Pete Rock and CL Smooth-The Main Ingredient 20 Year Anniversary Appreciation Thread

[Big Mel]

Right, now lets not get it twisted. Pete Rock was still one of the hottest producers out at that time. It's just the combo between him and CL wasn't ringing off as hard as 2 years prior. But fall of 94, it was all about Ready To Die. Actually, I was bumpin Keith Murray's debut and Red's Dare Iz A Darkside over Main Ingredient at the time.

I'm telling you it was the girl singles. as good as 'I Got a Love' is of a song, cats wasn't looking for some carmel city ass chocolate boy wonder, howard university ass campus rap.

the cream rose to the top though and the album is fantastic.

 

[Change]

def agree. too many songs about women on this album.

 

[frush11]

4 songs about women, and all of them were well done.

Times were just changing, and that sound was just too low key and subtle. There wasn't an impact tune on that album.

The feel of the album was really on more lounge vibe

 

[I love Latina women]

And the interludes, is wish some them were full track

that is what was always so incredible bout pete rock's interludes... those interludes could've been songs

those interludes were a huge influence on what questlove and dilla would do on albums like common's like water for chocolate and d'angelo's voodoo too

 

[beenz]

I always enjoyed this album more than mecca and the soul brother personally.

 

[DANJ!]

4 songs about women, and all of them were well done.

Times were just changing, and that sound was just too low key and subtle. There wasn't an impact tune on that album.

The feel of the album was really on more lounge vibe

This right here...

The chick songs weren't bad, not at all... shyt, I fukked with "I Got A Love" heavy. It was just that coming off of RTD and Illmatic and 36 Chambers (and that's just speaking for the East Coast shyt at the time), it was way laidback and CL was always a decent but not impactful MC. It's like you can't rock Warning and then spin off into I Got A Love...

 

[Big Mel]

The songs I couldn't Rock with are:

Searching
All The Places
Tell Me


Now on the flip, Lots Of Lovin off Mecca was one of te best songs on it.

 

[SAJ!!]

Dope Album

Favorite tracks: In The House, I Got A Love, Escapism, All The Places, Take You There, Searching, Check It Out, In The Flesh, and It's On You.

 

[Big Mel]

It's on you is a monster.

 

[Pack2]

In The House
It's On You
Searching
All the Places
Take You There

All got crazy spin.....damn this brings me back to a great time/era in my life

@Newark88 always got a thread making me reminisce..get me in my feelings

 

[frush11]

Speaking of Searching which is dope to me.


Does anyone know Why Vinia Mojica has never put out an album. And what the hell she even looks like

 

[frush11]

Are you African?

Yeah, Sierra Leone

 

[Big Mel]

Yeah, Sierra Leone

Let the Coli take note that this is about the 4th time I was able to peg an African poster in about as many attempts.


And Vinia Mojica was a DIME.

 

[frush11]

Let the Coli take note that this is about the 4th time I was able to peg an African poster in about as many attempts.


And Vinia Mojica was a DIME.

I don't get it

 

[I love Latina women]

Speaking of Searching which is dope to me.


Does anyone know Why Vinia Mojica has never put out an album. And what the hell she even looks like

i have no idea but i remember havin' a bootleg compilation (titled "black and blue") of her's years ago that had a lot of her featured work over the years. that woman's voice is heavenly

vinia was in de la soul's a rollerskating jam named saturday, singin' on the chorus





here's some pics of her


she's on the right in this pic

on the left in this pic