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”
