Kanye West (feat. Tony Williams): Blood On The Leaves
June 2013
1 post
March 2013
1 post
January 2013
2 posts
C-Bo: I’m So Hood
“I’m outta Sactown/The crown on the hat town”
“Oh God, why did she have to happen? And just when I was doing so good without her.” — Paul Kemp, The Rum Diary
October 2012
7 posts
Anthony Hamilton: Do You Feel Me
Eminem: Square Dance
Notorious B.I.G.: Gimme the Loot
Audio Two: Top Billin’
Brotha Lynch Hung & C-Bo: 187 On 24th Street
This Blocc Movement album, a collaboration between Sacramento’s two most successful rappers — C-Bo and Brotha Lynch — brings back lots of memories, and this particular song was like ghetto gospel to most of the people I knew back in what many scholars and scientists refer to as “the day”.
The lyric: “Cuz Blocc niggaz don’t sock niggaz/They shoot niggaz in the back” was a pretty accurate description of what things were like in the Garden Blocc in the late-90s. During the 2000s, the Garden Blocc calmed down a bit (or maybe I calmed down), but when I was a teenager, you couldn’t let your guard down between 21st Street and 29th Street because songs like this were not an exaggeration.
Anyway, I’m not sure why I went off on a descriptive tangent here. I only meant to post the song because it reminds me of hanging out with my friends back in Sacramento.
Goldy: Nationwide Love
Wyclef Jean (feat. Pras & John Forté): We Trying To Stay Alive
September 2012
5 posts
Wyclef Jean: Apocalypse
C-Bo (feat. E-40): 40 and C-Bo
Don McLean: Vincent
Notorious B.I.G. (feat. Eminem): Dead Wrong
August 2012
2 posts
Kanye West (feat. Talib Kweli & Common): Get Em High
July 2012
3 posts
Arthur Rubinstein: Chopin, Nocturnes, Op. 32, No. 2