What hip-hop groups are similar to the Crooklyn Dodgers?

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The internet has been no help, so thanks.

Also any rap songs that sound similar to "Get It Together" by the Beastie Boys.

― Like Spee, Monday, 17 October 2005 00:13 (twenty years ago)

Hm. Well you know Crooklyn Dodgers was two separate one-shot supergroups. "They" had two songs, each with a different lineup.

So if you like the "Crooklyn Dodgers," check out the solo work of Masta Ace, Special Ed, O.C., Chubb Rock, Jeru the Damaja, and especially Buckshot. If you want something that sounds like "Crooklyn," your best bet is probably the first Black Moon album.

― Robert Bell (robertbell), Monday, 17 October 2005 01:13 (twenty years ago)

Also, the first was produced by Q-tip (from Queens) so try A Tribe Called Quest and the second was produced by DJ Premier (Brooklyn, via Houston) so try Gang Starr.

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Monday, 17 October 2005 01:42 (twenty years ago)

your best bet is probably the first Black Moon album.

..which is entitled "enta da stage". Also "dah shinin'" album by Smif 'N' Wessun.

Download teh D.J Premier remix of "freaky flow" by Special Ed too.

― Ellis, Monday, 17 October 2005 07:59 (twenty years ago)

dah shinin is awesome!

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Monday, 17 October 2005 17:13 (twenty years ago)

You watch channel zero with that bitch barbara walters!

― deej.. (deej..), Monday, 17 October 2005 17:14 (twenty years ago)

DONT TELL ME ITS THE LITTLE KIDS ON SOUL TRAIN

― deej.. (deej..), Monday, 17 October 2005 17:15 (twenty years ago)

Enta Da Stage has not aged well AT ALL.

The singles from that era though - the remixes, where Buckshot kinda honed his sorta laid back style and pretty much just rewrote the songs - are still killer.

― Roger Fidelity (Roger Fidelity), Monday, 17 October 2005 19:05 (twenty years ago)

Nas's Illmatic feels like a companion piece to those singles. Whatever happened to Special Ed?

― Pete Scholtes, Monday, 17 October 2005 19:10 (twenty years ago)

Enta Da Stage has not aged well AT ALL.

YOU HAVE COTTON IN YR EARS

― Mad SETI (jaxon), Monday, 17 October 2005 19:26 (twenty years ago)

The Cronx.

― Gee, You Knit? (mookie wilson), Monday, 17 October 2005 20:24 (twenty years ago)

O.C.'s Word...Life is terrific, beyond the 'well duh' awesome of "Time's Up."

― deej.. (deej..), Monday, 17 October 2005 20:26 (twenty years ago)

"You lack the chemicals and vitamins..."

oh man i forgot about that one. Damn that was a great single

― Roger Fidelity (Roger Fidelity), Monday, 17 October 2005 20:28 (twenty years ago)

jaxon otm

― oops (Oops), Monday, 17 October 2005 22:07 (twenty years ago)

94 WE TAKE BACK EBBET'S FIELD!

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Monday, 17 October 2005 22:45 (twenty years ago)

seven months pass...

Someone convince me that there's a better hip hop track than Return of the Crooklyn Dodgers. I'm not seeing it. Premo's best beat. Chubb Rock and Jeru's all time best verses plus a solid OC verse.
In fact, the Jeru's is perhaps my favorite verse of all time.

― ramon fernandez (ramon fernandez), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 13:23 (twenty years ago)

they were something special. both lineups.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 13:44 (twenty years ago)

Whatever happened to Special Ed?

haha 'Crooklyn Dodgers' used to be the answer to that question. I vaguely remember him putting out a (bad) single after CD but I could be imagining things.

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 16:40 (twenty years ago)

I have a post "Crooklyn" Special Ed album called...um, something. I haven't listened to it in ages, but I'll try to remedy that tonight or tomorrow.

― 100% CHAMPS with a Yes! Attitude. (Austin, Still), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 17:47 (twenty years ago)

I finally remembered to search out the later Special Ed stuff. It's still pretty old, from '95, called Revelations. I'm three songs into it now, and it's okay, but I know why I don't remember it very well. It's pretty much an update of his 'I Got it Made' style, but with the slow tempo bass heavy mid 90s production, although not as sharp and hooky as the stuff Primo, Q-tip, Dimond, RZA and so on were putting out around that time - musically it's pretty much a second rate imitation of that stuff. Ed brings plenty of flow and bragadocio wordplay, but keeps it pretty basic and clear, and at that time making things wierder and more obscure was the trend (the dawn of Ghostface and the aftermath of Das Efx, after all.) It was also Biggie time, though, and you can easily hear Ed's influence on him being reflected back to Ed. But Ed doesn't bring the gangster street-stories that were the other big lyrical trend of the time. Nothing wrong with that of course: it's 75% or so of the genre after all, but it still leaves about 25% empty if there's nothing else.

allmusic says he had another one called Still Got it Made two years ago, but there's no review only a tracklist.

― 100% CHAMPS with a Yes! Attitude. (Austin, Still), Monday, 19 June 2006 12:39 (twenty years ago)

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