"All the time I rewind back to the day when I realized sometimes crime Pays, there’s a million ways to die but only one to live, I need enough money to spend enough Money to give cause I love my peeps and my peeps love me And I refuse to see them living in proverty..."
Derrick Keyes (born September 19, 1969), better known as Nine or Nine Double M, is a rapper from The Bronx, New York. Keyes got his break in late 1993 as a featured guest on Funkmaster Flex and the Ghetto Celebs' "Six Million Ways to Die". The verse showcased Nine's harsh, gravelly flow and the artist signed a deal with the now-defunct Profile Records. Keyes originally recorded under the moniker 9MM (or Nine Double M) before changing his name to simply Nine. He stated, "I didn't want to be just be named after the gun (9mm)." His stage name refers to his date of birth (9/19/1969), his shoe size, and his lucky number. Nas recently referred to 9 Double M on the track "Where are They Now?" from his album Hip Hop Is Dead. He is also referred to on the track "Twinz (Deep Cover ’98)" from Big Pun's debut album Capital Punishment, where Fat Joe says "Boogie Down major like Nine" referring to Nine's and his hometown, the Bronx. Portions of Nine's "Whutcha Want?" were featured in advertisements by US automobile manufacturer Jeep. The ads used the song "Steady Bounce" by KRS-One from his album Strickly For Da Breakdancers & Emceez, which used a sample which from Nine’s "Whutcha Want?" According to an interview conducted with HalftimeOnline.com, Jeep never sought permission to use the sample and Nine is pursuing legal action. The album "Nine Livez", produced by Rob Lewis and Tony Stoute, generated several underground hits including "Whutcha Want?", "Redrum", "Ova Confident" and "Any Emcee". The album is considered to be a classic underground hip-hop album and is frequently sought after by collectors.
"When it's ugly, then the club is lovely Thugs be sipping Henessey and bubbly To my comrades that keep it flaming hot On dangerous blocks, claiming spots Where the goal is to be one of the top-ranked soldiers Forty-five holders, one of the high rollers..." William Michael Griffin Jr. (born January 28, 1968), known by his stage names Rakim (or simply Ra), Rakim Allah and R.A.K.I.M., is an American rapper. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential and most skilled emcees of all time due to his exceptional flow and complex lyrical craftsmanship. In addition to his career as a rap artist, he is a writer, and poet. Rakim's rapping, which pioneered the use of internal rhymes in hip hop, set a higher standard of lyricism in the genre and served as a template for future rappers. Rakim began his career as a emcee for part of one of the most important rap duos of the golden age hip hop era: Eric B. & Rakim.
Some of the collected spraycans that have been used through the years! For me this whole movement started with Dupli, ColorWorks and Presto but now we have Montana, MTN, Molotow etc. Development...
"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.
"He aint the last and surely aint the first G, but his monkey ass rolled away in a hurst G. So Im feeling some what relieved, just another day in the life of the E-Z. A real G so forget the silly shit you heard, it's do or die Eazy-E gets that last word..."
"Any Last Werdz" is the second and final single from Eazy-E's EP, It's On (Dr. Dre) 187um Killa. It features Kokane and Cold 187um. The single was released in 1994 as the follow up to the popular Real Muthaphuckkin G's and was both written and produced by Above the Law's Cold 187um. Any Last Werdz did find some success on the charts, making it to #69 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and #5 on the Hot Rap Singles. In the video, Eazy-E kills somebody and is seen at his death bed with graphic images seen throughout the video to visualize the pain with any last words or thoughts compelled in the last moments of his life as seen at his death. Also throughout the video you can see members of Bone Thugs-n-Harmony (Layzie Bone, Krayzie Bone, Bizzy Bone, Wish Bone, and Flesh-n-Bone), Cold 187um, Kokane, and Dirty Red in the back. The Music Video was not seen for many years, but Eazy-E was in agreement with Director Edward Louderback that Rap videos should have more artistic value that wasn't at all or rarely seen in 1994. This ended up being almost the last video finished by Eazy-E before his death on March 26, 1995 and has become a cult classic.
