All For Me

InLovingMemory

DemolitionFreestylePt3

As KEXP celebrates its 50th anniversary, we're looking back at the last half-century of music. Each week in 2022, KEXP pays homage to a different year and our writers are commemorating with one song from that year that resonates with them. This week, Martin Douglas writes about the thrill of being a young hip-hop fan listening to Raekwon's legendary "Purple Tape" and why Wu-Tang Clan are the Beatles of their generation.

Read the article version here: https://www.kexp.org/read/2022/9/21/50-years-of-music-1995-raekwon-incarcerated-scarfaces/

50 Years of Music: 1995 - Raekwon - "Incarcerated Scarfaces"

Snoop Dogg   "Tha Shiznit"

Prod. By Smooth but Rugged 💥
Just Listen And Enjoy 🫶

Xzibit - What U See Is What U Get (S-B-R a.k.a CloudyMind Remix)

199X GAME

BITCH'N 94

Bishop Snow - Real Recognize Real

A song I released a few days back onto YouTube & Bandcamp.

Lyrics:

[Verse 1]

I remember back in the days where the kicks and the snares made the hits
Stories told in bars, like we're sharing drinks and spliffs,
Before Spotify and YouTube views hit.
Where you'd buy a CD just to hear your fav's new shit.
Back when 50 and Nelly had radio stations lit
‘Hot in Herre,’ ‘In Da Club,’ we were bakin’ with it.
The days raising waves that I always float on slow,
So how did that era affect me as I was growing, bro?

Well for me, I was a kid before the mad flows,
Bumpin' Eminem's albums on my iPod Nano.
I'd get lost in the music while I was at the park,
Sittin' on the swings, I was daydreamin' 'till dark.
Instrumentals hittin' as hard as the truth did,
Whether it was the Eminem Show or the Blueprint.
Every now and then, I'd reminisce with amazement,
As I wonder what's next with this generation?

[Hook]

It's a new style, it's a new day.
Each generation will have their own way,
To earn the gold and silver, all the glory.
To tell their stories like it's Balamory.

I don't understand, but I try to adapt,
To these new trends and new styles of rap.
I feel like an old soul with some new code,
As I observe the game, from coast to coast.

[Verse 2]

Now it's all TikTok and Spotify streams,
Outlandish lyrics turning to tomorrow's memes.
Easier to connect and meet certain criterias,
Just take a look at what's on your social media.
Scroll through your feed, doesn't matter the site's title
Bet you'll find a new song that's going viral,
Be it lyrics, the beat, a dance, the artist,
The music video, the feature, whatever hits hardest.

Honestly? I don't fully understand it.
So much has changed, some others cannot stand it.
I mean, you got mumble rap, Lofi to look at,
Emo Rap, Jersey club, Jerk Drill, Hoodtrap.
Face tats, Xanny bars and some cups of lean.
Are we not satisfied with gettin' love and green?
And I'm not tryin' to hate on it, I just feel confused,
To all these genres and all these different points of view.

[Hook]

[Verse 3]

When I started, I admit I spoke with savagery
Like mainstream equaled awful automatically.
Talkin' like the mainstream stuff would never hit;
If it wasn't underground, then I wouldn't give a shit.
In hindsight, maybe envy was hitting deeper,
Maybe that was why I was talkin' bitter and cheaper,
Like 'that isn't REAL rap, that won't be respected!'
But then I learned that 'real rap' is subjective.

You can have opinions, you can keep them for long,
But that DOESN'T mean you're right or you're wrong.
It's just a matter of taste, so you post what you post,
I'll nod my head, even if I don't get it, you know?
If that's the stuff you're into, then rock it proudly,
I'll try and understand these new things around me.
Enjoy these new styles, they're what makes life swell.
As for these new genres? Hell, maybe I'll try 'em myself.

[Final Hook]

It's a new style, it's a new day.
Each generation will have their own way,
To earn the gold and silver, all the glory.
To tell their stories like it's Balamory.

I don't understand, but I try to adapt,
To these new trends and new styles of rap.
So do what you do, and do it the most.
And I'll keep on watching from coast to coast.

Coast to Coast (Prod. by H3 Music)

The Money

Ain't Trippin (feat. Ghettosocks & Timbuktu)

Shame on a nigga who try to run game on a nigga
Who buck wild with the trigger
Shame on a nigga who try to run game on a nigga
I'll fuck your ass up!

Ol' Dirty Bastard, live and uncut
Styles unbreakable, shatterproof
To the young youth, you wanna get gun? Shoot!
Blaow! How you like me now?
Don't fuck the style, ruthless wild
Do you wanna get your teeth knocked the fuck out?
Wanna get on it like that, well then shout

Yo RZA, yo razor, hit me with the major
The damage, my Clan understand it be flavor
Gunning, humming coming at ya
First I'm gonna get ya, once I got ya, I gat ya
You could never capture the Method Man's stature
For rhyme and for rapture, got niggas resigning, now master
My style? Never!
I put the fucking buck in the wild kid, I'm terror
Razor sharp, I sever
The head from the shoulders, I'm better, than my competta
You mean competitor, whatever, let's get together

Shame on a nigga who try to run game on a nigga
Who buck wild with the trigger

I react so thick, I'm phat and yo
Rae came blowing and blew off your headphones black
Rap from yo Cali to Texas
Smoother than a Lexus, now's my turn to wreck this
Brothers approach and half step
But ain't heard half of it yet and I bet you're not a fucking vet
So, when you see me on the real, forming like Voltron
Remember I got deep like a Navy Seal

Shame on a nigga who try to run game on a nigga
Who buck wild with the trigger
Shame on a nigga who try to run game on a nigga
I'll fuck your ass up! 
Yo

I come with that ol' loco, style from my vocal
Couldn't peep it with a pair of bi-focals
I'm no joker, play me as a joker
Be on you like a house on fire, smoke ya
Crews be acting like they gangs, anyway
Be like, "Warriors, come out and play, yay"
Burn me, I get into shit, I let it out like diarrhea
Got burnt once, but that was only gonorrhea
Dirty, I keep shit stains in my drawers
So I can get fizza-funky for you
Murder, taste the flame of the Wu-Tang, rah!
Here comes the Tiger verse Crane
I'll be like wild with my style
Punk, you play me chump, you get dumped
Wu is coming through at a theatre near you
And get funk like a shoe
What?

My last remix EP 

Wu-Tang Clan - Shame On A Nigga [Dgyrick Re-Edit Mix]

DJ Quik - Dollaz & Sense Vs Big L - Put It On

For those illin on Bass chairs in the BackYard kind of days.

1)  Knowa Knowone - Champagne and Kittens
2)  Shantel - Bucovina (Kotch Remix)
--> Mack 10 - Backyard Boogie (Acapella)
3)  Myselor - It Don't Mean a Thing
4)  Opiuo - Robo Booty (Mustard Tiger Remix)
5)  Basement Freaks - Cash Money (Stickybuds Remix)
6)  Infected Mushroom - U R So Fucked (Opiuo Remix)
7)  Opiuo - Wiggle Sticks
8)  Funk Hunters - The Ritz
9)  Stephan Jacobs & Love & Light - Take em off
10) Doobie Brothers - Black Water (Love & Light Remix)
11) Love & Light - Happiness
12) Love & Light - Let's go
13) kLLsMTH - Whoa Bro
14) Jam Jarr - Zombie Guts
15) Tipper - Off Kilter (VIP Mix)
16) K Theory - Le Cirque Blue
17) Mad Zach - Jazz Arpeggiator
18) Coud-D - Where I'm From
19) LowRiderz & Knight Riderz - Riderz of the Storm
20) Cloud-D - Alone Together
21) sAuce - Hmmm
22) VibeSquaD - Double Dutch Oven
23) Robotek - Shake it Up (Barry Koota Remix)
24) Opiuo - Don't Hold Back
25) Dubconscious - Rhodes (BUSTED by HeRobust)
26) MartyParty - Been on Lean
27) Cory O - Dark Passenger
28) Ionik & kLL sMTH - Crossing Paths
29) Random Person - D Pad
30) Goosebumpz - Texas Teeth (Barry Koota Remix)
31) Myselor - Neurolife
--> Nas - Made you Look (Acapella)
32) Dubsective - Money Maker
33) K Theory - UBS
34) Bro Safari - K-Hole
35) Opiuo - Moose Tooth

Backyard Boogie - Aug 2012 (Full Length Mix)

Nas-N.Y. State Of Mind (ATM REMIX BY SMOKEXANN)

funky remix for BIG. 
sorry bout the left mix only on vocals.

Rap Phenomenon remix(the notorious B.i.g. feat. Method Man)

Potholes Music's own Jay Cue flips his favorite Big Pun track.

Big Pun - "You Ain't A Killer" (Jay Cue Remix)

In honor of Dah Shinins 25th Anniversary, Smif-N-Wessun and Nervous Records have teamed up to release an updated version of their 1994 debut single Bucktown.

Cautious not to tamper with a classic, DJ Evil Dee and Mr. Walt of Da Beatminerz did not stray far from their original vibe of song and Smif-N-Wessun laid lyrics once again bigging up their Borough of Brooklyn in the release of Bucktown 360.

Purchase and stream Smif-N-Wessun’s “Bucktown 360” at your preferred DSP: https://nervous-records.lnk.to/bucktown360

Bucktown 360

Smif-N-Wessun - Bucktown 360

Work | Orig . Gang Starr |

Official on SoundCloud
Bedroom Producer 🛌🎵🎚️
Old names: DJ Young Hustla & Smooth but Rugged 

Xzibit - What U See Is What U Get (S-B-R a.k.a CloudyMind Remix)

Cloudy Mind

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