Coke Rap Friday

You know what I hate?  Subgenres.  You can’t just say you listen to rap any more, you have to say which rap, like it matters.

I like the one where they talk about guns and drugs and stuff.

Word, me too.

It takes a certain kind of personality to sell the premise of coke rap.  If you think about it, who has done it best over the years?  Raekwon?  He eats a lot.  Here he is stocking up on breakfast foods with one of his best customers.

But why do you have to be obsessed with Scarface to rap about selling drugs?  Do you think successful coke dealers sit around watching movies all day?  No way.  During the day they’re asleep because they’re up all night selling coke, dude. That and they’re throwing people out of airplanes at every available opportunity.

Yo fuck that.  Criminology rap.

Then we have Jay.  Does anyone out there believe for a second that this dude sold cocaine to anyone, at any time, any where?  I just don’t.

Jay Z might have sold some crack rocks, but Sean Carter-Knowles?

Instead of linking some newjack bullshit song with Alicia Keys, or Beyonce, or whatever, here’s Crew Love which I have a story about

So this one time my buddy Tyler had a party at his parents’ house.  This had to have been 1999.  Me and another friend of mine who we’ll call Richard were with my girlfriend at the time and her best friend.  For whatever reason they didn’t want to go to the keg party.  Me and Rich had some acid so we ate it.  We ate the shit out of it.  And we walk directly into the party.

We were just mingling, grabbing beers, whatever.  When the acid finally kicked in we had kinda forgot about it.  All of a sudden there were evil forces all around us; people who could not be trusted, and more importantly were very hard for us to understand.  We dubbed them Illheads.  (you stress the ill, it’s not like some wigger trying to compliment a group of individuals.  Think: pillheads then drop the P)  Tyler’s house had 3 floors and the keg was in the basement.  Being temporarily done with the whole beer thing, me and Richard went all the way up to the third floor where we had some turntables and speakers set up.  There were couches, Bob Marley posters, the whole nine.  It was a great place to smoke weed when we were 17.

Temporarily safe from the illheads, we started to let people into the safe haven of the third floor.  Our friends and associates were slowly gaining the acid’s trust back.  So we felt it necessary to put on some music.  Since it was 1999 we were very into Belly, and Tyler had the sound track.  Rich and I always like Crew Love, but that night we were so FUCKING INTO IT.  Particularly the opening lines.

Yo Yeah I smoke weed now I don’t give a fuck/

And I also tote guns in case my dram pop up/

That’s it.  Go hit play on the video I linked, then when it reaches 8 seconds, start it over.  Now do it again.  Do it 189 more times and that was our evening.  To tell you the truth we weren’t even that big on the second line, it’s mainly the first.  People would come into the room, sit down, we’d start Crew Love up, and they’d go “Hell yeah I love this song.” and just when they started to get into it we’d start it over.  And we were as excited about it the 191st time as we were the first.  Most people would walk out of the room after 30 seconds or so.  Drunk people wouldn’t get it.  Some of our stoner friends though, hung out for the duration.  They honestly wanted to see if there would be some point where we wouldn’t be entertained by the opening bar of Crew Love.  There wasn’t.  That point arrived artificially at 3:40 am when Tyler made us go home.

Moving on-

Da Kingz of Da Coke Rappaz

Too bad your album kinda like sucks ass.  ‘Til The Casket Drops is a step back.  Some good tracks on it but overall it’s pretty shallow and pedantic.  Kanye is nice.  And since you’ve hung out this long I’ll treat you to a golden era Kanye mixtape you may or may not enjoy.  Props to the people at steadybloggin’ for this link.

Kanye West – Lunch Room Freestyles (2002-2003)

01 Kanye West – Rocafella (intro)
02 Kanye West – A Million freestyle
03 Kanye West – Stand Up freestyle
04 Kanye West – The Truth freestyle
05 Kanye West – React freestyle ft Consequence
06 Kanye West – Girls, Girls, Girls rmx freestyle
07 Kanye West – Love You Better freestyle
08 Kanye West – Electric Relaxation dub ft Consequence
09 Kanye West – Def Poetry Jam
10 Kanye West – Nowhere to Go freestyle
11 Kanye West – Gimmie the Light freestyle
12 Kanye West – Came Back For You freestyle
13 Kanye West – Live freestyle ft Black Star
14 Kanye West – Bonnie & Clyde freestyle
15 Kanye West – ‘03 til Infinity dub ft Consequence
16 Kanye West – Out the Game freestyle
17 Kanye West – Kanye V Common ‘96 freestyle battle

http://www.zshare.net/download/7183528894e2048f/

Late nineties type Kanye.  Super enjoyable.  Doesn’t talk about coke.

Have a powdered weekend.

B