Once Upon A Time In Music
"Once Upon a Time in Music" is where culture. Each episode takes you back through the sounds, stories, and style that shaped generations — from classic tracks and unforgettable albums to iconic movies, favorite foods, and random pop culture gems you might’ve forgotten. It’s music history, fun memories, and good vibes all in one show.
Once Upon A Time In Music
All About the Features.
EL and Cheryl return with a new Once Upon a Time in Music episode featuring special guests Jones (Music Jones Podcast) and Yoshi (Relationship Status Podcast/Crux Media). Together they break down some of hip-hop’s greatest feature verses, highlighting legends like Big, Wu-Tang, OutKast, Fab, and Eminem. The convo also touches on food favorites (yes, grits debates are back), shoutouts to ATL’s Eat My Biscuits, and of course the Snack Time segment. A mix of music, culture you don’t want to miss.
What up, what up, what up, what up? We're back. It's another episode of Once Upon a Time in Music. I'm Elle.
SPEAKER_02:I'm Cheryl Poison.
SPEAKER_00:And we got... Some guests. We got two hip-hop historians in the building. I wouldn't say all that. One from down south and one from up north. So we'll get two sides of if that debate comes, because that debate always comes. It always happens. We got Jones from the Music Jones Podcast. What up, Jones? What's going on, man? I appreciate y'all for having me. Man, anytime.
SPEAKER_01:Welcome, welcome.
SPEAKER_00:Thank you, thank you, thank you so much, y'all. I met you at the...
SPEAKER_01:The
SPEAKER_00:get-together. Yeah, for the new spot. So I told you I was coming. Here I am. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Man, let the people know where they can find your stuff. Music Jones Podcast on all platforms every Tuesday. Probably got 160 episodes already. Been at it for about four, five years now. Going into my fifth year. Word. Yeah, going into my fifth year. Okay. Yeah, and the guy y'all about to hear from, you know, He's partly responsible for me having the pod. Yeah. So, you know. Talking about that guy. Yeah. They call him that guy sometimes. I wouldn't say all that. He's from Crux Media. He's from Relationship Status Podcast. He's from New York. He's from around the corner from us. He also from... Where's he going for that? Wait, wait. Trinidad? Yeah. There you go. Where the air horns at? Trinidad. We got the air horns, but we got the claps. Yoshi, what's up, man? Ain't nothing much, man. Man, let the people know where they can find you. If they didn't hear all the stuff I just named out. If I'm in the trap, it's going down. There you go. Relationship Status Podcast. Seven years in now. Okay. People say, how do you keep talking about relationships? I have no clue. There's something new every week. But catch me and my co-host, Venetta. We did some revamping and some retooling, but we now have a Patreon page, so you can join that. Relationshipstatuspodcast.com backslash Patreon. Go ahead and hit that up. Exclusive content's back there. Some conversations that couldn't be on regular air Y'all got special codes for us for Once Upon a Time Music? For Once Upon a Time Music? Sure, I'll set you up with one. Special codes. It's a discount code. This is music, y'all. You can get your own special discount code. Word. Bloopers, all of that stuff's on there. Oh, okay, okay. Conversations you can't see. V owns a restaurant in Atlanta called Eat My Biscuits. So before we record, I always follow her around with a little camera and she's mic'd up and some of the conversations she has with her customers. Yeah. Oh, word. It's crazy. Eat
SPEAKER_02:my biscuits. All
SPEAKER_00:right. Some of the best food in Atlanta. All right. East Point. East Point, Atlanta. Did they get her shit right? Her front yard? Nah. Nah, the city. But she's been all over the news and people have been coming in and writing to the city because they won't... She's lost... I think she was down like$200,000 in sales because they've been doing construction in front of her restaurant. And the way her restaurant is, because you can't do that drive down that middle, it's like... You don't even know the restaurant's there. So people will come and be like, oh, we're going to eat my biscuits. And they come around and they be like, well, where do I park? Where do I this? Where do I that? So she's been down a bunch of revenue. But she said people got behind her and she done been on the news and a couple other spaces since it hit social media last week. So she's been doing good. I talked to her yesterday because I was supposed to go down there to record and didn't. Well, shout out to Eat My Biscuits. They really sent us a care package one of these days It ain't going to make it. That food too damn good. It ain't going to make it. She got a deep dive biscuit.
SPEAKER_02:She got to overnight it. Overnight it.
SPEAKER_00:Nah, he saying he got to eat it. He going to eat it? By the time it get here, I'm telling you, you ain't going to want nothing in there because there ain't going to be nothing. That food too good. Too, too good. What days could they catch your show? On Mondays. Okay. Jones, what days they got you to drop your shows? Tuesday. Tuesday, yeah. Shout out to my co-host, Wiley June, man. I forgot you. Yeah, man. And I'm trying to get my guy Dewey to come back too. We need Dewey back. Yeah, man. I need my street correspondent back, man. I need my street correspondent back. One more thing. As of this week coming up, you can catch us on Dirty Basement Radio every Monday and Tuesday at noon. Okay. And where they catch that at? Internet radio? Wherever you can stream Internet radio from. Just put in Dirty Basement Radio. Dirty Basement. Okay. All right. We might as well go ahead and send one of our shows over there. I'll put you to connect. You got to be the pioneer so that you can figure out the ins and outs. Then you open it up to everybody else. That's dope, man. That's dope. All right, guys. We got y'all on the show. Y'all know the show is mainly about music, foods, movies. Some of
SPEAKER_02:everything.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah. I guess we throw a couple questions at you guys. We might as well start it with Mm-hmm. One food that you can eat all the time. It could be a meal. It could be a... You know. Yeah, that's easy. Oh, go ahead. Grits and eggs. For real? All day, every day. That's the country talking. Any day. Really? Any day. All day, every day. I got to be in the mood for grits. I can eat grits and eggs all day, every day. I don't eat neither one of them. You don't eat nothing. No, I can't do those two. I don't do grits at all. You don't eat grits either? No, listen. It's a southern thing. Grits are the nastiest thing ever. Now, eggs. Eggs are the nastiest thing. No, it's grits. Neither one of them is nasty. Yeah, that's like the perfect combination. No, I mess with eggs. All right. I mess with eggs. It's the grits. I was born in Texas, so I started on cream of wheat. Okay. Didn't get on grits until I got here. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because cream of wheat wasn't, you know, nobody ate cream of wheat. I was like the only one that was eating cream of wheat. See, but that's where I got. Yeah. I ate cream of wheat all growing up in New York. And then when I got here for college. Yeah, it's grits. I saw it and was in the cafeteria. And my homegirl was like, because she's from Jersey. And she was like, yo, yo, Jess. She's like, you eat cream of wheat, right? I was like, yeah. So she was like, it's the same thing. It's not the same. So I get the, because you know how you do the cream of wheat. You get the brown sugar, some honey, you mix it up. So I got it, and that's what I did. I said, this is, and I never ate it again. Yeah, see, Grits, you got to have salt. You got to try it again. Now, I can cook it. You got to have salt, pepper, and cheese. I taste it to cook it. I eat it both ways.
SPEAKER_02:I'll do the salt and
SPEAKER_00:the pepper, the cheese, or I'll do sugar. I like sugar in my grits also. Yeah, I know this sugar. After that, it wasn't. I'm not doing this. I'm more of an oatmeal person,
SPEAKER_02:too. I like oatmeal. You like oatmeal?
SPEAKER_00:Oh, yeah, I mess with oatmeal. What's the difference between oatmeal, farina, and cream of wheat? Cream of wheat is just a brand, right? No, cream of wheat is just a brand of farina. Yeah. Oh, okay. Farina. Cream of wheat is just a brand of farina. Oh, okay, okay. Yeah, so farina is different, though. Oh, okay. Farina is more. It's finely ground. It kind of looks like
SPEAKER_02:grits, but it don't
SPEAKER_00:have the same texture. Yeah, the texture. It's sweet, too. It's totally different. What's it called? Drinking soup. It's more like a soupy texture. I got another one for you, man. What you got? You didn't say her favorite. I'm sorry. You didn't even give your favorite. You didn't even give your favorite. I got another one.
SPEAKER_02:I'm
SPEAKER_00:glad you're giving your own self that. I was just I was going to ask him the questions and then we was going to go around the room. Oh, to ask each person an individual question? I'll turn my mic off. Let y'all do. I thought it was going to be a round table. Go around the table. A table square, man. Or a square table. A square table. No, you go ahead, Cheryl.
SPEAKER_02:All right. What I could eat every day probably is cabbage. Cabbage and rice or collard greens and rice. For real? For real.
SPEAKER_00:That's an old lady drink. Old lady food right
SPEAKER_02:there. You call me old all the time. I'll be that. That's something good to eat right there. Collard greens? Collard greens. I love greens.
SPEAKER_00:That's crazy. All right, man. What you got? Doubles. Okay, but you can't find them here. I can eat doubles. You know how to make doubles? Yes, I do. You said, what can I eat all day? No, I don't like the ones I make. Because I can't get the right ingredients here, the dough doesn't come out right. Even those discos, the Spanish? Yeah, those don't work with it. No, it's not the same. Okay. But that doubles, as soon as I touch down to it, It's the first thing I go get. I go to the Trini spot, and I load up on them doubles. Tell the people what doubles are, because a lot of people don't know what doubles are. They know beef patties. They know this, that, but they don't know doubles. Okay, so doubles is usually like a breakfast food that you basically eat in the morning. It is like a dough. It's chickpeas and potato, curry chickpeas and potato in between. two round pieces of dough that they call roti bake, but it's a little bit fluffier than the roti bake. Man, listen, they cost like$2, and they're about the size of a small circle,
SPEAKER_01:and you just
SPEAKER_00:kill them. Like the mini little tacos. How many you can
SPEAKER_02:eat? I
SPEAKER_00:can eat about 10 of them. See, but when I go home, it's just so much stuff I can't get here that when I go home, my daddy be looking at me like I'm crazy because I go to the Trini spot, get some doubles. I pass by the jerk spot and get some chicken. I pass by the pizza spot, get a slice. I get a sandwich from the corner store. All at once. All at once. And then I go to the house and I just sit there at the table. And eat everything. And eat everything. I'm the same way. I'm the same way. I just grab everything and just go. Pizza, White Castle, all of that. White Castle. We ain't talking about White Castle. Shh. I got to go get me two doubles. Definitely. The murder burgers, man. That's definitely a northern thing. What, White Castle? White Castle? People like Crystals, it's not the same. It's not the same. I think the bread at Crystals is not as soggy and steamed as White Castle for one. It tastes like they take it and they stick it in a microwave. That's what Crystals feel like. Think so? That's the texture it gives me. I'm going to have to try it again. I haven't had it in a while. Alright, I'm going to give you mine. Mine probably is pizza. Between pizza and And any kind of chicken, like pizza, you get it all sorts of ways, but you never get too tired of just like a plain slice. Like if a slice is in there and you ain't really hungry, be like, eh, I'll just have a slice. I can eat that all the time. All right. I'm going to ask you this. Favorite MC of all time. I'll let you give me two. But if you give me two, you got to give me your least favorite also. My favorite MC. Yep. I know it's going to be like a Karis one.
UNKNOWN:Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:Like that whole era, man, it's just, I'm trapped in it. Like, I don't know why. You know why. It was the best. It was the best. That's why you're here on this podcast. That's what we talk about. That's what we reach into. We talk about what we were wearing when we heard that song. Karis One. Karis One? Okay. You got a least favorite? A least favorite MC? Yep. That maybe you can look at and be like, man. Silk the Shocker. What? You crazy. For real? You like Silk the Shocker? I never liked him. Like, The RZA rapping offbeat is different than Silk rapping offbeat. But Silk, man, he had a run. He did. He had some great songs and all. His flow just
SPEAKER_02:was. I wouldn't consider him an MC, though.
SPEAKER_00:I consider him a rapper. He's a rapper. Yeah. Okay. Okay. I'm sorry. She definitely corrected us. My least favorite MC. No, you good with that. Are we going to take that? I don't have a least favorite, though. I mean, I have one, probably. It'll take a minute. Yeah. Well, Cheryl, I already know you. I
SPEAKER_02:already know who I'm going to say.
SPEAKER_00:The show already knows your favorite. Give me another one. Don't say that one favorite just yet. Don't say Nas. Go to your next one.
SPEAKER_02:My next? I like Fabulous. I'm going to say Fabulous.
SPEAKER_00:Oh, you definitely stole mine. You definitely stole mine. You looking on my paper. You looking at my
SPEAKER_02:paper.
SPEAKER_00:Always. Least favorite?
SPEAKER_02:I'm like him. I don't think I have a least favorite.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah. Least favorites are hard because you don't really listen to your least favorite to remember them. But there's probably a couple in... On a feature, like, man, why'd he put him on there? Mm-hmm. Or, you know, U-Guard is a lot of people's least favorite. Yeah.
UNKNOWN:He is.
SPEAKER_00:I didn't mean to say it, but... I mean, but he is. He's probably the weakest one in the who? Uh... He be him a master killer. Him a master killer, but... He got his strength back in that role, I'ma give it to you, with no trivia. Mm-hmm. Like Coke came straight from... I even like... Yeah. I like him on the jizz joint, too, so... on the investigative reports. Oh, yeah. It's his tone, I think. He hit a spot on that. He hit a sweet spot. Favorite, I have two. Well, I got 1A and 1B. 1A is Jadakiss. 1B, Eminem. Eminem? Okay. M just got range. Yeah, he different. I just, like, listened to his first couple albums, and then he was that, and then he was on that Busta Rhymes remix, and I think it was at the, what was it, the Source Awards or whatever they performed? He freestyled that whole set. When he came out, when he rose up from the floor, I was like, yeah, that's it. What was that, Touch It? Yeah. Is that when they brought Papoose out? It could be. It might be. It might be. But, man, like, he got, yeah. Yeah? A lot. But Jada... I think Jada is one of the few that's come through the different times that stayed true to himself. A lot of people don't like Jada. Eminem, though. Yeah. A lot of people don't like Eminem. They don't. But the real MCs, like Rakim and all, they love him. They love him. They salute him. But a lot of people never heard his mixtape before his actual album dropped. He had a mixtape that came out before. And it was in the street. I heard it in my boy Carr in Jersey. He was like, yo, this white boy about to drop. And we just listened. We rocked every, it was like 15 songs. He killed every single one. So that's why when his first album came out, it threw me off because of the, but then when you listen to it and you really listen to the lyrics like he's really like storytelling like all of that stuff is in there so it's like and I like somebody who could tell me tell me a story like you know bitches and hoes I get it but somebody tell me like tell me a story like you know he's not my favorite rapper but the Nas song Rewind that's one of my favorite songs from him I'm a
SPEAKER_02:good on
SPEAKER_00:that's one of my favorite I'm not with all that in there It's about three songs of his that I'm good on. Everything else is harsh. Tell me something. Be original. I got you. You got a lease? It's too many. What's his name? Cannabis. Are you serious? Yeah, I just didn't care. I didn't like it. Like, how do that make your list, though, for, like, least favorite? I just didn't like it. I
SPEAKER_02:don't care too much about him either.
SPEAKER_00:He just didn't. He never did it for me. He never really, like, I never. Well, I judge it like this. He had the potential. He just never got into the business. You know what I'm saying? So I think he, like, when he was beefing with LL, it was kind of like, oh, this dude. And I went and listened to his actual song. I was like, eh. I'm surprised he made your list because. I know there's plenty others that I would think make your list before. I mean, Master Killer is one. God is one. Yeah, yeah. But, I mean, it ain't too many people like them. Like, it ain't too many. I think the reason that makes that question real difficult is if I don't mess with you, I'm not listening to you. You're not listening. Yeah, that's it. I'm not listening to you enough to formulate an opinion of it. I got one. Go ahead. No Limit. What's the dude over No Limit? Master P. Master P. Oh, my God. Are you serious? You can miss me with every song he's ever done. No, you can't, man. Every song. Every single song from... No, man. Put it like this. The whole No Limit. I can't do none of them. I can't do none of them. Not a one. If I see a gold tank on the CD cover, I'm not buying it. Like, I don't... And I'm going to tell you why. Yeah, God, too far. My cousin used to listen to that BS, man. Me too. And he used to be like, yo, you got to get down with this. I'm like, man, if you don't take this out, I will break this CD. We know. The Cadence rap. Not even Mystical? Mystical wasn't with him the whole time, though. He was, in a way. He wasn't with No Limit the entire time. His first album came out, and then he was with No Limit. That's what I'm saying. Then He was with No Limit So I don't count him I'm talking about Silk Chakra Fiend Yeah yeah All of that Hey man Just get out Hey don't feed into his Nah I mean I was here I was here for all that Like Down here it was different Like that's what That's what it was That's what it was That's where I That's where I caught it I get what you saying Like I could I could probably With the way I like music And you know I can tell you probably A couple songs That you would like You probably could. Yeah. He ain't gonna listen. He ain't gonna listen. I know. It's just, I don't know, I just can't, I couldn't never, that switch just never flipped for me with listening to it. And you can't say I didn't listen to it because I had to because me and my cousin shared a room. So I used to hide this nigga's CDs. Excuse my language. I used to hide his CDs. See, I used to, man, what you did? I don't know where it went. See, I was in New York and And at the time, Ice Cream Man used to come on BET all the time. So you one of them rich dudes. No, listen. I'm watching it. No, you one of them rich dudes. You had cable. I had cable. So I didn't see that. So I'm watching it. And it was like, nah, this trash. Oh, but he got the new Land Rover in there. And he had the LS4 in there, too. Yeah. So I'm looking now. The song trashed up. I'm still watching for the cars. But then I got older and came down here for Freaknik. See, but that is wrong because you're associating. No, you got to listen. And then this girl would play, she had a system and a daggone Thunderbird, old Thunderbird, had a system. And she played Ghetto D for me. It was on from there. I got every CD after that. So basically it mixed three things that you like before music. Women, cars, and sound
SPEAKER_01:systems.
SPEAKER_00:And then those three things mixed. and that's what made you like it. No, it could have been anybody with a system, but I'm just telling you the story. It couldn't have been anybody, because a dude with a system, and I still would have been like, you wouldn't have been like all that. Ghetto D, Ghetto Dope, they make crack like this. That was Eric B. and Rakim's beat, so you could not not like it. You could not like it if you're asking me about the rapper, not the beat. That's the problem I have with a lot of the southern crap half the time, is because it's like, we're listening to the beat to go shake our butt or shake whatever you have and it's not so much lyrics it's not lyrics I grew up with lyrics and I cannot take I can't I It drives me. It's a good beat. I'm going to be in the club. I'm going to dance. I'm going to do whatever. But like. I don't believe you. No, I'll dance, man. And you say it's got to be lyrics. It's got to be. It's got to. No, because you like some songs that's out now. What songs now that I like? I don't know. It could be some Jamaican stuff. The lyrics wasn't there. No, Jamaican. What do you mean? Jamaican music is. Who are you talking about? You don't even understand what they're saying. Like, you can't even tell me what they're saying. You know what they saying. I know what they saying. That's why I understand it. That's why I like it. And the lyrics ain't all there. Tell me a song. I'll come up with one. No, Dem Sugar. Go. Dem Sugar's different. He's talking about the girls. But it's Boom Bye Bye and the Body Boy Head. He's talking about what? Killing gay people. Yeah, but... Listen to the lyrics. He's talking about that because... In Jamaica, it's a part of their culture, and that is not acceptable. So I'm just saying, like, I'm just, I just. You're not promoting no masturbating? Yeah. Bye, bye. That's my joint. That's my joint. I love that song. You know what I'm saying? Lyrics, I'm good. And, you know, beats are cool, but I just think that that was the thing, like, I just couldn't get with. For me to listen to it and be a fan of it, it's got to be, like, I got to feel it. It got to be here. And then, like, and then I'm a jazz head, so that's why I like Tribe Called Quest and De La Soul. But not only are their beats that mellow jazz type deal, but it's also they actually saying something when they're talking. Like that Beats, Rhymes, and Life album? Probably one of my favorite albums from Tribe Called Quest. Alright, I'm just saying. I'm agreeing with you. You ain't gotta agree. We can disagree. But definitely Master P. Number one on my list. I do not listen less. That's number one. But like he said, the systems made us listen to it. Yeah, I'm telling you, man. I just want people to really think about some of the stuff that we listen to. It's the beat more than anything else. Than the lyrics. But people who grew up with, like we're telling the people sitting at this table, they grew up with the lyrics of it. Because if that's the case, they got some hot beats now, but the song's just trash. And you like them. I don't. Oh, God. They horrible. Like I was just talking to Jones, one of the best albums I heard, maybe in the last two years, the Clips album. Cover to cover. I wouldn't say cover to cover, but it's a good one. It's a good one. It's a strong one. It's a tough cover to cover. It's a strong one. They did that. Yeah. All right, I'm going to give you mine. Okay, go ahead. Number one, Ghostface Killer. I saw that coming. We already knew that. Yeah, we knew. We knew that. What's it? We knew something else. We knew something else. Well, my number, my super number one. Super number one. Okay. The person was used already. Fabulous. That's my super number one person. Code Something, I love that song. Because any song, I tell everybody, any feature or song you put him on. Oh, he's the feature killer. He's going to make it better. He is the feature killer. It's not an old verse he have or something else. It's about that. So that's why he makes my number one. He's the feature killer. Yeah. He absolutely is. The worst? Off the top of my head, Blueface. Oh, God. What's that Tatiana thing? That's perfect. That's trash. That's perfect. Listen. Oh, shit. You know. He was the worst, man. I'm so glad he ain't making no more music. TikTok would have loved it, though. Because it was out before TikTok, right? Yeah. Yeah, they would have killed it. Thank God. They would have killed it. Well, since we're talking about features, today's episode. This episode is Cheryl, our top favorite
SPEAKER_02:features on a song.
SPEAKER_00:Features. And what else we got? We got Snack Time. We have movie flashbacks. And we got fun. Shoot, that's what we're going to do. We got a little friendly debate so far. I got a feeling it's going to end up being a... South versus North by the end of the day. Yeah. It ain't going to be my fault, though. I mean, we only got one Southern person in the building today. He's going to have to hold his own. We're going to gang up on him. I can hold my own. I'm going to gang up on him. He's going to have to hold his own. I'm going to hold my own. I'm going to hold it. All right. Well, Cheryl, you want to start it off? I'll start it off. All right. Usually we'll play like a little snippet or, you know, a piece. But since we got so many motherfuckers in here today, we ain't gonna get copyright strike. We ain't gonna, you know, that one, it's gonna be that one one that's gonna get us out of here. But we'll do it for a couple of them. Just to, you know, set the mood, set the tone. Cheryl, you wanna go first?
SPEAKER_02:Alright, my first one is LL Cool J featuring And meth, red, cannabis, and DMX. Okay. And I love DMX part. How do you go again? Stay out the door. When I catch you with us on this down running clown, come up off that.
SPEAKER_00:I'm going to run it down. I'm going
SPEAKER_01:to
SPEAKER_00:gun
SPEAKER_01:it down.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah. Meth was good too, but DMX, he just
SPEAKER_00:stole the show. Master P was on this joint. He
SPEAKER_02:was. He was. He was at the end. And you know what I would do? You know what I would do? He was the person they should have kept off.
SPEAKER_00:He killed the video. He wasn't on the song. It was a CD that came out. So you know how you had your CD. This man, I went right on fast forward. You got to hold it down for it to skip through that person. No, man. Okay. Even he killed it. So you had two of your worst... You're worse in this one song. And I could tell you, I probably could count on one hand how many times I really listened to the song. Was it because it's too commercial? I didn't think it was too commercial. The consistency across the artists on it, because I wasn't a real big LLL fan. Okay. I didn't like Cannabis. Overall, the song just didn't have enough heavy hitters in it for me. Okay. I mean, it's not disparaging anybody's name. No, I mean, so now it's... So, what do you think? That's what we had to run to. Me? So, Yoshi, what do you think? This is 5-4-4-3-2-1. 4-3-2-1.
UNKNOWN:Mm-hmm.
SPEAKER_00:Still attached to it. This what kicked off the beat? Oh, yeah, this what kicked off the beat with Cannabis and LL. Yeah. What was that? 1997 on LL Cool J's Phenomena album. Mm-hmm. I liked it. It was a good one. The video was hard. Like you said, they had, I don't know if the remix, I don't know if it was a remix, but the video had mass The remix, I think the remix or the video, I think they took cannabis out of the video. Could be. And put Master P in. Yeah. Because I think LL was mad at him. He was mad. You right. So I think that's what happened. I can't remember. I'll have to watch it again. That might be right. But I think that has something to do with it. No, was he in that video? Cannabis might have been in it. He still might have been in it. No, cannabis was in the video. He was, right? He was in the video. So he just added Master P to it. Probably because Master P had that run. He thought it was hot right then. Master P was on fire. That's when... No Limit Soldiers had just dropped. And what's the... Make Them Say Un. Make Them Say Un was out. Oh, wee. Yeah. He could have left them off, though. You think so? Mm-hmm. I think I just liked it because it was... Very much so. Nah, he had to do that for the Southern people. Yeah, because it was coming on B.T. Master P being on there made people from the South listen to that song. In 97... Nah, I listened to it. In 97, there was other Southern people that he could have got on there. But Master... Master P was the hottest at that. Yeah, he was number one. He was cooking. The boys was going, they was dropping a CD a week, and it was going platinum. You know what I'm saying? So it might have just been because it's business savvy. I think marketing-wise, I think he did a great job. Marketing-wise, he did a great job. I like that song. That was a good one. That was a good one. Okay, I like that one. That was... That could have made my feature list. I got one. I'll just jump in the mines. 1997 too, also. Mariah Carey came up with a song and she went and got a group that was big at the time. This group, I think they had a single called Cross Was this the same time? 97. Yeah, Crossroads was out. Crossroads just went crazy in 96. So Breakdown is the name of this Mariah Carey featuring Crazy Bone and Wishbone.
SPEAKER_02:That's my song, too. I love that
SPEAKER_00:song. You hear this? When that beat, like, I had the single. I played the single all the time. Listen. Yeah. That's... Mariah Carey, the album is Butterfly. 2007, I mean, I'm sorry, 1997. And that's my first one. I think I could have had a lot more R&B features, but I tried to steer away. I didn't want to pick the usual suspects. Joe's what you got. You got, what's one of yours? You don't have to go down in top fives or anything like that. Well, I'm going to go ahead and say this one first. Mm-hmm. Big Daddy Kane on the symphony. Oh, classic. I'll take that off my list. I get you every time. I'll take that off my list. I get him every time. That verse, man. But Big Daddy is one of the, like, if I wouldn't have said KRS-One, I would have said Big Daddy Kane. Whose song was that? Juice Crew. That was their song? Yeah, Juice Crew. Marlon It was Marley's song. It wasn't Craig G? It was Juice Crew. Yeah, it was Juice Crew. Okay. Yeah. I mean, my favorite person on there was Coogee Rapp. Yeah, Coogee. It's between them two on that. But being that Kane went last, he had to get Coogee. He had to cope with it, yeah. He had to top Coogee. He knew he had to get him to go last. Yeah. And that's the separation because he went crazy. I'm going to call that a crew. That might be one of my favorite crew songs. Like, I call it a crew, not, you know. For the quarter. in your ass because you played yourself like a game in the arcade. He wasn't even in the video, right? He
SPEAKER_02:was in the
SPEAKER_00:video, but I don't think he, yeah, he was in a different set. He was in a different set. He had the girl on. He wasn't in the little western. They was like at the little saloon and everything. Yeah. G-Rap. Yeah, G-Rap went bananas. He killed it. He stay in my top five until somebody, you know, until I start listening to some new music. So I think on that video, they had Scoop and Scrap wrestling in the saloon But Big Daddy King wasn't in the saloon, right? I just noticed that. Maybe he
SPEAKER_02:couldn't make the shoot or something.
SPEAKER_00:It seemed like he was somewhere else. Okay, that's a strong one. That's a good one. That's a strong one. You know the year? It had to be 88. 88. 88. Yeah. It had to be 88. It was 88. I remember 88 like yesterday. Yeah, I was 7. You were 7? Yeah. I was 10. But I got an older sister. That's why I know all this music. Just like me. I got an older brother. Yeah, my sister used to listen to all this shit. And they were outside. Yeah. When they was getting dressed to go out for the parties and stuff, I'm in the room with them like, yo, trying their wallabies on, trying their travel fox boots on and shoes on. Yeah. All of that. The tonics with the different colors. I was trying those on at the time. I used to wear my brothers to school. Yeah, man. Yeah, okay. Well, yo. My first one, in honor of being in the South. Okay. This is a shocker. This song really. He probably picked my song. I type a text from this girl I used to see. Andre 3000, I Choose You. Oh, I Choose You. I Choose. Yeah. Yo, he killed the intro on that. He did. And Pimp C was mad as shit at him. Killed. They could have stopped the song right after that. Yeah. Pimp was mad as hell with him because he did it without the music. He was pissed, yo. Oh, God. Everybody knows that song as, what, International Players? International Players. But it's I Choose You. Yeah. I Choose You. Yeah. Project Pat did it as I Choose You. He did. Yeah. Yeah, he did. He did. So, and it's all the same sample, Willie Hutch from the Mac. So, but. That's in my lap. Who else was on that? It was, it was like a whole lot of people. Outkast and UGK. Outkast. Yeah. That was it. That was it. It was just them four. Mm-hmm. All of them was in the video because they DJ Paul and Juicy J. They made the beat. This is the same beat Pat used on... Mr. Don't Play. Mr. Don't Play. No, Laying the Smackdown. I Choose You was on Laying the Smackdown. Oh, okay. Came out like 05, I think. What year was this? What year was that? That was 07. 2007. That's 07. Okay. That's a strong one. That's a classic wedding song now. How did we end up here? They love that at the wedding songs. Shoot, I seen it as, you know, that first dance. I seen them do that. Mm-hmm. But, you know. All right. Well, who next? What you got, Cheryl?
SPEAKER_02:Okay, we're going to go with.
SPEAKER_00:This is real hip-hop.
SPEAKER_02:Wu-Tang. Oh. And we're going to go with Winter Wars. Okay. Capadonna came through and
SPEAKER_00:just. Jesus Christ. She got me. He was,
SPEAKER_02:like, going on and on and on. Like, you going to stop?
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, she got me. Because that's definitely at the top of my list. I'm telling you. Feature-wise. Yeah.
SPEAKER_02:He
SPEAKER_00:went in on there. That's one of the coldest features ever. He must have had to prove himself or
SPEAKER_02:something. He had to prove himself. had something to prove.
SPEAKER_00:That's one of the coldest features. That right there was of all time. What was that? 1996. I heard it on Don't Be a Menace. It was on that, but it's on Iron Man. Oh, it is on Iron Man. And that's the only way you can, because it's not on streaming platforms.
SPEAKER_02:That beat ain't too bad either.
SPEAKER_00:Oh, yeah, the beat was ridiculous. Yeah. The beat was crazy. That right there. What do we got over here? Now, he did his thing on that. Yeah, he held his own. He held his own on that. Yeah, shout out to you, God, on that one. He did. I mean, he got his own style. Yeah, Capadon definitely, he went phenomenal. Yeah, he went
SPEAKER_02:crazy.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah. His
SPEAKER_02:rent was
SPEAKER_00:due.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah. I got to pay these bills.
SPEAKER_00:Not the rent was due. The rent was due. All right. We're going to jump into mine. I remember this was out in the summertime, and the video was on the beach. I think it was Jones Beach. And 1994. The Wick. 1994 gang star, The Wick. With nice and smooth. Smooth B had, what's your favorite verse? It was mine. No. Smooth B? Smooth B went fucking crazy, man. Smooth B went crazy on that song. They say I'm infallible. I love my filly at home. That nigga say I'm infallible. Not into failure. Whenever they together. And the way he just. Smooth B never, he never gets my top because great. Greg Nice always does something. Not on this song. Yeah. On this song, Greg Nice didn't. Greg Nice didn't. That beginning. Greg Nice. Greg N-I-C-E. Dominum Basso. I-W-E. Rock for a fee. Not for free. Come on, man. I don't think it was better than Smooth B. You think so? Just the way he kind of. I left my filly at home. The way he just came in. Yeah, like. I left my filly at home.
UNKNOWN:Do you have another?
SPEAKER_00:I want to get blood in my brother. He came in real smooth. Like, come on now. He did. He did. He did. He did. That was my shit
SPEAKER_01:back then.
SPEAKER_00:I probably was wearing, I don't know, I probably had a Helly Hansen or something back then. What was out there? 94? Talking about Tommy Hilfiger. I definitely had that, but it was summertime. Summertime, what was out in summertime? I know I had braids at the time. Some Tommy shorts and some Constructs. Probably what I had on. I don't think I had Tommy shorts. Either a jumper. And a game cap. Oh, you know what was popping in? The Goot, the Not the Gucci, the Guess Shorts. Oh, Guess Shorts was rocking that. With the burgundy Guess Shorts, the green, the blue. Yeah, some Guess Shorts. Jeans shorts, too. Oh, yeah. That was the same down here? Yeah. You wash them things once, boy, it's over. Yes. I had the royal blue with the
SPEAKER_02:jacket. You got to wash them in
SPEAKER_00:wool light. Once again, rich people probably My sister was a Guess Jeans fan. She used to love Guess Jeans. Yeah, girls kill Guess Jeans. But at one time, everybody, once they started coming out with the burgundy. With the colors. You know what? Once they came out with the jackets. I think it was the jackets or the jeans. Yeah, the jeans jackets with it. Because I was like the only person wearing them when I was in high school. Oh, word. Because we had to guess out of that at the beach. Oh. So I didn't kill them joints. Yeah, I wonder how cheap it was. They was$29. That's about right. That's about what it was. Them shits were 60 in there. I had a pair. They were 60. I used to get
SPEAKER_02:mine
SPEAKER_00:from Belts. Belts used to have all the colors. They were 25 at the Chinese joints. That might be what she got me. I might have the Chinese.
SPEAKER_01:Ain't
SPEAKER_00:nothing wrong with that. It was guests with an upside down triangle. The triangle was right side up. The triangle wasn't all the way straight. Hey, man, listen. And it was a lot more wider. That triangle was wider. Remember that? They took the triangle off now, so I don't even want to buy none. Yo, as they bring those back, that might be. They need to put the triangle back on the pocket. Yeah, right on the pocket. Oh, snap. It just took me back. I was in what? Junior high? I was junior high school. Yeah, I was out running around trying to be something new. You
SPEAKER_02:were still in high school?
SPEAKER_00:Nah, junior high. I ain't even made it to high school yet. Went guest drop? Yeah. I was in sixth, seventh grade. Had a huge guest store on 34th Street. Yeah. I remember going to Pick and Ave. Well, Pick and Ave would have been cheaper. Yeah. All right. Who next? You want to go? I'll go. What you got? I'm going to try to take it because I know somebody else is going to do it. And I think it's going to be Jones. It's going to be a usual suspect? Eminem or Renegade. Oh, with Jay-Z? I wasn't gonna bother, but that's one of them. That is probably one of he best features ever. Like, took over the man's home. Yeah, that was cool. Took over the song. So you think he took it over, too? Yes. That was a cool song. I like the whole song. No, the whole song is. Yeah. But I think the first time I heard it, the first time I heard it, sorry. The first time I heard it, it wasn't, I didn't hear it on the album. I heard it as a single. Yeah. And I thought it was Eminem's song. I didn't know it was Jay-Z's song until I heard the album. Yeah. Yeah. He cute. Yeah, he, his cadence is, that bounce he has to it, like, it's shit different for a white boy. Like, that's why they don't really, like, but he said he studied. See, I don't, I don't think he, I don't think he, everybody say he outdid Jay-Z on it. I don't think he did. I think you were just so happy to hear him on it. But Jay-Z shit is like. I'm not saying, I'm not saying that Jay-Z's verse is wrong. No, not you, but this is, who said that in the verse? They said you killed Nas. Nas said that. Eminem killed you on your own shit and all that. Nas was too busy getting killed in his own beef with Jay-Z. You're not going to talk about. So that was the first thing. You know I just posted that this morning. He was getting killed in his own beef. So he needed to leave like at that point in time. And you know this. He needed to just leave Jay alone. Nas won that beef. On where? We're going to come back to that. He won it. Nas had one song. He had one song. And Jay-Z had, that Super Ugly was bullshit. Nas had a couple joints. Exactly. He had a couple. You think Nas had a couple in the beef? Jay-Z only had one. Yeah. I mean, because you got to think about it. They kept shooting on albums. Let me say. Yeah, mixtapes. No, they were shooting on mixtapes, but they were shooting on albums too. But I always put it to people with the beef like this. Like, I was like, being there. at the time that they're beefing. You never really heard anybody in the city be like, yeah, Nas won. It was never that. Like, it was always Jay got him. But you know why? I don't know why. Because at that time, Jay was so big. You would never say he lost anything at the time. Nobody wanted to go against him. Ask people now, they're going to be like, yeah, Jay-Z kind of lost. I don't know. I don't know. It was follow-up tracks behind that. No, I mean, that's what we talk about. talked about it before. So I knew it was follow-up track and I listened to all of them. It just never came across to me as your Nas got them. It was always J1 to me. I think he just don't like Nas. It's not that I dislike Nas because I will rock that first. I will rock Illmatic till I rocked it till my tape popped. That's how much I rocked that Illmatic. I had that thing in my headphones taking the train down the Coliseum to get some jewelry. Not to get some friends. I had to get the friends. He used to go get the bottoms and all that. Just get the bottoms. But, no, like I said, I thought that Em really killed that song. Yeah, he did. He did. Yeah. All right. Who's next? Jones. Jones. What you got, Jones, man? I'm going to bring it down south real quick. Uh-oh. It's going to be A-Ball, MJG, or somebody. No, no, no, no, no. I ain't going to go there yet. But Outkast on Goody Mob, Black Ice. Still standing. album. Okay. 1998. That album is tough. What album was that? Still Standing. Still Standing. Goody Mob's second album. See, I don't think I listen to Goody Mob that much, man. Listen, this is one of those you put in and when you get in the car and you just ride till it go off. Yeah. Black Eyed, but 3,000 went absolutely crazy. Hey man, big boy went crazy on this like they went they went crazy man And the video was dope. They always had dope visuals. How to bump every hole in the wall, y'all. Did you catch that phone call? Okay. Yeah, so that. That's down south right there. Yeah. That's a song. I was too far. That whole album. That whole song. Their first album is fucking amazing. Soul Food? Yeah. They got another song on that one with Outkast that$3,000 Absolutely, Banana Zone. That came on right before. That one came on right before They Don't Dance No More. This one did? That track right here. No, that's Fly Away. Fly Away. Fly Away was tough. What's the one? You Could Have Died Tonight and I Would Have Been in the Right. Oh, that song. Which one is that? Gutter Butter. Boy, CeeLo killed Gutter Butter. Late one night, I was in my pearl white Acura Legendary. That literally, I had to get me a Pearl White Acura Legend. Just because he said that. My people was rocking the Acura Legend. I had one in college. I had to get it. I had to get it. You got that thing with me because it's necessary. So that's 1998. Goody Mob is still standing. Oh yeah. I didn't listen to that one. That one was too far down south for me. You should give it Give it a try. Cover the cover. Give it a try now. Y'all got to put that on my list. Cover the cover. Because they talk about what was going on. Down south. Soul food. I wonder if them gates was put up to keep crime out of keep my ass in. I wonder if the gate was put up to keep crime out of keep my ass in. I used to be like, what the hell is that shit they playing? People don't dance no more. All they do is dance. But if you really listen to the lyrics of the song, people don't dance. All they do is this. That's the skit before the song. Off with his head. Off with his head. That's why I fucks with Jones. That's why I mess with Jones. We curse sometimes. Who's next, Cheryl? It's my turn?
SPEAKER_02:We're going to go with Sean Price and Roast the Five Nine. Good night.
SPEAKER_00:That's hip-hop right there. I think that was what? Oh, that's 2013. Billy Dance. Is that it?
SPEAKER_02:Uh-uh. Good night.
SPEAKER_00:Good night.
SPEAKER_02:The Kimbo Price. I don't have that.
SPEAKER_00:I don't have that. All right, well, tell me about it.
SPEAKER_02:What you want me to tell you about? You need to listen to it.
SPEAKER_00:Check it out. Y'all can talk. Y'all just going to sit here and watch me scramble. I'm looking for my next one. She just gave me an idea on one that I didn't think about when she came with hers, Sean Price. Oh, Helter Skelter, boy. What's the name of it again? Good Night. Yeah, Helter Skelter was a... What a time to be alive. It goes down like this. What a time. The Operation Lockdown. The Operation Lockdown, when that beat drop, they go down like this. I feel so bad for these children. I never know. They don't have no good music. No, they don't. Well, NBA Youngboy. Yeah, I can't, man. That song you talk about, I don't think they stream it on platforms. That's why I got the wrong one. I need to find... I need to find it though. I need to find it. Maybe Spotify. Good night. Good night. All right. I'll put that on my list. Oh, hold on. I got the wrong person there. Oh, so you messed that up. I could be. I could be. I could be. That's wrong, too. Okay. Well, who's next? You. All right. Well, that's an easy one. What year was yours? Do you know?
SPEAKER_02:What? Yeah. 2009. 2009.
SPEAKER_00:Okay. All right. Well, I'm going to take it to... 1998, album, Capital Punishment. Oh, yeah. That's another good one. Probably had one of the strongest beats in hip-hop. And the name of the song is Twins. We call it Deep Cover. These niggas, I'm sorry. These dudes went bananas. And they're pulling, pulling in the middle. Oh my God. And a lot of people thought he was just mumbling. He was not. He was not mumbling. Like, man, come on, man.
SPEAKER_02:Honey was
SPEAKER_00:ill. Yes, he was. Man. Yeah, that song right there. Yeah, that's one of the coldest features ever. Everybody calls it. Deep Cove, but the name of it is Twins. Capital Punishment. I think that was Pun's first album, 1998. Wasn't that his only album? Nah. He was working on the second one. That's what it is. He might have had another one after he died. After that, 100% might have been another one. Okay. But 100% definitely is the second album. Do you, like, y'all ever think of how crazy it would be if, like, all them dudes didn't pass? Oh, yeah. Big, pop, pun. I tell you like this. If they didn't, I don't think music would be. If they were still here, I don't think music would be where it is, as bad as it is right now. Yeah. I don't think it would be as bad. Yeah, yeah. I think still some stuff would be bad. Yeah. It still got through, but a lot of it wouldn't have made it. A lot of it wouldn't have made it. It wouldn't even have made it. Yeah. Because I stand firm in my belief that Jay-Z wouldn't be if Big hadn't have died. But the thing about it, I argue... I'm not saying he wouldn't be, but he wouldn't be as big as he is.
SPEAKER_02:So you think Big would have been
SPEAKER_00:the hot dog? Because when he passed, literally the city was looking for somebody to lift New York. Like Big had it. Like Big had New York. And they were just looking for something. And just Nobody was really, and then Jay just, I think that's when Jay, I forget what album he dropped, and that album hit, and every single car, every single everything was just on it. It might have been Volume 1. City is Mine. Yeah. Like that. I say this to a lot of people, and they like to argue it. I don't think if Pac was out, if Big was still alive. I think if they were still alive, they wouldn't have been out now anyway. No, no, no. I don't think they'd be rapping now. They would have been like label heads by now. I don't think label heads. I mean, executives, they would have had their hand in it, producing. They would have been doing something. I don't think they would have still been rapping. I mean, shit, but you... I think that they would still be able to get on features. I mean, they would still have stuff in there. Because they weren't... It's not like these dudes was old when they got killed. Yeah, they was young. These boys, they ain't even 50 yet. You know what I'm saying? Like when even have been physical. Pac been dead longer than he was alive. So do you think do you think uh All right, Fat Joe is out. Super relevant. At this moment, he's not relevant for his music, but he's more relevant for stories and stuff like that. But he still would drop albums. I mean, he still would drop singles and stuff like that and kill it in the summertime. Probably last summer was, I can't remember what song, but the Kool and Dre album he just put out not too long ago, that was fire. Any album he put out since then, Do you think Pac or Big would still be able to do that same thing? I'm sure Big. Pac probably would have been a politician by now.
SPEAKER_02:You think
SPEAKER_00:so? I think so. He's been fighting for the people. Big just had so much. It was just so much. I think Big would...
SPEAKER_02:Big was ahead of his time.
SPEAKER_00:He was way ahead of his time. Way ahead of his time. You think so? If he was living, I think he, you know, like you said, he'd do features. He was too big for his own label. Yeah, but I think it was just because it was something new. Because can't nobody tell, Craig Mack was actually straight. Like, he was not, he didn't suck. You know what I'm saying? Craig Mack was actually, listen to Making Moves With Puff is a good song. Jockin' My Style. Yeah, Jockin' My, good song. You know what I'm saying? He had some joints, but he just happened to get dropped, like, in the same time that they dropped Big, that Big dropped his first album. A week later. Yeah, like, after Big, nobody's listening to that. That That's why they had to do the Flavor of the
SPEAKER_01:Year
SPEAKER_00:remix. Yeah. Puffy had to do something. He messed that. He dropped the ball on that one. Yeah, he blew that. He blew that. He had to do something. He had to. He had to. I don't know. That Craig Mack's album was trash. The album was not trash. It was trash. Project Funk the world, man. I don't think it was that bad. It wasn't a cover to cover Runner. Yeah, it had some tracks on it. He
SPEAKER_02:probably just wasn't checking for it because of Biggie. Nah,
SPEAKER_00:I was checking for it because he was hot at the time. That flavor, that flavor. That bread, bread, all that. He was doing that all the songs. I was like, yeah, this ain't it. A flip blade, a flip blade all the time. That was on one song. No, it wasn't. That was on the remix. No, it was on a couple songs. That was his style.
UNKNOWN:Okay.
SPEAKER_00:I'll just tell you, okay. What you got next there? A little bit old school down my lane. Okay, go ahead. Scenario. Busta Rhymes. The remix? What about the remix or the original? No, the remix. Wait. The original scenario. Okay. I like his remix, right? With Busta Rhymes. Yeah, the one. Both of them got Busta Rhymes on it because they did a scenario remix. So the original, all of them have the same people on it. What you gonna do in 92 when you wanna have fun in 91? That was scenario two. That was scenario two. Yeah, that was two. That was scenario two. Okay. Yeah, that was scenario two. That was, and I put that on my crew. That's another one of those crew joints. It's a crew, but you know what I'm saying? Like it was, because at the time, you couldn't tell me that they weren't one group. Them and Leaders of the New School. Oh, definitely. Them and Leaders of the New School, you couldn't tell me they weren't one group. Yeah, it definitely was. It definitely was. I think that, it was that when the dragon came. That's when, rah, rah, like a dungeon dragon. Dungeon dragon, yeah. And that's when... He had two verses. He was the only one that had two verses. He had two verses on that one song? On Scenario. Oh, word?
UNKNOWN:Mm-hmm.
SPEAKER_00:Get out of here. I got to hear two verses. That's crazy. He was the only one with two verses. So that's why he levitated after that. Mm-hmm. It was over. He killed it. He killed the first one, then he came back, and he was the last one. As I combine all the juice from the mind, heal up, bring it back, come rewind. Powerful impact. Boom from the cannon. No bragging. Listen. I was like, okay. That was it. That was hard. That's when he stopped coming by his mama's house. And mama lived around the corner from us. You would see Bust every single day. After Scenario hit, man, you might see that he had a little green Acura legend. You might see that thing come through every now and then. Other than that, never see that dude again. Okay, so that was Scenario was on The lower end theory. Yeah, the lower end theory. 91. 91, yeah. And that's why Scenario 2 says you thought we were going to do in 92, because you know we had fun in 91. I don't know that. Joe knows this. Hey, Joe knows this. Fife knows this. Fife is completely underrated as an emcee. I don't care what nobody say. Dog is first up to bat. No batteries included and no strings attached. No hose bar. No time for bacon. I got to get the loose so I could bring home the bacon. Yeah, that was a classic. Life is underrated, man. I don't know. The remix might be my shit, then. I think because they were stopping the beat and all sorts of... And it was a faster beat. It was, right? Yeah. In 1992. No, in 1991, we brought you Scenario. That beat was so cold, man. That beat was cold. Oh, my God. Yeah, it sounded like something was coming. All right. Feel me? Yeah. That sound like something was coming. Now think about how many times that's been used. Yeah. Joe Budden used it for Pump It Up. Joe Budden did use it for Pump It Up. Somebody else used it. So it's due. It's due for somebody to use it now. Yeah, somebody need to redo it, man. Because that there, man. Yeah. Dang. Okay, who's next? Jones? Jones? It's an easy one. Big on Brooklyn's Finest. Oh, yeah, with KZ? I didn't want to say it because I knew somebody was going to say it. I didn't want to put that one on my list. But that is... Big on Brooklyn's Finest, man. Oh, yeah, man. Better days. Better days. Like, he... They actually turned that into, like, one of the best back-and-forth joints. You know, of people that wasn't in a group. They played that. They played off each other. It came together perfect. The beat was dope. Yeah. Big spit his usual joint, you know, like, man. Big went crazy on that thing, man. He went crazy. Big went crazy. Big went crazy, man. And, like, you know, being in the South, Biggie being the hottest thing, you know, at the time, that's all we was hearing was Biggie. So anything Big was on, we would hear it. Like, Yeah, because, you know, DJs would get on the radio and play, you know, do mix shows and, you know, might have an hour. Yeah. What was, what's, what's, Buddha Rat. Buddha Rat. Okay. Buddha Rat used to play like this on the radio. Oh, word. Down here. Like, yeah, because of Buddha Rat, we got a lot of Bob D, we, you know. Yeah, yeah. But it takes somebody like that to come work at a radio station in the South to play that. Shout
SPEAKER_02:out to Buddha.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, like, you know what I'm saying? So, I might have heard this, you know, when Night Buddha was on. Yeah. And I'm going to get the CD now. I'm going to buy this Reasonable Doubt. Shout out to B-Easy, man. He loved Jay-Z. Like, this album changed our lives. Because after this, the streets is watching movies drop. Oh, man. You know what I'm saying? So we was all in. And then, like, you know, because, like, the way y'all talk about Southern music, that's how I used to talk about it. But I was here talking about it, like, It was hated me. Okay. Oh, word. Yeah, like they didn't... Because think about it. Master P came out right after this. You want to hear that track? I used to feel the same way. Yeah. But, you know, I had 12s in my trunk. I'm going to get that Master P. Yeah, you got to... If you got the system, you got to bump... But when I'm riding by myself, it was that... Lost Boys. Here's a tune about it. Yeah, that's what I used to listen to most of the time. Bob D, Keith Murray, KRS-One. That album, KRS-One, dropped in 95, is probably my favorite. That's dope. His name title is just KRS-One. I love that album. But around that time, that's all I was listening to. That was 96. And the show soundtrack was out, too. That was a hard CD to find right now. Yeah, it is. The show? The show. The movie soundtrack? Yeah, yeah. I can get you a copy of it. I got one. Okay. But, you know, if you want to donate to the vault. I got it on. I had to, my sister still got the hard copy. The hard copy? So when I went to the house, I put it on my computer. I let her keep all her stuff at her house because she got some of the, like she still got stuff, CDs from, original CDs from 92. So, you know. Yeah. You know, tell her. Yeah. You know, bring some by. Yeah. She's not giving you CDs. Oh, no, she ain't giving them up. I mean, you know. I tell her to send me some pictures of a couple of them. But she got some classics in there. Now we're talking about CDs. Yeah. I got to give a shout out to my younger brother. My younger brother heard last week's episode where I said I had to steal his purple tape. He got, well, in 2015, they put out a 20th anniversary case It's a box. It's a wood box with the purple tape inside. See, I've never seen it. I said, I'm going to have to sneak it, you know, steal it from him. Well, he called me as soon as he heard the episode. He was like, I'm going to start this off and say, you're not getting it. I said, what are you talking about? So, you know, I said, no, you know, just bring it to the vault. And, you know, we leave it in there and lock it up. He's like, yeah, I might be able to do that. I was like, so I'm always waiting. He ain't going to do that. No, he might do it. He might do it. He cool like that. I told him, come on, man, put it in the vault. It's like a museum. in there man it definitely is I try to put as much stuff in that thing as I can any CD I come across last night I was going through CD booklets and I found a couple doubles that I didn't know I had which you know I don't have the cover but I got the you know I'm a CD head so if you got CDs or cassettes you know I'll buy them I'll trade if there's something that you're looking for. I might have it. I might have one or two of them. We could do a little swap. All right, who's next? This is my
SPEAKER_02:turn. Okay. We're going to go with Mobb Deep. Oh,
SPEAKER_00:I know which one. Give up the goods. I know which one. And Big Noid came through. Big Noid. Big Noid. Came on through. It's the R-A-W-P. R-A-W-P. N-O-Y-D. Niggas can't fuck with me. Come and see. Straight out of QB. Pushing an affinity. You ask, can I rip it constantly? Mentally, definitely, to the definition. Trust me, a nigga couldn't touch me if he snuffed me. So I had to think fast, put out his heat first, got to pull out my heat last. Niggas living to this day. I'm trying to tell you something. I think this song right here was on what album? They played this on a movie, right? What movie was that? I'm trying to think. Was it 8 Mile? Had to be 8 Mile. It might have been. It had to be 8 Mile. That's a good one, Cheryl. You killed that one. Because that's one of my favorites, too. The devil just stole my soul. I'm out for Delphia. Selfie at peace. Not helping you. I'm trying to get this Lexus up. What's the cellular? Your big noise. What up, cousin? Hold on. Hold on. I can't cope.
UNKNOWN:Yo, it's the R-A-P-P-E-R-N-O-Y-D. Niggas can't
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, he did that. Yeah, he killed that one. Yeah, man. Shout out to the rapper noise. Rapper noise, son. Am I the only one that brought his CD? Yeah. I am, right? Possibly. Probably is. I'm sure you are, sir. Yeah, I'm going to have to pull it out. He always go crazy on anything he did with them. Because he went crazy on the murder music track he did with them.
SPEAKER_02:Some people ain't meant to be on a CD. Yeah, they need to be with somebody
SPEAKER_00:else. He got, like, how he killed that one, he got, like, five songs he did that with. Like, he really did his thing on those. That was a strong one, sir. That was a strong one. Who next? Me? Yeah. Okay. Well, we talked about this guy and this album. It was a mixtape series called A Soul Tape. Fabulous. 2011. This song is Y'all Don't... Y'all don't hear me though. Featuring Red Cafe. A lot of people don't know who Red Cafe is, but this right here. Yeah, Red Cafe on this. Y'all don't hear me though. That's Tape was Soul Tape. They came out with a Soul Tape series. I think they went all the way up to Soul Tape 3. I do know you could get them on streaming platforms now. At one time, you couldn't find them on streaming platforms. 2011. Fabulous. F-A-B-O-L-O-U-S. And Yosh, what you got? Piggyback it, because when she said that last Mobb Deep, I had to think about, there's one song I listen to probably about five times a week.
SPEAKER_02:I can't wait to hear what
SPEAKER_00:it is. Better not say it. I listen to it about five times a week. I hope you don't say what I think you're going to say. And I do it as I crack a glass of Hennessy. E&J? You don't do the E&J? No, I don't drink that Erkin Jerk. Easy Jesus. And the first line says it all. I used to be in love with this bitch named E&J. Don't fuck with her no more. Now I fuck with Tangeray. Tangeray introduced me to my first cousin go. Drink Away the Pain? Drink Away the Pain featuring
SPEAKER_02:Q-Tip. Q-Tip, yes. That was one of my favorites on the
SPEAKER_00:album. Well, what? Man, listen, as soon as I cracked that bottle, boy, that's the first song on my playlist. I got a drinking playlist. That's the first one. See, and now Q-Tip did a lot of songs, a lot of beats for them on that album. Yeah, I found that out after the fact. Yeah, yeah. Because when I used to listen to these, I never really paid attention to who was doing what. Yeah. As I got older, I went back and because that's probably one of my favorite albums.
UNKNOWN:I used to be in love with this bitch.
SPEAKER_00:And if you listen to it, it's harder. If you listen to the beat, it got like a... They got that jazz, yeah. A tropical quest beat to it. But at the time, you didn't think that. You just, oh, this is mob deep shit, you know. I didn't know Havoc was producing as much as he was back then. Me either. I just got older and figured that shit. Go get your own. I mean, you have to clap something. I love my shorty more than life, and I went, that's something. That's a hard one. For some reason, that album been coming up lately on our show a
SPEAKER_02:lot.
SPEAKER_00:That's one of
SPEAKER_02:my favorite albums. I can listen to that straight through.
SPEAKER_00:So, you know, when you said that, I think I went back and listened to it. I was like, yeah, I like this album. But the other day I listened to Hell on Earth. That one's good too. Drop a gem on me. I didn't know it was that hard. I always thought this was their best album to me. And then I was like, I don't know. That drop of Jim on them, man. Oh, my God. And Murder Music. Murder Music was hard to me. I used to kill that. Cover to cover. Getaway. Cover to cover. Getaway. That's after. Getaway is on the way. That's America's Nightmare. America's Nightmare. That's what I'm talking about. Murder Music had It's Mine with Nas and Quiet Storm. With the video. Uh-huh. Quiet Storm. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Now, a lot of people don't know that Quiet Storm remix. with Lil' Kim, they had to do it as a remix because the original song is a Prodigy song. Oh, word. Three verses, 48 bars. It was on one of Prodigy's songs. No, it's song number 10 on the Murder Music album. Oh, word. Then the remix is at the end. Oh, yeah, they do have the remix on there. You're right, you're right. A lot of people didn't, you know, because once the remix came out, nobody listened to the original song. That's like shit once. And Prodigy went crazy That's like Shook once. Prodigy? Oh, my God. Prodigy could really rap, man. He really, really could rap. That nigga P. Yeah. He really could rap. All right. Who next? Let's do one more and then we get on out of here. It's my turn. Well, since it's the last one. Uh-oh. Hold up. I'm trying to. I'll give you two. We'll do one last round, and then we'll do one honorable mention. Okay. All right. Well, so one of my favorites is Mace. On Oh I know what you gonna talk I know what you gonna say Niggas done started something Oh I thought you You thought I was about to say 24 Hours Live Yeah He went crazy on that one too But he went bananas on that Niggas done started something He went absolutely crazy Now all of them went wild All of them They Lyrically like that song They went bananas But it was just something about Mase at that time man In 97 Mase was absolutely the hottest rapper out until Nori took the title for him. Yeah, because Nori took it for him. Yeah, Nori took the title. But this song right here, Marvin Gaye sample. I'm a Marvin Gaye fanatic. But Mase, man, Mase just, I don't know, man. I wish he would have just stayed in the game, whatever he had going on, because the boy could rap, man. And he went crazy on this one. He did. He definitely did. Definitely crazy. Definitely. This is on DMX album. Uh... It's dark and hell is hot. Yep. And that was 98. Yep. That was the first leg of his 98 drops because he dropped dark and hell and hot in December. In December, yep. That's when he, yeah, yeah, yeah. Two platinum hours in one year. Yeah. We pushing up on 30 years of that. Like 30 years ago, man. That's crazy. Crazy.
SPEAKER_02:It don't seem like it been that long.
SPEAKER_00:It don't. It don't. It don't.
SPEAKER_02:All
SPEAKER_00:right. Who we got next? Oh, just the honorable mention. Oh, you want me to go? It's you. Okay. Okay. All right. Of course, this is one of my favorite songs of all time. So you're only giving me one. I had to kind of figure out. Now, you're going to get two. I get two? Yeah, because you're going to do one now, and then we're going to double back for honorable mention. All right. So I'm going to go with the... Shadow boxing. Okay. Method Man. That's a good one. He killed it. He killed it. The video. The video. The video was tough. Man, listen. He came in, killed it. Army fatigues. And Jezza rap. And he came back and drug it. I could have done without Jezza's. This is our. I get it. But he didn't have to be on the song. He could have just left it. Yeah, he didn't have to be on the song. Meth opened it and closed it. We didn't need him at all. We didn't need him at all. Slay them C's back in the rec room era. Bone bristle. Heat seeking. Johnny blazing. Nightmares like Wes Craven. My third eye seen it coming before it had it. You know about them fucking stacking kids. They smash everything in any shape, form or fashion. Everybody talking about they blasting. Is you busting still or is you blashing? Talking about your asshole. You should have learned about the I can see people in the studio telling me, hey, Matthew, you got to stop. Like, stop. Please stop. No, no, no, stop, stop. Oh, God. Stop. Yo. And the thing that kills me is, like, he was done, and then the first time I heard the song, I didn't expect him to come back again. He came back. And it was harder than the first go-round. And I was like, yeah, this is probably one of my top five songs of all time. Like, rap songs. I'm telling you, that video. That video was like, oh. Because I kind of think it was, you haven't seen Method Man in a while or something like that. Because when you seen it, it was like, oh, they finally dropped another video or something like that. and the fatigue jacket, the fatigue pants, they had the war going on behind them or whatever. And listen, that song was so hard. Yes, it was, man. All right, that was a strong one. Yeah, a strong one. Okay. Yeah. L likes to treat me like I don't know music at all. Nah, we proud of you, baby. He likes to treat me like I don't know music at all. Like, I don't know what I'm talking about, and none of this stuff, man. You surprised me on that one. You surprised me on that one. And then there's still stuff on here that I haven't even gotten to. Don't worry. I'm going to let you get one more for that list.
SPEAKER_02:It's on me? It's on you? Okay. All right, I'm going to do one of my honorable mentions. Okay. And I'm going to go with Big and Bone Thugs, Notorious
SPEAKER_00:Thugs. Oh, man. You didn't send me that one. No, I didn't. That's one of my honorable.
SPEAKER_02:It's Bone and Biggie, Biggie. Bone and Biggie. I'm being dangerous.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, that right there. I think when, what album was that? That was on, hold on a second.
SPEAKER_02:That was Life After Death.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, let me see, let me see, let me see. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. The name of the song is Notorious Thugs. Mm-hmm. And that was 1997? Mm-hmm. Was it? Mm-hmm. Yeah. Drop. Two weeks after he died. Three weeks after he died. This song right here. Bone Thug was still big at the time, like... This was their era. Yeah, this is hard. Yeah. So, did you like Biggie's part on this, or you liked the harmony? I liked Biggie's part,
SPEAKER_02:but I just liked how they came together. Them two together, it was just something different. You wouldn't expect Biggie to be on a song with them. Yeah, yeah. They just mesh so well.
SPEAKER_00:Rapping fast.
UNKNOWN:Uh-huh.
SPEAKER_00:The intro is super long. It's a remake. But yeah, this was a hard joint. This was on Life After Death. Life After Death. Yeah. When I got my... Was that me and you that argued about that last week? Uh-huh. Yep. He said Life After Death wasn't cover to cover. It's not? To me, it wasn't. He said he got a bunch of them he skipped. What songs would you take out and just compile into one CD? How many would you take out? One CD? Which one? I mean, it's... Which one are you going to take out? Either way, it's not going to be a double CD. So if it's not going to be a double CD, then that means there's skips in it because there's a double CD. I had skipped a song on that album the last few times I listened to it. Sky's the limit. Definitely a skip. I don't know how. I don't know how you skip Sky's The Limit. Come on, man. We don't need none of that slow talking and all that. Man, we don't need that. But the message in the music. I don't need no message. He listens to Master P. All his credibility is dead. I hold my take up high. All his credibility is dead with me now. I used to be on the same page with L, but he's a No Limit fan. Who's there? Fiend there? Mama there? Sink there? See, he know lyrics. Like, I don't even. Come on, man. I'll tell you, Master P was bumping. I had to assist him then, too. I get it. Once she played that ghetto D for me, pause. There was no turning back from that, man. I got almost all the CDs except, like, a handful that I wouldn't even get. Yeah. Your credibility is taking a hit, sir. But the beats, Beats by the Pound, KL, KL. KLC. They were killing it. Why wasn't none of these songs on your favorite collaboration? Which one? Because all of them is collabs. Yeah, they had a posse cut on all of them. Everybody's album. It was a posse album on everybody. Mystical pretty much smoked most of them. Except the Ghetto Symphony, he did smoke that too. Snoop between Snoop and... I didn't count Snoop as no limit at all. They had to pay him to be there. I know they paid him to be there. What do you mean? Of course they paid him because Snoopy broke at the time. Yeah, they had to do something. He had to do something. He had to go over there. I'm going to leave you alone, sir. I'm going to play a No Limits song about that. I will take these headphones off. Is it my turn? I will walk out the door. Yes, it's your turn. All right. I'm going to go to... Probably the newest song we've played all day. 19... No, this is 2016. Mm. Yeah. Oh, boy. French Montana featuring Kodak Black. Do you hear it? Bite down. Lock jaw. Lock jaw. I give you this one. It's on three of my playlists. So y'all get this one. I just like when French say bite down. My wife be saying stuff to me. All right, girl. All right, girl. This right here, I mean. You don't understand me, man. I'm a jockey. I toot a nigga up. I boot a nigga up. Cop a fight with me in the toot truck. And they toot it up. Kodak is crazy. Come on, man. That's before I knew who Kodak was, I think. I actually like Kodak, bud. Yeah. I do, too. He's more lyrical than I was led on to believe. I had to go and listen to some of his stuff. One of my favorite songs from his is like Peachy. Which one is it? It's a song called Peachy. Whenever you get a chance, go find it. I like Rolling Peach. That's about as far as I'll take it. Yeah. Just because he say, how you believe in Jesus? I don't even believe in Jesus. Yeah. You don't even believe in Jesus. Why you got a Jesus piece? Yeah. Like, tell him, Kodak. Cut it out. Yeah. All right. I'll go with my last. This is going to be on my list. Jadakiss on Bam from TV. Okay. Bam. Bam. That song was so hard when it hit. That was 1998. My homeboy had an Intrepid. My other homeboy had a Civic. Not too long when we got the CD, the night before, I had stole a Honda Accord. So we had synced up all of the damn, so we pulled up in front of my homeboy house to pick him up. And we had, all of us had the CD playing at the same time, bumping out, blasting out the damn window. And we kept it on repeat. So, you know this, since this is your song. How many people was on this song? A lot. Nature. Nature, Jadakiss, Cam, Big Pun, Styles P, and Jadakiss. You said Jadakiss? Yeah, I said Jadakiss, yeah. And the only reason Sheik wasn't on it because they was beating him. Extra hard. And Norris said it in the version. He said, I'd never do a song with you. Not even if your baby mama fought. He was talking to Sheik. Oh, word. And promised to give us it. Oh, word. Yeah. That's why in Reservoir Dogs. Was it Reservoir Dogs? On Jay-Z joint? Yeah. Sheik was on that. Sheik was like a... Shut the fuck up for our blazing band from TV, your ass. Oh, word. And Nomads look at the camera like, what? I don't know what they was beefing about, but they was beefing. Yeah, yeah. This album right here, that was the first album on the song. That was the first song on the album. That was the first song. The album opened up. When I kicked on that. He did a little intro. He did a little talk. But as soon as that number two came on and that horn, oh, my God. All right. It's poison. It's my turn? Hold on. Last one. Hold on a second. Okay, go ahead. We're going to wrap it up soon. Okay. My last one is Beanie Siegel and Jay-Z. From the Becoming album, 2005. It's on. I don't know if you remember that song, heard that song. But by far, one of the coldest songs. Because them two dudes together. Beans was a different beast. I really like Beans. A lot of people didn't like Beans. Beans was a different beast, man. But him and Jay on this song. Even with the song off of the Ignorance shit. Off American Gangster. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Anytime they got together, like, it was a, it's a great song. What's the name of that song? It's On. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, that was a good one. That was a good one. It's to the greatest. Can't beat us. Join us. It's on us. Red lasers. Yeah, that was a good one. That was a good one. That was a real good one. All right. Cheryl, wasn't you gonna? Oh, you already did your honor record. I already did mine. Yoshi, you did yours? I just did. I mean, I got some more. Nah, I'll do mine. Okay, do yours. I got a little. 1997, this album came out. Super Duper Fly. Missy Elliott. Missy Elliott. She had a song on there with Genuine called Friendly Skies. This right here. And the system. This right here might have been, some people skipped, but a lot of people don't know this song because she was basically singing R&B on this song here. But Friendly Skies, 1997, Super Duper Fly, Missy Elliott, and Genuine. Yep, yep. But that was mine. Yeah. Y'all gave me some stuff to go listen to. I know that. I got some stuff to go listen to. Like, for real. I guess we ended up with Snacks. Cheryl, you got this week's snack?
SPEAKER_02:I'm going to take you back to the corner store. Bonton plain potato chips.
SPEAKER_00:Oh,
SPEAKER_02:I
SPEAKER_00:thought you did that last week. Which one was last week? Last week was Bravo's. Bravo's. Bonton had the onion ring. They had
SPEAKER_02:different flavors, but I like the plain. I like the plain, and I would put hot sauce and ketchup on my
SPEAKER_00:plain chips. You're going too far, Star. You're a hood chick. You're going Too far, Star.
SPEAKER_02:That was my little thing, yeah. Shake it in the little bag, shake the bag up.
SPEAKER_00:All right, Jones, you got a favorite snack from back in the day that you, you know, it could be a cupcake that they don't make no more. I mean, even if they do make it, just something that. There's so much of that. When you see it or hear it, it brings you back. I'm going to go with a. It could be a bologna sandwich with fried or, you know, anything. Man, oh, my God. You got to slit the side so it won't bubble up. Yeah, bubble up. That type of thing, huh? I ain't learned that till I was old. What was a good, oh, it was a store that used to sell, it was a store in the hood called Girls Market. Okay. And they used to sell pickled eggs. Oh. But he would pickle them himself so they don't taste like the ones out of the store. Yeah, yeah. They was amazing. We know he got rich off the hood off them eggs. Oh, word. Yeah, yeah, man. I don't think I
SPEAKER_01:ever had a pickled
SPEAKER_00:egg. Listen. They was in the same My co-host, Wiley June, he got the recipe, and he made me some, and I got it. So now, I hadn't had one since, like, 97, 98. Yeah, yeah. When I figured out he had the recipe, he brought me some, so I made me some eggs and put them. Man. Wiley June running around with the recipe. Took me straight back to my childhood, man. Straight back to my childhood. That's crazy. Because nobody knew how to make the same. way that the old man used to make them. So his name was Mr. O'Neal. Okay. There was this chip that I ate so much it makes me sick today. But I ate it like every single day. It was in the corner store. It was a chip called Muncho's. Oh, I remember Muncho's. It was like real light. Salty? I used to smash. Smash. Hulk smash. Put them in front of me. They don't make them no more? I don't know if they make them no more. I think they do. But you said they make you sick. I mean like every day on my way to, all the way from elementary school to high school. Every, on my way to school, I would get a bag, eat your munchos. Whether I was going to catch the train or I used to walk to school, elementary school because it was around the corner. I'm going to catch the train to go when I was going to high school. That's crazy. Munchos? Took it back. I used to eat them joints too. That's why I know what you mean. It was a good chip. It was like In an orange bag. Yeah. It was a good chip. Solid chip. It was a good chip. Solid chip. It was a good chip. That's how the chip was. Okay. All right. Mine is something different. It wasn't a snack. It wasn't, you know, food or anything. Flintstone vitamins. Not the chalk. I used to eat it a lot. You might have it for snacks. Hey, man. Shake them up. Hey, I'm telling you, like, when they used to give us, like, me and my cousin, they'd give you one, but you was trying to sneak up in that cabinet.
SPEAKER_02:But you know what? They didn't even really taste good like that,
SPEAKER_00:but you wanted to eat them. You wanted to eat them. They still good enough. Word, that's crazy. Yep, so they still out now. But, you know, back in the day, it was a different feel. Yeah, they got gummies now. I don't think they make gummies. Yeah, they got gummies, yo. Yeah, man. All right, y'all. Well, shoot. Man, I thank y'all for coming by, man. Ain't no doubt. Appreciate you having me on, man. Appreciate you having me on. Man, well, once again, Jones, let them know where they can find you. Music Jones Podcast every Tuesday. all platforms hit me up Instagram Music Jones Podcast shout out to Wiley June too shout out to Wiley June and be easy yeah be easy what up man catch me and my co-host V on Relationship Status each and every Monday on all podcast platforms and Monday and Tuesdays starting this week on Dirty Basement Radio also don't forget to join our Patreon Relationship Status Podcast I'm sorry patreon.com backslide relationship status. Okay. Well, y'all know where to find me. Every week. Every Thursday you find I and Miss Poison on Once Upon a Time in Music. I'm Elle.
SPEAKER_02:I'm Cheryl Poison.
SPEAKER_00:And we out of here, man. We hope y'all come back next week. I'm going to try to get y'all back in here, man. Yeah, I enjoyed this. Let me know. Definitely. All right, y'all. Send me the topics. Bye.
SPEAKER_02:Because we had a ball Only real music's gonna last. All that other bullshit is here today and gone tomorrow.