The Baby Bubbasġ1 ‘Heartbeat’ – KRS-One feat. KB Man ChildĠ7 ‘Flashback’ – Tha Alkaholiks feat. Butcher‘s old school style freestyle at the end of Kool G Rap and DJ Polo‘s ‘ Jive Talk‘ and the first verse of The Arsonists’ ‘ Rhyme Time Travel.’ĭownload: A Salute To Old School ThrowbacksĠ1 ‘Da Medicine’ – The VeteranzĠ2 ‘B-Side Wins Again’ – Public EnemyĠ6 ‘Party’ – Devin The Dude feat. So break out your Lee jeans, mockneck sweater and Puma suedes for this faux trip down memory lane. While some of these attempts have fallen flat ( Ugly Duckling and People Under The Stairs being two examples that spring to mind), others have made an entire career out of it ( J-5). There’s nothing like pretending to rap like it’s 1985 (or better yet, 1977) well after the fact, or recruiting some veteran MC’s to kick some old styles. Cannot confirm that this was a sample problem since Cormega used the same loop, but this would have been the stand-out from Giancana Story if this version had made it.It was a toss-up between this and ‘Calm Down,’ but I’ve already given that song enough luh on these pages.
Sounds like something from the Low End Theory sessions.There was also the Minnie Ripperton version of ‘Me and My Bitch’ but I prefer this.Biggie Smalls and Lord Tariqġ2 ‘The Dream Shatterer’ – Big Punġ3 ‘Married To Marijuana’ – Capone-N-Noreaga 4ġ4 ‘Thug Chronicles’ – Kool G Rap feat. Incognito’ – A Tribe Called Quest 2ġ0 ‘Thought Work’ – The Roots 3ġ1 ‘Think Big’ – Pudgee feat. 1Ġ5 ‘Ghost Deini’ – Ghostface KillahĠ6 ‘B.L.A.C.K.’ – Black RobĠ7 ‘Your World Don’t Stop’ – AZĠ8 ‘Mr. *LL Cool J voice* You didn’t think I could do it again, did ya? Another Zippyshare album! The jokes on you jack!Ġ2 ‘Nuthin’ Move But Da Money’ – Smif ‘N WessunĠ3 ‘In The World’ – AkinyeleĠ4 ‘Ready To Die’ – The Notorious B.I.G. It’s limited to one pick per artist, otherwise this would have ended up as yet another compilation of Ghostface and Nas songs that couldn’t be cleared. To complete the theme that I’ve running with these past few weeks, here are fifteen rap songs which were either scrapped altogether, released as promo only or re-recorded for the album. and Rakimġ1 ‘Temperature’s Rising’ – Mobb Deepġ2 ‘Behind Bars’ – Slick Rickġ3 ‘Plucking Cards’ – Ultramagnetic MC’sġ4 ‘Green Eggs and Swine’ – 3rd Bass
Sadat XĠ4 ‘More Than One Way Out The Ghetto’ – Showbiz & A.G.Ġ5 ‘Probable Cause’ – Brand NubianĠ6 ‘Give It To ‘Em L’ – Big LĠ7 ‘Brainstorm’ – LateeĠ8 ‘At Large’ – Intelligent HoodlumĠ9 ‘Memory Lane’ – Nasġ0 ‘Don’t Sweat The Technique’ – Eric B. PoloĠ3 ‘Come On Motherfucker’ – Biggie Smalls feat. Since most of you would have have had the retail versions of these songs imprinted on your brain after years of constant rotation, it can be both disconcerting yet refreshing to hear them over totally different beats.ĭownload: A Salute To Scrapped Original VersionsĠ1 ‘Fat For The 90’s’ – Lord Finesse feat A.G.Ġ2 ‘Enter The Dragon’ – Kool G Rap & D.J. In the majority of cases, the final versions are far superior, but there a few songs here which were deemed to be ‘too old sounding’ and suffered from shitty remixes before they were finally released. Unlike tracks which have to get redone because of sample clearance problems, these tracks all seem to have been decided not to be musically strong enough and were taken back to the lab. Following on from last week’s Demo Versions comp, this is a collection of original versions of rap songs which had their beat completely changed for the album.