What I'm listening to today: "Ghetto D", Master P
Master P put No Limit Records on the map, and made New Orleans the new capital of southern hip hop, with "Ghetto Dope", an *incredibly* catchy step-by-step guide to the production, distribution, and sale of crack cocaine. This unstoppable hit could not possibly get played on the radio, leading to this *incredibly* funny radio edit which is cut up to almost near illegibility making it sound like "Ghetto D" is a rapper
What I'm listening to today: "Writtin´ Rhymes", Timbaland and Magoo
This album dropped in the aftermath of clique co-leader Missy Elliot's "The Rain" going off like a bomb, and had like three huge hits on it, but basically no track on this album misses so I want to play you one of the lesser tracks that never got radio play. Timb and Missy became such huge multidecade cultural forces it's easy to forget when they were *hungry*, just obscure kids who produced for Alliyah
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(I promised to link "dirty south" rap this week and wait, are Timbaland and Missy *dirty south* or just south? They're from like, Virginia. In retrospect this clique, and the ATL/NOLA/Houston cluster, seem like separate but parallel currents: a group of hip hop artists comes out of the US south doing something fundamentally new and changes the way music sounds.
Anyway at least it *feels*, and felt at the time, fundamentally southern. All those cricket samples.)
