Throwback Friday: N.E.R.D – Provider
There are two bands that are instant go-tos when it comes to expressing my emotions. The Foreign Exchange touches the mindset whenever I’m feeling introspective and searching for answers. N.E.R.D captures the moments of happiness and everything in between. With everything that revolves around the mind of Pharrell Williams, N.E.R.D may be his greatest vanity [...]
Throwback Friday: Lil Keke – Still Pimpin The Pen
Houston is a city littered with stories of those who should have made it big in their respective fields but for some circumstance never did. Lil Keke is probably the linchpin for that sentiment. When the SUC put together three consecutive releases of great Houston hip-hop, culminating with Fat Pat’s Ghetto Dreams, Keke’s Don’t Mess [...]
Throwback Friday: UGK – Murder
I dare someone to try and argue me down that Bun’s verse on “Murder” isn’t his best verse ever and probably the best verse ever made from someone born below the Mason Dixon line. It’s moments like these that give even more evidence to the fact that Trill OG for all its acclaim and national [...]
Throwbck Friday: Queen Latifah – U.N.I.T.Y.
While traveling through the Cellar Bar last night with Young Sea & Jay-Von and listening to a mass of soon to be acclaimed Houston producers, the DJ cut this track on and immediately my inner circle started nodding in approval. It’s a shame that the Queen really doesn’t have anything left to prove as a [...]
Throwback Friday: Original Flavor – Can I Get Open (f. Jay-Z)
Before he opened up a Karate Dojo this year, Ski Beatz was just Ski, a rapper/producer on the rise and a member of the group Original Flavor. Sponsored in small part by Combat Jack‘s article over at Complex about the true stories of how he was involved in some of hip-hop’s classic tracks and albums, [...]
Throwback Friday: Big Tymers – Get Ur Roll On
Fun Fact about this song? I got in trouble once in middle school for printing the lyrics (back when THAT was cool) and leaving them at home on accident for my mother to read. Yeah, Mannie Fresh you owe me big for that one. Anyway, back in the days where everybody on the label rapped [...]
Throwback Friday: The Pharcyde – Drop
Technically, the video is backwards but forwards if that makes any sense. Like them or not, The Pharcyde have a serious cult following that stretches way beyond “Passin’ Me By” & “Runnin’” and pretty much set a lot of standards they don’t get credit for.
Throwback Friday: Ruff Ryders – WW III
Watching this when I was younger made me instantly think that Snoop was gonna be with Ruff Ryders, knowing he’s changed labels more than Kat Stacks adds phone numbers. I think it’s one of the best “simple” beats Swizz Beatz ever created for those Ruff Ryder compilations, even though the most well known song they [...]
Throwback Friday: Nicole Wray – Make It Hot (f. Missy Elliott)
Ah, the 90s. When R&B singers were coming out of the woodworks and half of them had Missy Elliott involved in their careers. If you had the tandem of Missy & Timbaland behind you production wise, you weren’t going to lose. Aaliyah, Ginuwine, Playa & Tweet all had success with the Virginia duo helping them [...]
Throwback Friday: Big Mike – Havin’ Thangs (f. Pimp C)
Another Friday, another old school Texas hit for people. Like many, Big Mike should have blown up on a national level but things soured out after this hit the top ten on the rap charts in the mid 90s. Yes, that a young Pimp on the hook.
