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Curt McGirt

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Just a reminder, Origins of Hip Hop is airing on Vice starting Wednesday at 10 PM, starting with Busta. All of them look interesting but the Luke one is most up my alley because me and my next door neighbor kid had a beat-up tape of As Nasty As They Wanna Be as a kid and loved listening to something we shouldn't be. 

EDIT: That made me remember some other stuff. The tape had almost all the titles scratched off on it for obvious reasons. It was the neighbor's older brother's, who had tapes of that, The Chronic (which is where I first learned what marijuana was), Salt N Pepa, and BODY COUNT (!) that I remember. This is bizarre because apparently this older brother also liked to take painkillers and go fight in race wars at the local Hardees' according to the younger. The younger brother is now -- go figure -- a county cop, who according to my dad walks around everywhere with a 9mm stuffed down the front of his waistband pointing at his dick, like the genius he is. All he listened to in high school was Pac with friends and "A Country Boy Can Survive" ten times over when he drove me home from school right before I got a car. Of course. Oh, and the other song he would play over and over and OVER that year was "The Joker". You know you have some deep pathology when you can play those two songs on repeat. 

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JLowe

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On 7/22/2023 at 7:21 PM, J.T. said:

 

I had never heard that song before last year when Spotify kept throwing into "for you" old-school hip-hop mixes. Solid jam.

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RazorbladeKiss87

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On 2/20/2024 at 1:29 PM, Curt McGirt said:

https://rorschach5.bandcamp.com/album/by-reason-of-execution

This is my buddy's new hip hop record. It is... strange... for me to hear him rapping, but the beats are nice and dark. And I'm sure the rhymes, lyrically, are way way darker considering his personal life at the moment. 

Just listened to a few tracks. It honestly reminds me of Sage Francis meeting Twiztid at their least shocky. That's not a negative comparison from me because I honestly think that Twiztid at times are crazy good, when it's not all schtick. So yeah, I dug it. Thanks for the link!

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Curt McGirt

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Me and friend got in an argument so that's not happening. Anyway...

I managed to find a $50 or something like that bootleg copy from this year apparently of Supreme Clientele online and snagged it immediately. It goes way past $100 for an actual copy and the bootlegs are even closer to that, so I got a discount. The art is a little fuzzy-looking, not total clarity, so def. a bootleg but it sounds fantastic and is on baby blue vinyl; no liners though. FBI warning is still present on the back, haha. Totally worth it. I re-listened to Ironman and still think between the two that Clientele is Ghost's best record (and according to his book he agrees with me, and is making a sequel). 

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Curt McGirt

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I have that on vinyl but don't think I've ever heard it all the way through. I found it outside my apartment one winter in a box of wet, frozen record covers. It was the only full album in there and only had minor water damage. Bizarre.

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RazorbladeKiss87

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On 8/13/2024 at 3:58 PM, Curt McGirt said:

I have that on vinyl but don't think I've ever heard it all the way through. I found it outside my apartment one winter in a box of wet, frozen record covers. It was the only full album in there and only had minor water damage. Bizarre.

That's really weird but awesome. It came out when I was doing a lot of driving from home to school to my girlfriend's so it got a lot of play. The song "Shakey Dog" is a really great example of storytelling in a rap song. Interrupting a stick up narrative to comment on how good the onions cooking in an apartment smell is a little detail that adds a lot of personality. 

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Curt McGirt

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Finished listening to the Supreme Clientele wax last night (skipping "Who Would You Fuck", "Child's Play" and the "fuck you 50 Cent" track) and the first Ghost verse on "Wu Banga 101" where he for no reason at all describes a corrupt church pastor and deacon is so awesome and out of nowhere. And then you have: 

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Super-cali-fragi-listic-expi-ali-docious
Docious-ali-expi-fragi-listic-cali-super
Cancún, catch me in the room, eating grouper

It's okay, you can pick your jaw up off the floor now

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Curt McGirt

Curt McGirt

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I'll pull Fishscale out of the stacks now for today/tonight.

EDIT: The cover is absolutely beat to shit and the records were both in the same sleeve but they look pristine

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RazorbladeKiss87

RazorbladeKiss87

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10 minutes ago, Curt McGirt said:

Finished listening to the Supreme Clientele wax last night (skipping "Who Would You Fuck", "Child's Play" and the "fuck you 50 Cent" track) and the first Ghost verse on "Wu Banga 101" where he for no reason at all describes a corrupt church pastor and deacon is so awesome and out of nowhere. And then you have: 

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Super-cali-fragi-listic-expi-ali-docious
Docious-ali-expi-fragi-listic-cali-super
Cancún, catch me in the room, eating grouper

It's okay, you can pick your jaw up off the floor now

Ghostface is great for those nonsense style rhymes that shouldn't work but do. Cam'ron is another guy who pulls that type of thing off (or at least did. I haven't listened to Cam in a while)

Lil Wayne at his mixtape peak was, but in a different way that I'm having trouble putting in to words right now but I vividly remember the first time I heard him just kinda throw out the aside "I'm so high I could eat a star" and having to rewind to make sure I heard it right. 

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RazorbladeKiss87

RazorbladeKiss87

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Something for the 2000s backpackers, Brother Ali and Ant from Atmosphere are releasing an LP and have the first five tracks streaming now. In one sense, it's kinda cornball but at the same time it's exactly what I need right now so it kinda works. 

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Curt McGirt

Curt McGirt

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That is right when I moved here and was fed all that stuff by my new friends. I even bought You Can't Imagine How Much Fun We're Having on vinyl earlier this year. I rediscovered the E&A album too.

So, yeah, I'm checking that out

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Curt McGirt

Curt McGirt

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTRrfFrldUw

Picked this up on Record Store Day as a birthday present for myself. I've never thought it's technically good as Let's Get Free, but it's more fun in a sense.

Now, if you'll endulge me in some nostalgia/history for a moment

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When it came out I got to play it in the kitchen I used to work in. The other hip hop of the time that got played, somehow? Paul Wall and Mike Jones. Yeah. The rest of the staff loved that shit -- and really, so did I. Sunday brunches were way different though. I had the Beatles requested constantly (sous chef Orosco always said "Handsome Boy, Beatles, Beatles!" [yes that was my nickname]) and then for no reason I can presume aside from the name of the band, he would put on the first Sepultura record that was in the CD case I brought in. One time I almost gave the GM a panic attack by playing Discharge on a busy day...

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