Is Little Brother's "Speed" one of the GOAT songs by an "underground" group ever?

[Poh SIti Dawn]

weird I was just thinking about this song. decided to choose "slow it down" though

 

[Goat poster]

Anybody that ever had a job they HATED going to can relate to that song.

 

[IllmaticDelta]

they lowkey fell off after 9th left imo
there's a huge difference in quality between the first two albums and the last two


they had some good ass mixtapes early on too.

I wouldn't call the drop in quality after 9th left, lowkey

 

[Roland Coltrane]

I wouldn't call the drop in quality after 9th left, lowkey

truth

 

[TheDarceKnight]

I absolutely love this song AND that bullshyt video they whipped up for it...

That and "The Way You Do It" are prime examples of songs you can completely zone out to

Little Brother hold the two best albums to come outta NC (sorry cole)

classic video

 

[Big Mel]

I loved this entire album and this was a standout. My boy made a beat with this sample around the same time and was tight when he heard this. Same shyt happened with LL's 'Ill Bomb' beat off the David Porter record.

 

[Monoblock]

The Way You Do It will forever be my shyt on that album. That and Nighttime Maneuvers



So many damn smooth tracks from LB...just classic music.

 

[TheDarceKnight]

they lowkey fell off after 9th left imo
there's a huge difference in quality between the first two albums and the last two


they had some good ass mixtapes early on too.

Everyone's entitled to their opinion, and I definitely think that Listening, Chitlin Circuit 1 and 1.5, Minstrel Show, and Seperate But Equal are better than the projects after 9th was gone, but the music was still pretty dope.

But the ironic thing is that Getback is the type of album that people said Little Brother should have dropped on Atlantic.

It still had good production, and the lyrics were on point. Any of these songs were all more "radio friendly" than anything on The Minstrel Show

Spoiler

 

[TheDarceKnight]

its when the vocal sample comes in around 8-10 seconds you immediately start fukkin with the song.
i used to fall asleep to The Listening all the time and i don't mean that as a slight on the album at all.

"9th always hit me in my sweet spot...Go to the crib, drink some peach schnapps, and dose off to Pete Rock.."


Not a diss at all. It's a relaxing album.

 

[Spree At Last]

speed my second fave off that album after the title track.



driving at night with this album on is just

 

[MikeyC]

Brilliant record.

 

[TheDarceKnight]

I was listening to Speed a couple of days ago. Little Brother has a great catalog, I didn't like Left Back much because it seemed like a bunch of leftovers but even that had Tigallo For Dolo and a couple other good joints. They were my 00's Tribe.

Leftback was definitely not all new material. Curtain Call, Tigallo for Dolo, and a small handful of others. They even included remixes to some GetBack songs on the album, and not even at the very end either.

I liked these though

Spoiler

Great swan song, and Khrysis flipped the Eye sample from Madvillainy


Classic Tay song and Khrysis beat


Median and Tay going back and forth on this was so dope


Smooth banger


Felt almost more like a Phonte solo joint off a Foreign Exchange project, and the birth of the "New Tigallo" but it was cool


Khrysis did the All About the Benjamins Biggie verse sample dirty, and Phonte ripped those 24 bars


Decent fun vibe song

 

[EA]

 

[Monoblock]

Phonte's verse on Play The Music reminded me of Andre 3K on Devin's What A Job. So damn dope.

 

[Bishop_BP_Jakes]

I still don't understand why "Whatever You Say", "Take It Slow", and "Breakin My Heart", weren't the first singles off their respective albums.

Anyway, lemme get off this soap box

This is still one of my favorite LB joints

Tay bodied everybody