Most rappers are big bloody fibbers. Some of their boasts are so unlikely they have us stroking our chins and saying ‘Jimmy Hill’ (sorry if we lost both our American readers there). The Fat Lace Statisticians actually got together and listened to every rap record ever and worked out that if all the people who rappers claimed to have killed had actually been killed, the only people left in the Universe would be Floella Benjamin and the roster of Babygrande Records. Which is why we like honesty in rap records. Heavy D wasn’t ashamed to point up his chubbiness in his Jean Knight sampling classic ‘Mr Big Fat Cunt’. Superlover Cee spoke for us all when he pointed out that ‘Girls Act Stupid-Aly’. They do. Tell it like it is. Which is why we decided to select a couple of our favourite honest hip-hop moments, and ask you to nominate yours.
Perhaps X-Clan’s ‘In the way of the scales’ speaks to you because Brother J was always getting in the way at those Blackwatch weightwatchers meetings you used to attend. Maybe you admire Spice-1’s ability to taunt the law with his ‘I’m the fucking murderer’. Charges are pending. Us, we’ll go for Funkmaster Wizard Wiz’s olfactory self-awareness, and Young ‘D’ Boyz’s ‘Selling Cocaine As Usual’, from their killer ‘Straight Game’ LP. Although the latter do undermine themselves by printing on the label – “We do not advocate the selling of drugs or the use of firearms; items shown in photo are props.” Bottlers.
Funkmaster Wizard Wiz – I Stink Cause I’m Funky
Young ‘D’ Boyz – Selling Cocaine as Usual
8 responses so far ↓
1 i the t // May 13, 2009 at 8:10 am
from the humble dispostion she exhibited in an interview I read with her once, i reckon Antoinnette was lying when she said “I Got An Attitude”.
by the way, when i first heard Disco Four on Electro 4 talking about being the best, i didn’t know at the time that rappers lied and assumed they’d won some kind of word championship.
2 brian beck from wisconsin // May 13, 2009 at 12:15 pm
Devin told the truth when he made Just A Man but Ghostface lied when he called himself Iron Man as he’s not man made of iron or a comic book character with a suit made out of a chemical element which isn’t quite as hard as steel.
3 brian beck from wisconsin // May 13, 2009 at 12:21 pm
This Young D Boyz track is some nice low-budget gangsta rap. I may have to find this album .
4 Drew Huge // May 13, 2009 at 6:04 pm
I managed to cop the 12″ for $20 yesterday, going rate seems to be about $40. After the LP at the moment, but I can always hit you off.
5 brian beck from wisconsin // May 14, 2009 at 5:23 am
There’s a few copies of the cd on eBay at the moment for about £12 – £14 in total with p&p so i may just snag one of those as i checked the snippets on Amazon and it sounds like the sort of album i’ve been living my life in false happiness without.
Young D Boy sounds particularly great.
6 Drew Huge // May 14, 2009 at 8:31 am
the whole album is hot – can’t remember where I got the rip from, but I need to pick up an OG.
7 vallejo // May 15, 2009 at 6:26 am
http://gankstafunk.blogspot.com/2009/02/young-d-boyz-straight-game-vallejo-1995.html
8 flavour Flav (the UK flavor flav tribute act) // May 16, 2009 at 9:57 am
Chuck D recently confessed that when he said ‘My Uzi weighs a Ton’ he had got his calculations wrong and had overestimated it’s weight by approximately 9095 kilograms or (or 2190 lbs 2oz).
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