Trueschool Monday #113

"Hey yo Doctor, here's another proper track
and it's phat, watch the sniper, time to pay the piper
And let that real shit provoke
So youse a wannabe 'loc, and you'll get smoked, and I hope
that your fans understand when you talk about playin me
The same records that you makin is payin me..."

"Real Muthaphuckkin G's" (alternatively "Real Compton City G's") is a 1993 song by West Coast rapper Eazy-E from his album It's On (Dr. Dre) 187um Killa. It is a "diss song" to former N.W.A. bandmate Dr. Dre and his then-new protégé Snoop Doggy Dogg. It peaked at #42 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 charts, becoming Eazy-E's highest charting single on the EP. "Real Muthaphuckkin G's" single went Gold.
The song is a response to Dr. Dre's "Fuck Wit Dre Day (and Everybody's Celebratin')" which was a diss to Eazy-E. Eazy-E claims on the track that Dr. Dre was nothing more than a "studio gangsta", or a "wannabe gangsta" and was not an "OG" (Original Gangsta) which Dre claimed to be. In one line, Dresta raps: "Damn E, they tried to fade you on Dre Day", to which Eazy-E responds "But Dre Day only meant Eazy's payday." This line was a reference to the fact that Eazy-E had a contract with Dr. Dre as his exclusive producer. The contract further stated that this will mean Eazy-E will simply profit from anything Dr. Dre releases, even a diss, for the next 6 years.

Trueschool Monday #110

"If I drop them dogs a broke nose gets clubed
then I crack that jaw cause you know I get raw
I remember when I used to sit on the see-saw
now I just shoot em up shoot em up ya'll
ya better stand clear cause I show no fear
when I hit you with the baseball bat in the air
its gonna be on when the shit goes down
so you better be ready clown..."

Funkdoobiest is an American rap group from Los Angeles, California. The original members are Son Doobie (Jason Vasquez), DJ Ralph M (Ralph Medrano), and Tomahawk Funk (Tyrone Pacheco). The latter left after their second album.
Their first two albums were mainly produced by Cypress Hill's DJ Muggs. Their third album, The Troubleshooters, included production by Ralph M and DJ Rectangle. Whereas the other albums were clearly hardcore rap in the vein of Cypress Hill and other Soul Assassins members, The Troubleshooters was more versatile. DJ Muggs was the group's mentor and inspiration. The group is known for their sexually explicit song "Superhoes" about the perverted secret identities of superheroes. Most of their other songs have to do with sex, and Son Doobie proclaimed himself the porno king. They also had their own X-rated club in Los Angeles.
Funkdoobiest have never cared for censorship, and have released several hit singles such as, "XXX Funk" about controversial topics such as pornography.
Their fourth album The Golden B-Boys was released in 2009. This album was produced and arranged by DJ Ralph M for B-Boy Beats LLC. The cover art was done by Galo "MAKE" Canote.

Trueschool Monday #103

"Mic check, I walk around the streets with a black tech nine
by the waistline, kickin the hype shit
I never claim to be the best type of rapper
But hafta, show them motherfuckers what I'm after
I'm after the gold, then after that the platinum
Beef after that, Hurricane G packs the gat son
Trigger, bang, bang, yo bust the slang, whut my name?
It's the Redman on the funk thang
Psyche, you're motherfuckin right, tonight's the night
To do what I wanna do, to do it like dynamite..."

"Tonight's da Night" is the third single released by Redman from his debut album, Whut? Thee Album. It features a jazzy beat produced by Erick Sermon and Redman himself, and contains samples from many songs, including "All Night Long" by Mary Jane Girls, "The Payback" by James Brown, "Tonight's the Night" by Raydio, and "A Few More Kisses to Go" by Isaac Hayes. The song starts off with Redman rapping about being "smooth to any groove", and he is then interrupted by Hurricane G who wants him to rap some "rough shit". Redman goes on to talk about guns and other illegal things. A remix can be found on Redman's second album, Dare Iz a Darkside.

Trueschool Monday #100

"Yes, I'm the pirate, pilot of this ship
If I get with the ultraviolet dream
Hide from the red light beam
Now do you believe in the unseen?
Look, but don't make you eyes strain
A nigga like me is goin' insane..."

"Insane in the Brain" is a hit single by the American hip hop group Cypress Hill. It was released in 1993 and in addition to hitting number 1 on the US rap chart, the song also was a surprise crossover hit, reaching number 19 in the Hot 100 chart in 1994. It was highly successful in other countries. The song was released on the group's Black Sunday album.

The popular lyric "Insane in the membrane" is sometimes confused for the title.
According to B-Real, the song was actually a diss song aimed at Chubb Rock. The group felt Chubb had ridiculed their style on his 1992 album I Gotta Get Mine Yo.

The song is built around many samples: a repeating sample of a horse from Mel and Tim's "Good Guys Only Win in the Movies;" a drum break from organist George Semper's cover version of Lee Dorsey's "Get Out of My Life, Woman;" a sample of James Brown grunting from the opening of his song "Say It Loud - I'm Black and I'm Proud;" a sample of the line "insane in the brain" from Cypress Hill's own song "Hole in the Head;" the opening keyboard from Sly & the Family Stone's "Life" and a sample of the line "I think I'm going crazy" from The Youngbloods's "All Over the World (La La)," which concludes the track. In 2008, it was ranked number 34 on VH1's 100 Greatest Songs of Hip Hop.

A video for the track was filmed at San Francisco's DNA Lounge.

Trueschool Monday #98

"Stand clear! Don man a-talk
You can't stand where I stand, you can't walk where I walk
Watch out! We run New York
Police man come, we bust him out the park
I know this for a fact, you don't like how I act
You claim I'm sellin' crack
But you be doin' that..."

"Sound of da Police" is the second and final single from rapper KRS-One's first solo album, Return of the Boom Bap. The song begins with KRS-One whooping twice to evoke a police siren (the "sound of the police"); this recurs several times throughout the song. This song was used in the trailer for Cop Out. "Sound of da Police" was released as a CD single featuring a b-side, "Hip-Hop vs. Rap". The song is produced by Showbiz from DITC.
The lyrics refer to police, in places like Bronx, New York. The lyrics are a protest against institutionalized racism, oppression and violence against the black community. This is all purveyed with lines like "Are you really for peace and equality?", comparing police officers to plantation overseers, from the slave trade. This song is very similar to a song released by N.W.A called Fuck tha Police, released 5 years earlier.

Trueschool Monday #87

"Bust it, check it, watch how I wreck it
Niggaz watch your back, shit is gettin hectic
I catch vibes like Count Basie, sucker won't face me
I'm so much flavor you can taste me
I'm underground like a gutter
You never catch me - stutter, everybody knows that I'm butter
I'm not the man with sensitivity
The name is Fat Joe, the label's Relativity, huh..."

"Flow Joe" is the debut single of American rapper, Fat Joe, from his 1993 album Represent. It contains samples of "Get Out of My Life, Woman" by Lee Dorsey and "The Long Wait" by Morton Stevens.

Trueschool Monday #60

"Livin on phat pockets on flat wit tha gat
rollin around nine deuce cadillac
still got my homies to watch my back
and they'll smoke ya ass if ya wanna come chat
thats why some pigs an tha kids come sweatin they follow
a hollow point shell's hard ta swallow..."

Black Sunday is the second album by rap group Cypress Hill. It was released on July 20, 1993. It debuted at number one on the Billboard 200, recording the highest Soundscan for a rap group at the time. The album went Triple platinum in the U.S.
Also, with their debut still in the charts, they became the first rap group to have 2 albums in the top 10 of the Billboard 200 at the same time. With "Insane in the Brain" becoming a crossover hit, the album went triple platinum in the U.S. and sold about 3.25 million copies.

Trueschool Monday #45

"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.

Trueschool Monday #40

"Damn! That's the fattest stog' I ever seen
The weather's heat in Cali; gettin weeded makes it feel like Maui
Now we feel the good vibrations
So many females, so much inspiration..."

Souls of Mischief is a hip hop group from Oakland, California, that is also part of the hip hop collective, Hieroglyphics. The Souls of Mischief formed in 1991 and is composed of emcees A-Plus, Opio, Phesto, and Tajai.
Oakland native Tajai began rhyming with future band mate A-Plus at age 8, while both were in elementary school. Tajai and Phesto met later in junior high school. Tajai later introduced A-Plus and Phesto to the remaining Souls of Mischief member, Opio, and the group informally formed in high school before making their major-label debut on Jive Records with their well-received album 93 'til Infinity, in 1993.
93 ’til Infinity is the group's highest charting album to date (#17 Top R&B/Hip Hop Albums; #85 Billboard 200), and in January, 1998, was named one of the Top 100 Rap albums by The Source magazine.

Trueschool Monday #27

"Come inside with his highness,
The illinest Killin em with adrenalin,
Blast past the minimum
Look to the winter's ugliness, ruggedness
Under the rug, front to this, money strikes confidence..."

Onyx is a hip hop group from New York City. The group consists of Sticky Fingaz, Fredro Starr and Sonsee (formerly Suavé and Sonee Seeza). The late Big DS was also a member, but left after the group's debut album.
The group was formed in 1988 and Onyx released its first 12" single, "Ah, and We Do it Like This", in 1990. The song revealed a jazz influence, unlike their later work. In 1991 Onyx was going to present a demo to Jam Master Jay at Def Jam, but Big DS and Sonee Seeza (then only known as Suave) were in Connecticut at the time, so Fredro Starr called up his cousin Sticky Fingaz (who lived in Brooklyn). Once Sticky Fingaz joined the group, the group released Throw Ya Gunz in 1992.
After the track Onyx inked a deal with Def Jam and were promised an album which became 1993's Bacdafucup LP. The album met with great commercial success, including heavy airplay on radio and MTV for the single "Slam". Onyx also performed with Biohazard on the tune "Judgement Night", taken from the soundtrack album of the same name. Onyx also received critical acclaim, winning Soul Train's album of the year.

Trueschool Monday #12

"Yo, I need a gangsta bitch; she don't sleep and she don't play
Stickin up girls from around the fuckin way
Strapped but lovable, hateful but huggable
Always in trouble and definitely fuckable
See her now, booms and pounds, she's mine friend
Puffin on a blunt, sippin on a Heineken..."

Legendary oldschool classic track "Gangsta Bitch" from New Jersey based rapper Apache (Anthony Peaks).
Apache emerged from New Jersey in the late 1980s as a front man for the Flavor Unit, a hip-hop group. He first appeared on the Flavor Unit album, The 45 King Presents The Flavor Unit, in 1990. Apart from his individual records, he also featured on several albums (of Naughty By Nature, Tupac Shakur, Fat Joe, etc.).
Apache signed to Tommy Boy Records and released his debut album, Apache Ain't Shit (1993). Also featured on the album was the hit single "Gangsta Bitch", which went to No. 67 on the Billboard Hot 100 and No. 11 on the Hot Rap Singles. Apache also released a single "Do Fa Self" in 1993.
Apache died on January 22, 2010 after a protracted illness. Rest in paradise...