Comments on: Underrated / Underhated #8

By: Mr Bozack

Mr Bozack — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 14:07:13 +0000

Yeh and, following on from that^ Finesse joint off Trespass – how about the Gang Starr and Black Sheep tunes on there?

By: monster beat

monster beat — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 18:15:40 +0000

yeah, all them and not forgetting:

L.O.N.S. ‘shining star’
nice & Smooth ‘pananoia’
eric sermon ‘hittin switches’
lord finesse ‘you know what i’m about’

By: brian beck from wiscompton

brian beck from wiscompton — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 15:07:06 +0000

I Sparkle by Rick is up there with the best soundtrack-only rap songs of all time too.

Top soundtrack-only rap songs, anyone?

Ice-T – Colors
UGK – Pocket Full Of Stones remix
MC Eiht – Str8 Up Menace
Melle Mel – Beat Street Breakdown
Biggie – Party And Bullshit
Dre & Cube – Natural Born Killaz
Lady Of Rage – Afro Puffs
Tha Dogg Pound – What Would U Do?
De La Soul – I Can’t Call It
Slick Rick – I Sparkle

By: monster beat

monster beat — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 11:05:52 +0000

yeah, defo brian, the audio quality’s a bit poor on some of them, but I’d rather listen to some low quality slick rick gems than a lot of second rate MC’s. He always picks nice beats too, the kind of shit you wish other great MC’s would rap on instead of what they do use.

By: brian beck from wiscompton

brian beck from wiscompton — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 09:04:10 +0000

It was an unreleased tune. Slick Rick has the best catalogue of unreleased gems this side of Mobb Deep. He Kills, A Letter 2, Captain Caveman, Star Trek and Sleazy Gynecologist are all classic Rick.

By: monster beat

monster beat — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 23:07:18 +0000

anyone else got a 12″ called ‘why you doing that’ by slick rick? The shit is ridiculous, one of those you can play all day on repeat, I don’t know much about it, some bootleg ish I think, but it may have been on an album. Such a tune.

By: tu-park (as timmy would say)

tu-park (as timmy would say) — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 16:04:26 +0000

slick rick could possibly be the only old school mc still doing it who still sounds as fresh as when we first heard him back then.. Behind bars, underated? Everyone I know thought it was dope. As for pac, the only solo tunes I liked were ‘i get around’ and a couple of others off the ‘strictly 4 my…’ lp, I can see why he’s an icon and all that, but to me he’s way down the MC-ometer compared to ricky d.

By: sg

sg — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 13:51:21 +0000

always liked the first three 2-pac lp’s, not classics but a good listen. Like all things when people die they always become better in the eyes of the world. Big pun (the Duncan Edwards of Hip Hop) being the finest example. Lets hope soulja boy lives a long and happy life.

By: Smooth Da Hustler

Smooth Da Hustler — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 22:56:25 +0000

No respect for the dead.

By: Alan Partridge

Alan Partridge — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 22:25:14 +0000

YES!

Excellent shout on ‘Behind Bars’. I bought it on cassette when it first came out, and although it’s not “classic” in the, erm, classic sense of the word, it was, and still is, a really enjoyable listen. ‘A Love That’s True Pt. 1′ is an odd one. It was definitly my favourite song on the album (excluding ‘It’s A Boy Remix’). You’re right, it shouldn’t have worked as a song. I remember thinking the beat kinda sounded a bit Ace Of Base-ish, but somehow Ricky D makes it work. It goes to show the difference giving a beat to the right emcee can make, as it would’ve sounded wack with anyone else rhyming over it.

I really loved the Warren G remix too. Personally I think Warren G actually adds something to the song lyrically too, but if you disagree there is a version of the Warren G remix which appears on the single which has an extra Slick Rick verse instead of Warren G’s verse. So there!