Anybody heard the new Mobb Deep?

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"2 of Amerikaz nightmares" I believe it's called.

XXL gave it an "XL" and called it a return to form.

Which gets me pretty excited (although that murda mixtape they put out last year was terrible) but it's not in the shops here, or on slsk.

Got any views?

― Jacob (Jacob), Monday, 31 May 2004 08:57 (twenty-two years ago)

only heard leaked mixtape tracks and its 50/50 right now.

― scottjames23 (worrysome-man), Monday, 31 May 2004 12:31 (twenty-two years ago)

caught them whilst channel surfing on carson fuckin daly's show; i didn't even *know* it was them so bad it was. now this could just be due to the inherent not-greatness of live rap, but still ...

― jake in portland (cerybut), Monday, 31 May 2004 17:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, but the production (on the track I heard) lifts "She Blinded Me With Science"!!!

― philip sherburne (philip sherburne), Monday, 31 May 2004 19:18 (twenty-two years ago)

due to the inherent not-greatness of live rap

Not been to many hip-hop shows?

― djdee2005, Monday, 31 May 2004 21:23 (twenty-two years ago)

not too many, no, but the ones i have seen have always left me a bit cold. i mean, hip-hop does seem to me to be more of a recorded medium, unless we're talking about the roots or something. but the extent to which hip-hop is better on record or live is a diff. thread methinks.

any idea what this track to which philip refers is called?

― jake in portland (cerybut), Monday, 31 May 2004 21:40 (twenty-two years ago)

"got it twisted". if you turn on mtv right now, you will see it within 15 minutes.

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Monday, 31 May 2004 21:59 (twenty-two years ago)

ha they played that and "shook ones" back to back on mtv jams the other day and um let's just say the difference was palpable.

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Monday, 31 May 2004 22:00 (twenty-two years ago)

the one interesting thing about the new single is with that slowed down "...science" riff and the handclaps it sounds just like slowed down "shadowboxing"-style neurofunk.

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Monday, 31 May 2004 22:02 (twenty-two years ago)

difference is palpable = prodigy's verse on "shook ones" is about three hundred words, while verse on "got it twisted" is about half that, most of it monosyllabic.

still i like the compressed menace in the new song. it's super terse but still scary as hell.

― vahid (vahid), Monday, 31 May 2004 22:22 (twenty-two years ago)

(i'm just kidding of course, there's other differences too, but i think it's funny how to-the-point the new song is)

― vahid (vahid), Monday, 31 May 2004 22:23 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah i just can't take them seriously in a post-g-unit world. or maybe it's BECAUSE i knew what they sounded like before that i can't. actually, it almost certainly is.

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 01:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Mm, I don't think G Unit make Mobb Deep irrelevant though, I think Mobb Deep make themselves irrelevant. It's not like they ever mined out the possibilities of their aesthetic, and nobody else did either. They just lost confidence in themselves and their sound. If they'd come blazing back with something as good as "The Infamous" it'd be making G Unit sound irrelevant...

― Jacob (Jacob), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 03:07 (twenty-two years ago)

got it twisted = growing on me

i like the way the drums sound, and the sample was annoying at first but not so much anymore. have no idea how relevant they are.

― pheNAM (pheNAM), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 12:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes i love the new mobb deep,

im also feelin dj kay slay.

;

― Willdabeast, Tuesday, 1 June 2004 13:35 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah i just can't take them seriously in a post-g-unit world.

I cant take this statement seriously. What are you on about? Unless you're saying G-Unit improved on the Mobb Deep sound which is balls. I quite like the new MD single fwiw.

― Michael B, Tuesday, 1 June 2004 13:41 (twenty-two years ago)

one year passes...

the new stuff seems okay... nothing amazing, still them doing them by the numbers, bur alright nonetheless. they still have good rap voices.

― okok, Tuesday, 4 April 2006 14:39 (twenty years ago)

put em in they place is aight but all the 'g unit!!!! curtis billion dollar jackson!!!' shout-outs are embarrassing

― ++++, Tuesday, 4 April 2006 15:39 (twenty years ago)

also this goes w/o saying but i miss 17 yr old havoc

― ++++, Tuesday, 4 April 2006 15:40 (twenty years ago)

haven't heard this yet but the songs on the GRODT soundtrack were not so great. I'm more excited about hearing new MOP, "When Death Becomes" you was hot and so is the new single.

― deeej, Tuesday, 4 April 2006 17:06 (twenty years ago)

three weeks pass...

Any other thoughts on Blood Money?

― Nigel (Nigel), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 21:07 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x198/killahbeast36/Mobb%20Deep%20covers/bobbdeep.gif

― am0n, Saturday, 26 January 2008 06:41 (eighteen years ago)

do want

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 26 January 2008 06:44 (eighteen years ago)

got it, its great

― and what, Saturday, 26 January 2008 14:07 (eighteen years ago)

wait'll you guys hear my Mobb/Portishead mashup album, Dunny.

― Alex in Baltimore, Saturday, 26 January 2008 15:13 (eighteen years ago)

I dunno, I just got Murda Muzik and while it has some good songs, it paled in comparison to the two that came before it. if the albums that followed it declined further, I see no reason to listne to em

― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Saturday, 26 January 2008 15:19 (eighteen years ago)

i just finished my mobb-AC/DC mash up 'dirty deeds dun dirt cheap'

― and what, Saturday, 26 January 2008 15:21 (eighteen years ago)

I look forward to your Prodigy/Vinny Paz blend, Duddy.

― Alex in Baltimore, Saturday, 26 January 2008 15:35 (eighteen years ago)

one year passes...

I loved Amerkiaz Nightmare

"Win Or Lose"
"Got It Twisted"
"When You Hear"
"Throw Your Hands"
"Real Gangtas"

all dope. bumping this now for the first time in forever. next up: The Alchemist 1st Infantry!

― crab ringgoon (surfboard dudes get wiped out, totally), Friday, 10 April 2009 19:47 (seventeen years ago)

Haven't heard Amerikaz Nightmare but will rep for 1st Infantry til the day that I die.

― The-Reverend (rev), Friday, 10 April 2009 20:58 (seventeen years ago)

two years pass...

what's the word on this album 7 years later or so? obv it's not a classic or anything but I think it's functional if not essential.

― Neanderthal, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 02:56 (fourteen years ago)

wouldn't that be the word on every mobb deep album like post-hell on earth? do you even have to ask?

― lana del rey: everythang's workin' (some dude), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 03:11 (fourteen years ago)

well no, cuz there's some that aren't at all functional.

― Neanderthal, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 03:12 (fourteen years ago)

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