Riddle me this: What happens when a genius producer ropes in an all-star line up of talented emcees and sets them loose on some ridiculous beats? Only one of the most brilliant concept album Hip-Hop has ever known. Prince Paul outdid himself back in 1999 with A Prince Among Thieves. The album tells the story of an aspiring rapper who needs to put together a demo quickly to present to Wu Tang. But there's one problem. He has no dough. His man hears his plight and offers to help by putting him on to the crack game. Just some quick cash to make his ultimate dream happen. And the adventure takes off. The entire album carries you through his start-up and the characters he meets along the way. There's a sociopath gun dealer (Kool Keith), a velvet tongued pimp (Big Daddy Kane) bug-eyed Crackheads (De La Soul) a dirty racist cop (Everlast) and some inmates you don't want to fuck with, just to name a few. It always irked me that this video wasn't released as an entire short film on DVD to promote this exceptional album. Prince Paul is criminally slept on. I can't say much more. Every last one of them flows instinctively over beats that seemed tailor made for the individual spittin'. To This Bug, they're all thieves. They take the cake and come back for the plate. Pshhht....The nerve of these dudes. It was straight fire and ten years later it hasn't lost any of its heat. Believe dat.
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You're a straight beast, yo! BDK goes in as always!
It's way beyond "..for a girl" ish with you, Miss....nah much more than that. Keep hittin' us with those back in da day bangerz baby.....Pleeeeeeze!
My dude Sadat always had the ill rhyme voice! Yeah, you are right.....they should've made a mini flick out of this.
Do u think somebody would even take the time out now to do something like this ? Would there be artist today to hop off their dicks/clits to get with something like this?
Once again. great entry.....thank you.
Now time to go over to DBDK for that double shot of Hip-Hop!
Later, Jayne! One Love......
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