Rewind your clocks back to 1996, as I re-present to you one of the dopest albums of that year, well for me it was anyways. The group, Blahzay Blahzay, the album, Blah Blah Blah. The group only ever dropped one full-length studio album, but that one album was influential during the rest of the ’90s in Hip Hop for New York. Group members DJ PF Cuttin and MC Out Loud had worked in the game producing tracks for about 10 years for artists such as Masta Ace and Craig G. Their first single, “Danger”, featured a sample from Jeru the Damaja’s song “Come Clean”. Some of my other favorite songs on the album were “Pain I Feel”, “Good Cop/Bad Cop” and “Blah, Blah, Blah”.
The year was 1994, the artist, a fairly unknown Nas. In celebration of him releasing his 9th studio album and our collective love for him on Killahbeez.com, we decided to dedicate this Throwback Thursday to the album that kicked it all of. The album, Illmatic, is one of the most classic Hip Hop albums to have ever been released, it received 5 mics from The Source, which back in those days actually meant something.The album featured production from Large Professor, Pete Rock, Q-Tip, L.E.S and Dj Premier. The album saw three singles officially released including the one above, “The World Is Yours”. If for whatever reason you don’t have this album, do yourself a favor and cop it today and hear why everybody talks about this album as THE album. Oh and if you ain’t copped Untitled, do so now.
Smirnoff has teamed up with three iconic MCs with three of hip-hop’s best producers to create three new interpretations of legendary hits. All this to promote three different Smirnoff Signature mix drink recipes. KRS-One will be teaming up with DJ Premier to remix “Criminal Minded ‘08″, which can be heard below and download the mp3. Common will work with Just Blaze for “The Light ‘08″ and Q-Tip will team up with production duo Cool and Dre for “Midnight ‘08″. Songs will be available for download as well as being accompanied by a video. Anybody remember those St. Ides commercials? I sure do, I remember collecting mixtapes that had these commericals. The freestyles were ill. So far I’m feeling this new “Criminal Minded ‘08″ joint. Have a listen and download if you like. After the jump, those old ass St. Ides commercials I was talkin’ about. G-yeah!
