1 - Prodigy of Mobb Deep - R.I.Pee to my favorite MC of all time. One of the most sampled for his vocals, the voice of NY, and the epitome of that crime rap. Which is why it's funny why my favorite line from him is not about shooting people in certain body parts like left clavicles and bloodying people's mouths but this
"The sunsets looks beautiful over the projects
What a shame, its ain't the same where we stand at
If you look close you can see the bricks chipped off
Sometimes niggas miss when they lick off don't get clipped off"
2 - Smif n Wessun - I come from a era where there was talented rap groups, and one of my favorites (outside of Wu and the Mobb) was Smif n Wessun, hip hop mixed with some reggae island slang here is a little back and forth from the Wreckonize Remix
"I shine, you shine, in this day and time
We maintain the same frame of mind
The elevation, spark it up son
Yo, start the circulation
360 degrees in rotation
Stimulation, as a herb as my physical creation
Slipping to a hallucination
Situations got me thinking about my life seriously
Keep it real continuously"
3-Noreaga - One half of Capone n Noreaga, this dude at one time gave me hope that NY hip hop would never die, he fell directly into my wheel house of my favorite type of MC'S, the drug dealer rapper. This dude use to have some ill lyricism, and that's why it makes me sad that he declined lyrically like Prodigy when he went from "I lay, laid back, with cogniac, and I don't even drink like that I sell crack" and "Jose Luis Gocha, Rolling Guns and Tons, General Emanuel, Rock Emeralds" to "stick it in your butt and make you say what what"
4-Cormega- Cor-Mega war forever, Mega Montana, this dude was the first mixtape I ever purchased on Canal Streer back in the day. Again, the drug lord hip hop was my go to jams. He was also my favorite because he use to diss Nas and snuffed out Nature after he took his spot in The Firm, dude has too many jewels to list here.
"My pen is sick like a heroin ad-dict / whenever Mega spots / I exhale preciseness / Drug Dealer Ghetto shit / sweat in my hand plus my fingers numb from measuring grams / gun on my waist in case I see son who wetted my man"
5 - E Money Bags - dude really lived the life he was spitting, he was like made man street legend in the hood. RIP, Had connections with Tupac, Nas, Nore, Mega and Prodigy. In one of his last songs he prophesized his own murder that happened months later.
"Erase the thought of me getting hit why I'm too cautious/ it's a violation to hit the bosses"
Honarble mentions - Wu Tang Clan, Keith Murray, Gangstarr, EPMD, Rakim, Redman, Biggie and Nas
