For us old heads: How good was Casual?

[Listen]

I remember thinking he was gonna blow up when he popped out in Hiero when Souls of Mischief and Del blew up.

This shyt was on loop for me:



Then this shyt...



And years later...I was losing it on both his verses on this shyt.



“from the depths of antiquities/ no one can get with me
I used to battle Socrates rocking these same styles”.

What was he missing?

 

[get these nets]

never impressed by him...............and if I remember correctly.....all of them were signed to Jive Records

they had a good eye for talent, but terrible at promoting their rap acts

Souls of Mischief were dope, Del was cool

Casual was shytty

 

[Listen]

never impressed by him...............and if I remember correctly.....all of them were signed to Jive Records

they had a good eye for talent, but terrible at promoting their rap acts

Souls of Mischief were dope, Del was cool

Casual was shytty

I liked that whole crew but thought he had potential with his voice and inflections and shyt.

Your right about Jive. They had everyone and wasted 90% of them.

 

[FreshAIG]

Casual was fire. Super dope MC, first album is a personal classic.

 

[CSquare43]

Cas is dope as fu*k.

"... I write raps an when ni**as bite i clap, 'cause they sh*t sound better now ..."

 

[H. Selassie]

I always hear his and King Tee’s names come up when heads discuss Biggie’s influences. You can actually hear RTD era Big’s style embedded in his flow.

 

[Listen]

I always hear his and King Tee’s names come up when heads discuss Biggie’s influences. You can actually hear RTD era Big’s style embedded in his flow.

Dude, he had such a similar voice to me. The inflection and how he held syllables with such personality is what stood out to me.

 

[FruitOfTheVale]

One of my favorite rappers period

 

[wizworld]

Always thought he was a dope rapper with a pretty disappointing catalog. He tends to shine on guest verses and collabs, but too many of his solo songs had no real theme or distinct feel to them. Smash Rockwell is his best collection of well put together songs, but that was a bit after his heyday. I wanted to like his debut so badly but there is only an EP worth of songs I care about on there. I like a lot of his b sides and loosies from that era though.

I think Extra Prolific had a better debut than him, even though Cas is a better lyricist.

 

[BuddahMAC]

always thought this was one of his best performances: