Redman’s most underrated song ?

[Morose Polymath]

Far From Underrated. this joint is peak Redman to me.... This song captures everything I enjoy about him as an artist, the era, the 90s vibe just everything... Like I never get tired of spinning this track.... Like I said this song is EVERYTHING to me

 

[BmoreGorilla]

I wish he’d do an interview going through his whole catalog of albums from 92 to 01’

Like a full break down of each album

He went in detail some years ago in Vibe Magazine

I’m including Malpractice because for better or worse, I feel like that’s the last “Redman” album and I’d love to hear him speak on what was going on that that time now that he was working on the How High movie and how that limelight maybe impacted or distracted him musically and now that it was the 2000’s, how was he then feeling about the future of the game and the changes going on at Def Jam

Malpractice was a weird album to me. He was still on point but it felt like Def Jam was trying to have him do too much with that album. Plus it dropped in summer 01. Before that every album dropped in the 4th quarter of an even year

I feel like people overlook his performance on El Niño too. He BODIED that album. There was a reason he had the last verse on damn near every track. Erick and Keith wasn’t trying to go after that nikka

 

[I love Latina women]

His charisma and presence on the mic is unmatched. Crazy thing is he only rapped about a few things: weed, his crew, and what’ll happen to you if you fukk with his crew


And he never had a wack verse or sounded stale. That’s true talent

That’s what’s so brilliant about him

He never sounded boring during the 90’s; he found this way of walking the line and never stepping out of his comfort zone and yet keeping us interested in what he said next with his punchlines, metaphors, cultural (movie and tv) references mix with street and comical content.

It was the perfect blend

 

[Awesome Wells]

Far From Underrated. this joint is peak Redman to me.... This song captures everything I enjoy about him as an artist, the era, the 90s vibe just everything... Like I never get tired of spinning this track.... Like I said this song is EVERYTHING to me

This right here.

When I was a kid, everyone I knew was crazy about "Funkorama". That's definitely peak Funk Doc right there.

First time I heard it was on Stretch and Bobbito. Red dropped off the demo for it, and it didn't have the Aaron Hall vocal on it yet, lol. I taped that sh* off the radio. I still have that version on a cassette.

 

[I love Latina women]

Malpractice was a weird album to me. He was still on point but it felt like Def Jam was trying to have him do too much with that album. Plus it dropped in summer 01. Before that every album dropped in the 4th quarter of an even year

I feel like people overlook his performance on El Niño too. He BODIED that album. There was a reason he had the last verse on damn near every track. Erick and Keith wasn’t trying to go after that nikka

I agree and I didn’t start appreciating it more until last year when I went back and listened to it again

Malpractice was his first real misstep and it was disjointed, the doubling down on the skits more, like back to back, the beats were more leftovers than standouts and then as you said, he dropped in the early part of 01’ as oppose to later in the year like he had always done years before

We never got the rest of the Soopaman Luva story that was to be continued either lol


They did. I noticed that shyt too. He was always the very last verse

Man we were spoiled back then

Look back at how Red dropped a solo, duo or group album damn every year

92’ Whut Thee Album
94’ Dare Iz A Darkside
95 Erick’s Insomina compilation album; Red’s song Funkorama and he produced on there
96’ Muddy Waters
97’ El Niño
98’ Doc’s Da Name
99’ Blackout’


Then Erick and Keith was dropping solos and Red was guest featuring on there too

That’s why I don’t trip off his fall off in the 2000’s; he’d exhausted all of his creative juices by then.

His run was super human looking back

 

[BmoreGorilla]

I agree and I didn’t start appreciating it more until last year when I went back and listened to it again

Malpractice was his first real misstep and it was disjointed, the doubling down on the skits more, like back to back, the beats were more leftovers than standouts and then as you said, he dropped in the early part of 01’ as oppose to later in the year like he had always done years before

We never got the rest of the Soopaman Luva story that was to be continued either lol


They did. I noticed that shyt too. He was always the very last verse

Man we were spoiled back then

Look back at how Red dropped a solo, duo or group album damn every year

92’ Whut Thee Album
94’ Dare Iz A Darkside
95 Erick’s Insomina compilation album; Red’s song Funkorama and he produced on there
96’ Muddy Waters
97’ El Niño
98’ Doc’s Da Name
99’ Blackout’


Then Erick and Keith was dropping solos and Red was guest featuring on there too

That’s why I don’t trip off his fall off in the 2000’s; he’d exhausted all of his creative juices by then.

His run was super human looking back

I actually think Red Gone Wild was a dope album. I liked it way better than Malpractice

 

[I love Latina women]

This right here.

When I was a kid, everyone I knew was crazy about "Funkorama". That's definitely peak Funk Doc right there.

First time I heard it was on Stretch and Bobbito. Red dropped off the demo for it, and it didn't have the Aaron Hall vocal on it yet, lol. I taped that sh* off the radio. I still have that version on a cassette.

It really is the quintessential Redman song. His vocals, the rhymes, the beat etc

Erick had Aaron Hall sing on his single Welcome, then on the same album, Erick samples Aaron’s vocals from Welcome for an album cut Do Your Thing and then the very next year Red and Erick use that same sample of vocals for Funkorama

Like I said, the way they would find ways to use the same samples multiple times was amazing

 

[I love Latina women]

I actually think Red Gone Wild was a dope album. I liked it way better than Malpractice

I can understand that

I liked Red Gone Wild more in 06’ than i do now

I tried going back to it last year and only got halfway thru

 

[Awesome Wells]

It really is the quintessential Redman song. His vocals, the rhymes, the beat etc

Erick had Aaron Hall sing on his single Welcome, then on the same album, Erick samples Aaron’s vocals from Welcome for an album cut Do Your Thing and then the very next year Red and Erick use that same sample of vocals for Funkorama

Like I said, the way they would find ways to use the same samples multiple times was amazing

Yup!

Seemed like Erick had a small batch of Aaron Hall vocals, and around '95, he was throwing them sh*t's on mad songs. LOL!!

But yeah, 1/2 the samples on that was sh*t they had already used a million times. They just knew how to flip sh*t to give it new life. That's not easy!

 

[I love Latina women]

Yup!

Seemed like Erick had a small batch of Aaron Hall vocals, and around '95, he was throwing them sh*t's on mad songs. LOL!!

But yeah, 1/2 the samples on that was sh*t they had already used a million times. They just knew how to flip sh*t to give it new life. That's not easy!

Exactly

Right?! Lol

And that’s what makes it so brilliant and genius; when a producer can take samples that’s been used various times and find new ways of flipping and looping them

 

[Barney Rubble]

Lowkey, I'm surprised this wasn't a bigger hit, shyt was smooth.

 

[I love Latina women]

I can understand that

I liked Red Gone Wild more in 06’ than i do now

I tried going back to it last year and only got halfway thru

Just looked it up

Red Gone Wild was 2007

Jesus I’m getting old

 

[I love Latina women]

Lowkey, I'm surprised this wasn't a bigger hit, shyt was smooth.

This is still my Friday evening and Saturday jam

But yeah, that song definitely should’ve been bigger


Red got a lot of dope R&B features

 

[Awesome Wells]

Lowkey, I'm surprised this wasn't a bigger hit, shyt was smooth.

The Ride soundtrack!!

This track was dope AF, back then!

 

[mundL]

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