Love The Post-Hard Era
posted by on January 10 at 17:33 PM
Earlier today, Zwickel put up a great post about Tim Dog. I had completely forgotten about dude and was incredibly happy to hear TD’s special brand of gritty, gravelly, punch-you-in-the-neck-rap again.
However, Zwickel seems to think the era of the hardcore MC is over. While I’ll admit there are very few rappers left with the authoritative boom of Tim Dog, I’d like to throw a bone to Brooklyn’s own M.O.P.
I’m not going to run down M.O.P.’s storied history for you. You can go look at their Wikipedia entry for that. However, I will say that Billy Danzenie and Lil’ Fame make some wonderfully angry hip-hop, and may be the successors to Tim Dog’s east coast hardcore throne.
Sure, they’ve done a song with LFO and they’re currently signed to G-Unit, but the Mash Out Posse will still steal your shoes and punch your grandma if you start talking slick.
IT ALL COMES BACK TO LFO. what is the world coming to?
we must track down this collaboration/abortion.
LFO or no LFO, i will go out on a limb and say that M.O.P. is undoubtedly the most intimidating rap group of all-time. not to mention WOEFULLY UNDERRATED.
I'll put Boo Yaa Tribe on M.O.P all day in the "Most Intimidating Rap Group" category, but truth be told both of those groups are very jovial, friendly folks. Although I wouldn't want to see the keg of dynamite at the end of their generous fuses.
Hardcore rap isn't dead by the way, nowadays it's just made by a bunch of angry white kids nobody can take serious.
You all are forgetting Freddie Foxxx (remember? Freddie Foxxx with the twin milli's?) and Just Ice, the original gangster of hip-hop. [And if you want to go (formerly) local, has everyone forgotten Kutfather?] MOP are deserving of this and so many other praises ("Before you test me/Know I feel that the impact from a gat when it kicks back is sexy") but it should be qualified that they are to Freddie Foxxx as those bratty rugrats in "Talladega Nights" are to Ricky Bobby.
And Ice Cube probably still wins: "To be down with the Mob is simple: Mind your own, you want a spot? Find your own. Or take mine if you're badder than the strong man. I do the right thing I do the wrong thing. Do anything..."
Don't try to apprehend him.
Tim Dog was just reacting to the West anyway.
I will throw cred Freddie Foxxx's way, as well as Big Shug (his last album was probably the best "street" album I've heard in a long time) and while Boo Yaa Tribe are all very large men, M.O.P. are hands down better MCs.
remember when kurtis blow said to never scream into a mic? mash out made it an artform. 'ante up' is still the jam and who else could as convincingly flip 'cold as ice'?
i don't know if m.o.p. will benefit from g-unit unfortunately. mobb deep surely did not (who could also be cited as a very intimidating rap posse).
FIRING SQUAD!!!!
What up to Strath Sheperd, cosign on Cube and Kutfather of course.
My mom told Boo Yaa Tribe off once.
Ooh, shit! New word: Collabortion!
As in, "Have you heard that new Blake Lewis/Lupe Fiasco collabortion?"
eric, i was trying to think of how to portmanteau those words; you just did it. teamwork!
Portmanteau?
JZ,'round these here mean streets we call that "Languaging".
Seaclipse Says 'Caloration'
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