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Keeping up appearances

Wtf so underrated from the ‘90s the blueprint for so much

@pissbowling

Feb 21, 2024

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IDK why this seminal L.A. hip-hop quartet doesn't get more love/respect. When I listen to this track I hear Dilla's influence straight away -- he samples Stan Getz's "Saudade Vem Correndo", loops his sax parts, and then drops a snippet of Run-DMC's "Rock Box" on top of it for good measure. Artists from Wiz Khalifa to UNKLE to Juice Wrld to JPEFMafia have used it in some form. And it's appeared in "8 Mile," "Entourage," "New York Undercover" and "Big Daddy," among other shows. It's a very unique, L.A. (not 2Pac or NWA's L.A.) take on alternative hip-hop (which De La Soul, another Dilla-produced group, was also mining). I think they were incredibly influential for an act that had really only one bona-fide "hit" and barely went gold once during their active career. P.S.: I'm pretty certain that the slang phrase "low key" is invented here (it's 1995, BTW). "Amani, Booty Brown Fatlip and Slimkid Tre/ we do it this way, we do it this way."

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