When I was a young rap fan in the mid to late 90s I was all about the posse cuts. There’s something about getting a whole bunch of rappers together on a single track that’s cool to me. I used to go hard taping music videos off of the chart shows, Juice TV and MCM (I grew up in New Plymouth, so we had none of that cool shit Aucklanders had access to like Sirvere & DLT‘s show) and for some reason there are a few posse cuts from my tapes that I’ll just never forget. People (of a certain age anyway) always cite Tribe‘s Scenario, Juice Crew‘s Symphony and Craig Mack‘s Flava in Ya Ear Remix, but this blog is a nod to 5 tracks you may have forgotten that are memorable to me. It’s not meant to be a top 5 of all time or an exhaustive list, it’s just a chance to reminisce.

Feel free to comment about your memorable posse cut songs, but remember I’m talking about songs that had videos, feature 4 or more rappers and were before the 2000s. See below for mine.

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Bahaha I dunno whose bright idea this was but I can’t believe there’s gonna be another Street Fighter movie. I didn’t even hear about it til 15 minutes ago.

It makes me laugh just thinking about the first one and the wack job they did, like casting Raul Julia as M. Bison and muthafucken Damian Chapa (Miklo from Blood In Blood Out) as Ken – if you’re gonna get a Hispanic dude to play Ken, at least get a blonde one! And I’ll never forget how stink the fight scenes and special effects were – I at least expected one “hooo-yu-git” or a “duk-duk-doogit” somewhere but no. What the fuck man. It must go down as one of the dumbest book/game/comic/whatever adaptations in history.

This new movie though could be worse. It’s called Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li and as you’d expect, it focuses on her character. Who gives a fuck about a Chun-Li? The story should only ever follow Ken and/or Ryu and Guile – none of which even feature in this movie apparently. Also, the cast is lame as hell once again. The trailer (check below) at least looks alright, but it’s easy to make something interesting and cool for 60 seconds than it is for 90 minutes. Surely this is gonna flop on all counts. Oh and while I’m reminiscing on old movies being raised from the ashes, any of you guys see last year that they’re remaking The Last Dragon? Sam Jackson as Sho’nuff – crack up!

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.. in THE SKYYY”

Some of the late police might already be up on this, but if it’s slipped under your radar thus far, this is a song I’m backing to the utmost.  “In the sky” is a song by B.o.B – I first noticed him pop up with a catchy little number called “Haterz” which I checked for mainly cause Rich Boy was on it. Then he did that feature on “Top of the world” with T.I and Ludacris which was a bit of an abortion really. The beat was gay and his hook was the worst thing on there. Subsequently I hadn’t been compelled to click no links when I’ve seen his name poppin up on various internets.

However, this song changes all that. The Outkast influence is obvious, but refreshing. When you consider how big Outkast are, it’s remarkable how few acts there are that seem to follow in their footsteps… but you could find a new rapper who raps like Jeezy or Jigga every day, ha. Anyways the 3/4 stomp of this is reminiscent of “The Whole World” in a good way, and the hook is catchy as fuck. Mean shit bro.

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David Tua v Shane Cameron; The Terminator v The Mountain Warrior (haha wtf)… Damn, I haven’t been this interested in a boxing match probably since Tua fought Lennox Lewis and got jabbed up for 12 rounds. This match-up has been 2-3 years in the making, but finally a date was confirmed yesterday – June 6th, 2009.

I realise this is boxing and shit can change at any minute – I mean the venue is still being decided and the fight’s dependant on both boxers completing warm-up bouts first – but let’s just assume it’s 100% gonna go down. Who would win? At 37, Tua is arguably past his prime, particularly since he hasn’t fought much in recent years, but he’s got a pretty impressive resume. He fought several current or future champions in his career – Hasim Rahman, John Ruiz, Michael Moorer and of course Lewis – and has knocked out a whole bunch of people in the process – 44 of his 49 wins. Cameron hasn’t fought any illustrious fighters to date, but has lost only once and has been convincing against the opponents he’s beat. While it’s hard to compare 2 fighters’ feats from 2 different eras, one thing that’s apparent is Tua at his peak v Cameron at his is a no-contest. Personally, I’m with Tua – he might have aged, but I bet that left-hook and hard head are still there… plus he was one of my childhood heroes so he’s also the sentimental favourite (aww). So sports fans, who’s your money on?

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Ha, I’m mates with this guy and I still don’t know what he’s up to. First a TV show, now a movie ? Crackin it.

http://www.angelsthemovie.net/

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Me, Mr Sicc and Tek rapping it up to a camera. Click here to watch it in HD.

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Initially I didn’t have the urge to check this out being that it was a bunch of remixes, but upon J Brown’s recommendation I hooked up the download and I’m very impressed.

Not quite as essential as the Can’t Tell Me Nothing mixtape was, but the one new track(“Sky High”) from Kid Cudi is nice, and there’s a new Big Sean verse tacked on somewhere too. The rest is remix fare across the board, some true school hip-hop shit, some ragga dancehall, some house, some borderline funky-mixes lol.

Couple highlights for me were the Kenny Dope remix of “Addiction”, I always felt the o.g was dope but slightly underappreciated cause the tempo and groove weren’t standard enough. Kenny’s take on it reminds me of some early 90′s Crystal Waters shit. Homecoming Discotech remix is my shit too (lol), they both work in bringin non-dance songs to the dance floor.

.. and oh yeah “Champion” over the “Mama Said Knock You Out” break. Ha.

Good shit for your summer get togethers.

DJ Benzi x Kanye West x Plain Pat – Sky High

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Here’s the new vid from Smash to the pro to the o fo sho. Real nice shots, I’m diggin it.

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