Never Forget: Masta Ace Inc. - "Born To Roll"

[Taadow]

Never Forget is a thread series where you and I - your host, Taadow - revisit some hits we may have stored in the attic of our minds. Today, Masta Ace - "Born To Roll".



"B-B-BUT WAS IT REALLY A HIT??"

Billboard Hot 100 Peak: #23
Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs Peak: #33
Billboard Hot Rap Singles: #5
Billboard Hot Dance/Maxi-Music Singles Sales Peak: #13
Billboard Rhythmic Top 40 Peak: #13

AFTERMATH:

This is actually the West Remix of "Jeep Ass Nigguh", but it got so much love it got put on two albums.

Masta Ace showed us what Ice-T showed us already (and later Pac showed us again) -
if you a rapper from the East and gettin' lost in the shuffle, shake them, come to the West,
get down with this chit we doin', make some cuts that go hard, and eat. I mean, if he stayed down with
Juice Crew around this time, he mighta went out like Grand Daddy I.U.

 

[SoulController]

and he produced it! people forget that Lord Digga (Bluez Bros, mad songs on Ready to Die) and Ace produced mad shyt

this saved his career, i liked Slaughahouse more but i dont believe it did very well

 

[Mr. Negative]

black boy black boy turn dat shyt down

 

[Palm Tree's & Blunts]

For some reason I always felt like this song was satire.

 

[Taadow]

For some reason I always felt like this song was satire.

The album was, but it didn't matter - it slapped. That's all that mattered.

That's all that ever matters, fams.

 

[The_Hillsta]

"I wonder if I blasted a little Elvis Presley, would they pull me over and attempt to arrest me?"

 

[Deltron]

 

[pez]

Dope choice. Doesn't even sound like anything else Masta Ace made.

 

[Zero]

CLASSIC SYMPHONY

 

[Big Skilly Films]

classic shyt

 

[Zero]

The album was, but it didn't matter - it slapped. That's all that mattered.

That's all that ever matters, fams.

shyt was genius

 

[CSquare43]

Jeep Ass Ni**a>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>




This was one of those albums that I bought repeatedly after my tape was borrowed/broken/etc...

 

[King Sun]

My favorite ace album

 

[MurderToCassette]

Prefer the OG version but the lyrics went hard over this

 

[lotteryplaya]

Classic from back in the day when you had to call in and order music videos to be played
The women in the video, the way it sounds in the car plus kept it real about police.