Showing posts with label the pack. Show all posts
Showing posts with label the pack. Show all posts

8/30/2010

Thizz Music third quarter


You know the routine. I post music that sounds great when you're geeked and thizzed up on those little bags of smiles you get at your local pharmacy. You love it/hate it. Just another day at Avenge The Virgins. Our apologies for the extreme lack of posting. Twas a really rough weekend. Let's get back into it.

For those not in the know:

First Quarter

Second Quarter


The pill is almost done.

San Quinn ft E-A Ski- Hell Yeah

San Quinn is mostly known for his raw and gritty street tales, like the infamous 'Ayo For Yayo', but when hyphy was in its prime, he couldn't help but hop on a few bangers to show his love for the Bay Area. This E-A Ski-produced tune was the epitome of hyphy production, in that its over-the-top synth makes it the perfect kind of bouncy soundtrack to go dumb to. Peter, you know what I'm talkin about.

E-40- Dumb Hyphy

Mr Forty Water is a Bay Area legend, and the originator of a ridiculous amount of stupid slang. He's also one of the most polarizing figures in rap music, because of his extremely odd flows and punchlines. However, the man who started his career as one third of The Click, a bay area gangster rap group in the late eighties, is also one hell of a rapper. He has earned his stripes in underground hip-hop, and has also enjoyed a degree of mainstream success. Not only has he collaborated with an extremely large number of rappers, he also almost had the Notorious B.I.G killed. You read that right. To quote E-40, "I used to sell tapes out of my truck and slang 'caine/Respected in the streets before the fame/Ain't nothing lame or goofy about my game". The Bay Area doesn't mess around.



Boyz N Da Hood- Bite Down

Pop a bean, bite down.

Gosh, Gorilla Zoe, how poetic. I couldn't have put it better myself. This was the best tune on that album, in my opinion, a gruff ode to ze drugs. If you've ever found yourself grinding your teeth when geeked up, you now have a new expression to teach all of your friends.

The Pack- Robocop

Young L beats = Fruity loops from the future. The original based boys made some of the weirdest Bay Area rap back in Hyphy's heyday. Dudes were in outer space, just waiting for the rest of the world to catch up.

See you tomorrow.

7/27/2010

Thizz Music first quarter


Are you a Narc?

Nah? Well, I figured that while I'm on this ridiculous nostalgia tip (summer is probably to blame), I'd start a 4 part segment on my favorite songs I got geeked up to when I was a wild and reckless little shit. Not condoning drug use here, kiddies. Well, kinda. I do blog under the name MDMAwesome for a reason, haha.

Seriously though, I've left that kind of craziness behind me, but hopefully you'll enjoy these as much as I have, under the influence or not. Stay safe.

E-40 ft Keak da Sneak- Tell me when to go (Trackademics remix)

It would take me quite a bit of time to really explain the intricacies of the late Hyphy movement, so I'll skip it. To make it as simple as possible, it was started by the late, great Mac Dre, and was almost completely focused on rapping about extasy and 'going dumb', which is rather self explanatory. This was a huge hit in 2006, and for those who have never heard it, you've missed something great.

Hyphy was a really innovative and hilarious (if a bit narrow-minded) scene, and it's a shame that it self-cannibalized. This is Trackademics' remix of Tell Me When to Go, and is definitely one of the greatest rap remixes of all time, in my opinion. This shit is a thumper, son. No one has blogged about it for quite a while, so in the interests of preserving great tunes, here you go. Back into the collective consciousness, baby. [I've included the video for the original tune so you can see what he's done to the beat. And, if you've never heard of hyphy, it'll give you a little insight into the whole scene.]



The Pack- At the Club

Before Lil B The Based God blew up on the internet, he was 1/4 of Bay Area hyphy group The Pack. These dudes were sort of scarily ahead of their time, rapping about skateboards and vaguely hipsterish stuff, wearing vans and streetwear many years before it became the norm. They are most famous for their hit Vans, but this is the one that always got my head shakin' and body movin back in the day. They are even beefin with the weak-ass New Boyz, who basically jacked their entire swag from the Pack. Hyphy trumps Jerkin any day of the week. This beat goes fuckin' hard, and everyone really comes correct. Plus, that chorus...oof.

D4L- Do It Like me Baby

They got a hell of a lot of flak for the terrible Laffy Taffy, but D4L made some of the best tunes that came out of the extasy-influenced Atlanta Snap music scene. Including a rather awesome whistle backdrop and twitchy keyboard lines makes this one of the most memorable snap tunes about getting geeked up, which is a feat considering that most were instantly forgettable. Oh, and FABO. I saw a video of him recently, and let's just say that the human body cannot handle prolonged heavy abuse of MDMA. Whoa.

Unrelated BONUS beat:

Dan Curtin- Mr Bean do an E (DJ Madskillz remix)


THIZZ FACE.

Bless.