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Hey, this is Doug Miller. Welcome to My Weekly

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Mixtape with Brian Colburn. Hope you're ready

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to nod your head because this one's a banger.

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Welcome to My Weekly Mixtape, a podcast that

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takes the classic mixtape approach to building

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a modern playlist. I'm your host, Brian Colburn.

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Joining me for tonight's collaboration is Doug

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Miller, a good friend of mine since the days

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that we played football together at St. Mary's

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High School, as well as a DJ, comedian, and fellow

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90s hip -hop fanatic. Doug, thanks so much for

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joining me on my weekly mixtape. BC, what's going

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on? Pleasure to be here. Happy to be back with

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you doing this. You know, we've had some great,

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great discussions. Yeah, the Over on Playlist

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Wars. You were one of our regulars, and I love

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it. I'm glad that you're joining me here. Now,

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I'm going to start by asking you the same question

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I ask every single guest to start an episode.

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And I know your answer is probably going to be

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one for the ages. So, Doug, what does the word

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mixtape mean to you? Mixtape is, to me, the best

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word is because it's such a hard thing to describe

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in one word. I'm related to a bunch of these

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different. things that fall under one category,

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I'm going to use the word emotion. The word emotion

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because whatever you were trying to evoke or

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whatever you were trying to pull out of yourself

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could be done with a mixtape. It doesn't matter

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what genre you are. You could listen to the saddest

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music in the world. You could be making a mixtape

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because you're happy. This is the best time.

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I got a party tomorrow night. Here we go. Whatever

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vibe you're looking for, that poured out into

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mixtapes. You would see people. put songs, not

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just songs that swung wildly on a pendulum, but

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emotion -wise or style -wise or even genre -wise,

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but they would have those on there, but the ones

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that they had in the order they had it would

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make sense. It would tell a story. So you'd make

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a mixtape to a girl. By the time she listens

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to the last track, she's going to be saying,

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I think there's a theme here. I think, yeah,

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I think there's a theme. So, you know, you could

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do a whole lot with a mixtape. And then I felt

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like if somebody gave you one, it was the most

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inexpensive gift, but the richest because...

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The way we used to do it took time. You were

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swapping double cassette decks and fast forwarding

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the songs and rewind and pausing it on the right

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time, staying up late or putting anything on

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record when you go to bed to catch Monday night

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mixtape with Clue, you know, or catching songs

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on the radio if you like stuff. It's on rock

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stations, whatever it may be. The time that it

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took and the effort it took is what would kind

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of pronounce the significance of the mixtape.

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And when you received one from somebody or when

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you made one with somebody, it was definitely

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packed with emotion. Well, we are going to be

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packing a ton of emotion into tonight's episode

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because tonight Doug and I are curating a mixtape

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filled with the best hip hop and rap from, and

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I can't believe I'm saying this, 30 years ago,

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1993. I can't even wrap my mind around that.

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No, like when I still watch Dazed and Confused,

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I'm like, yeah, that was like 30, 40 years ago,

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right? And it's not like it's 100. It almost

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pains me to say that every song we're going to

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talk about tonight is three decades old. Yeah.

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These songs are going to start having real hangovers

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now. Because when you're 29, there's no such

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thing as a hangover. The day you turn 30, you

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know what a hangover is. For sure. For sure.

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They're terrible. Terrible. Now, for me, 1993

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was junior year in high school. So a ton of these

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songs hold a special place for me personally.

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But beyond that, I'm just going to go ahead and

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say it. 1993 could be one of the most essential

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years in all of hip hop history because it's

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packed with a ton of classics. And my list is

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packed with jam after jam. And I already know

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that there's guilt. In my songs that I picked,

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because some of my songs are not going to make

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this list. And it's a shame because they're all

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absolute classics. Doug, what were you looking

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for in the songs that you brought to the table

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this evening? Well, it's the same sentiment I

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have because 93 is a pillar year in hip hop.

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I would call it, you know, by far. You had probably

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four of the 10 greatest hip hop albums ever made.

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arguably, definitely top 15 ever made, all came

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out that year. And countless songs that are on

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the top 100 greatest hip -hop songs of all time

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all came out that year. Just insane. From group

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albums to singles to individual projects by people

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from those groups, it didn't matter. You were

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just constantly... bombarded with different styles,

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different locations, and different... And they

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were just all hitting home run after home run.

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You're in the building phase of hip -hop here.

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And so that's what I looked for. I looked for

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the two vibes that kind of came to me the most

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in the 90s. And, you know, when I was running

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around, I had my starter jacket and my overalls

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on. But also I had hair like I watched 90210.

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It was a weird time, bro. It was a very weird

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time. But the music was undeniable. So that's

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what I looked for. Well, let's get down to business

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tonight. As I mentioned, Doug and I are curating

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a 1993 year in rap and hip hop mixtape. And we're

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going to use that old cassette deck approach,

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meaning our mixtape is going to be broken up

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into two sides, side A and side B. Doug, as my

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special guest, will begin side A with his first

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song choice. And then I'll add a song that I

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feel best follows that choice up. We'll then

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flip flop choosing songs until we've mapped out

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the 10 songs for side A. We'll then give our

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mixtape a proverbial flip and we'll map outside,

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be only this time, I'll kick things off with

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Doug choosing second. Our overall goal for this

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episode is to craft the best 1993 year in rap

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and hip -hop mixtape possible through only 20

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songs. At the end of the show, you can take our

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conversation to the next level by visiting the

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episode page at myweeklymixtape .com to give

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our final mixtape a listen via the embedded playlist.

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And finally, if you like what you're hearing

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on the show, please consider becoming a Patreon

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mixtaper at patreon .com forward slash myweeklymixtape.

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Now, before we press the record button on this

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mixtape, some of the fellow mixtapers chimed

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in with songs that they feel would best kick

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off the night with. And I want to share some

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of those now. So, Doug, you and I have some food

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for thought going into this. Sounds good. And

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speaking of those Patreon mixtapers. Patreon

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playlister Cactus Pete first wanted to make sure

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he chimed in with the fact that the trick here

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is that Dr. Dre's The Chronic was released late

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in 92. Otherwise, that would have easily been

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his first track with nothing but a G thing. And

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because our rule is the main album had to drop

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at 93, he wanted to make sure to point that one

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out. And I totally get it. But his 93 choices

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were Snoop Dogg's Gin and Juice. Wu -Tang Clan's

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The Mystery of Chess Boxin' or Cream, depending

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on what mood you were in. Ice Cube's You Know

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How We Do It. Cypress Hill's Insane in the Brain.

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Diggable Planet's Rebirth of Slick Cool Like

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That. And then Naughty by Nature's Hip Hop Hooray.

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Also, Patreon Playlister Too Vague Podcast chimed

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in with Del the Funky Homo Sapiens Catch a Bad

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One. Elsewhere on the socials, people who follow

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me at My Weekly Mixtape on Twitter, Facebook,

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Instagram, and TikTok all had chime -ins as well.

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Sean Faust and Amy Borchin both chimed in with

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Diggable Planets, Rebirth of Slick, Cool Like

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That. J -Hall of the Okie Bookcast, Zach Deuce,

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and Chris Darling all chimed in with Cypress

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Hills, Insane in the Brain. Eric, Time to Get

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Ill, and Shannon Wallace both chimed in with

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Wu -Tang Clan's Protect Your Neck. Eric Chael

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chimed in with Snoop Dogg's Murder Was the Case.

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And sticking with Snoop, both Rachel DiNardo

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and Jen Cohen chimed in with Gin and Juice. Melissa

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Boilo chimed in with Paperboy's Diddy. That's

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an interesting one. Ryan at the Soundtrack Your

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Life podcast chimed in with A Tribe Called Quests

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Award Tour. Sylvester chimed in with Souls of

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Mischief's 93 Till Infinity. Anthony Monkey Noodles

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chimed in with De La Soul's Break a Dawn. And

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finally, Chuck Emmering and David Owens both

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chimed in with Naughty by Nature's Hip Hop Hooray.

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Now, I don't know about you, Doug, but pretty

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much every single one of those artists is currently

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sitting in my bank, along with a few that we

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haven't even gotten to yet. Every single one.

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Every single one. And a lot of them had a lot

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of the same songs. So you have a very music IQ

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crowd. Couldn't agree more, man. The fellow mixtapers

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that listen to this show certainly know what's

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up. For sure. So with that being said, Doug,

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I'm going to officially press the record button

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on this mixtape and turn things over to you.

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How are you going to kick off our 1993 year in

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rap and hip hop mixtape with? All right. So 93,

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like I said, was a pillar year. Styles could

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have been more different, but also superlatively

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representative of 93 at the same time, which

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is just, it's an insane, it's lightning in a

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bottle. So I'm going to start with somebody.

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came out with an original song that just kind

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of took hip -hop in a different direction real

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quick, and it was a huge thing. It was a great

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start off of the 90s. They say, I'm going to

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start off with the far sides passing me by. That

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beat drops, and the sound was something you hadn't

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heard before. You know, they went with that organ

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in a weird way, and it just is very futile. beats

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you know i got five on it things like that that

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sounded like that so original when you first

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heard them and you said what is that and then

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to see a guy i don't know in my head it's like

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the beat was a wave and this dude jumped on it

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with a surfboard and just carved it you know

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he went over it like he's tap dancing the way

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somebody would for music in in a different way

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than anybody had moved their feet before so that

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song that kind of effort and quality into the

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mc Mixed with a beat from that level. What better

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way to start a mixtape? That song is so iconic.

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The samples used in it were perfect. I mean,

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that song was released 30 years ago. And if you

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put that on right now. Banger. It sounds better

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than, and I'm just going to say it. I do like

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some modern hip hop, but that song slays anything

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that's on the radio right now. Banger for life.

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It's a banger. It's something that truly influenced.

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Any hip hop artists that are out there today.

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It's at a bar. And that right there in of itself

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speaks volumes. But following that up, I could

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go in a lot of different directions. Let's see

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it. Farside gets your head moving. That's not

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hitting off a party. That's kind of starting

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a groove here. That's that head nod of hip hop

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right there. That's a vibe. So I think I know

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what I'm going to follow that up with. I'm going

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to turn up the energy a little bit, but keep

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that same. Flow. Going. And I'm going to go off

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an album called Represent. And I'm going with

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Fat Joe to Gangsta. Flow Joe. Sampling Lee Dorsey's

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Get Out of My Life Woman and Morton Stevens'

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The Long Wait. It makes perfect sense why in

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Intergalactic, the Beastie Boys proclaimed that

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everything I do is funky like Lee Dorsey. Because

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this song, even though it's slower. has this

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funky groove that you just cannot bob your head

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to. And I think coming out of the far side, this

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song keeps that vibe going in a good way. I agree.

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I agree. I saw Joe do that song live. Big fan.

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Obviously, he's a staple in hip -hop, but absolute

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necessity. Man, I think it's a wonderful mix.

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You know, that does the same thing to me. It's

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such a volley back and forth, which is the beauty

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of 90s 3D hip -hop. I immediately, like, I'm

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thinking as far as Frankie Cutlass, Puerto Rico,

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oh. I mean, how do you not play, as a DJ, I'm

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thinking, how do you not play that right after

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you play Fat Joe? That's where you go. Gotta

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go, Joe. Gotta flow, Joe. And then Puerto Rico,

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oh. Like, that's the next record. And in fact,

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it's a 93 record. So it's like, it's good. But

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yeah, there's just so many ways to go. That Joe

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kicked it off there. That was fantastic. And

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I like how when we get guys like that breakthrough.

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whether it's style -wise that people borrow from

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or are influenced by or just people who beget

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other people. I mean, that's the reason you got

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big pun albums is because Joe dropped that song

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and it was dope. That's the beauty of hip -hop.

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That's a direct connection, a lineage. And I

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think people are still, it's young. It's not

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as old as other forms of music. So people are

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still carving out, you know, the little tablets

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and stone here and telling the story on a cave

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wall. We're not into the digital media hip -hop,

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no matter how many... SoundCloud rappers and

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stuff that we have, it's not that big of a jump.

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The music's, what, not even 100 years old? So

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when you have stuff like that and you're seeing

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people do forefather work like this, it's an

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awesome pick. And now you get to follow it up,

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which is probably even harder now. Yeah, I'm

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going to follow it up. Okay. So I was thinking

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of going Vibey. Since we're on that weird vibe,

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let's knock those out or let's stay there. That

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original, I don't sound like everybody else,

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we're doing our own thing vibe. Let's go with

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what I consider probably the kings or one of

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doing it my own way, staying in my own vibe.

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And I'm going to go with Tribe Called Quest Award

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Tour. Yes! I mean, is there any rapper, maybe

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people that are as real, but... You can't tell

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me there's anybody that was more real or more

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themselves in hip -hop than the Tribe Called

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Quest consistently. Never flip the flow for money

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or riches, get a little bit of extra TV time

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or anything like that, or radio play. They were

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consistently them, and they were consistently

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great at it, which was just what made their music

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so good. It's a genuine vibe, and these guys

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are super talented. So that's why I pick Award

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Tour Tribe Called Quest. Midnight Marauders,

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I had that exact song on my list. That song is

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so iconic. It sounds so modern and so fresh.

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Sampling, Weldon, Irvine's We're Gettin' Down,

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Charles Erland's Lowdown, Milk Jackson's Olinga,

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Jade's Don't Walk Away, and Sons of Champlain's

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You Could Fly. I mean, these guys took sampling

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and made it an art form. Whereas sampling prior

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to in the 80s, it was sampling like Run DMC and

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Aerosmith, Walk This Way, where they just took

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the beat. DJ Scratches. And they just rapped

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over the song. Overlay. These guys took multiple

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songs and threw them together. Multiple genres

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too. Yeah. And I think when I think of a thing

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like Midnight Marauders, I think of like Paul's

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Boutique by the Beastie Boys and all these albums

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where sampling became an instrument. And A Tribe

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Called Quest truly knew how to take 10 different

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songs and turn them into their voice. And to

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me, that is art in and of itself. Yeah, for sure.

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Midnight Marauders was one of the albums I was

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speaking about earlier when I said we had at

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least four of the top 10 hip -hop albums of all

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time. Tribe is undeniable. So let's see you following

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that one up with something good. All right, well,

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I am going to follow that up with something good

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because we got a vibe going here. And coming

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out of Tribe Called Quest, the thing I liked

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about them most is... Believe it or not, artists

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like A Tribe Called Quest introduced me in 1993

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to jazz music. Because my parents were rock and

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roll. My dad was Black Sabbath, The Cars, Huey

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Lewis and the News, Led Zeppelin, The Doors.

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My mom was Fleetwood Mac, Pat Benatar. I didn't

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get a lot of exposure to jazz music. But when

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I first started listening to A Tribe Called Quest

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and the next song that I picked. Drop a chord.

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It introduced me to jazz music. And this song,

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by sampling a song by Art Blakey and the Jazz

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Messenger, Stretching, Diggable Planets, Rebirth

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of Slick, Cool Like That, took a song and made

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it iconic. It took an iconic song like Stretching

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and brought it back decades later and made it

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iconic to a completely different subset of music

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listeners. Because the people in the 1950s and

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60s that were listening to Art Blakey might not

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understand Diggable Planets in the 90s. But I'll

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tell you right now, that music sounded fresh

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when it first came out. And it sounded fresh

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in 1993. And I am shocked that these guys did

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not blow up to the level of Tribe Called Quest.

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Because Cool Like That is a song that you don't

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even have to be a big hip -hop fan. That had

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crossover into pop. That had crossover into R

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&B. Every genre music, top 40, every station

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was playing this song. Yeah, I agree. I would

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have bet my last dollar that's where you were

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going. I just, I think we have similar taste.

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The thing about Rebirth, just like again, is

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my surfer reference from before, the way he wrote

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that beat, it was, you mentioned that this song

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had crossover appeal, okay? And it was just on

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a funky vibe. It had a musical tone to it. So

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people that were kind of a little anti -hip hop

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or hadn't warmed up to it yet, they thought it

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was just. talking over boom bap you know what

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i mean and they don't really get it is that this

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was undeniably musical you know and melodious

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in the way that he decided to present the lyrics

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he didn't try to be anybody else they were himself

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and it was so genuinely hip -hop but it was so

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genuinely jazz but it was so genuinely pop for

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the crossover because it was funky enough to

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move to it it was never anything but itself and

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it fit every it was a master key you know it's

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a skeleton key that's what it is And the flow

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that he delivered the lyrics in that song was

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not on the beat. That's how that song was meant

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to be done. Yeah, it had a jazz delivery to it

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because Rock is on one, two, three, four, one,

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two, three. This song, his delivery was going

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off the path. That's that wave. That's that wave.

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And my thing is, it wasn't trying to be jazzy.

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Like, it wasn't a guy who was not jazzy trying

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to be jazzy. You know what I mean? And it wasn't

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a jazz guy. trying to rap when he don't really

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rap. It was genuinely itself the entire time,

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but like a skeleton key, it fit everywhere. I

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think that's what made it jump. It's a fantastic

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pick, so I gotta raise the bar or at least match

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what you did. I'm gonna stay in that group of

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another group that just absolutely came out,

00:19:05.670 --> 00:19:09.869
smashed things, changed things. Personally, I

00:19:09.869 --> 00:19:11.369
think they're the greatest hip -hop group of

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all time. It's one A and one B for me. We like

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a couple of them. So I'm going to go with Player's

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Ball by Outkast. Outkast came on the scene when

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music was inherently East Coast, West Coast.

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That was it. I mean, the Chronic had come out

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in 92, which was insane. And the thing about

00:19:36.509 --> 00:19:40.859
the Chronic was hip hop was so heavy. East Coast

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before. It's the birthplace. It's understandable.

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It's not, you know, not for any other, but these

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are the guys that invented it right now that

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are killing it. So, Tupac, you know, kind of

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brought some edge to it. There were people coming

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out that were individually representing themselves

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as opposed to an area, but the sound themselves

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were relative to certain areas. So when G -Thing

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and The Chronic dropped, it blew people away.

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We'd never heard anything like that before. Then

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when you see the videos, You're like, oh, I get

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why they don't sound like they're from New York.

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Because they're not from New York. You can't

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live out there where they live and be on a nearby.

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It's not the same vibe. They got sunshine 11

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months out of the year. You know what I mean?

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We got telephones and pigeons. They got palm

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trees and parakeets. Even though it's different.

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It's different. So it's not any lesser or any

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more of anything. It's just different. And the

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way they painted that picture. I've never been

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there. And that's exactly what I picture it looking

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like after, you know, hearing you rap about it

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the way you do. So this is what Outkast did for

00:20:42.410 --> 00:20:45.569
the South. They came in and smashed it. And when

00:20:45.569 --> 00:20:49.009
you see that, I mean, is there Andre 3000 is

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an MC that's on the level of like the most lyrical

00:20:52.289 --> 00:20:54.670
guys that you know, but also on a level with

00:20:54.670 --> 00:20:56.809
some of the greats like Old Dirty Bastard, you

00:20:56.809 --> 00:20:58.549
know, people like that, that had a flow that

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nobody else had, that there's no father to their

00:21:00.670 --> 00:21:03.430
style. You know, it was them. and nobody else

00:21:03.430 --> 00:21:05.349
sounds like them, and nobody ever will. You can't

00:21:05.349 --> 00:21:08.630
replicate that, you know, like a DMX voice or

00:21:08.630 --> 00:21:10.289
something like that. You can't do that. Again,

00:21:10.369 --> 00:21:12.029
that won't happen again. There was one of those.

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And Audrey 3000 is like that. Mixed in with Big

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Boy. Players Ball, Outkast, absolutely my pick.

00:21:19.849 --> 00:21:21.769
Lightning in a bottle right there, musically,

00:21:21.849 --> 00:21:23.650
from an artist's perspective. It's lightning

00:21:23.650 --> 00:21:27.690
in a bottle. And following that song up, I think

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I am going to bring it back to New York, but

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I'm going to go with something that... might

00:21:31.079 --> 00:21:35.119
be slightly off the beaten path. Because in 1993,

00:21:35.319 --> 00:21:39.700
this group was already considered, while they're

00:21:39.700 --> 00:21:44.420
pioneers of the genre, and they're, I'd say,

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top three most iconic hip -hop artists of all

00:21:47.819 --> 00:21:52.599
time. In 1993, they were the 40 -year -olds at

00:21:52.599 --> 00:21:54.740
the 20 -year -old party. I know where you're

00:21:54.740 --> 00:21:57.240
going. But they knew how to bring it because

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they brought on features like Pete Rock and CL

00:22:00.140 --> 00:22:04.400
Smooth. And Run DMC showed the whole country

00:22:04.400 --> 00:22:07.519
how to get down with the king. And that song

00:22:07.519 --> 00:22:10.680
with this side where we've got this kind of head

00:22:10.680 --> 00:22:13.660
-bobbing vibe going, it picks up the pace a little

00:22:13.660 --> 00:22:17.180
bit. But make no mistake, the delivery is true

00:22:17.180 --> 00:22:21.819
Run DMC. And they took an 80s flow and put it

00:22:21.819 --> 00:22:25.769
over 90s music. and made it feel seamless and

00:22:25.769 --> 00:22:29.509
made them reinvent the sound that they already

00:22:29.509 --> 00:22:32.710
invented themselves. They sampled Where Did I

00:22:32.710 --> 00:22:35.750
Go from the original Broadway cast of Hair, which

00:22:35.750 --> 00:22:38.950
is like so left field. But then they also sampled

00:22:38.950 --> 00:22:42.130
themselves, putting in Run's House and Sucker

00:22:42.130 --> 00:22:44.890
MC's Crush Groove. So these guys took their own

00:22:44.890 --> 00:22:47.549
songs, flipped them on its side, and put out

00:22:47.549 --> 00:22:51.269
what I feel. is an underrated 93 classic because

00:22:51.269 --> 00:22:54.150
when people talk about 93, they're talking about

00:22:54.150 --> 00:22:56.869
Dr. Dre. They're talking about Snoop Dogg. They're

00:22:56.869 --> 00:22:58.849
talking about Wu -Tang. They're talking about

00:22:58.849 --> 00:23:01.910
A Tribe Called Quest. But nobody's talking about

00:23:01.910 --> 00:23:03.930
Run -D .M .C. And if it wasn't for Run -D .M

00:23:03.930 --> 00:23:06.750
.C., none of those other acts would exist. I

00:23:06.750 --> 00:23:10.009
agree completely. They are the reason I have

00:23:10.009 --> 00:23:12.950
never been without at least one pair of shell

00:23:12.950 --> 00:23:18.660
-top Adidas in my life from 1991 on. How many

00:23:18.660 --> 00:23:21.680
did I run DMC? Four fathers. They would arguably

00:23:21.680 --> 00:23:25.519
be on a Mount Rushmore of hip -hop, so I can't

00:23:25.519 --> 00:23:28.579
see not having them on a list. But now the question

00:23:28.579 --> 00:23:32.099
becomes, what follows up the Kings of Rock run

00:23:32.099 --> 00:23:36.759
DMC? Well, if I'm going to stay in the vein of

00:23:36.759 --> 00:23:40.200
this mixtape, I know I got to get to some individual

00:23:40.200 --> 00:23:43.759
guys, but I mean, I got to stay in the vein of

00:23:43.759 --> 00:23:46.559
phenomenal, groundbreaking, trend -setting groups.

00:23:47.470 --> 00:23:51.130
And what better way than to drop a song that

00:23:51.130 --> 00:23:54.630
may be on the greatest group album of all time

00:23:54.630 --> 00:24:01.230
from 36 Chambers, Wu -Tang Clan, Cream. You threw

00:24:01.230 --> 00:24:05.809
out an acronym that changed the English language.

00:24:06.930 --> 00:24:11.190
Period. I'm in my house with my friends. Some

00:24:11.190 --> 00:24:12.910
of them are smoking. Some of them are making

00:24:12.910 --> 00:24:15.789
a beat. And we're like, let's do this. Let's

00:24:15.789 --> 00:24:19.130
say this. And it changed Webster's Dictionary

00:24:19.130 --> 00:24:22.410
years later because people use the term that

00:24:22.410 --> 00:24:25.910
you came up with to describe money and the dope

00:24:25.910 --> 00:24:28.849
ingenuity that you had to phrase it the way you

00:24:28.849 --> 00:24:32.990
did changed the way people talk in every country.

00:24:33.069 --> 00:24:36.410
It's insane. It's insane. How do you not have

00:24:36.410 --> 00:24:39.910
a song that does that on here? That's like your

00:24:39.910 --> 00:24:42.589
first song, basically. That's what you start

00:24:42.589 --> 00:24:45.640
off with. A 700 -foot Grand Slam in the World

00:24:45.640 --> 00:24:49.759
Series is your first at -bat? Okay. So give me

00:24:49.759 --> 00:24:51.980
cash rules and everything around me. Wu -Tang

00:24:51.980 --> 00:24:54.839
Clan. I'll tell you right now, when people talk

00:24:54.839 --> 00:24:57.180
about the greatest debut albums of all time,

00:24:57.339 --> 00:25:00.779
they talk about Boston. They talk about Led Zeppelin

00:25:00.779 --> 00:25:03.539
I. They'll talk about Alanis Morissette if we're

00:25:03.539 --> 00:25:05.799
in the 90s, Jagged Little Pill. They'll talk

00:25:05.799 --> 00:25:09.240
about Rage Against the Machine. 36 Chambers?

00:25:09.880 --> 00:25:13.859
Oh, my God. Possibly the greatest? debut hip

00:25:13.859 --> 00:25:16.440
-hop album ever? I mean... Nobody had ever heard

00:25:16.440 --> 00:25:19.819
anything like that before. It was insane. I had

00:25:19.819 --> 00:25:23.720
it on my list too. I had Method Man because when

00:25:23.720 --> 00:25:25.900
they did the 50 Years of Hip -Hop, how was Wu

00:25:25.900 --> 00:25:28.559
-Tang represented? With Method Man. All I'm gonna

00:25:28.559 --> 00:25:30.220
say is when you have this much great music in

00:25:30.220 --> 00:25:32.920
a decade, I wouldn't cross that off my list just

00:25:32.920 --> 00:25:35.079
yet if I were you either. I get that. You know

00:25:35.079 --> 00:25:37.400
how hard it was not to just pick two groups or

00:25:37.400 --> 00:25:39.640
two single guys and do the full side of the mixtape

00:25:39.640 --> 00:25:41.420
with those guys? Like, what are you kidding me?

00:25:41.539 --> 00:25:44.220
It's easy. We could easily do that. Yeah. Now,

00:25:44.420 --> 00:25:46.880
following up Wu -Tang, though, you got to keep

00:25:46.880 --> 00:25:50.599
that level of iconic in the air here because

00:25:50.599 --> 00:25:52.720
there's a lot of iconic groups on this side.

00:25:53.319 --> 00:25:56.359
Now, this is one that I will say is one of the

00:25:56.359 --> 00:26:00.240
more underratedly iconic groups. So this group

00:26:00.240 --> 00:26:04.799
paved ways for people. They influenced tons of

00:26:04.799 --> 00:26:08.460
artists. And I feel like they didn't get there

00:26:08.460 --> 00:26:11.720
just due, even though. They're a household name.

00:26:11.839 --> 00:26:16.460
I feel like other bands just got more airplay,

00:26:16.519 --> 00:26:20.099
more radio time, more FaceTime on MTV. And meanwhile,

00:26:20.200 --> 00:26:23.759
these guys were just cranking out hit after hit

00:26:23.759 --> 00:26:28.420
after hit. And when you're able to sample Smokey

00:26:28.420 --> 00:26:31.660
Robinson's Quiet Storm, Michael Jackson's I Can't

00:26:31.660 --> 00:26:35.019
Help It, and the Bar K's Song and Dance, which

00:26:35.019 --> 00:26:37.980
that last one people might not recognize. However.

00:26:38.680 --> 00:26:41.480
Will Smith made that song much more popular in

00:26:41.480 --> 00:26:44.380
the late 90s because of the na -na -na -na -na

00:26:44.380 --> 00:26:46.519
-na -na. That's the song we're talking about.

00:26:46.640 --> 00:26:51.079
I am going off of Balloon Mindstate, De La Soul,

00:26:51.400 --> 00:26:56.740
Break a Dawn. De La Soul is innovators of hip

00:26:56.740 --> 00:26:59.500
-hop. They are one of those groups that are one

00:26:59.500 --> 00:27:02.339
of a kind. Again, like Tribe, they were never

00:27:02.339 --> 00:27:05.559
anything but 100 % genuine to themselves, and

00:27:05.559 --> 00:27:08.029
it worked. They're hip -hop, 100 % through and

00:27:08.029 --> 00:27:10.490
through. It's the best way to say it. Two words,

00:27:10.750 --> 00:27:15.289
authentic and trailblazers. For sure. 100 % agree.

00:27:15.529 --> 00:27:17.369
All right, how many do I have left on this side?

00:27:17.750 --> 00:27:21.289
Oh, this side, we're down to two songs. So you

00:27:21.289 --> 00:27:25.789
got one and I got one. I got one song. Oh, man,

00:27:25.849 --> 00:27:29.410
you're killing me. All right, all right. It's

00:27:29.410 --> 00:27:32.369
harder than it sounds, isn't it? So hard. Because,

00:27:32.390 --> 00:27:35.519
I mean, like, how do I not go Cypress Hill? You

00:27:35.519 --> 00:27:37.720
know what I mean? How do you not do that? But

00:27:37.720 --> 00:27:41.140
I got another one that's not as popular. It didn't

00:27:41.140 --> 00:27:43.839
get as big. But, I mean, I can't see leaving

00:27:43.839 --> 00:27:47.500
this one off either. You know? There's a Cypress

00:27:47.500 --> 00:27:49.440
Hill -Black Moon conflict going on in me right

00:27:49.440 --> 00:27:51.680
now. That's where I'm at, and I'm struggling.

00:27:52.799 --> 00:27:56.480
As much as it kills me to not have Black Moon

00:27:56.480 --> 00:27:59.500
on this list, I got to go with Cypress Hill.

00:28:00.480 --> 00:28:04.420
I can't even risk not hearing them from the 90s.

00:28:04.759 --> 00:28:10.119
hip -hop mixtape especially in 91 so insane in

00:28:10.119 --> 00:28:13.680
the brain in keeping with your beats don't sound

00:28:13.680 --> 00:28:17.640
like anybody else's beats your flow doesn't sound

00:28:17.640 --> 00:28:21.619
like anybody else's flow your content isn't what

00:28:21.619 --> 00:28:25.119
anybody else's content is it's your own that

00:28:25.119 --> 00:28:29.359
shit that vibe of genuineness that we've had

00:28:29.359 --> 00:28:32.039
in every single group we've named so far that

00:28:32.039 --> 00:28:35.730
originality You never mistake their music when

00:28:35.730 --> 00:28:37.950
it comes on. They're probably in the top five

00:28:37.950 --> 00:28:40.710
bands or groups that ever that you cannot play

00:28:40.710 --> 00:28:44.009
on a Guess This Tune game show because everybody

00:28:44.009 --> 00:28:47.950
will get it on second one. No matter what song

00:28:47.950 --> 00:28:50.230
it is, that's how in their own vein they were

00:28:50.230 --> 00:28:53.069
and how great they were at it. So let's finish

00:28:53.069 --> 00:28:57.369
my part strong with Insane in the Brain, Cypress

00:28:57.369 --> 00:29:01.910
Hill. DJ Muggs credited The song Jump Around,

00:29:02.230 --> 00:29:04.589
which is something he produced for House of Pain,

00:29:04.750 --> 00:29:08.470
has a major influence on this track. And it makes

00:29:08.470 --> 00:29:11.710
sense because when you play Jump Around and Insane

00:29:11.710 --> 00:29:14.369
in the Brain back to back. That's a vibe. That's

00:29:14.369 --> 00:29:17.190
a vibe right there. And that's credit to DJ Muggs

00:29:17.190 --> 00:29:19.690
for seeing that and bringing it out in both songs.

00:29:20.210 --> 00:29:23.650
Insane in the Brain is probably one of the most

00:29:23.650 --> 00:29:26.630
famous diss tracks ever written outside of Sweet

00:29:26.630 --> 00:29:29.730
Home Alabama. by Lynyrd Skynyrd. I know it's

00:29:29.730 --> 00:29:32.930
a totally different genre, but this song is actually

00:29:32.930 --> 00:29:36.410
a diss at Chubb Rock, who Cypress Hill felt they

00:29:36.410 --> 00:29:40.509
were mocking on his 92 album, I Gotta Get Mine

00:29:40.509 --> 00:29:43.410
Yo with Yabba Dabba Doo. This is kind of their

00:29:43.410 --> 00:29:46.470
answer to that. And as much as I love Chubb Rock

00:29:46.470 --> 00:29:49.269
and I love Yabba Dabba, Insane in the Brain is

00:29:49.269 --> 00:29:51.069
just a different level. It's just a different

00:29:51.069 --> 00:29:54.809
level. Yeah. I don't hate anybody that Mike Tyson

00:29:54.809 --> 00:29:57.170
knocked out. You know what I mean? But let's

00:29:57.170 --> 00:29:58.910
not pretend you won. You know, I'm not trying

00:29:58.910 --> 00:30:02.750
to be mean. No, no. I mean, come on. What are

00:30:02.750 --> 00:30:04.769
we doing over here? You know, like there's there's

00:30:04.769 --> 00:30:07.009
no you showed you open the door. You were you

00:30:07.009 --> 00:30:09.589
were, you know, that I busted through it and

00:30:09.589 --> 00:30:11.910
took off for the end. So, you know, that's right.

00:30:12.529 --> 00:30:17.329
Amen. And I looking at my list, I only have one

00:30:17.329 --> 00:30:19.890
song that I could close this side with. There's

00:30:19.890 --> 00:30:22.730
only one choice. We're both from New Jersey,

00:30:22.829 --> 00:30:25.529
so we got to show some Jersey love when at all

00:30:25.529 --> 00:30:28.750
possible. And when you're able to sample James

00:30:28.750 --> 00:30:32.390
Brown's Funky President, Five Stare Steps, Don't

00:30:32.390 --> 00:30:35.309
Change Your Love, The Isley Brothers, Make Me

00:30:35.309 --> 00:30:39.009
Say It Again Girl, Sylvia Striplins, You Can't

00:30:39.009 --> 00:30:42.309
Turn Me Away, and rounding it out with Peter

00:30:42.309 --> 00:30:45.609
Gabriel's Sledgehammer, there's a reason the

00:30:45.609 --> 00:30:52.000
album is called 1993. Naughty by Nature, Hip

00:30:52.000 --> 00:30:55.799
Hop Hooray. When that song drops at a stadium,

00:30:56.259 --> 00:31:01.859
70 ,000 people from ages three to ages 90 are

00:31:01.859 --> 00:31:05.579
moving their hands from side to side. It is a

00:31:05.579 --> 00:31:08.940
vibe in and of itself. And when you start a side

00:31:08.940 --> 00:31:12.059
with something as strong as Passing Me By, the

00:31:12.059 --> 00:31:15.299
only way to close a side that has this kind of

00:31:15.299 --> 00:31:18.859
vibe to it is with Hip Hop Hooray by Naughty

00:31:18.859 --> 00:31:22.240
by Nature. 1 ,000%. Let's just keep it simple.

00:31:22.380 --> 00:31:24.259
I don't know nobody that don't know that song.

00:31:25.220 --> 00:31:28.859
Okay? And the flip side of the coin, I also don't

00:31:28.859 --> 00:31:31.519
know nobody who don't like it. I've never seen

00:31:31.519 --> 00:31:33.700
anybody say that song is trash. When you play

00:31:33.700 --> 00:31:36.859
it in a stadium, nobody goes, oh. Nobody. Everybody.

00:31:36.900 --> 00:31:38.900
And like you said, it doesn't matter. I don't

00:31:38.900 --> 00:31:40.940
know any. I know children that know that song.

00:31:41.380 --> 00:31:44.119
My parents know that song. Nobody doesn't know

00:31:44.119 --> 00:31:46.180
that song. And I haven't heard anybody. My father.

00:31:46.259 --> 00:31:50.740
Did my father listen to hip hop? No. Right. Oh,

00:31:52.420 --> 00:31:54.500
they'll do that part. You know, there's nobody

00:31:54.500 --> 00:31:56.240
that doesn't know that. And there's something

00:31:56.240 --> 00:32:00.740
about Tretch's flow that going back to OPP in

00:32:00.740 --> 00:32:04.660
91, it was different. It was not just that boom

00:32:04.660 --> 00:32:09.519
bap flow. It was speed. It was rhythmic in his

00:32:09.519 --> 00:32:12.940
delivery. Top five most underrated MCs of all

00:32:12.940 --> 00:32:15.460
time. Hands down. And I've actually got another

00:32:15.460 --> 00:32:18.819
song with Tretch as a feature in my list. I don't

00:32:18.819 --> 00:32:21.460
know if we're going to get to it. However, there

00:32:21.460 --> 00:32:23.859
is a chance we might, depending on where Side

00:32:23.859 --> 00:32:26.920
2 goes. But now, let's review what we got so

00:32:26.920 --> 00:32:29.720
far on Side A. We kicked things off with The

00:32:29.720 --> 00:32:33.319
Far Side, Passing Me By. Followed up by Fat Joe,

00:32:33.440 --> 00:32:36.539
The Gangsta's Flow Joe. A Tribe Called Quest

00:32:36.539 --> 00:32:39.859
award tour featuring True Goy the Dove. Diggable

00:32:39.859 --> 00:32:43.599
Planets, Rebirth the Slick, Cool Like That. Outkast

00:32:43.599 --> 00:32:47.220
Players Ball, Run DMC's Down With The King featuring

00:32:47.220 --> 00:32:51.299
Pete Rock and CL Smooth, Wu -Tang Clan's Cream,

00:32:51.980 --> 00:32:55.660
De La Soul's Break A Dawn, Cypress Hill's Insane

00:32:55.660 --> 00:32:58.779
In The Brain, and Naughty By Nature's Hip Hop

00:32:58.779 --> 00:33:02.400
Hooray. Head over to myweeklymixtape .com to

00:33:02.400 --> 00:33:05.180
hear all the songs we're discussing in this mix

00:33:05.180 --> 00:33:08.440
through the playlist embedded on the episode

00:33:08.440 --> 00:33:12.150
page. Now, Doug. We're at the 50 -yard line right

00:33:12.150 --> 00:33:13.930
now. We're heading towards the end zone here.

00:33:14.329 --> 00:33:17.710
How do you feel the drive is going so far? I

00:33:17.710 --> 00:33:19.210
think it's great. I think it's a home run. I'm

00:33:19.210 --> 00:33:22.250
going to actually make this mixtape myself when

00:33:22.250 --> 00:33:25.390
we're done and give it a full read. But just

00:33:25.390 --> 00:33:28.329
keeping in the vein of 93 Hip Hop, we went all

00:33:28.329 --> 00:33:32.250
over the planet there because you could not be

00:33:32.250 --> 00:33:36.630
more different than Rebirth of Slick and Cream,

00:33:36.829 --> 00:33:40.920
for example. It could not be more similar either

00:33:40.920 --> 00:33:44.240
if you look at it from the outside. Hey, I'm

00:33:44.240 --> 00:33:45.740
going to do my thing. Okay, I'm going to do my

00:33:45.740 --> 00:33:47.680
thing. Okay, my thing's not going to sound like

00:33:47.680 --> 00:33:49.640
anybody else. Yeah, neither is my thing. Okay,

00:33:49.680 --> 00:33:51.960
but my thing's going to be a home run. Everybody's

00:33:51.960 --> 00:33:54.539
going to like it. Yeah, so is my thing. Yeah,

00:33:54.599 --> 00:33:57.000
and just on and on and on. Every quality that

00:33:57.000 --> 00:33:59.680
made it what it was done it. We covered a lot

00:33:59.680 --> 00:34:03.000
of ground there. On the flip side of this mixtape,

00:34:03.079 --> 00:34:05.680
I think we're going to be able to jump vibes

00:34:05.680 --> 00:34:09.000
a little bit. but yet it'll be just like those

00:34:09.000 --> 00:34:10.880
two songs being contrasted the way they are.

00:34:11.440 --> 00:34:13.360
The other side of the mix, if we contrast it

00:34:13.360 --> 00:34:16.380
that way, but yet we'll still make so much sense

00:34:16.380 --> 00:34:18.119
as a 93, it will be like you didn't go anywhere,

00:34:18.260 --> 00:34:20.599
even though you couldn't be further apart. There

00:34:20.599 --> 00:34:23.159
you go. And I get to kick things off on side

00:34:23.159 --> 00:34:24.760
B, and I think I know how I'm going to do it.

00:34:24.820 --> 00:34:27.559
I'm a rock guy, so I love to be able to bring

00:34:27.559 --> 00:34:30.539
my rock vibe in whenever possible. And I can

00:34:30.539 --> 00:34:32.380
tell you right now, the band that I picked to

00:34:32.380 --> 00:34:36.300
kick off side B rocks. Like no other hip hop

00:34:36.300 --> 00:34:39.159
group out there. Every song these guys put out,

00:34:39.219 --> 00:34:42.280
even though it was straight up hip hop, rocked.

00:34:42.280 --> 00:34:45.460
And they proved it when they took their hip hop

00:34:45.460 --> 00:34:49.139
song and remixed it with one of the heaviest

00:34:49.139 --> 00:34:52.119
hardcore bands out of New York, Biohazard, and

00:34:52.119 --> 00:34:54.639
created an alternative version of it. And then

00:34:54.639 --> 00:34:58.019
continued to work together for the Judgment Night

00:34:58.019 --> 00:35:00.539
soundtrack theme. And I'm talking about Onyx.

00:35:00.969 --> 00:35:03.550
I'm going off their 93 classic back the fuck

00:35:03.550 --> 00:35:07.110
up and I'm going with slam because that is the

00:35:07.110 --> 00:35:10.510
way you kick off a party. That's the way you

00:35:10.510 --> 00:35:12.989
kick off side B. If you see people, if you're

00:35:12.989 --> 00:35:14.909
at a club and people aren't on the dance floor,

00:35:14.989 --> 00:35:18.030
as soon as you hear that opening, they're out

00:35:18.030 --> 00:35:21.989
there. It doesn't matter. And in doing my research,

00:35:22.269 --> 00:35:25.889
back the fuck up was released on March 30th,

00:35:25.889 --> 00:35:30.849
1993, which was the same day. as LL Cool J's

00:35:30.849 --> 00:35:34.730
14 Shots to the Dome and Lords of the Underground's

00:35:34.730 --> 00:35:37.590
Here Come the Lords. What a day in hip -hop that

00:35:37.590 --> 00:35:40.210
was. To me, three classic albums right there.

00:35:40.449 --> 00:35:44.130
It was greatness in abundance. That's the only

00:35:44.130 --> 00:35:47.610
way I can phrase it. That song was a game -changer,

00:35:47.670 --> 00:35:51.070
still is, is a game -changer. That song gives

00:35:51.070 --> 00:35:54.369
you an emotion, gives you hype. You know, people,

00:35:54.570 --> 00:35:57.010
you can't not get excited when you play that

00:35:57.010 --> 00:36:00.090
before a game. in the locker room. You play that

00:36:00.090 --> 00:36:03.670
at a party, at a dance floor. It captures an

00:36:03.670 --> 00:36:05.769
excited emotion. You know, when there's that

00:36:05.769 --> 00:36:07.849
word from the beginning of the show, you know,

00:36:07.849 --> 00:36:11.730
it's infectious. So I think it's a wonderful

00:36:11.730 --> 00:36:15.389
way to start the second half of a mixtape. Couldn't

00:36:15.389 --> 00:36:18.309
have made a better choice to kick it off. So

00:36:18.309 --> 00:36:22.750
I gotta follow that by trying to match not the

00:36:22.750 --> 00:36:25.750
emotion, but the level of it. I'm gonna go with

00:36:25.750 --> 00:36:27.860
a song that I... that I think can get you just

00:36:27.860 --> 00:36:30.159
as hyped, but in a completely different way.

00:36:31.059 --> 00:36:33.800
Because that's why Slam was what it was, because

00:36:33.800 --> 00:36:35.639
it did it perfectly. You're not going to paint

00:36:35.639 --> 00:36:38.079
the Mona Lisa twice. That's that vibe. That's

00:36:38.079 --> 00:36:40.760
their thing. I'm going to switch over. I think

00:36:40.760 --> 00:36:42.860
we've had all groups so far, so I'm going to

00:36:42.860 --> 00:36:46.739
drop our mixtape's first solo artist. He's the

00:36:46.739 --> 00:36:51.599
king of 93. If I'm being honest, he wasn't in

00:36:51.599 --> 00:36:54.179
a group, so he's out there by himself, and he...

00:36:54.360 --> 00:36:56.500
I'm going to say dropped probably the best album

00:36:56.500 --> 00:36:58.800
of the year, even in a year like that. I it's,

00:36:58.800 --> 00:37:01.019
it's my number one album that year off doggy

00:37:01.019 --> 00:37:05.420
style. Give me Snoop D O double G. What's my

00:37:05.420 --> 00:37:08.539
name? All right. You went with what's my name.

00:37:08.679 --> 00:37:12.179
That's literally the song I had on my list. You

00:37:12.179 --> 00:37:14.940
could easily go, honestly, gin and juice. I mean,

00:37:14.960 --> 00:37:16.300
you could play half the album, gin and juice

00:37:16.300 --> 00:37:18.340
on all that stuff. But my thing, my thing is

00:37:18.340 --> 00:37:21.000
this being a solo hip hop artist in the nineties,

00:37:21.079 --> 00:37:22.960
you were on your old one and you were, it was,

00:37:22.960 --> 00:37:25.699
it was come at me, bro. Because I'm built for

00:37:25.699 --> 00:37:29.500
this. This is what I do. You're not him. I am.

00:37:29.599 --> 00:37:32.760
The spirit of competition in hip -hop for solo

00:37:32.760 --> 00:37:36.039
artists was so dope that it was like they say,

00:37:36.079 --> 00:37:37.579
you know, when you go to jail, you got to hold

00:37:37.579 --> 00:37:39.239
your head up. You take a shot at the first guy.

00:37:39.280 --> 00:37:41.119
Just stand up for yourself. You walk in the door

00:37:41.119 --> 00:37:43.239
and announce yourself on the hip -hop scene in

00:37:43.239 --> 00:37:47.519
93. Your introduction better be serious. Because

00:37:47.519 --> 00:37:49.320
if not, everybody's going to try to take a piece

00:37:49.320 --> 00:37:51.519
of your ass. You know what I mean? And he walked

00:37:51.519 --> 00:37:54.360
in and his first solo joint after crushing Necrotic

00:37:54.360 --> 00:37:58.039
was like, ay, ay, ay, ay, ay, the door pounds

00:37:58.039 --> 00:38:00.199
in the, and it just said, what's my mother's

00:38:00.199 --> 00:38:05.179
name? Snoop Dogg. It crushed it. Bow, wow, wow.

00:38:05.320 --> 00:38:09.800
He absolutely destroyed that beat. It's one of

00:38:09.800 --> 00:38:11.840
the greatest solo albums. For me, it's in the

00:38:11.840 --> 00:38:14.360
top five greatest hip -hop solo albums of all

00:38:14.360 --> 00:38:17.380
time, too. Especially debut albums. That's up

00:38:17.380 --> 00:38:19.780
there with Illmatic, Doggystyle. So, again, that's

00:38:19.780 --> 00:38:22.039
my pick. What's mine, babe? Snoop Doggy Dogg.

00:38:22.420 --> 00:38:25.820
Absolutely love it. I mean, we talked about 36

00:38:25.820 --> 00:38:28.360
Chambers being one of the most iconic debut albums.

00:38:28.500 --> 00:38:30.780
This one falls right into that. Could easily

00:38:30.780 --> 00:38:34.340
be top 10 as well. I mean, this song, you think

00:38:34.340 --> 00:38:36.739
about the amount that this song sampled. George

00:38:36.739 --> 00:38:40.360
Clinton's Atomic Dog. Funkadelics, not just Knee

00:38:40.360 --> 00:38:42.780
Deep. Parliaments give up the funk, tear the

00:38:42.780 --> 00:38:45.739
roof off this sucker. And P -Funk wants to get

00:38:45.739 --> 00:38:47.900
funked up as well as the Count's pack of lies.

00:38:48.719 --> 00:38:52.849
NME. ranked this song number 456 on the greatest

00:38:52.849 --> 00:38:59.010
songs of all time not just hip -hop of all time

00:38:59.010 --> 00:39:02.489
now we talked about gin and juice to me gin and

00:39:02.489 --> 00:39:06.309
juice was a side a vibe if if you put gin and

00:39:06.309 --> 00:39:08.590
juice on side a i would have been a hundred percent

00:39:08.590 --> 00:39:11.570
but following up slam if you put gin and juice

00:39:11.570 --> 00:39:13.969
here i would have been like it's too much of

00:39:13.969 --> 00:39:15.949
a swing back to that's the other thing a mixtape

00:39:15.949 --> 00:39:20.639
i i am europe it's okay done to multiple places

00:39:20.639 --> 00:39:22.760
as far as vibe -wise or emotional -wise, that's

00:39:22.760 --> 00:39:26.179
a good mixtape. The thing is, you don't skip

00:39:26.179 --> 00:39:28.599
out of a vibe and then go back to it. It's got

00:39:28.599 --> 00:39:31.679
to be a journey, a fluid thing. So hammer that

00:39:31.679 --> 00:39:33.679
vibe if you want. Squeeze a bunch of solos on

00:39:33.679 --> 00:39:36.280
that vibe, but get in the pocket, play the right

00:39:36.280 --> 00:39:39.360
ones, and then transition to the next vibe if

00:39:39.360 --> 00:39:42.550
you're going to do that. Give that vibe its flowers.

00:39:42.710 --> 00:39:44.630
Don't just give it shorter songs and then jump

00:39:44.630 --> 00:39:47.110
back out. That's the difference between somebody

00:39:47.110 --> 00:39:48.690
who's going to keep up the rhythm. That's the

00:39:48.690 --> 00:39:50.769
difference between a good MC and a bad MC. That's

00:39:50.769 --> 00:39:53.050
the guy that jumps on the beat and then kind

00:39:53.050 --> 00:39:56.449
of messes up, doesn't know what to do, and somebody

00:39:56.449 --> 00:39:58.349
like Rebirth of Sleep where they just jump on

00:39:58.349 --> 00:40:00.130
and they ride, or somebody like Q -Tate when

00:40:00.130 --> 00:40:02.789
he's just flipping over a tri -beat. That's the

00:40:02.789 --> 00:40:05.989
difference. I'm going to take your cue on a solo

00:40:05.989 --> 00:40:08.659
artist. And stick with a solo artist. And I'm

00:40:08.659 --> 00:40:11.579
also going to do something we haven't done outside

00:40:11.579 --> 00:40:16.659
of, in a way, diggable planets. But I am going

00:40:16.659 --> 00:40:20.659
to bring one of the baddest female MCs into this

00:40:20.659 --> 00:40:23.639
mix. I think I know where you're going. Because

00:40:23.639 --> 00:40:29.360
this song was listed in the Rock Song Index as

00:40:29.360 --> 00:40:32.780
one of the 7 ,500 most important songs for the

00:40:32.780 --> 00:40:37.019
rock and roll era. Yes. That says a lot. It made

00:40:37.019 --> 00:40:41.260
XXL's 250 greatest hip hop songs of the 90s list.

00:40:41.460 --> 00:40:45.760
And it was ranked number 17 on Complex's 50 best

00:40:45.760 --> 00:40:49.519
rap songs by women. If you sample James Brown's

00:40:49.519 --> 00:40:52.960
The Payback, you got to bring it or else you're

00:40:52.960 --> 00:40:55.599
going to get crushed. And I got to give credit

00:40:55.599 --> 00:40:58.400
to Akeel Davidson from Rex and Effect because

00:40:58.400 --> 00:41:02.360
he was still riding the rump shaker train at

00:41:02.360 --> 00:41:04.900
this point. Which, by the way, was written by

00:41:04.900 --> 00:41:08.250
Pharrell. There you go. That's that musical vine,

00:41:08.409 --> 00:41:10.090
you know, between these guys. I would pass this

00:41:10.090 --> 00:41:12.309
forward. Pharrell wrote that for them. They did

00:41:12.309 --> 00:41:14.170
this. Now they're impacting this song. It's a

00:41:14.170 --> 00:41:18.010
lineage. Yeah, it certainly is. And when I think

00:41:18.010 --> 00:41:20.670
about this artist, there truly ain't no other

00:41:20.670 --> 00:41:24.190
like MC light. And I'm going with rough neck

00:41:24.190 --> 00:41:28.250
coming out of Snoop dog, rough neck by MC light.

00:41:28.650 --> 00:41:30.769
There's this one that is essential. Like you

00:41:30.769 --> 00:41:33.050
said, in hip hop history, top two 50 of all time.

00:41:33.769 --> 00:41:36.389
multiple multiple lists multiple multiple awards

00:41:36.389 --> 00:41:39.829
it's like being light you know she always was

00:41:39.829 --> 00:41:44.650
super dope she was she was one of the first women

00:41:44.650 --> 00:41:49.289
to step into a man's game and remain there you

00:41:49.289 --> 00:41:52.190
had women emcees like i mean roxanne roxanne

00:41:52.190 --> 00:41:55.949
that song came out and it was dope it hit it

00:41:55.949 --> 00:41:59.010
was a banger but it was pretty much a one -off

00:41:59.280 --> 00:42:02.880
Hey, we can do this too. A woman popping in and

00:42:02.880 --> 00:42:05.139
saying, we can be as good as you guys. Here you

00:42:05.139 --> 00:42:07.579
go. Here's a song. And it's just as dope as any

00:42:07.579 --> 00:42:10.059
guy's song that's out there. But Light stuck

00:42:10.059 --> 00:42:15.539
around and kept doing it. She's like, I'm here

00:42:15.539 --> 00:42:17.300
to stay. I'm going to play until I feel like

00:42:17.300 --> 00:42:19.159
leaving. And I'm probably not leaving anytime

00:42:19.159 --> 00:42:22.380
soon. I feel like MC Light paved the way for

00:42:22.380 --> 00:42:26.869
artists like Missy Elliott. For sure. Because

00:42:26.869 --> 00:42:31.309
she stepped into a man's game and brought that

00:42:31.309 --> 00:42:35.670
delivery that men had. She came out bombastic,

00:42:35.730 --> 00:42:41.949
and she was taking on the suitor role in Roughneck.

00:42:42.190 --> 00:42:45.289
She was the one looking out for herself. She

00:42:45.289 --> 00:42:47.829
was coming out and saying, no, he's not the prize.

00:42:48.050 --> 00:42:50.630
I am the prize. He was the prize. You got to

00:42:50.630 --> 00:42:52.809
be worthy of me, not the other way around. I'll

00:42:52.809 --> 00:42:54.210
let you know when I'm ready. I'll let you know.

00:42:56.309 --> 00:43:00.969
You better Google me. Her delivery was rock.

00:43:01.230 --> 00:43:04.090
I mean, her delivery was hard, it was heavy,

00:43:04.230 --> 00:43:07.369
and it was aggressive. And I absolutely fell

00:43:07.369 --> 00:43:11.030
in love with that flow. My personal favorite,

00:43:11.289 --> 00:43:14.590
who I think is the best all -time female MC,

00:43:14.849 --> 00:43:18.530
who probably better than most male MCs, is Lauryn

00:43:18.530 --> 00:43:22.039
Hill. Oh, yeah. And I think in her... And then

00:43:22.039 --> 00:43:24.159
I'm like in the midst of education, you hear

00:43:24.159 --> 00:43:26.440
like when she starts flipping into that Fuji

00:43:26.440 --> 00:43:29.039
stuff and that kind of starts going with her

00:43:29.039 --> 00:43:32.039
little flows with the octaves dropping up and

00:43:32.039 --> 00:43:34.679
down the flow. I think you hear you hear like

00:43:34.679 --> 00:43:37.639
tap dancing on a song, you know, from way back

00:43:37.639 --> 00:43:40.559
when at least the influence of it. I'm not saying

00:43:40.559 --> 00:43:42.840
that she took it, but I'm saying that you hear

00:43:42.840 --> 00:43:44.539
a lot of that and she just she does it. Well,

00:43:44.559 --> 00:43:46.920
you could see the influence. So that is amazing.

00:43:47.320 --> 00:43:49.920
When you were talking about Lauryn Hill, I automatically

00:43:49.920 --> 00:43:54.280
go to. the fujis remix of nappy heads because

00:43:54.280 --> 00:43:59.099
her delivery in that really feels like it came

00:43:59.099 --> 00:44:03.460
from the lineage of where mc light was for sure

00:44:03.460 --> 00:44:06.000
the influence is undeniable influence is undeniable

00:44:06.000 --> 00:44:09.300
so now i toss it back to you to follow this side's

00:44:09.300 --> 00:44:11.739
going a completely different vibe here so you're

00:44:11.739 --> 00:44:15.739
making it hard okay let's do let's do for second

00:44:15.739 --> 00:44:20.710
song let's do this let's do my first repeat Sort

00:44:20.710 --> 00:44:26.349
of. So, off the same album, 36 Chambers, I cannot

00:44:26.349 --> 00:44:32.349
picture a 90s party, never mind a 93 party, that

00:44:32.349 --> 00:44:37.690
you didn't go to in a club, a bar, a house, riding

00:44:37.690 --> 00:44:40.550
around in your friend's car smoking weed. Like,

00:44:40.550 --> 00:44:44.050
there was never a time that hip -hop music came

00:44:44.050 --> 00:44:47.780
on and you didn't hear... M -E -T -H -O -D, man.

00:44:48.099 --> 00:44:51.900
M -E -T -H -O -D, man. And everybody just didn't

00:44:51.900 --> 00:44:55.860
lose their goddamn minds. Every time. He was

00:44:55.860 --> 00:44:58.639
the groundbreaker for that. He came through and

00:44:58.639 --> 00:45:02.480
just ultimate appeal right away. Everybody like,

00:45:02.519 --> 00:45:04.659
this is just a, this is one of the coolest guys

00:45:04.659 --> 00:45:06.239
in the room, no matter what room he walks into.

00:45:06.460 --> 00:45:09.679
And he's just absolutely killing it. That's your

00:45:09.679 --> 00:45:14.260
first song? Crush it. Crush it. Again, 700 foot

00:45:14.260 --> 00:45:16.849
Grand Slam. In the World Series, and that's your

00:45:16.849 --> 00:45:20.829
first batch. Sayonara. So, give me M -E -T -H

00:45:20.829 --> 00:45:24.849
-O -D, Man, Method Man, and Wu -Tang Clan. Now,

00:45:24.849 --> 00:45:28.090
normally we don't go back and repeat bands on

00:45:28.090 --> 00:45:31.969
a list, but I'll tell you right now, Method Man

00:45:31.969 --> 00:45:35.949
is pretty much a gray area, because that's his

00:45:35.949 --> 00:45:39.289
song right there. And you got him and Red Man,

00:45:39.389 --> 00:45:42.530
too. He's got his own song. It's a gray area.

00:45:42.590 --> 00:45:44.250
Give me a mulligan on this one. I'm going to

00:45:44.250 --> 00:45:46.820
pull another. And honestly, if it was any other

00:45:46.820 --> 00:45:48.820
group tonight, I'd be like, well, but Method

00:45:48.820 --> 00:45:52.860
Man solidified his independence while still with

00:45:52.860 --> 00:45:55.079
the group. So I'm going to let that slide. Plus,

00:45:55.219 --> 00:45:57.880
I was kind of pissed when you picked Kree because

00:45:57.880 --> 00:46:00.440
I couldn't drop Method Man. So I'm going to allow

00:46:00.440 --> 00:46:02.920
it for my selfish reasons as well. It was a friendly

00:46:02.920 --> 00:46:04.820
call, referee. It's a little home cooking. Come

00:46:04.820 --> 00:46:07.159
on. Yeah, there you go. But now following that

00:46:07.159 --> 00:46:11.480
up, I'm going to go with something that I think.

00:46:12.429 --> 00:46:15.969
is a little bit of a deep cut here but to me

00:46:15.969 --> 00:46:20.610
it is a classic because this one is probably

00:46:20.610 --> 00:46:23.710
more for personal reasons because we rocked out

00:46:23.710 --> 00:46:26.010
at the locker room to this song after each and

00:46:26.010 --> 00:46:29.369
every game and to me it's the band's signature

00:46:29.369 --> 00:46:32.070
song in their highest charting single but it's

00:46:32.070 --> 00:46:36.650
not the household name however to people in new

00:46:36.650 --> 00:46:38.650
jersey and new york it was because these guys

00:46:38.650 --> 00:46:40.550
were out of newark and they were right down the

00:46:40.550 --> 00:46:43.409
street from us And they were hometown heroes.

00:46:43.889 --> 00:46:47.070
And that is Lords of the Underground. And I'm

00:46:47.070 --> 00:46:49.610
going with Chief Raka off of Here Comes the Lord.

00:46:49.710 --> 00:46:53.170
If you're sampling John Coltrane's Amen, those

00:46:53.170 --> 00:46:56.510
floors are crazy. You got to pull that off with

00:46:56.510 --> 00:46:59.530
some absolute authority. And then you talk about

00:46:59.530 --> 00:47:04.269
influence. I live for the funk. I die for the

00:47:04.269 --> 00:47:08.230
funk. One year later, Notorious B .I .G. sampled

00:47:08.230 --> 00:47:11.289
that for his Machine Gun Funk from Ready to Die.

00:47:11.710 --> 00:47:14.469
And if it's good enough to catch Biggie's attention,

00:47:14.809 --> 00:47:17.750
there's no reason for it to not be included on

00:47:17.750 --> 00:47:20.389
this list. Lords of the Underground, Chief Rocca.

00:47:20.570 --> 00:47:23.510
Those horns were insane. They were crazy. They

00:47:23.510 --> 00:47:26.789
were crazy. It's a banger right off the bat.

00:47:27.570 --> 00:47:31.090
It's kind of like the guy makes the beat, put

00:47:31.090 --> 00:47:35.210
that together, and the moment he played it for

00:47:35.210 --> 00:47:36.570
anybody, the first time he was like, yeah, check

00:47:36.570 --> 00:47:39.360
this out, I made something, and hit play. The

00:47:39.360 --> 00:47:41.619
instant thought that everybody had was, if you

00:47:41.619 --> 00:47:43.460
can find a way to rock over this, it's an absolute

00:47:43.460 --> 00:47:46.099
smash hit. As long as the guy doesn't come in

00:47:46.099 --> 00:47:48.400
here and spit some bullshit, it's a home run.

00:47:48.480 --> 00:47:51.300
If he comes in here and he's on fire, you're

00:47:51.300 --> 00:47:53.519
talking about a transcendent story. This is a

00:47:53.519 --> 00:47:56.500
takeover event. For a little while, the entire

00:47:56.500 --> 00:48:00.940
game is yours. And I love the fact that this

00:48:00.940 --> 00:48:04.440
song was their signature song because it really

00:48:04.440 --> 00:48:09.650
speaks. to the vibe of the 90s jazz was pulled

00:48:09.650 --> 00:48:13.389
a lot out of the 90s music and if you did it

00:48:13.389 --> 00:48:15.889
the right way yeah we do this too that's what

00:48:15.889 --> 00:48:17.670
they were saying we do this too we're you know

00:48:17.670 --> 00:48:19.389
and they did it though you had it but you have

00:48:19.389 --> 00:48:21.829
to do it that's what i mean it can't be faked

00:48:21.829 --> 00:48:24.389
if you were phony it's gonna show you can't do

00:48:24.389 --> 00:48:27.670
this you can't fake this and honestly here come

00:48:27.670 --> 00:48:30.750
the lords 30 years later is still one of my favorite

00:48:30.750 --> 00:48:33.510
hip -hop albums of all time Absolutely. Great

00:48:33.510 --> 00:48:35.369
album. Great album. It's a great album. It's

00:48:35.369 --> 00:48:37.670
a great vibe. I'm going to show a little bit

00:48:37.670 --> 00:48:42.090
of love to the other dog here. So I want to keep

00:48:42.090 --> 00:48:45.449
the party going. You know, we kicked in the door,

00:48:45.510 --> 00:48:48.630
you know, right off the bat with Slant and Snoop

00:48:48.630 --> 00:48:50.489
followed up with just one of the foggiest songs.

00:48:50.769 --> 00:48:52.889
You know, this is who I am here. You know, I'm

00:48:52.889 --> 00:48:55.389
here, everybody. Kind of throw it out. So what's

00:48:55.389 --> 00:48:58.349
my name? You know, we got a vibe going on here.

00:48:58.690 --> 00:49:01.610
I'm going to go with a kid. that put out a cool

00:49:01.610 --> 00:49:06.150
song with a cool vibe might you you know i'm

00:49:06.150 --> 00:49:08.489
not a super big jazz person so you would probably

00:49:08.489 --> 00:49:11.530
know more than me the level of influence it could

00:49:11.530 --> 00:49:14.269
have there but in that same kind of vein but

00:49:14.269 --> 00:49:17.369
most of that jazzy shit was coming out of new

00:49:17.369 --> 00:49:20.130
york you know i'm gonna go with somebody who

00:49:20.130 --> 00:49:23.030
was not and we're gonna go with diddy by a paper

00:49:23.030 --> 00:49:27.539
boy nice that song was a great song man It's

00:49:27.539 --> 00:49:29.719
one that you just, you heard it and you instantly

00:49:29.719 --> 00:49:32.199
liked it. So like, you know, if I give you a

00:49:32.199 --> 00:49:34.699
basketball, it doesn't matter if you miss 10

00:49:34.699 --> 00:49:36.400
shots, like if we're just hanging at the park,

00:49:36.440 --> 00:49:39.340
but, but if you dunk it, it's still kind of a

00:49:39.340 --> 00:49:41.719
great day. You know what I mean? Like, yeah,

00:49:41.739 --> 00:49:44.260
yeah. I missed a shot. You saw that dunk. So

00:49:44.260 --> 00:49:47.019
this dude came in and dunked. What do you want?

00:49:47.119 --> 00:49:49.659
You know, like, all right. So maybe I'm not Mike

00:49:49.659 --> 00:49:51.679
and I'm not LeBron. I'm not hanging with a dunk

00:49:51.679 --> 00:49:55.320
though. In the game. That's what he did. He came

00:49:55.320 --> 00:49:57.639
in and he dunked, and it's a good song. I mean,

00:49:57.679 --> 00:49:59.920
you're sampling Zapp's Do Why Did He Blow That

00:49:59.920 --> 00:50:03.380
Thing and James Brown's Funky President. That

00:50:03.380 --> 00:50:06.599
song was all over pop radio and hip -hop radio.

00:50:06.900 --> 00:50:10.519
Yeah, I dunked that bit at 360. It was everywhere,

00:50:11.539 --> 00:50:14.480
that song, and it's undeniable. But it's one

00:50:14.480 --> 00:50:17.800
of those songs that's so undeniable, it's shocking

00:50:17.800 --> 00:50:20.289
to me that... There really wasn't much follow

00:50:20.289 --> 00:50:22.829
up to it. I don't know why the label didn't think

00:50:22.829 --> 00:50:26.289
to capitalize on this or were they just so busy

00:50:26.289 --> 00:50:28.309
trying to jump to the next thing that he kind

00:50:28.309 --> 00:50:31.530
of got lost behind because this song is an absolute

00:50:31.530 --> 00:50:35.550
banger. And of course I had it on my list. And

00:50:35.550 --> 00:50:38.690
now following that up, I think I know exactly

00:50:38.690 --> 00:50:41.170
what I'm going to do. All right, let's go. Let's

00:50:41.170 --> 00:50:43.210
go. Because we're talking about big samples here.

00:50:43.610 --> 00:50:46.150
So if you're going to sample George Clinton's

00:50:46.150 --> 00:50:50.429
Atomic Dog and Larry Young's Spaceball, you got

00:50:50.429 --> 00:50:52.610
to do it right. Just like all these other songs

00:50:52.610 --> 00:50:55.469
we're talking about. DJ Lethal from House of

00:50:55.469 --> 00:50:57.789
Pain and Limp Bizkit. I know Limp Bizkit catches

00:50:57.789 --> 00:51:00.510
hell, but Limp Bizkit was a big group. That first

00:51:00.510 --> 00:51:02.650
album was a five star. I think they did a great

00:51:02.650 --> 00:51:06.539
job. Come on. Exactly. Might be silly. DJ Lethal

00:51:06.539 --> 00:51:08.559
was one of the producers of this track, and you

00:51:08.559 --> 00:51:11.059
could feel it in the vibe that this track brings,

00:51:11.219 --> 00:51:14.880
as well as, I talked about him before, DJ Muggs

00:51:14.880 --> 00:51:16.860
from House of Pain and Cypress Hill. So you bring

00:51:16.860 --> 00:51:19.679
those two together, and then you combine it with

00:51:19.679 --> 00:51:23.139
a Los Angeles Latino hip -hop group, and you

00:51:23.139 --> 00:51:27.019
get Bow Wow Wow from Funk Dubious. Oops. Hey.

00:51:27.139 --> 00:51:30.380
This, to me, is boom bap rap at its absolute

00:51:30.380 --> 00:51:34.360
friggin' finest. The delivery. Your head's moving.

00:51:34.480 --> 00:51:37.260
You could dance to it. It's got crossover appeal.

00:51:38.079 --> 00:51:40.079
I don't even know how to say it. The song makes

00:51:40.079 --> 00:51:43.599
me happy. The song makes me smile. It's fun.

00:51:43.880 --> 00:51:47.760
It just breathes that positive energy. And it's

00:51:47.760 --> 00:51:49.639
one of those songs that at a party, when you

00:51:49.639 --> 00:51:53.639
hear that, like everyone just starts going crazy

00:51:53.639 --> 00:51:56.840
and the song still holds up. I was able, finally,

00:51:56.840 --> 00:51:59.840
I had it for decades on cassette. I finally got

00:51:59.840 --> 00:52:03.570
the CD of this and I was so stoked. to finally

00:52:03.570 --> 00:52:06.670
spin this disc, and this song holds up to me

00:52:06.670 --> 00:52:09.550
like some of the best hip -hop of all the 90s,

00:52:09.550 --> 00:52:14.030
so Funk Dubious Bow Wow Wow. Great pick. You

00:52:14.030 --> 00:52:15.349
could have said it better, man. You could have

00:52:15.349 --> 00:52:18.590
said it better. That boom bap is solid, and the

00:52:18.590 --> 00:52:21.210
way he just rides that, the way they get on that

00:52:21.210 --> 00:52:24.230
song and just absolutely control it from start

00:52:24.230 --> 00:52:28.469
to finish is masterful. It's artful. It's soulful.

00:52:28.929 --> 00:52:32.599
It's a great track. It's when it's tough to follow

00:52:32.599 --> 00:52:35.760
up, so I am going to go fast and furious and

00:52:35.760 --> 00:52:39.699
pull the e -brake, okay? Not so much in vibe

00:52:39.699 --> 00:52:41.179
-wise. I'm going to keep the party going again,

00:52:41.320 --> 00:52:43.619
but like a lot of 93 parties, I'm going to jump

00:52:43.619 --> 00:52:46.699
spot to spot, hit you with the home runs, and

00:52:46.699 --> 00:52:50.920
I would feel remiss if I left the spot open and

00:52:50.920 --> 00:52:54.360
didn't fill it with a lady or ladies because

00:52:54.360 --> 00:52:57.960
they were also big contributors to 93, but you

00:52:57.960 --> 00:53:01.110
drop light. So I'm going to do this. For the

00:53:01.110 --> 00:53:03.550
women that listen to our mixtapes and are fans

00:53:03.550 --> 00:53:06.429
of hip -hop and R &B, the stuff they used to

00:53:06.429 --> 00:53:08.469
get down to in the 90s. And I'm going to throw

00:53:08.469 --> 00:53:13.070
Salt -N -Pepa's Shoop. Nice. Yeah. That's a song

00:53:13.070 --> 00:53:18.389
that comes on. Girls love that song. For the

00:53:18.389 --> 00:53:20.710
writer, it's a great song. And you could get

00:53:20.710 --> 00:53:23.090
out there and you could, they're killing at a

00:53:23.090 --> 00:53:24.789
joint. You know what I mean? They're talking

00:53:24.789 --> 00:53:26.349
about some lady shit, but they're putting it

00:53:26.349 --> 00:53:28.829
down. They're funky. And if you can't get out

00:53:28.829 --> 00:53:30.510
there and just kind of like two -step with your

00:53:30.510 --> 00:53:33.090
girl, then what are you doing there? Come on.

00:53:33.369 --> 00:53:35.409
So it's a great song. I think we got to show

00:53:35.409 --> 00:53:38.050
some love real quick. It's not always about just

00:53:38.050 --> 00:53:40.489
ripping the mic or being super deep into it.

00:53:40.510 --> 00:53:43.170
Sometimes it's just about having fun. And these

00:53:43.170 --> 00:53:45.670
ladies came out and had fun in a dope, dope way

00:53:45.670 --> 00:53:48.010
and set it off. And it was a great song. So shoot,

00:53:48.130 --> 00:53:50.980
salt and pepper. You're talking longevity before

00:53:50.980 --> 00:53:53.760
with MC Lyte. Salt -N -Pepa had Push It in the

00:53:53.760 --> 00:53:57.159
80s, so you could kind of feel the 80s vibe on

00:53:57.159 --> 00:54:01.019
that song. If they didn't change course, they

00:54:01.019 --> 00:54:03.579
would have been seen as dinosaurs in the 90s.

00:54:03.699 --> 00:54:06.019
Same thing like Run DMC did with Down With The

00:54:06.019 --> 00:54:08.039
King. Not only did they didn't change course,

00:54:08.119 --> 00:54:11.780
but this, you can't do like, remember that movie

00:54:11.780 --> 00:54:14.159
where they play Rock of Ages? Yes. And then they're

00:54:14.159 --> 00:54:15.719
like, okay, rock is dead. So they try to take

00:54:15.719 --> 00:54:18.239
the kid and turn him from Colt Van Boy or whatever

00:54:18.239 --> 00:54:20.460
his name was, turn him into Justin Timberlake

00:54:20.460 --> 00:54:22.639
and stuff like that. It doesn't work. You can't

00:54:22.639 --> 00:54:25.260
evolve with the music if you evolve out of who

00:54:25.260 --> 00:54:28.800
you are. Exactly. Just like you couldn't fake

00:54:28.800 --> 00:54:31.340
it, get on a jazz beat, you couldn't fake it

00:54:31.340 --> 00:54:34.059
in 93 hip hop because it would be noticed. There's

00:54:34.059 --> 00:54:37.000
too much originality and genuine workaround for

00:54:37.000 --> 00:54:39.139
you to come in and be a phony and not stand out.

00:54:39.400 --> 00:54:41.780
So it's not going to work. And they not only

00:54:41.780 --> 00:54:44.699
evolved, but they grew as artists. It was in

00:54:44.699 --> 00:54:47.980
them. It's LeBron James in year 18. Yeah, I know

00:54:47.980 --> 00:54:50.559
I'm 36, and I could still do this better than

00:54:50.559 --> 00:54:52.480
most of you. So let's just keep going until I

00:54:52.480 --> 00:54:55.099
say it. That's what they did, and it's impressive.

00:54:55.579 --> 00:54:58.980
And here we are in 2023, and I can think of a

00:54:58.980 --> 00:55:01.820
million different movie references for Shoop.

00:55:01.940 --> 00:55:05.019
However, the one that I always go to is the beginning

00:55:05.019 --> 00:55:07.239
of Deadpool, where he's sitting on the edge of

00:55:07.239 --> 00:55:10.170
the overpass. And he got the song played right

00:55:10.170 --> 00:55:12.789
before he drops down off the underpass into the

00:55:12.789 --> 00:55:16.230
car and starts doing those Deadpool things. He

00:55:16.230 --> 00:55:18.170
picked it for a reason. You know, it's everything

00:55:18.170 --> 00:55:20.269
in that movie is done for a reason. And it was,

00:55:20.269 --> 00:55:21.710
yeah, it was a perfect, it was a perfect pick

00:55:21.710 --> 00:55:23.710
even there. So, hand me back, bro. What are we

00:55:23.710 --> 00:55:25.050
doing? We got, what do we got? Two left each?

00:55:25.150 --> 00:55:29.030
Two left. I got one song. And looking at this

00:55:29.030 --> 00:55:31.110
side, I'm like scrolling through and we've got

00:55:31.110 --> 00:55:34.190
some. fantastic jams and some iconic artists

00:55:34.190 --> 00:55:36.650
and i've only got one song left and i'm scrolling

00:55:36.650 --> 00:55:40.570
through my picks and coming out of shoop i feel

00:55:40.570 --> 00:55:44.949
like i gotta go big for my last song so i am

00:55:44.949 --> 00:55:48.929
gonna go big with somebody who made his name

00:55:48.929 --> 00:55:52.469
in both the group setting as well as a solo artist

00:55:53.150 --> 00:55:57.530
And there's 1993, much more Baye Younce. I am

00:55:57.530 --> 00:56:01.090
going with Ice Cube's Bop Gun, One Nation from

00:56:01.090 --> 00:56:04.530
Lethal Injection. If you're sampling One Nation

00:56:04.530 --> 00:56:07.630
under a groove by Funkadelic, you got to bring

00:56:07.630 --> 00:56:10.469
it hard because that song is an absolute classic.

00:56:10.750 --> 00:56:13.710
Now, something different about this song, which

00:56:13.710 --> 00:56:17.090
is why I'm excited to include it. The radio version

00:56:17.090 --> 00:56:21.340
that we know is 4 minutes and 48 seconds. However,

00:56:21.539 --> 00:56:24.880
if you bought the album like I did in the 90s,

00:56:24.920 --> 00:56:30.820
the album cut is 11 minutes and six seconds long.

00:56:31.239 --> 00:56:35.280
And you know what? It feels about as long as

00:56:35.280 --> 00:56:37.639
the four minute version because it just grooves

00:56:37.639 --> 00:56:40.460
the entire time. Don't want it to stop. That

00:56:40.460 --> 00:56:46.079
took brass to do that in 1993 because most hip

00:56:46.079 --> 00:56:48.920
hop songs were get in, get out. This song was

00:56:48.920 --> 00:56:51.329
like, we're here. And we're not going anywhere.

00:56:51.530 --> 00:56:55.289
So as much as I enjoy the radio version when

00:56:55.289 --> 00:56:57.750
it comes on, if I'm putting it on a mixtape,

00:56:57.869 --> 00:57:00.449
I want this to be kind of the culmination of

00:57:00.449 --> 00:57:02.869
the party. We're taking that 11 -minute version

00:57:02.869 --> 00:57:04.889
and milking it for every note it's worth. Ice

00:57:04.889 --> 00:57:08.929
Cube's Bop Gun, One Nation. Yeah, killer choice.

00:57:09.010 --> 00:57:10.730
That's Ice Cube being Ice Cube. That's all it

00:57:10.730 --> 00:57:14.190
is. The guy, I mean, we had a guy who almost

00:57:14.190 --> 00:57:16.210
made my list here. I mean, I was going to put

00:57:16.210 --> 00:57:21.519
Eazy -E, Real MFGs. you know ice cube wrote easy's

00:57:21.519 --> 00:57:26.159
first album then he wrote nwa's first album then

00:57:26.159 --> 00:57:28.820
he wrote his first album and they were all just

00:57:28.820 --> 00:57:30.719
like they're in the top 20 greatest albums of

00:57:30.719 --> 00:57:33.139
all time like that's that's crazy man that's

00:57:33.139 --> 00:57:35.539
crazy he's he's one of the greatest probably

00:57:35.539 --> 00:57:37.659
one of the most underrated emcees of all time

00:57:37.659 --> 00:57:40.519
as well he would be in my top five most underrated

00:57:40.519 --> 00:57:42.179
for as much accolades as you get when everybody

00:57:42.179 --> 00:57:44.619
talks about You know, who's the best rapper of

00:57:44.619 --> 00:57:47.019
all time? It's Biggie. It's Tupac. You know,

00:57:47.059 --> 00:57:48.539
it's Big Pun. It's people like that. It's Jay

00:57:48.539 --> 00:57:50.840
-Z. It's people like that. It takes a minute

00:57:50.840 --> 00:57:53.480
to get to Cube on that list. You know, it's Eminem.

00:57:53.559 --> 00:57:56.300
It's these guys. So, and I don't think that anybody,

00:57:56.599 --> 00:57:59.179
you know, nobody has anything over him. There

00:57:59.179 --> 00:58:00.940
are people, ah, it's good. It's great. But nobody

00:58:00.940 --> 00:58:02.639
has it. Like, he's as good as he gets in it,

00:58:02.699 --> 00:58:05.579
Bob. So, I think that's a smash, smash pick.

00:58:05.699 --> 00:58:08.019
I had, it was a good day on my list, too, by

00:58:08.019 --> 00:58:09.739
the way. There you go. That's another great one.

00:58:09.760 --> 00:58:12.559
Now, I'll tell you this. If Ice Cube can record

00:58:12.559 --> 00:58:17.820
a song that five years later gets re -recorded

00:58:17.820 --> 00:58:21.079
by one of the heaviest nu metal groups in Korn

00:58:21.079 --> 00:58:25.460
with the Deftones, which is their cover of Wicked,

00:58:25.500 --> 00:58:30.340
and Ice Cube's still is heavier, that just goes

00:58:30.340 --> 00:58:33.480
to show that this guy... It hits harder. The

00:58:33.480 --> 00:58:35.900
original Wicked hits harder than Korn's version.

00:58:36.119 --> 00:58:38.099
You tried to make it harder. You did a good job,

00:58:38.139 --> 00:58:41.800
but it's a hole -in -one. at the masters you

00:58:41.800 --> 00:58:44.820
know you can't do it any better well doug you

00:58:44.820 --> 00:58:47.019
got to kick things off at the beginning of side

00:58:47.019 --> 00:58:51.239
a and you also get the pleasure honor or horror

00:58:51.239 --> 00:58:53.679
depending on where we're going here of having

00:58:53.679 --> 00:58:56.539
to close out with one song which means every

00:58:56.539 --> 00:58:59.480
other song that we have on our list is floating

00:58:59.480 --> 00:59:01.920
in the ethos and you're about to let down a bunch

00:59:01.920 --> 00:59:05.980
of those great jams yep but There's got to be

00:59:05.980 --> 00:59:07.960
a closer here. So what do you got for me? I am

00:59:07.960 --> 00:59:10.880
prepared to make the hard decisions, Brian. All

00:59:10.880 --> 00:59:14.440
right. As much as it breaks my heart. So good

00:59:14.440 --> 00:59:17.139
people of the podcast world, we're going to close

00:59:17.139 --> 00:59:20.039
this by doing something Brian just said he did.

00:59:20.139 --> 00:59:23.900
He said he was going to go big. He did with the

00:59:23.900 --> 00:59:27.800
Ice Cube song. I am going to go big, literally.

00:59:28.960 --> 00:59:33.360
And I'm going to go B -I -G and Tupac Shakur.

00:59:34.090 --> 00:59:37.849
the 93 freestyle. I got seven Mac -11s, about

00:59:37.849 --> 00:59:41.510
eight 38s, where it's Biggie Smalls and Tupac

00:59:41.510 --> 00:59:44.869
Shakur. They didn't drop the song publicly for

00:59:44.869 --> 00:59:48.210
a few years, but it was on mixtapes unofficially

00:59:48.210 --> 00:59:50.789
in 93. That's going to be my pick to close the

00:59:50.789 --> 00:59:54.110
show. What gets you hyper in 93? Then the guy

00:59:54.110 --> 00:59:57.130
who was the hottest MC in 92, Tupac Shakur, and

00:59:57.130 --> 01:00:00.550
Biggie Smalls when he's just about to drop Ready

01:00:00.550 --> 01:00:03.719
to Die a year later. This is all his stuff that's

01:00:03.719 --> 01:00:05.360
coming to the surface when he's on tour doing

01:00:05.360 --> 01:00:08.280
party and bullshit and songs like that. My closer,

01:00:08.460 --> 01:00:11.559
Biggie and Tupac's 93 Freestyle. Perfect way

01:00:11.559 --> 01:00:14.260
to close it. I had Tupac on my list with another

01:00:14.260 --> 01:00:17.460
collaboration, but I had I Get Around featuring

01:00:17.460 --> 01:00:20.239
Digital Underground, which again, still went

01:00:20.239 --> 01:00:22.599
strong because when you think about it, if it

01:00:22.599 --> 01:00:25.400
wasn't for Digital Underground, Tupac wouldn't

01:00:25.400 --> 01:00:27.300
be a thing because he was introduced on same

01:00:27.300 --> 01:00:30.480
song back in 91. And this was him when he was

01:00:30.480 --> 01:00:33.079
blowing up. showing that love back to Digital

01:00:33.079 --> 01:00:35.199
Underground. Yeah, he was in a moment of trouble.

01:00:35.579 --> 01:00:37.360
Yeah, Gomez Knight and I want to hear this part,

01:00:37.460 --> 01:00:39.079
but that was a great song and a not -so -great

01:00:39.079 --> 01:00:41.920
movie for me. But regardless, when you add Biggie

01:00:41.920 --> 01:00:44.760
to the mix, it definitely elevates it for the

01:00:44.760 --> 01:00:47.019
perfect crescendo on this year. I'll tell you

01:00:47.019 --> 01:00:50.659
right now, Doug, with this list, looking across

01:00:50.659 --> 01:00:54.840
both sides, if we were to have called this episode...

01:00:56.019 --> 01:00:59.099
1990s hip -hop and didn't even say a year. We

01:00:59.099 --> 01:01:02.760
could drop this playlist all from the same year

01:01:02.760 --> 01:01:06.059
and it would still pass for a decade's encapsulation

01:01:06.059 --> 01:01:09.820
of the music. If I were to make a 93 hip -hop

01:01:09.820 --> 01:01:11.960
playlist like we're trying to accomplish right

01:01:11.960 --> 01:01:14.519
now in real life, it would have been one of those

01:01:14.519 --> 01:01:16.639
playlists. where the writing on the cassette

01:01:16.639 --> 01:01:19.300
cover is super small, because there's like 17,

01:01:19.559 --> 01:01:22.280
18 songs on the first half, and there's 22 on

01:01:22.280 --> 01:01:24.059
the second half, and you squeeze, like, there's

01:01:24.059 --> 01:01:27.320
absolutely almost no dead air on your Maxell

01:01:27.320 --> 01:01:29.679
cassette tape in between songs. You got all that

01:01:29.679 --> 01:01:32.579
on it. And I still would feel like I'd have to

01:01:32.579 --> 01:01:34.340
make part one and part two and part three, even

01:01:34.340 --> 01:01:37.480
with that many songs. So that's just 93, never

01:01:37.480 --> 01:01:40.300
mind 90s, you know, in general. Almost any year.

01:01:40.679 --> 01:01:42.980
of the 90s i believe can represent the entire

01:01:42.980 --> 01:01:48.139
decade but few have such a deep well in each

01:01:48.139 --> 01:01:51.400
division that carry out throughout the decade

01:01:51.400 --> 01:01:54.079
um we have the group thing you know with people

01:01:54.079 --> 01:01:57.000
like tribe and outcasts you know i know we were

01:01:57.000 --> 01:01:59.099
all diggable planets that were cypress hill you

01:01:59.099 --> 01:02:02.139
know we have the individual thing in snoop and

01:02:02.139 --> 01:02:04.920
you have biggie uh tupac you know running around

01:02:04.920 --> 01:02:06.460
you have biggie out there you have people like

01:02:06.460 --> 01:02:09.530
that that are just about about to change the

01:02:09.530 --> 01:02:12.429
sound of music forever. It's hard to find that

01:02:12.429 --> 01:02:16.849
much quality and that much quantity in one place.

01:02:17.389 --> 01:02:20.329
Amen. And we certainly, I think, did that, which

01:02:20.329 --> 01:02:24.289
concludes side B of our 1993 year in rap and

01:02:24.289 --> 01:02:27.110
hip hop mixtape, which kicked off with Onyx's

01:02:27.110 --> 01:02:31.070
Slam, Snoop Dogg, What's My Name, MC Lyte's Roughneck,

01:02:31.329 --> 01:02:34.869
Wu -Tang Clan's Method Man, Lords of the Underground,

01:02:35.070 --> 01:02:39.099
Chief Raka, Paperboy's Diddy. Funk Dubious, Spow

01:02:39.099 --> 01:02:42.820
Wow Wow, Salt -N -Pepa Shoop, Ice Cube's Bop

01:02:42.820 --> 01:02:46.539
Gun, One Nation, and Notorious B .I .G. and Tupac

01:02:46.539 --> 01:02:50.460
live freestyle. Head over to myweeklymixtape

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01:02:53.440 --> 01:02:56.639
in this mix through the playlist embedded on

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the episode page. Doug, why don't you tell people

01:02:59.739 --> 01:03:01.760
where they can learn a little bit more about

01:03:01.760 --> 01:03:04.579
you and connect with you on social media? You

01:03:04.579 --> 01:03:06.559
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01:03:06.559 --> 01:03:09.000
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01:03:09.000 --> 01:03:12.440
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01:03:12.440 --> 01:03:15.199
to talk about the music stuff and uh you know

01:03:15.199 --> 01:03:17.139
there's more things to come so i hope you enjoyed

01:03:17.139 --> 01:03:19.239
the mixtape and i can't wait to hear your feedback

01:03:19.239 --> 01:03:22.980
by all means definitely send it our way doug

01:03:22.980 --> 01:03:25.659
as always it's a blast talking tunes with you

01:03:25.659 --> 01:03:27.519
i can't wait to do it again thanks for joining

01:03:27.519 --> 01:03:30.199
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