"Rat-a-tat-tat, its the nappy black cat with no hat Back to chat like super cat with my format black Attack a track like ali with no gloves Pussy shoved to rise above nonsense, lyrics are able Turntable spins, round and round we go Goin for delf, you know, dolo, with a ill flow yo! Whutcha want nine? told you, fat beats like this A pocket full of grip, mic in my fist, no bullshit..."
"Any Emcee" was the second single released from Nine's debut album, Nine Livez. It was released on March 28, 1995 and was produced by Rob Lewis. "Any Emcee" appeared on on three different Billboard charts. The song sampled The Spinners' "I'll Be Around and Eric B. & Rakim's "My Melody".
"Shorty I'm there for you anytime you need me For real girl, it's me in your world, believe me Nuttin make a man feel better than a woman Queen with a crown that be down for whatever There are few things that's forever, my lady We can make war or make babies..."
"I'll Be There for You/You're All I Need to Get By" is a Grammy Award-winning duet performed by rapper Method Man and R&B singer Mary J. Blige. The song is a remix of Method Man's "All I Need" (which appears on his 1994 debut album Tical), with an interpolation of Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell's 1968 hit, "You're All I Need to Get By", with Mary J. Blige singing the choruses, and backing vocals. Another version of the song was released, entitled "Puff Daddy Mix," which was produced by Sean Combs. The song contains a new instrumental which includes a repeated sample ("Lie together, cry together/I swear to God I hope we fuckin' die together") from The Notorious B.I.G.'s "Me & My Bitch". Another remix version, titled "Razor Sharp Mix" was produced by RZA. The song received a platinum certification for single sales of over 1,200,000 in the U.S. making it the only female/rap collaboration to achieve sales of over 1 million (physical) sales in the 90s. The song peaked at #3 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in June, 1995, and #1 on the R&B singles chart in the May 20, 1995 issue of Billboard Magazine - a position it held for three weeks. The song also ended up winning the duo the Grammy Award for Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group in 1996.
"I went from construction Timbs, to Ac's with rims Flippin mix tapes - to bitches feedin me grapes Peep my mind state, Big Poppa flow is lethal That weed wanna make my ass wanna kill four people Fuck the game, gimme the chain and the Range My niggaz up to par, drop-top Jaguars..."
"The Points" is a 1995 single released from the Panther soundtrack featuring 12 of the most popular rap acts of the time. The all-star recording had three different versions produced, the Easy Mo Bee version appeared on the soundtrack, while the other versions produced by DJ U-Neek and Mista Lawnge of Blacksheep appeared on the single release.
"I hit a flow all dipped in lotion Sit back and sip moe as I'm countin' my doe Grand Puba macks well Doogie comin' with the New York We keep it real like jail when we might talk Honies know 'cause when I'm in the set Grand Puba is the one who makes they stink box wet..."
2000 is the second album by hip hop artist Grand Puba of the group Brand Nubian, released in mid-1995 through Elektra Records. The album wasn't as acclaimed as his solo debut Reel to Reel, and wasn't able to sell a significant number of units, despite a Billboard Hot 100 hit, "I Like It (I Wanna Be Where You Are)". Puba reunited with Brand Nubian following 2000, for the release of the album Foundation. He didn't return with another solo album until 2001's Understand This.
"One's for the cash, two's for every blunt's ash Three's for all the 40 brews goin to cruise the bowel Four's for the drugs, sex, and power I be the top dolla scala, rockin gold collars While you tryin to sip the juice, I'm takin swallows Step into my zone and get blown, my ways are internationally known..."
Joseph Cartagena (August 19, 1970), better known by his stage name Fat Joe, is an American rapper, CEO of Terror Squad Entertainment, and member of musical groups D.I.T.C. and Terror Squad. Under stage name Fat Joe da Gangsta and part of the Diggin' in the Crates (D.I.T.C.) crew, Cartagena was signed to Relativity Records in the early 1990s, recording material and working with many artists who he would later sign to his own label. In 1993, his debut album Represent was released, featuring production from The Beatnuts, Diamond D, Lord Finess, and others. Its lead single, "Flow Joe" peaked at number one on the Billboard Hot Rap Singles chart; other minor singles from the album included "Watch the Sound" and "This Shit is Real". In 1995, Fat Joe released his second studio album, Jealous One's Envy, which peaked at #71 on The Billboard 200 and at #7 on Top R&B/Hip Hop Albums. The album featured a guest appearance from KRS-One and production from Diamond D. The lead single was Success, which did not chart, but his second single, "Envy" peaked at #8 on the Hot Rap Tracks chart. The success of this album led Fat Joe to be featured on the remix of LL Cool J's single I Shot Ya along with Foxy Brown, Keith Murray and Prodigy of Mobb Deep.
"And each and every true will stick, or fall from the sky of my cloud nine from homies all the way to chics, no matter how fine cotrolling is a swollen way to wreck a proud mind you hold it in your hands and watch a man start crying tear after tear in the puppet man's hands every time you take a stance you do the puppet man's dance..." The Pharcyde is an alternative hip hop group from South Central Los Angeles, where the group's members grew up. The original four members of the group are Imani (Emandu Wilcox), Slimkid3 (Trevant Hardson), Bootie Brown (Romye Robinson) and Fatlip (Derrick Stewart). DJ Mark Luv was the group's first DJ, followed by producer J-Swift and then J Dilla. The group is best known for the hit singles "Drop", "Passin' Me By" and "Runnin'", as well as their first album, Bizarre Ride II the Pharcyde. "Drop" is a single by The Pharcyde, released in 1995 as the first single for the group's second album, Labcabincalifornia. The single contains a vocal sample of the Beastie Boys song "The New Style", using the titular "mmm..... drop" line delivered during a drop to create its hook. The music video for "Drop" was directed by Spike Jonze and filmed in Los Angeles. The video features footage of the group performing the song backwards, replayed backwards, which when combined with the chopped, spacey beat of the song gives the video a slight surrealistic quality. The Beastie Boys make a brief cameo, no doubt related to Ad Rock's vocal contribution to the song.
Little Shawn is a New York hip hop artist, who released an album called "The Voice In The Mirror" in 1992. He is remembered for singles such "I Made Love (4 Da Very 1st Time)", and "Hickeys On Your Chest", the later of which received a high profile mention in The Notorious B.I.G.'s song Party & Bullshit: "Can't we just all get along / so I can put hickeys on her chest like Little Shawn / get her pissy drunk off of Dom Perignon". Shawn worked as a ghostwriter for many Uptown Records and Bad Boy Records under Sean Combs.
"When the scene unfolds Young girls thirteen years old Expose themselves to any Tom, Dick, and Hank Got mo' stretch marks than these hoes Hollin they got rank..." Goodie Mob, based in Atlanta, Georgia, is widely considered one of the founding hip hop acts of the Dirty South movement. Members Cee-Lo (Thomas Callaway), Khujo Goodie (Willie Knighton, Jr.), T-Mo Goodie (Robert Barnett), and Big Gipp (Cameron Gipp) make up the group, which has been functioning since 1995. "GOODIE MOB", as it's written on their album covers, stands for "GOOD DIE Mostly Over Bullshit". Cee-Lo notes in a song off the Soul Food album that, "[If] you take out one 'O' it stands for 'GOD Is Every Man Of Blackness.' " Its members were all born in Atlanta, and the group is based there with the rest of the Dungeon Family, a collective which includes OutKast and P.A. (Parental Advisory). Goodie was first heard featured on several songs from OutKast's first album Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik. Cee-Lo was the most visible member of the group prior to his departure in 2000 (among other projects, he is now recording as Gnarls Barkley), while Big Gipp has made several rounds on other Dungeon Family members' albums, and T-Mo and Khujo form a duo within the group called The Lumberjacks.
"See, when a nigga say he likes it raw He means dirty, down to the floor, see my name is the ODB and I'll beat your ass!"
Ooh baby I like it raaawwww..."Shimmy Shimmy Ya" is the second single by Ol' Dirty Bastard of Wu Tang Clan, from the album, Return to the 36 Chambers: The Dirty Version. The video shows a depiction of the '70s where big afros and platform shoes were in. ODB talks about doing a little dance with the ladies.Rest in paradise...
What's up? This time's "Trueschool Monday" is representin REAL New York allstars! "One, 2, Pass It" is a collaboration song by the one-shot D&D All-Stars, a group consisting of Doug E. Fresh, Fat Joe, Jeru the Damaja, KRS-One, Mad Lion, and Smif-N-Wessun. Produced by DJ Premier, it is the only single from the album The D&D Project. Gotta say Primo is a fucking GENIUS!
