Anyone ever listen to that Brand New Heavies "Heavy Rhyme Experience"?

[smokeurobinson]

Was having a convo with my comrad about how there are no popular R&B bands in 2013 and thought of this album. I bought the tape in 92 on the stregth that my pops liked the music from their previous album, it had Black Sheep, G Rap and Grand Puba on the back and the fact that it had a Parental Advisory Sticker on it(Parental stickers are the norm now but back then it was an excuse to buy something you had to hide from your parents making it a must have). Collaboration albums like soundtracks were the norm so seeing artists names like Gangstar and Main Source made the tape buy worthy. This was the first time I had ever heard of The Pharcyde and concluded that they were wack. I remember seeing BNH and Black Sheep performing their song on MTV.

Large Professor broke down the concept of the album with these lines:

"Brand New Heavies play the shyt that people
Used to listen to in '70 Chevies
So we don't have to loop up a beat to fukk your crew up"


They did a Mashup video of a few of the songs from the album.




I remember not really being into the instrumentation because I had young earsbut by 1996 when I was really into Guru'sJazzmatazz 2 I went back to this album and acknowledged how good and slept on it really was.

 

[god shamgod]

Yea I remember this video dropped when I was in high school

 

[Truality]

this was hot back in the day

i'm old

 

[smokeurobinson]

I cant even see an album of this caliber getting made in 2013. The closest you'd get would be if The Roots recruited tier respectable emcees who have a lil backpack swag in them such as Talib, Nas, Mos Def, Kendrick Lamar, Jay electronica or Joey baddass types.

 

[*L*E*G*A*C*Y*]

I used to jam this out in my car years ago.

 

[bouncy]

I had the album. I used to love mixing "who makes the loot" and the main source joint.

 

[Big Mel]

of course. still have my old cd. first time i ever hear the Pharcyde.

Puba has the best song.

 

[smokeurobinson]

I'm about to download this album......Like I said I thought of it from a conversation and remembered the rare execution for a Hip Hop album.

1992 was the bridge between conscious raps dominance and gangster rapstakeover. I'm listening to the G Rap song and am still impressed at how gangster rap lyrics can mesh so well with music thats supposed to be soothing and groovy. Straight genius.