should be aight to post this on here if its out of print (??)
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Volume 10 - Pistol Grip Pump
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should be aight to post this on here if its out of print (??)
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Saturday nights on 96.3 before they ceased playing rap in about 95..They used to MERK this shyt..
Song is def. one of our adopted classics..
Xtraz2
Superstar
That wuz always in tha mix
along with "too many suckaz and not enough time..
along with "too many suckaz and not enough time..
Rakim Allah
Superstar
No lie, I heard this shyt on the radio this past weekend....brought a smile to my face
Song used to be played in the mix at all times for yeeeeeeeeeeears out here in Cali, it had been a minute since I heard it before this weekend. It was like our west coast, wild out version of Throw Ya Gunz/Onyx.
Did any of yall actually pick up the entire album tho? Even back then I couldn't find this muthafukkin tape NOWHERE.
Yeah, I said tape
Yep I still have my tape and the Sunbeams '12. Hip Hopera was def an underrated album.
Rakim Allah
Superstar
"Marketable ability, honorable agility....FOOL, GET AWAY FROM ME". I wonder if this is on Itunes, because this tape was lost years ago. If you guys can download this album do it, it's pretty dope.
I always kinda thought that "Stylesondeck" song was an Ol' Dirty b*stard diss.
A few songs off the album are on Youtube:
His affiliates Freestyle Fellowship and The Heavyweights were dope too. Side note, some people claim BONE bit off Freestyle Fellowship.
Fred.
Good Lifer
Rakim Allah
Superstar
RIP
cant remember the name right now (or if its still there) but theres a nice lil spot by that walmart that had a decent used hiphop section, comics and old video games and shiit.. i need to get back out there
All the malls I grew up around are gone man. Whole area gone. Bannister Mall, Hypermart, etc.
Fred.
Big Mel
@bigboss
No lie, I heard this shyt on the radio this past weekend....brought a smile to my face
Song used to be played in the mix at all times for yeeeeeeeeeeears out here in Cali, it had been a minute since I heard it before this weekend. It was like our west coast, wild out version of Throw Ya Gunz/Onyx.
Did any of yall actually pick up the entire album tho? Even back then I couldn't find this muthafukkin tape NOWHERE.
Yeah, I said tape
I bought the album when it came out. I honestly couldn't mess with the rest of it but pistol grip pump is super classic. i remember the album being real bugged out like some gangst freestyle fellowship avant garde shyt.
Rakim Allah
Superstar
Yeah his style is an acquired taste, but the album was put together very well.
Big Mel
@bigboss
i may dust it off.
The_Hillsta
Neva missin a beat
"Be that woman for my heaaeaaaaeaaadddddd....."
I'm 20 years late with this shyt bruh
Rakim Allah
Superstar
The Good Life Cafe
Rakim Allah
Superstar
Here's and article on the History of Volume 10 and Pistol Grip Pump...it's a long but dope read.
https://myspace.com/article/2014/07/17/volume-10-pistolgrip-pump/
FEATURE
How a Song No One Wanted to Make Became a West Coast Rap Classic
By Eric Ducker • July 16, 2014
Volume 10 has her finish rolling a joint and he begins to talk…
This is the story of a rap obscurity. But looked at a different way, it's the story of a hit that wasn't even supposed to happen. To some it's the story of a hit that should have been even bigger than it was. The complications of time, context and perspective have a way of tangling these things up. Now, 20 years since its release, Volume 10's "Pistolgrip-Pump" has the rare distinction of being a song that both died a premature death and managed to achieve immortality.
The song itself starts with what sounds like "Atomic Dog" panting, courtesy of George Clinton, the patron saint of early 1990s Los Angeles hip-hop. Soon the beat overloads with insane elongated bass thumps, drum machine smacks, sanity-seekingguitar stabs, a sample of the King Ad-Rock's voice sped up to the point of gibberish, what might be the anti-theft device on an alien warship and the mournful baying of another canine. What really sets "Pistolgrip-Pump" off though is the unhinged delivery of Volume 10, his bombastic voice dipping out and doubling up as he compensates for his paranoia with extra firepower.
"Pistolgrip-Pump" spent a little time in 1994 on Billboard's Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks and Hot Rap Singles charts, but didn't really dent the playlist of Yo! MTV Raps or BET's Rap City. And yet despite this seemingly ephemeral presence, it's become a part of hip-hop's DNA sequence, its mutated signature continually re-appearing over the past two decades.
The same year that "Pistolgrip-Pump" was released, New York City DJ and producer Ron G significantly modified its beat for the Uptown Mix of Miss Jones' R&B jam "Where I Wanna Be Boy." Queen Latifah re-rapped its chorus in the lyrics to her 1996 song "Elements I'm Among" and a year later so did Louisiana'sYoung Bleed on"How Ya Do Dat" from the soundtrack to Master P's I'm Bout It.
Over the years, OutKast, E-40, WC, the Coup and Snoop Dogg have all sampled or referenced other Volume 10 lines from "Pistolgrip-Pump" in their songs. Psychopathic Rydas—a side project of Insane Clown Posse and other acts on their label Psychopath Records—took the beat wholesale for their track "Dumpin'" in 2000. That same year, Rage Against Machine released a Rick Rubin-produced version of "Pistolgrip-Pump" for their covers album Renegades alongside songs originally by Bob Dylan, Minor Threat, Afrika Bambaata and Bruce Springsteen.
Pistol Grip Pump
Rage Against The Machine
Today, "Pistolgrip-Pump" gets played several times a week on KDAY, L.A.'s hip-hop oldies station, maybe not as frequently as "Nuthin' But a G Thang" or "Dear Mama," but it doesn't sound out of place when played alongside them.
But hold on a minute…who the fukk is Volume 10 anyway?
https://myspace.com/article/2014/07/17/volume-10-pistolgrip-pump/
FEATURE
How a Song No One Wanted to Make Became a West Coast Rap Classic
By Eric Ducker • July 16, 2014
Volume 10 has her finish rolling a joint and he begins to talk…
This is the story of a rap obscurity. But looked at a different way, it's the story of a hit that wasn't even supposed to happen. To some it's the story of a hit that should have been even bigger than it was. The complications of time, context and perspective have a way of tangling these things up. Now, 20 years since its release, Volume 10's "Pistolgrip-Pump" has the rare distinction of being a song that both died a premature death and managed to achieve immortality.
The song itself starts with what sounds like "Atomic Dog" panting, courtesy of George Clinton, the patron saint of early 1990s Los Angeles hip-hop. Soon the beat overloads with insane elongated bass thumps, drum machine smacks, sanity-seekingguitar stabs, a sample of the King Ad-Rock's voice sped up to the point of gibberish, what might be the anti-theft device on an alien warship and the mournful baying of another canine. What really sets "Pistolgrip-Pump" off though is the unhinged delivery of Volume 10, his bombastic voice dipping out and doubling up as he compensates for his paranoia with extra firepower.
"Pistolgrip-Pump" spent a little time in 1994 on Billboard's Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks and Hot Rap Singles charts, but didn't really dent the playlist of Yo! MTV Raps or BET's Rap City. And yet despite this seemingly ephemeral presence, it's become a part of hip-hop's DNA sequence, its mutated signature continually re-appearing over the past two decades.
The same year that "Pistolgrip-Pump" was released, New York City DJ and producer Ron G significantly modified its beat for the Uptown Mix of Miss Jones' R&B jam "Where I Wanna Be Boy." Queen Latifah re-rapped its chorus in the lyrics to her 1996 song "Elements I'm Among" and a year later so did Louisiana'sYoung Bleed on"How Ya Do Dat" from the soundtrack to Master P's I'm Bout It.
Over the years, OutKast, E-40, WC, the Coup and Snoop Dogg have all sampled or referenced other Volume 10 lines from "Pistolgrip-Pump" in their songs. Psychopathic Rydas—a side project of Insane Clown Posse and other acts on their label Psychopath Records—took the beat wholesale for their track "Dumpin'" in 2000. That same year, Rage Against Machine released a Rick Rubin-produced version of "Pistolgrip-Pump" for their covers album Renegades alongside songs originally by Bob Dylan, Minor Threat, Afrika Bambaata and Bruce Springsteen.
Pistol Grip Pump
Rage Against The Machine
Today, "Pistolgrip-Pump" gets played several times a week on KDAY, L.A.'s hip-hop oldies station, maybe not as frequently as "Nuthin' But a G Thang" or "Dear Mama," but it doesn't sound out of place when played alongside them.
But hold on a minute…who the fukk is Volume 10 anyway?