One of the greatest hip hop beats made to this day
As I reminisce Focus… (Ft. Kurupt, Rapper Big Pooh & Sha Stimuli) – Homage to Pete Rock
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Where P-R's God with the beats Focus… (Ft. Kurupt, Rapper Big Pooh & Sha Stimuli) – Homage to Pete Rock
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Carmel City is a (presumably) fictional place Pete Rock and CL Smooth created in the song of the same name, off the classic The Main Ingredient.
The name of the city obviously is a misspelled version of Caramel City, which is believed to be a play on Chocolate City, a name used for Washington, D.C., as its population is for a big part colored.
On the song itself CL Smooth talks about having sexual relationships with females, which is also connected to the song’s title as caramel is known for being a smooth, darker liquid.
Funked with Parliament, the Congress but I done funked all of it! Saafir (Ft. Chino XL) – Not Fa' Nuthin'
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Musician George Clinton is known for being one of the originators of the funk genre and P-funk subgenre, the two main groups of which are Parliament and Funkadelic (often referred to as Parliament-Funkadelic, or P-Funk). While politician Bill Clinton was once the head of the parliament of the United States and is the consider the first black president (because of his actions, not his skin color).
Yo, listen to the real Clinton “Who Bill Clinton?”
Hell no, I’m talkin' about George Clinton
- Dr. Dre
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The Mad Rapper – which is what Chino XL plays on by calling himself a mad rapper – is a persona portrayed by producer D-Dot, a producer for Diddy’s Bad Boy Records label. In 1998 D-Dot assaulted Blaze editor Jesse Washington, presumably because he published a photograph of D-Dot above an article on The Mad Rapper.
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“Half Man Half Amazin'” Is a song from Pete’s Soul Survivor album. The title comes from the Nas line from “It Ain’t Hard to Tell”, which is produced by Large Professor, but the same album also featured beats from Pete Rock.
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When people go wood, it means their album (or single) completely flopped. This plays on the RIAA certifying records when they sell a lot, the lowest certification for an album being gold, which you get when you sell 500,000 units.
The following plaque is for when Guns N' Roses went triple platinum (3 million units sold) with their Appetite for Destruction album.
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Mickey and Mallory Knox are the two main characters in the Oliver Stone-directed and Quentin Tarantino-written movie Natural Born Killers, and are portrayed by Woody Harrelson and Juliette Lewis, respectively.
In the film, the two are lovers together on a manhunt. And just like them, Aceyalone and his microphone kill together, but instead of people they kill tracks.
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