West Coast Connection Forum
DUBCC - Tha Connection => Outbound Connection => Topic started by: TraceOneInfinite on October 15, 2007, 12:15:19 PM
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I'm not talking about regular, dope hip-hop tracks that just sound good, I'm talking about tracks that carry on a life of their own.
Here's a few examples...
Dr. Dre feat. Group Therapy- "East Coast Killaz/West Coast Killaz"- This track is larger than life. A new world order has came to destroy hip-hop and Dr. Dre in the video gathers up emcee's from both coasts, and unites them to defend hip-hop in a final apocalyptic stand. Watch the video and you'll see what I mean.
Dead Prez- "Mind Sex"- Sex is more than just physical, sex is mental, spiritual, emotional, and in this track they take it back to the essence.
2pac- "All Eyez On Me"- By the last verse Pac is all alone in the world, and exists in a realm outside of time and space, where he lives infinitely.
2pac- "Me And My Girlfriend"- Pac is larger than life in this track, he's talking about an eternal love, that is "deeper than the hands of time, deeper than the drive of mankind" and a gun is the metaphor that triggers this gem.
...I may post some more later...
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monstars of space jam :P
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The Ninja Turtle Rap by Vanilla Ice.... kidding ;D
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What comes to my mind right now is Dancing Girl by Large Professor.Amazing track
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Alot people slept on eastcoast/westcoast killaz. I'm glad you saw my vision. Oh yeah, ready yourself for Detox, its coming!!!
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The Ninja Turtle Rap
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monstars of space jam :P
Damn right.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFLGRidfFo4
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The Way I Am- Eminem
a few other eminem tracks as well. Just showin a white dude can rap better than almost any1 out there 8)
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That rap song by the muslim rapper who raps about the Quran and submission to the will of the creator being the only things one needs in life.
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The Way I Am- Eminem
a few other eminem tracks as well. Just showin a white dude can rap better than almost any1 out there 8)
Agreed. Co-sign. Props!
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Alot people slept on eastcoast/westcoast killaz. I'm glad you saw my vision. Oh yeah, ready yourself for Detox, its coming!!!
Yes, I saw your vision, in fact I was inspired by your vision from the moment I even heard about the track in your cover issue interview in the Source summer 96', the one where you discussed leaving Death Row and starting Aftermath. My favorite hip-hop interview and magazine of all time. (By the way, I loved that chain you were wearing on the cover)
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Alot people slept on eastcoast/westcoast killaz. I'm glad you saw my vision. Oh yeah, ready yourself for Detox, its coming!!!
Yes, I saw your vision, in fact I was inspired by your vision from the moment I even heard about the track in your cover issue interview in the Source summer 96', the one where you discussed leaving Death Row and starting Aftermath. My favorite hip-hop interview and magazine of all time. (By the way, I loved that chain you were wearing on the cover)
Ten bucks says Infinite thinks he's really taking to Dr Dre.
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Mobb Depp - Shook ones
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The Roots - The Return To Innocence Lost comes to mind.
Really, at first I thought this was about tracks with a history behind them, but Mind Sex is just a random song, albeit a very good one. Not to mention the random 2Pac songs - you really got to use your fantasy to make something out of that. Seriously Infinite, you may want to explain why you're thinking 2Pac is talking about being in a realm of his own in this verse:
The feds is watchin, niggaz plottin to get me
Will I survive, will I die? Come on let's picture the possibility
Givin me charges, lawyers makin a grip
I told the judge I was raised wrong, and that's why I blaze shit
Was hyper as a kid, cold as a teenager
On my mobile callin big shots on the scene major
Packing hundreds in my drawers; fuck the law
Bitches I fuck with a passion, I'm livin rough and raw
Catchin cases at a fast rate, ballin in the fast lane
Hustle til the mornin, never stopped until the cash came
Live my life as a thug nigga, until the day I die
Live my life as a boss playa, cause even gettin high
these niggaz got me tossin shit
I put the top down, now it's time to floss my shit
Keep your head up nigga, make these motherfuckers suffer
Up in the Benz burnin rubber
The money is mandatory, the hoes is fully strapped
This criminal lifestyle, equipped with the bulletproof vest
Make sure your eyes is on the meal ticket
Get your money motherfucker let's get rich and we'll kick it
All eyes on me!
Maybe I'm illiterate, but it seems to me he's just talking about a "cool" fuck-the-police lifestyle. What's this got to do with outer realms?
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^^^I can explain. Go on a drive, where it's not a very crowded street and you may be all alone on the road. Turn the track up as loud as you can.
It's more than just the words he's saying. It's the way that the whole verse is set up. The track opens with him droppin a verse and his homeboy Big Syke comes in a drops a little something, sounds good.. you know, no big, big deal...... but then.... the beat just rides for a little while, and you kind of are just zonin to beat, off in your own world, the track almost sounds like it could finish... and then, Pac comes back in, and suddenly it's mystical the way Pac sounds. Your off in your own world and the pulse that runs through your body is vibin to Pac's final verse from the title track on his biggest record.
So it's the way the verse is set up, the way the beat rides for a while before Pac opens up his grave, sits on top, and drops one final verse to make the track larger than life.
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The Roots - The Return To Innocence Lost comes to mind.
The Roots- "The Seed"... could also be a larger than life track, this song is about someone fulfilling their destiny, dropping a seed in the Earth, continuing their legacy, and their desire to make it... Rock and Roll!
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troy - pete rock cl smooth
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E-40 - The Dope Track
what you lames know about tweakers and zombies?
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Triumph - Wu Tang....when they talk about taking over the world in that song i as high and shit seemed larger then life.Looking at it sober they were right tho Wu tang and hip hop took over the world.
The track renders helpless and suffers from multiple stabwounds
and leaks sounds that's heard
ninety-three million miles away from came one
to represent the nation, this is a gathering
of the masses that come to pay respects to the Wu-Tang Clan
As we engage in battle, the crowd now screams in rage
The High Chief Jamel-Ah-Rief take the stage
Light is provided through sparks of energy
from the mind that travels in rhyme form
Giving sight to the blind
The dumb are mostly intrigued by the drum
Death only one can save shell from
This relentless attack of the track spares none
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Triumph - Wu Tang....when they talk about taking over the world in that song i as high and shit seemed larger then life.Looking at it sober they were right tho Wu tang and hip hop took over the world.
The track renders helpless and suffers from multiple stabwounds
and leaks sounds that's heard
ninety-three million miles away from came one
to represent the nation, this is a gathering
of the masses that come to pay respects to the Wu-Tang Clan
As we engage in battle, the crowd now screams in rage
The High Chief Jamel-Ah-Rief take the stage
Light is provided through sparks of energy
from the mind that travels in rhyme form
Giving sight to the blind
The dumb are mostly intrigued by the drum
Death only one can save shell from
This relentless attack of the track spares none
Agreed. Co-sign. Props!
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Alot people slept on eastcoast/westcoast killaz. I'm glad you saw my vision. Oh yeah, ready yourself for Detox, its coming!!!
Yes, I saw your vision, in fact I was inspired by your vision from the moment I even heard about the track in your cover issue interview in the Source summer 96', the one where you discussed leaving Death Row and starting Aftermath. My favorite hip-hop interview and magazine of all time. (By the way, I loved that chain you were wearing on the cover)
Ten bucks says Infinite thinks he's really taking to Dr Dre.
LOL
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Rock and Roll!
Rock and Roll sucks.
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Mc Shan - The bridge.... always seemed epic to me.
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CALIFORNIA LOVE - TUPAC!
GAVE CALI. ITS GREATEST ANTHEME 8)
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Quik - "Safe & Sound"
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Bobby Jimmy & The Critters: Roaches
"Look at all these roaches. They're crawling everywhere!"