This week’s Throwback Thursday is coming straight outta Brownsville, Brooklyn. Yep, I’m talkin’ about M.O.P. short for Mash Out Posse and features members Billy Danze and Lil’ Fame. For the youngin’s out there M.O.P. has been in the game for a minute now with their first album, To The Death, debuting in 1994. I, personally, first heard of them back in 95/96 and it was through everyone’s hip-hop bible at the time, The Source. I was really getting my feet wet again with NYC hip-hop as Wu-Tang’s 36 Chambers and Biggie’s Ready To Die really had me wanting more from the East Coast. So I took a chance and imported two albums to Canada, that was like $40 each CD at the time, those two albums were: Jay-Z’s Reasonable Doubt (which no one had heard of at the time) and M.O.P.’s Firing Squad. It was love the first time I heard both albums, but the M.O.P. album it was the gritty rhymes and the scratchy hard vocals that had me intrigued.With joints like “Stick To Ya Gunz”, “New Jack City” and”World Famous” to name a few. The complete album was a smash and featured production work from DJ Premier on quite a few of the tracks.
So for this Throwback Thursday we dedicate this to M.O.P.’s second album Firing Squad.
World Famous
Stick To Ya Gunz
Firing Squad
New Jack City
Downtown Swinga ‘96
