"Get ready for the bone and the mo thug, bustas You know me as a hustla Try to creep and get beat, maybe six feet, peep, gotta put them under Straight jackets, gotta make that money, man It's still the same now, bailin in my black trench vest You gotta be down to bang bang Come and get this teachin, ya soldiers how thugstas must slack Me drinkin me brew till me skull crack, when we on our way back..."
"Thuggish Ruggish Bone" is the debut single of the rap group Bone Thugs-n-Harmony, from their debut EP Creepin on ah Come Up. It features local Cleveland singer Shatasha Williams. The song reached #22 on the Billboard Hot 100. The song was included in the soundtrack of the video game True Crime: Streets of LA. The music video was shot near the Cuyahoga River on Cleveland's westside, near from the Lakeview Estates public housing units.
"I walk through the valley of death 600 deep,waking up dead from the sleep Just like a diamond watch me shine,bright like the sun,make you want to pull a gun and buck 2 shots for the Peckerwood rockin' Put down your glock or your block I'll be knockin' dead off your shoulders,heads'll roll,the Peckerwood P-funk assasin of soul is in control so have no fear,I'm in this for real,make it crystal clear..."
Legend is an EP by American hip hop group House of Pain. It was released in 1994, shortly before the release of the full-length album Same As It Ever Was. Two songs that appeared on this EP, "Word is Bond" and "It Ain't A Crime," would appear on Same as it Ever Was. However, the song "Legend" was, and it remains exclusive to the EP.
"They might say we're a menace to society But at the same time I say "Why is it me?" Am I the target, for destruction? What about the system, and total corruption? I can't work at no fast-food joint I got some talent, so don't you get my point? I'll organize some brothers and get some crazy loot Selling D-R-U-G-S and clocking dollars, troop..."
Hard to Earn is the fourth album from the hip hop duo Gang Starr. It was released in March of 1994 and featured the singles "Mass Appeal", "DWYCK" and "Code of the Streets." Musically the album is constructed around a harder, more stripped-down sound that is distinctively less melodic than the duo's previous work. Guest appearances on the album come from Group Home, Jeru The Damaja, and Big Shug. At the time, all were part of the Gang Starr Foundation, which made the album a stepping-stone for future DJ Premier-helmed projects by Group Home and Jeru. The single "DWYCK" also featured hip hop duo Nice & Smooth.
"Rhymes too drastic, bastard, pull hookers like elastic N-b-a style, fann-tastic No time to bite, but I just might, tonight I write left-handed Cuz I like, to grab my dick with my right Who could ever say that I don’t get plenty play Win lose or draw, I’m bookin whores, anyway..."
At the peak of his own rap career, New York legend Big Daddy Kane (pictured) started featuring a young Jay-Z at his live shows. Kane then put Jay on a song called “Show and Prove” along with fellow young rappers Shyheim, Sauce Money, Big Scoob, and a rising star called Ol’ Dirty Bastard. “Don’t knock it ‘til you try it,” rapped Jay-Z, then 24 years old. “Once you start, you can’t stop it.”
"Straight to the track my lyrics is phat I rip it the hell down More than a fluke I'm regularly wreckin this joint so what now With so many niggas that's biting it's harder to detect who I be Well check out the J, check out the A, check out the Y, Z Original rap, I'm makin it slap, I'm hemmin it up like that Stingin it, strikin it, swingin it fat, bring it back..."
Royce da 5'9" and Fredro Starr of Onyx both describe Jay-Z's emphasis on flow in the book How to Rap – Starr says that Jay-Z is "a master of the flow—he can flow fast, he can flow slow". The book describes how Jay-Z uses 'rests' to provide structure to a verse and how he uses 'partial linking' to add more rhymes to a verse. Jay-Z's early style is described by Vibe as "a distinctly Das EFX-type, stiggety style" on his 12" single "Can't Get With That", referring to the fast rhythms and vocal delivery of the group Das EFX. He is also known to write lyrics in his head, as described by Pusha T of Clipse in How to Rap, a style popular with many MCs such as The Notorious B.I.G., Everlast, Bobby Creekwater and Guerilla Black. Shock G of Digital Underground describes Jay-Z's performance style, saying he "rarely breaks a sweat, and instead uses smoothness and clever wordplay to keep the audience interested and entertained".
"Feel the rush scandalous, the more weed smoke I puff the more dangerous" Classic track named "Warning" from late great big poppa Notorious BIG! It's the fifth track from Biggie's 1994 debut album, Ready to Die. Produced by Easy Mo Bee, who made this beat originally for Big Daddy Kane but Kane turned it down.
