMC? Four fathers. They would arguably
be on a Mount Rushmore of hip -hop, so I can't
see not having them on a list. But now the question
becomes, what follows up the Kings of Rock run
DMC? Well, if I'm going to stay in the vein of
this mixtape, I know I got to get to some individual
guys, but I mean, I got to stay in the vein of
phenomenal, groundbreaking, trend -setting groups.
And what better way than to drop a song that
may be on the greatest group album of all time
from 36 Chambers, Wu -Tang Clan, Cream. You threw
out an acronym that changed the English language.
Period. I'm in my house with my friends. Some
of them are smoking. Some of them are making
a beat. And we're like, let's do this. Let's
say this. And it changed Webster's Dictionary
years later because people use the term that
you came up with to describe money and the dope
ingenuity that you had to phrase it the way you
did changed the way people talk in every country.
It's insane. It's insane. How do you not have
a song that does that on here? That's like your
first song, basically. That's what you start
off with. A 700 -foot Grand Slam in the World
Series is your first at -bat? Okay. So give me
cash rules and everything around me. Wu -Tang
Clan. I'll tell you right now, when people talk
about the greatest debut albums of all time,
they talk about Boston. They talk about Led Zeppelin
I. They'll talk about Alanis Morissette if we're
in the 90s, Jagged Little Pill. They'll talk
about Rage Against the Machine. 36 Chambers?
Oh, my God. Possibly the greatest? debut hip
-hop album ever? I mean... Nobody had ever heard
anything like that before. It was insane. I had
it on my list too. I had Method Man because when
they did the 50 Years of Hip -Hop, how was Wu
-Tang represented? With Method Man. All I'm gonna
say is when you have this much great music in
a decade, I wouldn't cross that off my list just
yet if I were you either. I get that. You know
how hard it was not to just pick two groups or
two single guys and do the full side of the mixtape
with those guys? Like, what are you kidding me?
It's easy. We could easily do that. Yeah. Now,
following up Wu -Tang, though, you got to keep
that level of iconic in the air here because
there's a lot of iconic groups on this side.
Now, this is one that I will say is one of the
more underratedly iconic groups. So this group
paved ways for people. They influenced tons of
artists. And I feel like they didn't get there
just due, even though. They're a household name.
I feel like other bands just got more airplay,
more radio time, more FaceTime on MTV. And meanwhile,
these guys were just cranking out hit after hit
after hit. And when you're able to sample Smokey
Robinson's Quiet Storm, Michael Jackson's I Can't
Help It, and the Bar K's Song and Dance, which
that last one people might not recognize. However.
Will Smith made that song much more popular in
the late 90s because of the na -na -na -na -na
-na -na. That's the song we're talking about.
I am going off of Balloon Mindstate, De La Soul,
Break a Dawn. De La Soul is innovators of hip
-hop. They are one of those groups that are one
of a kind. Again, like Tribe, they were never
anything but 100 % genuine to themselves, and
it worked. They're hip -hop, 100 % through and
through. It's the best way to say it. Two words,
authentic and trailblazers. For sure. 100 % agree.
All right, how many do I have left on this side?
Oh, this side, we're down to two songs. So you
got one and I got one. I got one song. Oh, man,
you're killing me. All right, all right. It's
harder than it sounds, isn't it? So hard. Because,
I mean, like, how do I not go Cypress Hill? You
know what I mean? How do you not do that? But
I got another one that's not as popular. It didn't
get as big. But, I mean, I can't see leaving
this one off either. You know? There's a Cypress
Hill -Black Moon conflict going on in me right
now. That's where I'm at, and I'm struggling.
As much as it kills me to not have Black Moon
on this list, I got to go with Cypress Hill.
I can't even risk not hearing them from the 90s.
hip -hop mixtape especially in 91 so insane in
the brain in keeping with your beats don't sound
like anybody else's beats your flow doesn't sound
like anybody else's flow your content isn't what
anybody else's content is it's your own that
shit that vibe of genuineness that we've had
in every single group we've named so far that
originality You never mistake their music when
it comes on. They're probably in the top five
bands or groups that ever that you cannot play
on a Guess This Tune game show because everybody
will get it on second one. No matter what song
it is, that's how in their own vein they were
and how great they were at it. So let's finish
my part strong with Insane in the Brain, Cypress
Hill. DJ Muggs credited The song Jump Around,
which is something he produced for House of Pain,
has a major influence on this track. And it makes
sense because when you play Jump Around and Insane
in the Brain back to back. That's a vibe. That's
a vibe right there. And that's credit to DJ Muggs
for seeing that and bringing it out in both songs.
Insane in the Brain is probably one of the most
famous diss tracks ever written outside of Sweet
Home Alabama. by Lynyrd Skynyrd. I know it's
a totally different genre, but this song is actually
a diss at Chubb Rock, who Cypress Hill felt they
were mocking on his 92 album, I Gotta Get Mine
Yo with Yabba Dabba Doo. This is kind of their
answer to that. And as much as I love Chubb Rock
and I love Yabba Dabba, Insane in the Brain is
just a different level. It's just a different
level. Yeah. I don't hate anybody that Mike Tyson
knocked out. You know what I mean? But let's
not pretend you won. You know, I'm not trying
to be mean. No, no. I mean, come on. What are
we doing over here? You know, like there's there's
no you showed you open the door. You were you
were, you know, that I busted through it and
took off for the end. So, you know, that's right.
Amen. And I looking at my list, I only have one
song that I could close this side with. There's
only one choice. We're both from New Jersey,
so we got to show some Jersey love when at all
possible. And when you're able to sample James
Brown's Funky President, Five Stare Steps, Don't
Change Your Love, The Isley Brothers, Make Me
Say It Again Girl, Sylvia Striplins, You Can't
Turn Me Away, and rounding it out with Peter
Gabriel's Sledgehammer, there's a reason the
album is called 1993. Naughty by Nature, Hip
Hop Hooray. When that song drops at a stadium,
70 ,000 people from ages three to ages 90 are
moving their hands from side to side. It is a
vibe in and of itself. And when you start a side
with something as strong as Passing Me By, the
only way to close a side that has this kind of
vibe to it is with Hip Hop Hooray by Naughty
by Nature. 1 ,000%. Let's just keep it simple.
I don't know nobody that don't know that song.
Okay? And the flip side of the coin, I also don't
know nobody who don't like it. I've never seen
anybody say that song is trash. When you play
it in a stadium, nobody goes, oh. Nobody. Everybody.
And like you said, it doesn't matter. I don't
know any. I know children that know that song.
My parents know that song. Nobody doesn't know
that song. And I haven't heard anybody. My father.
Did my father listen to hip hop? No. Right. Oh,
they'll do that part. You know, there's nobody
that doesn't know that. And there's something
about Tretch's flow that going back to OPP in
91, it was different. It was not just that boom
bap flow. It was speed. It was rhythmic in his
delivery. Top five most underrated MCs of all
time. Hands down. And I've actually got another
song with Tretch as a feature in my list. I don't
know if we're going to get to it. However, there
is a chance we might, depending on where Side
2 goes. But now, let's review what we got so
far on Side A. We kicked things off with The
Far Side, Passing Me By. Followed up by Fat Joe,
The Gangsta's Flow Joe. A Tribe Called Quest
award tour featuring True Goy the Dove. Diggable
Planets, Rebirth the Slick, Cool Like That. Outkast
Players Ball, Run DMC's Down With The King featuring
Pete Rock and CL Smooth, Wu -Tang Clan's Cream,
De La Soul's Break A Dawn, Cypress Hill's Insane
In The Brain, and Naughty By Nature's Hip Hop
Hooray. Head over to myweeklymixtape .com to
hear all the songs we're discussing in this mix
through the playlist embedded on the episode
page. Now, Doug. We're at the 50 -yard line right
now. We're heading towards the end zone here.
How do you feel the drive is going so far? I
think it's great. I think it's a home run. I'm
going to actually make this mixtape myself when
we're done and give it a full read. But just
keeping in the vein of 93 Hip Hop, we went all
over the planet there because you could not be
more different than Rebirth of Slick and Cream,
for example. It could not be more similar either
if you look at it from the outside. Hey, I'm
going to do my thing. Okay, I'm going to do my
thing. Okay, my thing's not going to sound like
anybody else. Yeah, neither is my thing. Okay,
but my thing's going to be a home run. Everybody's
going to like it. Yeah, so is my thing. Yeah,
and just on and on and on. Every quality that
made it what it was done it. We covered a lot
of ground there. On the flip side of this mixtape,
I think we're going to be able to jump vibes
a little bit. but yet it'll be just like those
two songs being contrasted the way they are.
The other side of the mix, if we contrast it
that way, but yet we'll still make so much sense
as a 93, it will be like you didn't go anywhere,
even though you couldn't be further apart. There
you go. And I get to kick things off on side
B, and I think I know how I'm going to do it.
I'm a rock guy, so I love to be able to bring
my rock vibe in whenever possible. And I can
tell you right now, the band that I picked to
kick off side B rocks. Like no other hip hop
group out there. Every song these guys put out,
even though it was straight up hip hop, rocked.
And they proved it when they took their hip hop
song and remixed it with one of the heaviest
hardcore bands out of New York, Biohazard, and
created an alternative version of it. And then
continued to work together for the Judgment Night
soundtrack theme. And I'm talking about Onyx.
I'm going off their 93 classic back the fuck
up and I'm going with slam because that is the
way you kick off a party. That's the way you
kick off side B. If you see people, if you're
at a club and people aren't on the dance floor,
as soon as you hear that opening, they're out
there. It doesn't matter. And in doing my research,
back the fuck up was released on March 30th,
1993, which was the same day. as LL Cool J's
14 Shots to the Dome and Lords of the Underground's
Here Come the Lords. What a day in hip -hop that
was. To me, three classic albums right there.
It was greatness in abundance. That's the only
way I can phrase it. That song was a game -changer,
still is, is a game -changer. That song gives
you an emotion, gives you hype. You know, people,
you can't not get excited when you play that
before a game. in the locker room. You play that
at a party, at a dance floor. It captures an
excited emotion. You know, when there's that
word from the beginning of the show, you know,
it's infectious. So I think it's a wonderful
way to start the second half of a mixtape. Couldn't
have made a better choice to kick it off. So
I gotta follow that by trying to match not the
emotion, but the level of it. I'm gonna go with
a song that I... that I think can get you just
as hyped, but in a completely different way.
Because that's why Slam was what it was, because
it did it perfectly. You're not going to paint
the Mona Lisa twice. That's that vibe. That's
their thing. I'm going to switch over. I think
we've had all groups so far, so I'm going to
drop our mixtape's first solo artist. He's the
king of 93. If I'm being honest, he wasn't in
a group, so he's out there by himself, and he...
I'm going to say dropped probably the best album
of the year, even in a year like that. I it's,
it's my number one album that year off doggy
style. Give me Snoop D O double G. What's my
name? All right. You went with what's my name.
That's literally the song I had on my list. You
could easily go, honestly, gin and juice. I mean,
you could play half the album, gin and juice
on all that stuff. But my thing, my thing is
this being a solo hip hop artist in the nineties,
you were on your old one and you were, it was,
it was come at me, bro. Because I'm built for
this. This is what I do. You're not him. I am.
The spirit of competition in hip -hop for solo
artists was so dope that it was like they say,
you know, when you go to jail, you got to hold
your head up. You take a shot at the first guy.
Just stand up for yourself. You walk in the door
and announce yourself on the hip -hop scene in
93. Your introduction better be serious. Because
if not, everybody's going to try to take a piece
of your ass. You know what I mean? And he walked
in and his first solo joint after crushing Necrotic
was like, ay, ay, ay, ay, ay, the door pounds
in the, and it just said, what's my mother's
name? Snoop Dogg. It crushed it. Bow, wow, wow.
He absolutely destroyed that beat. It's one of
the greatest solo albums. For me, it's in the
top five greatest hip -hop solo albums of all
time, too. Especially debut albums. That's up
there with Illmatic, Doggystyle. So, again, that's
my pick. What's mine, babe? Snoop Doggy Dogg.
Absolutely love it. I mean, we talked about 36
Chambers being one of the most iconic debut albums.
This one falls right into that. Could easily
be top 10 as well. I mean, this song, you think
about the amount that this song sampled. George
Clinton's Atomic Dog. Funkadelics, not just Knee
Deep. Parliaments give up the funk, tear the
roof off this sucker. And P -Funk wants to get
funked up as well as the Count's pack of lies.
NME. ranked this song number 456 on the greatest
songs of all time not just hip -hop of all time
now we talked about gin and juice to me gin and
juice was a side a vibe if if you put gin and
juice on side a i would have been a hundred percent
but following up slam if you put gin and juice
here i would have been like it's too much of
a swing back to that's the other thing a mixtape
i i am europe it's okay done to multiple places
as far as vibe -wise or emotional -wise, that's
a good mixtape. The thing is, you don't skip
out of a vibe and then go back to it. It's got
to be a journey, a fluid thing. So hammer that
vibe if you want. Squeeze a bunch of solos on
that vibe, but get in the pocket, play the right
ones, and then transition to the next vibe if
you're going to do that. Give that vibe its flowers.
Don't just give it shorter songs and then jump
back out. That's the difference between somebody
who's going to keep up the rhythm. That's the
difference between a good MC and a bad MC. That's
the guy that jumps on the beat and then kind
of messes up, doesn't know what to do, and somebody
like Rebirth of Sleep where they just jump on
and they ride, or somebody like Q -Tate when
he's just flipping over a tri -beat. That's the
difference. I'm going to take your cue on a solo
artist. And stick with a solo artist. And I'm
also going to do something we haven't done outside
of, in a way, diggable planets. But I am going
to bring one of the baddest female MCs into this
mix. I think I know where you're going. Because
this song was listed in the Rock Song Index as
one of the 7 ,500 most important songs for the
rock and roll era. Yes. That says a lot. It made
XXL's 250 greatest hip hop songs of the 90s list.
And it was ranked number 17 on Complex's 50 best
rap songs by women. If you sample James Brown's
The Payback, you got to bring it or else you're
going to get crushed. And I got to give credit
to Akeel Davidson from Rex and Effect because
he was still riding the rump shaker train at
this point. Which, by the way, was written by
Pharrell. There you go. That's that musical vine,
you know, between these guys. I would pass this
forward. Pharrell wrote that for them. They did
this. Now they're impacting this song. It's a
lineage. Yeah, it certainly is. And when I think
about this artist, there truly ain't no other
like MC light. And I'm going with rough neck
coming out of Snoop dog, rough neck by MC light.
There's this one that is essential. Like you
said, in hip hop history, top two 50 of all time.
multiple multiple lists multiple multiple awards
it's like being light you know she always was
super dope she was she was one of the first women
to step into a man's game and remain there you
had women emcees like i mean roxanne roxanne
that song came out and it was dope it hit it
was a banger but it was pretty much a one -off
Hey, we can do this too. A woman popping in and
saying, we can be as good as you guys. Here you
go. Here's a song. And it's just as dope as any
guy's song that's out there. But Light stuck
around and kept doing it. She's like, I'm here
to stay. I'm going to play until I feel like
leaving. And I'm probably not leaving anytime
soon. I feel like MC Light paved the way for
artists like Missy Elliott. For sure. Because
she stepped into a man's game and brought that
delivery that men had. She came out bombastic,
and she was taking on the suitor role in Roughneck.
She was the one looking out for herself. She
was coming out and saying, no, he's not the prize.
I am the prize. He was the prize. You got to
be worthy of me, not the other way around. I'll
let you know when I'm ready. I'll let you know.
You better Google me. Her delivery was rock.
I mean, her delivery was hard, it was heavy,
and it was aggressive. And I absolutely fell
in love with that flow. My personal favorite,
who I think is the best all -time female MC,
who probably better than most male MCs, is Lauryn
Hill. Oh, yeah. And I think in her... And then
I'm like in the midst of education, you hear
like when she starts flipping into that Fuji
stuff and that kind of starts going with her
little flows with the octaves dropping up and
down the flow. I think you hear you hear like
tap dancing on a song, you know, from way back
when at least the influence of it. I'm not saying
that she took it, but I'm saying that you hear
a lot of that and she just she does it. Well,
you could see the influence. So that is amazing.
When you were talking about Lauryn Hill, I automatically
go to. the fujis remix of nappy heads because
her delivery in that really feels like it came
from the lineage of where mc light was for sure
the influence is undeniable influence is undeniable
so now i toss it back to you to follow this side's
going a completely different vibe here so you're
making it hard okay let's do let's do for second
song let's do this let's do my first repeat Sort
of. So, off the same album, 36 Chambers, I cannot
picture a 90s party, never mind a 93 party, that
you didn't go to in a club, a bar, a house, riding
around in your friend's car smoking weed. Like,
there was never a time that hip -hop music came
on and you didn't hear... M -E -T -H -O -D, man.
M -E -T -H -O -D, man. And everybody just didn't
lose their goddamn minds. Every time. He was
the groundbreaker for that. He came through and
just ultimate appeal right away. Everybody like,
this is just a, this is one of the coolest guys
in the room, no matter what room he walks into.
And he's just absolutely killing it. That's your
first song? Crush it. Crush it. Again, 700 foot
Grand Slam. In the World Series, and that's your
first batch. Sayonara. So, give me M -E -T -H
-O -D, Man, Method Man, and Wu -Tang Clan. Now,
normally we don't go back and repeat bands on
a list, but I'll tell you right now, Method Man
is pretty much a gray area, because that's his
song right there. And you got him and Red Man,
too. He's got his own song. It's a gray area.
Give me a mulligan on this one. I'm going to
pull another. And honestly, if it was any other
group tonight, I'd be like, well, but Method
Man solidified his independence while still with
the group. So I'm going to let that slide. Plus,
I was kind of pissed when you picked Kree because
I couldn't drop Method Man. So I'm going to allow
it for my selfish reasons as well. It was a friendly
call, referee. It's a little home cooking. Come
on. Yeah, there you go. But now following that
up, I'm going to go with something that I think.
is a little bit of a deep cut here but to me
it is a classic because this one is probably
more for personal reasons because we rocked out
at the locker room to this song after each and
every game and to me it's the band's signature
song in their highest charting single but it's
not the household name however to people in new
jersey and new york it was because these guys
were out of newark and they were right down the
street from us And they were hometown heroes.
And that is Lords of the Underground. And I'm
going with Chief Raka off of Here Comes the Lord.
If you're sampling John Coltrane's Amen, those
floors are crazy. You got to pull that off with
some absolute authority. And then you talk about
influence. I live for the funk. I die for the
funk. One year later, Notorious B .I .G. sampled
that for his Machine Gun Funk from Ready to Die.
And if it's good enough to catch Biggie's attention,
there's no reason for it to not be included on
this list. Lords of the Underground, Chief Rocca.
Those horns were insane. They were crazy. They
were crazy. It's a banger right off the bat.
It's kind of like the guy makes the beat, put
that together, and the moment he played it for
anybody, the first time he was like, yeah, check
this out, I made something, and hit play. The
instant thought that everybody had was, if you
can find a way to rock over this, it's an absolute
smash hit. As long as the guy doesn't come in
here and spit some bullshit, it's a home run.
If he comes in here and he's on fire, you're
talking about a transcendent story. This is a
takeover event. For a little while, the entire
game is yours. And I love the fact that this
song was their signature song because it really
speaks. to the vibe of the 90s jazz was pulled
a lot out of the 90s music and if you did it
the right way yeah we do this too that's what
they were saying we do this too we're you know
and they did it though you had it but you have
to do it that's what i mean it can't be faked
if you were phony it's gonna show you can't do
this you can't fake this and honestly here come
the lords 30 years later is still one of my favorite
hip -hop albums of all time Absolutely. Great
album. Great album. It's a great album. It's
a great vibe. I'm going to show a little bit
of love to the other dog here. So I want to keep
the party going. You know, we kicked in the door,
you know, right off the bat with Slant and Snoop
followed up with just one of the foggiest songs.
You know, this is who I am here. You know, I'm
here, everybody. Kind of throw it out. So what's
my name? You know, we got a vibe going on here.
I'm going to go with a kid. that put out a cool
song with a cool vibe might you you know i'm
not a super big jazz person so you would probably
know more than me the level of influence it could
have there but in that same kind of vein but
most of that jazzy shit was coming out of new
york you know i'm gonna go with somebody who
was not and we're gonna go with diddy by a paper
boy nice that song was a great song man It's
one that you just, you heard it and you instantly
liked it. So like, you know, if I give you a
basketball, it doesn't matter if you miss 10
shots, like if we're just hanging at the park,
but, but if you dunk it, it's still kind of a
great day. You know what I mean? Like, yeah,
yeah. I missed a shot. You saw that dunk. So
this dude came in and dunked. What do you want?
You know, like, all right. So maybe I'm not Mike
and I'm not LeBron. I'm not hanging with a dunk
though. In the game. That's what he did. He came
in and he dunked, and it's a good song. I mean,
you're sampling Zapp's Do Why Did He Blow That
Thing and James Brown's Funky President. That
song was all over pop radio and hip -hop radio.
Yeah, I dunked that bit at 360. It was everywhere,
that song, and it's undeniable. But it's one
of those songs that's so undeniable, it's shocking
to me that... There really wasn't much follow
up to it. I don't know why the label didn't think
to capitalize on this or were they just so busy
trying to jump to the next thing that he kind
of got lost behind because this song is an absolute
banger. And of course I had it on my list. And
now following that up, I think I know exactly
what I'm going to do. All right, let's go. Let's
go. Because we're talking about big samples here.
So if you're going to sample George Clinton's
Atomic Dog and Larry Young's Spaceball, you got
to do it right. Just like all these other songs
we're talking about. DJ Lethal from House of
Pain and Limp Bizkit. I know Limp Bizkit catches
hell, but Limp Bizkit was a big group. That first
album was a five star. I think they did a great
job. Come on. Exactly. Might be silly. DJ Lethal
was one of the producers of this track, and you
could feel it in the vibe that this track brings,
as well as, I talked about him before, DJ Muggs
from House of Pain and Cypress Hill. So you bring
those two together, and then you combine it with
a Los Angeles Latino hip -hop group, and you
get Bow Wow Wow from Funk Dubious. Oops. Hey.
This, to me, is boom bap rap at its absolute
friggin' finest. The delivery. Your head's moving.
You could dance to it. It's got crossover appeal.
I don't even know how to say it. The song makes
me happy. The song makes me smile. It's fun.
It just breathes that positive energy. And it's
one of those songs that at a party, when you
hear that, like everyone just starts going crazy
and the song still holds up. I was able, finally,
I had it for decades on cassette. I finally got
the CD of this and I was so stoked. to finally
spin this disc, and this song holds up to me
like some of the best hip -hop of all the 90s,
so Funk Dubious Bow Wow Wow. Great pick. You
could have said it better, man. You could have
said it better. That boom bap is solid, and the
way he just rides that, the way they get on that
song and just absolutely control it from start
to finish is masterful. It's artful. It's soulful.
It's a great track. It's when it's tough to follow
up, so I am going to go fast and furious and
pull the e -brake, okay? Not so much in vibe
-wise. I'm going to keep the party going again,
but like a lot of 93 parties, I'm going to jump
spot to spot, hit you with the home runs, and
I would feel remiss if I left the spot open and
didn't fill it with a lady or ladies because
they were also big contributors to 93, but you
drop light. So I'm going to do this. For the
women that listen to our mixtapes and are fans
of hip -hop and R &B, the stuff they used to
get down to in the 90s. And I'm going to throw
Salt -N -Pepa's Shoop. Nice. Yeah. That's a song
that comes on. Girls love that song. For the
writer, it's a great song. And you could get
out there and you could, they're killing at a
joint. You know what I mean? They're talking
about some lady shit, but they're putting it
down. They're funky. And if you can't get out
there and just kind of like two -step with your
girl, then what are you doing there? Come on.
So it's a great song. I think we got to show
some love real quick. It's not always about just
ripping the mic or being super deep into it.
Sometimes it's just about having fun. And these
ladies came out and had fun in a dope, dope way
and set it off. And it was a great song. So shoot,
salt and pepper. You're talking longevity before
with MC Lyte. Salt -N -Pepa had Push It in the
80s, so you could kind of feel the 80s vibe on
that song. If they didn't change course, they
would have been seen as dinosaurs in the 90s.
Same thing like Run DMC did with Down With The
King. Not only did they didn't change course,
but this, you can't do like, remember that movie
where they play Rock of Ages? Yes. And then they're
like, okay, rock is dead. So they try to take
the kid and turn him from Colt Van Boy or whatever
his name was, turn him into Justin Timberlake
and stuff like that. It doesn't work. You can't
evolve with the music if you evolve out of who
you are. Exactly. Just like you couldn't fake
it, get on a jazz beat, you couldn't fake it
in 93 hip hop because it would be noticed. There's
too much originality and genuine workaround for
you to come in and be a phony and not stand out.
So it's not going to work. And they not only
evolved, but they grew as artists. It was in
them. It's LeBron James in year 18. Yeah, I know
I'm 36, and I could still do this better than
most of you. So let's just keep going until I
say it. That's what they did, and it's impressive.
And here we are in 2023, and I can think of a
million different movie references for Shoop.
However, the one that I always go to is the beginning
of Deadpool, where he's sitting on the edge of
the overpass. And he got the song played right
before he drops down off the underpass into the
car and starts doing those Deadpool things. He
picked it for a reason. You know, it's everything
in that movie is done for a reason. And it was,
yeah, it was a perfect, it was a perfect pick
even there. So, hand me back, bro. What are we
doing? We got, what do we got? Two left each?
Two left. I got one song. And looking at this
side, I'm like scrolling through and we've got
some. fantastic jams and some iconic artists
and i've only got one song left and i'm scrolling
through my picks and coming out of shoop i feel
like i gotta go big for my last song so i am
gonna go big with somebody who made his name
in both the group setting as well as a solo artist
And there's 1993, much more Baye Younce. I am
going with Ice Cube's Bop Gun, One Nation from
Lethal Injection. If you're sampling One Nation
under a groove by Funkadelic, you got to bring
it hard because that song is an absolute classic.
Now, something different about this song, which
is why I'm excited to include it. The radio version
that we know is 4 minutes and 48 seconds. However,
if you bought the album like I did in the 90s,
the album cut is 11 minutes and six seconds long.
And you know what? It feels about as long as
the four minute version because it just grooves
the entire time. Don't want it to stop. That
took brass to do that in 1993 because most hip
hop songs were get in, get out. This song was
like, we're here. And we're not going anywhere.
So as much as I enjoy the radio version when
it comes on, if I'm putting it on a mixtape,
I want this to be kind of the culmination of
the party. We're taking that 11 -minute version
and milking it for every note it's worth. Ice
Cube's Bop Gun, One Nation. Yeah, killer choice.
That's Ice Cube being Ice Cube. That's all it
is. The guy, I mean, we had a guy who almost
made my list here. I mean, I was going to put
Eazy -E, Real MFGs. you know ice cube wrote easy's
first album then he wrote nwa's first album then
he wrote his first album and they were all just
like they're in the top 20 greatest albums of
all time like that's that's crazy man that's
crazy he's he's one of the greatest probably
one of the most underrated emcees of all time
as well he would be in my top five most underrated
for as much accolades as you get when everybody
talks about You know, who's the best rapper of
all time? It's Biggie. It's Tupac. You know,
it's Big Pun. It's people like that. It's Jay
-Z. It's people like that. It takes a minute
to get to Cube on that list. You know, it's Eminem.
It's these guys. So, and I don't think that anybody,
you know, nobody has anything over him. There
are people, ah, it's good. It's great. But nobody
has it. Like, he's as good as he gets in it,
Bob. So, I think that's a smash, smash pick.
I had, it was a good day on my list, too, by
the way. There you go. That's another great one.
Now, I'll tell you this. If Ice Cube can record
a song that five years later gets re -recorded
by one of the heaviest nu metal groups in Korn
with the Deftones, which is their cover of Wicked,
and Ice Cube's still is heavier, that just goes
to show that this guy... It hits harder. The
original Wicked hits harder than Korn's version.
You tried to make it harder. You did a good job,
but it's a hole -in -one. at the masters you
know you can't do it any better well doug you
got to kick things off at the beginning of side
a and you also get the pleasure honor or horror
depending on where we're going here of having
to close out with one song which means every
other song that we have on our list is floating
in the ethos and you're about to let down a bunch
of those great jams yep but There's got to be
a closer here. So what do you got for me? I am
prepared to make the hard decisions, Brian. All
right. As much as it breaks my heart. So good
people of the podcast world, we're going to close
this by doing something Brian just said he did.
He said he was going to go big. He did with the
Ice Cube song. I am going to go big, literally.
And I'm going to go B -I -G and Tupac Shakur.
the 93 freestyle. I got seven Mac -11s, about
eight 38s, where it's Biggie Smalls and Tupac
Shakur. They didn't drop the song publicly for
a few years, but it was on mixtapes unofficially
in 93. That's going to be my pick to close the
show. What gets you hyper in 93? Then the guy
who was the hottest MC in 92, Tupac Shakur, and
Biggie Smalls when he's just about to drop Ready
to Die a year later. This is all his stuff that's
coming to the surface when he's on tour doing
party and bullshit and songs like that. My closer,
Biggie and Tupac's 93 Freestyle. Perfect way
to close it. I had Tupac on my list with another
collaboration, but I had I Get Around featuring
Digital Underground, which again, still went
strong because when you think about it, if it
wasn't for Digital Underground, Tupac wouldn't
be a thing because he was introduced on same
song back in 91. And this was him when he was
blowing up. showing that love back to Digital
Underground. Yeah, he was in a moment of trouble.
Yeah, Gomez Knight and I want to hear this part,
but that was a great song and a not -so -great
movie for me. But regardless, when you add Biggie
to the mix, it definitely elevates it for the
perfect crescendo on this year. I'll tell you
right now, Doug, with this list, looking across
both sides, if we were to have called this episode...
1990s hip -hop and didn't even say a year. We
could drop this playlist all from the same year
and it would still pass for a decade's encapsulation
of the music. If I were to make a 93 hip -hop
playlist like we're trying to accomplish right
now in real life, it would have been one of those
playlists. where the writing on the cassette
cover is super small, because there's like 17,
18 songs on the first half, and there's 22 on
the second half, and you squeeze, like, there's
absolutely almost no dead air on your Maxell
cassette tape in between songs. You got all that
on it. And I still would feel like I'd have to
make part one and part two and part three, even
with that many songs. So that's just 93, never
mind 90s, you know, in general. Almost any year.
of the 90s i believe can represent the entire
decade but few have such a deep well in each
division that carry out throughout the decade
um we have the group thing you know with people
like tribe and outcasts you know i know we were
all diggable planets that were cypress hill you
know we have the individual thing in snoop and
you have biggie uh tupac you know running around
you have biggie out there you have people like
that that are just about about to change the
sound of music forever. It's hard to find that
much quality and that much quantity in one place.
Amen. And we certainly, I think, did that, which
concludes side B of our 1993 year in rap and
hip hop mixtape, which kicked off with Onyx's
Slam, Snoop Dogg, What's My Name, MC Lyte's Roughneck,
Wu -Tang Clan's Method Man, Lords of the Underground,
Chief Raka, Paperboy's Diddy. Funk Dubious, Spow
Wow Wow, Salt -N -Pepa Shoop, Ice Cube's Bop
Gun, One Nation, and Notorious B .I .G. and Tupac
live freestyle. Head over to myweeklymixtape
.com to hear all of the songs we've discussed
in this mix through the playlist embedded on
the episode page. Doug, why don't you tell people
where they can learn a little bit more about
you and connect with you on social media? You
can just find me right on Facebook. You can find
me on Facebook. tiktok under the doug miller
50 you can go to elite sound .com if you want
to talk about the music stuff and uh you know
there's more things to come so i hope you enjoyed
the mixtape and i can't wait to hear your feedback
by all means definitely send it our way doug
as always it's a blast talking tunes with you
i can't wait to do it again thanks for joining
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