I got it in 2003 and it’s taken this long to get my head round it. Both Rory P and Michael O’N will love this – it could be the best mixtape ever. It’s full of gangsta tales about purse snatching, splitting bums, crack dealing and keeping dead skeezers in freezer all mixed up perfectly for the kids – it’s deep. Happy valentines.

1 ICE-T – WARNING
2 CB4 – INTRO
3 EAZY-E – STILL TALKIN’
4 POISON CLAN – LOW LIFE COOKIE MOTHERFUCKAS
5 THE DOGS – DOOKIE SHOOT
6 SUGA FREE – I’D RATHER GIVE U MY BITCH
7 MASTER P – DOPE MAN’S COMMERCIAL
8 MASTER P – PSYCHO RHYMES
9 MASTER P – OOH SHIT
10 UGK – I’M SO BAD
11 BIG L – DANGER ZONE
12 TOO MUCH TROUBLE – INVASION OF THE PURSE SNATCHERS
13 PROJECT PAT – GORILLA PIMP
14 LUKE FEATURING NOTORIOUS B.I.G. – BUST A NUT
15 WILLIE D FEATURING CHOICE – I NEED SOME PUSSY
16 TOO MUCH TROUBLE – IF U AIN’T SUCKIN’
17 POISON CLAN – UZI GETS HOT
18 POISON CLAN – BAD INFLUENCE
19 DISCO RICK FEATURING THE DOGS – SUCK THAT DICK
20 EAZY-E – SORRY LOUIE
21 TOO SHORT FEATURING FREDDIE B – GAME
22 RON C – MO HOES
23 X-RAIDED – EVERY SINGLE BITCH
24 CONVICTS – WHOOP HER ASS
25 TWEEDY BIRDLOC – NO MUTHA FUCKIN’ ROLE MODELS JACKIN’ FOR TRANSPO
26 TOO MUCH TROUBLE – OUTRO – PISS ON HIS DEAD HEAD
27 GO-RILLA PIMP – PIMP OLYMPICS

J-ZONE – IGN’ANT

I’ve posted this video before but it’s so good I’m doing it again. This time here’s the mp3 too although Tracy performs it far better in the film than on record.

CHRIS “THE GLOVE” TAYLOR FT ICE T – RECKLESS

I don’t know much about The Glove but seems pretty amazing. Here he is with Egyptian Lover, who is also wearing a glove, teaching you suckers how to DJ.

BONUS ULTRA LO-FI TRACK
Pimp C, RIP, had some interesting talents…
UGK – I’M SO BAD

Maybe I’d be more offended if it was Jew hating instead of misogyny, homophobia and general violence but early gangsta rap seems so ridiculous to me that I believe it’s a macho parody rather than mindless exploitation – I hope so – otherwise listening to it’s pretty bad. Either way the old stuff seems like comic book bravado compared to the modern genre.

Example 1
Easy E robs a bank and gets seriously dodgy with a hostage before things go all Crying Game.

EASY E – NOBODY MOVE

Example 2
I thought this Kurupt, Warren G, Nate and Snoop track was very wrong when it came out – I was 13. Now it seems pretty silly. They play it at Work It about three times a night and all the boys including me sing along.

SNOOP – AINT NO FUN (IF THE HOMIES CAN’T HAVE NONE)

At junior school my friend Sam was a badman. While everybody else brought their parents’ Dire Straits, 10CC and Fleetwood Mac albums to play at our music class he took in Efil4zaggin. My love affair with Raiders caps began then.

BREEZE – L.A. POSSE

ARABIAN PRINCE – SHE’S GOT A BIG POSSE

THE D.O.C. – PORTRAIT OF A MASTERPEICE

J.J. FAD – BLAME IT ON THE MUSIC

Egyptian Lover and Professor X AKA Arabian Prince are touring Europe together again – exciting! As always I have the best intentions to see them but I bet I end up having drunken fun times with my friends at the Macbeth dancing ridiculously to Rage Against The Machine or something instead.

I enjoy the whole TR-808 drum machine/ heavy breathing vibe and these two are among the best at it.
ARABIAN PRINCE – PANIC ZONE
EGYPTIAN LOVER – KINKY NATION (KINGDOM KUM) – need this on vinyl badly

EMOTION IN MOTION – FOREVER
MIKATRONIK – FUNKYTOWN
DAVIAH – MIRACLES

A few weeks ago some dude started on me at a club for no reason. So like a real man… erm… instead of retailiating I went home and listened to aggressive gangsta rap. Like most of Joe Cooley and Rodney O’s material this was produced with the Egyptian Lover.

RODNEY O & JOE COOLEY – U DON’T HEAR ME THO’ (STREET MIX)