Showing posts with label Rae. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rae. Show all posts

Sunday, August 9, 2009

Saturday its a Saturday

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Yup, its been a hell of a weekend so far. Went to Arts Beats and Lyrics, my homie Dubelyoos' jump off Friday night hosted by Gentleman Jack Daniels.....got my real grown man on. Not really tilted but a nice slush. Wifey on the other hand got towed down. Had a blast man, saw some good art and ended up being on 1. Only thing is that I come to the realization that we aint real compatible with folks like that. Our viewpoints are a lil worldly so it's hard to feign interest in topical bullshit. Just noting it, but we realized that when we rolls out it aint easy to gel, maybe it comes from a lack of faith and trust in folk, dunno.

Yesterday was a big red X day cuz I aint do too much, rolled out the crib mid-late afternoon and ran into Smiff and Wessun and chopped it up wit them for a few.
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Tehy was hanging out by Vinnie's Styles and getting ready to do a show later that night. I ain't make it but I have seen these cats numerous times over the years, they get busy...plus they have my No.1 Tree burning anthem album Dah Shinin".

Went home from running around and walk in to the smell of home cooked food and beef on the internets. Krazy....tho I had a feeling in the gut that something would go down. I think Buddens is aiight and have always felt that way. Never was above avg. to me personally, but he has some joints. The problem lies in the slick talk. It doesnt matter what you say in the comfort of your club house around your peeps or how hard u wanna make yourself out to be online, when real street dudes get involved all that shit goes out the window. Now I know the beef was squashed, but I also noticed that son was still talking slick after the fact about Deck and Rae and still saying that he had a subliminal diss to Mef on the slaughthouse album. My thing is this: why keep running your jibs if the beef is over? why publicize that u may have taken shots(subliminal at that)? why even put that energy out there? I know why, to save face for having apologized for some some shit that shouldn't have even gone there. Now the real embarrassment comes, because I was watching the aftermath of what happened and it was some shaking, a little crying, a little bit of wound licking and a whole lot of whining and dry snitching. Now this is what i be talking about being Live in this internet era. If you think you are Live, let the people tell it like they did back in the day thru word of mouth, not you "pretending" to be a live dude for youtube. The thing is that when cards get pulled there is no way around it. Yes, the internet soldier die hards is gonna say it was pussy for Rae to go over there with multiple people, but at the end of the day, if you rolling with 4 cats that you came with and been rolling with all day and you find out where son is to talk to him, it aint pussy for them to roll with you, because you could be in the room with 30 people and he rolls in with 4 to confront you. People all have their biases and will spin it any kind of way to defend an artist they have invested a gig f space to on their computer and have defended in the multiple beefs. I understand. The L came from the horses own mouth for behaving a lil tender in front of the cam for an hour after the event occurred.

Tuesday, October 7, 2008

Albums that defined us...............Only Built for the REAL!!

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Haven't felt this way in a long time, but everything about this period in my life was crazy.........We would play spades,get tilted,chase chicks,freestyle,get fly,rumble,strategize and build and this was the soundtrack to our lives.....................

Easily the best and most definitive WU record(in my opinion even tho' I get into Liquid Swords arguments all the time) but this one had it all. I remember listening to Power 99 late one night a few days before this album dropped......and they played the entire thing.....I don't even know if they edited it like that......but I still remeber how amped I was at hearing the rawness coming out of my speakers. I built with Akil the next day and I think he had taped it,but we were just blown away at how much better Ghost had gotten and how precise and intense the songs were. I had to get a pair of Clarks off the strength and I messed alot of peoples heads up when they saw me wit em(I ordered them direct because NO STORES had them in Philly or Jerz at the time). Listening to this album now I get the same feeling as when I first heard it. This album defined how me and my peoples felt we were at the time, just being those exclusive fly dudes around the way. This album has stayed in my cars since 1995. The cars have changed but the Purple Tape remains.......I have actually met both Rae and Ghost on seperate occasions and both are very humble cats with larger than life personas. Matter of fact one of the best shows I've ever been to was a few years ago. It was Slick Rick opening up for Rae,Ghost and Cappadonna. ALL The hits were played from various albums but I really really lost it when I heard "Yo,Yo check out the rap kingpin the black jesus I know a few niggaz sniff coke and caught seizures..........Then I almost dropped a tear when they did "Fish" from Ghost's album.

I also feel as tho' this album had the best RZA peak production,had the dopest skits and even though there were a lot of features(all the Wu minus ol dirty)the album was still Rae and Ghost definitively. Masta Killa did have the best verse of his career too(Glaciers of Ice, moving motionless mysterious swiftness).


Readers and listeners, this is why I could care less about the bile and trashiosity of the stuff I hear today. I'm still trapped in that Cuban Linx era. Still mad about the Source hearing this album and being shook to give it the 5 mics it deserved. Whoever gave it 4 and a half should smack themselves at least once a day.
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Picked up this video over at philaflava.blogspot.com......Just coincidentally check their blog out and peeped this so I had to add it to this post. They got some flava over there as well.