This version was too good for the album...and the album is a masterpiece. Apparently they couldn't clear the sample back then though....correct me if I'm wrong...
Heard this back in 96’ when I was in the Marine Corps. I was in Cali off base and they played it on LA’s station 92.3 of all places. Been looking for this shit ever since then... Flaming ass version 🔥
MCRBeats Interesting interview I read of DJ Premier's a few years back. When he met up with Dr Dre to work together on that wack Welcome To Compton album, Premier was surprised to see that Dre, like himself, also preferred to stick to old fashioned production style and not the computer generated bullshit the likes of Kayne West and everybody else is on
Havoc's production, he and P's rhymes dripping with soul, a gem of the underground. The Sound of an Era. Rest in Beatz P, the Infamous shall reign forever in this shit
I have this 12" promo Vinyl. I always liked this version better. That Quincy Jones sample is dope. Then they added a filter on it. That was the sound of the 90s. The album version is dope too, but I always play this one.
@@richardgurr8897 the low-fi 90s sound just reverberates so hard in this song. "Lose lips sink ships" that ww2 British intelligence saying gives me shivers. 50 years after the saying was said, this lyricist introduced the line into a hip-hop song flawlessly. Mad love for Mobb Deep.
I had this version on one of these promo DJ 12 inches that I used to get sent to me down in Charlotte through a subscription service outta NYC back in the day, you'd pay a fee and every month you'd get a grip of the newest 12"s some hot some shit but they'd always throw in these weird little like bootleg double 12" compilation 12"s. Itd be a double 12" set that came in two plain white paper sleeves stuffed into a single plain white cardboard 12" cover with the label sized holes cut out in the middle front and back and no info on the cover at all. The records themselves weren't dub plates or white labels, they had professionally printed labels that listed the track names and artists but there was never a record label name or logo and they'd always saY "NOT FOR SALE FOR PROMOTIONAL DJ USE ONLY" or something to that effect. Theses sets would typically have three tracks per side six per twelve inch, of whatever was hot at the moment in the clubs in NYC or on Hot 97 or the latest Funk Flex, DJ Clue, or Tony Touch tapes or whatever. They weren't quite bootlegs but not exactly legit either, sort of quasi-legit semi-boots but I think the labels and artists looked the other way as these discs we're widely distributed to DJs worldwide and thus got the included tracks a lot of free exposure. Anyway this version was on one of those 12" sets I got circa 94-96.
Thats dope man. Crazy how far shits come. Im only 17 but these old tunes stay in rotation always. Just hearing this track brings me chills. Thanks for the story man, real shit right there. Back in the days💪
Fwiw, I'm here because Stretch and Bobbito played it on November 9th 1995 on 98 tech 9 in NY lol and fuck, I had never heard this version and had to search it out. That organ is sick asf.
Such a dope version…reminds me of my cousin who I used to look up to…now he’s in Mex fuckin around lost but till forever I’ll remember him with this jam…
stfu white boi, fuck your racists ass race why dont yall tell em about your hip hop obsession! wanna be racists ass bitches yet ya all over black people music and shit!
NWA362 fuck u mean I’m white and grew up to this shit, I have listened to rap since I was 4 years old I could probably school you at rap. You must’ve had a bad experience with whites lol cause you seem crazy as fuck. It’s actually racist for you to call us all racists and acting like your race is better. Also he isn’t even white he’s Hispanic you don’t see his name?
The 90's is the best hip hop era! I prefer the album version because of the better sample and singing but this version takes me back to the pirate radio days of Stretch & Bobbito.
Original ain’t that bad but at least in my opinion it was a blessing in disguise the sample didn’t get cleared and they went with the version of this song we hear today🖤👌🏽
I can't remember how I obtained this (maybe ebay) back in the late 90s but I have this on cd and wished it was on their infamous album. How rare is that cd promo?
This promo might be a bootleg because it has no SRC stamp. Watch out for the vinly (it must be thick) and the label must be very like very bright white instead of the yellowish label so I recommend you to not sell it
dk how some men here like this more than the album version. This is dope but the album version is just a 10/10 track. Has been my fav Mob Deep joint forever
listening to an album version feels like travelling in time back in these days trying to truly get what they are rapping about by imagination. listening to this feels like being prodigy and hav, nervously smoking cigs in home studio at 3 am and trying to figure if your verses are finished while bugging about killa's wellbeing.