M.A.R.S. is the group that will have you wearing a backpack to the shower…with a violent felony or two inside (the backpack, not the shower…hopefully).
Cormega x Action Bronson x Roc Marciano x Saigon “M.A.R.S.” (Produced by Large Professor)
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Cormega is about to unload a posse cut for the rapper’s rapper. Filmed uptown. Just a preview. But you get the hint: Action Bronson, Roc Marciano, and Saigon…plus Large Professor on the boards. Rap. “M.A.R.S.” rap. Peace to GrandGood.
Thursday night I trekked out to the Salute to Hip Hop show at Best Buy Theatre. Uncle Ralph McDaniels was the host of the night, introducing the numerous acts the crowd was treated to throughout the show. The night kicked off with Large Pro and Neek the Exotic performing a few joints off their new album before getting into tracks from Breaking Atoms LP. One piece of advice, don’t tell Neek to leave the stage early. Moving on … Black Sheep, Brand Nubian, Nice N Smooth, EPMD, and Kweli also got into their fan favorite material throughout the night. And there were rare live appearances by Nine and D-Nice. Kid Capri went in on a long set, taking the crowd through the early stages up to present day status. Besides the Nubian’s set, the technical difficulties were kept to a minimum. MOP performed selections from a long list of bangers, including their first single “How About Some Hardcore”. I’d never seen the First Family live, but heard good things about their stage presence. They definitely got it. The crowd was crazy hyped throughout their set. The Lox was up next, I think it’s safe to say most in attendance were there to check this act. Mucho D Block tees were in the building. From what I recall … they kicked “All About the Benjamins”, “Money Power Respect”, “Niggas Done Started Somethin”, “We Gonna Make It”, “Fuck You”, “Wild Out”, and “Two Guns Up” (sure I’m leaving something out). The instrumental for “Good Times” also dropped, but their time was up. As a Pinero advocate, I would’ve liked to see some of his solo material too but no complaints. A dope Extra P interview by Out Da Box TV. Two parts. Not only is it prefaced by some NY Hip Hop royalty (i.e. Lord Finesse, Cormega, Neek The Exotic, and J-Love), speaking on the wealth of his talents, but we get some in-depth brain food on the origins behind his name, recording Illmatic with Nas, his friendship with 2Pac, getting ideas in his sleep, favorite beat machine/sampler, beats and producers, footage of him in the studio with Mega, the science behind hip hop’s sonic canvas, and so on.
Click here to check Large Professor’s ridiculous live set of dusty rarities on East Village Radio‘s Forty Deuce.
Large Professor on Forty Deuce. (streaming window player edition) Peace to Geebee, Keene, Nastee, Large Pro, Cap Pete, OG Chino, Smuttynose Brewing Company, and co. And big gas mug to Time Warner Cable for shitting on our Internet service at the base. Still playing catch-up.
Neek the Exotic and Lord Finesse pair up for the next track off of Still On The Hustle, dropping tomorrow May 17th. Go check ‘em at Tammany Hall, tonight. Tragedy Khadafi and Cormega hold a meeting of the OG minds on their home soil. Good to see that heads are cool after all of these years, regardless of what riff-raff goes on in any/every hood (that lack of unity/partaking in petty tiffs was a big part of what slowed QB’s late-90′s/early-2000 rap domination…and NYC as a whole). Not much else to say/do here, but watch… As a bonus…footy of Large Pro and Mega in the studio. This is pretty much a trailer (to continue in today’s trend) for Raw Forever…get happy. Additional Nervous Thursday’ness. Large Pro telling some Golden Age stories. Jay-Z’s tech. Nas’ first studio sessions. Paul C. His “top-5 or so” producers of all time. Watch and learn.
Large Professor. One of the dopest, most accomplished, and most humble producers out there. If you haven’t already, check the Boundless Radio episode he was featured on to hear crazy gems and check for his joint on Teddy King’s Nas remix project dropping sometime in the future (also featuring a Geng-Grizzly heater …or two?). |
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