So I was at the gym today getting my ‘roid on. Y’know, snorting wheat grass, main-lining whey protein, lamping in the tanning bed, all that crazy stuff us bleached Cali folk do. When suddenly, the grimy nihilism of Screwball’s Y2K: The Album: burst onto my headphones. If you’re not up on Carl Hubbell’s favorite group, Sach O of Oh Word did a write-up on them last year, and Unkut interviewed Blaq Poet a few years back. I’d been meaning to revisit the record after Screwball member, KL passed earlier this year from an asthma attack (least hip-hop death ever?) but for some reason I never got around to it. Needless to say, I finished my work-out looking as massive as 50 Cent and convinced that between Mobb Deep, CNN and Screwball, no borough ever made better gym music than Queens. Just listening to it made me want to lift several cars above my head, take on a S.W.A.T. team and shoot Rudy. After all, who really likes Notre Dame anyway?
Download:
MP3: Screwball (prod. by Premier)-”Seen It All”
MP3: Screwball-”Who Shot Rudy”
4 comments
douglas martin says:
May 21, 2008 at 8:57 pm (UTC -7)
only jeff weiss would use the words “nihilism” and “lamping” in the same post. well, scratch that. maybe me, too.
douglas martin says:
May 21, 2008 at 8:58 pm (UTC -7)
p.s. “who shot rudy” would have been a great campaign song if mccain didn’t merk the primaries.
Zilla Rocca says:
May 22, 2008 at 6:41 am (UTC -7)
The jawn they did with Pete Rock is one of my favorite Pete beats ever–it sounds like the theme to a montage Gotham’s court rooms, office buildings, and slums in black and white. Too bad MC Shan was on that track.
I still have this on cassette.
J-Mass says:
May 22, 2008 at 1:51 pm (UTC -7)
“you love to hear the stories”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9SHUqXS9sc