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Cold 187um – ‘Legacy’ feat. Ice Cube & The D.O.C.
West coast icons combine for the latest from Above The Law emcee Cold 187um, with Ice Cube and The D.O.C. riding shotgun. From the new The Black Godfather project.
Ice Cube & Common – ‘Real People’
As a movie, Barbershop: The Next Cut will undoubtedly be a steaming hot pile of shit, but it does mark the curious teaming up of two rap legends who had beef many years ago. They’ve also dropped this single from the soundtrack.
MURS & 9th Wonder – ‘Brighter Daze’
9th Wonder yesterday, out of nowhere, prepped an unsuspecting world that he and MURS had reconnected for a new project, and now, here it is. Stream the dope Brighter Daze below. Salute.
Eazy-E, Peanut Butter Wolf style
In an incredible bit of DIY hip-hop history, Stones Throw Records honcho and all round good-guy Peanut Butter Wolf has unearthed this from his personal archives – a cover of Eazy-E single Boyz N The Hood, with the brilliantly-named local artist Spunky Spunk Dogg on vocals, and PBW on the wheels of steel. A few years later he would go on to link with Charizma, and the rest is history. As for the collaboration with Spunk D-O Double Gizzy, this was their first and only live performance. Listen below, and read the backstory from the man himself further down.
“This recording is the only one I have with him from back then and we performed outside at the backyard of a BBQ on a Sunday afternoon for an audience of around 15-20 people. We did around 5 or 6 original songs we had made and 1 cover and for the cover, we chose the biggest rap song in LA at the time. My turntable kept skipping as it wasn’t a 1200 and nobody even really cheered. I don’t even recall people really paying attention, but we were having fun and it was our first and last show together as a group. This was in the summer of ’88, and soon after, I moved back to San Jose, where I eventually met Charizma and started all over again.”