Jake One – “Home”
Jake One f/ Vitamin D, Note, Maneak B and Ish – “Home”
from White Van Music (Rhymesayers, 2008)
I’m a sucker for hometown anthems and I’ve been meaning to mention Jake One’s album since it came out last fall. It’s very good. The belated video for “Home” dropped today and it, too, is very good. It also features a Mix-A-Lot cameo.
“Posse On Broadway” after the jump, just because.
May 27th, 2009 at 4:38 pm
Hey, why did you take Byron Crawford off the blogroll.
Please explain
May 27th, 2009 at 5:08 pm
He gets back on if/when he goes to atlanta to see about that puerto rican girl.
May 27th, 2009 at 5:16 pm
I love how this video uses none of the traditional, played-out Seattle imagery (space needle, fish markets etc..) but still captures the true feel of my hometown in a manner rarely seen since like early cameron crowe.
oh and supposedly there’s a jake one/freeway album in the works that should hopefully help heal some of the wounds created by philly freeway 2.
May 27th, 2009 at 6:00 pm
Wow, never heard the Jake One album. I don’t know why I assumed it would be backpacker rap, this is actually really good.
May 27th, 2009 at 7:12 pm
The cool thing about Jake’s album is that it IS backpacker rap sometimes. It’s everything though. It makes shit like Slug rapping alongside Posdnous, Buck atop “Triggerman” and Keak rasping on boom bap all seem like it comes from the same place. Which it does.
You know, this little thing called hip hop.
May 28th, 2009 at 3:07 am
i grew up in seattle, we never ever ever thought mix a lot was joke material.
yall should check the seminar album, if you can, that shit was literally 10 years ahead of its time. regarding his flows. theres a little bit of ice t patterns, but theres also some fucking mind blowing shit. see if you can find ‘national anthem’
May 28th, 2009 at 7:28 am
sir mix-a-lot is great, his first three albums are perfect minimalist-bass-rap.
May 28th, 2009 at 8:27 am
I grew up in NORWAY but as my first exposure to Mix-A-Lot was “posse’s on broadway” I never ever thought of him as a joke. this is a joke, but it’s pretty funny: http://maps.live.com/?v=2&cid=AAC4007787524E04!110
also: who is the third dude on the Jake One track? Not really feeling the song that hard, but his verse and the Mix-A-Lot cameo saves it.
May 28th, 2009 at 10:06 am
Not really feeling the song that hard
maybe that’s cause you grew up in NORWAY
May 28th, 2009 at 10:07 am
Sorry, that was mean
Love this track.
May 28th, 2009 at 11:15 am
Yeah I never suggested that Mix was a joke at all. His influence is huge and rarely acknowledged.
May 29th, 2009 at 7:36 am
Jake One is slept on….Good post
May 29th, 2009 at 8:25 am
it just always seemed growin up to me that the only thing anyone elsewhere was aware of was, obv, that song about asses. and that he never was regarded as a good lyricist or as culturally significant. still doesnt seem it really, of course the heads who comment on cb are knowin. btw, posse on broadway is an even bigger joke. he pretty much made that song so we could say the chorus like 35 times a week without any pun or irony.
May 29th, 2009 at 1:47 pm
Here’s another music video from the album: The Truth featuring Freeway and Brother Ali. (Ali really does his thing on this track.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WokfJUK0nAk
May 30th, 2009 at 2:50 am
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May 30th, 2009 at 10:21 am
In fear of sounding dumb I grew up in Tacoma but have only heard of Ish who are the other three?
June 2nd, 2009 at 5:16 am
this is solid. i like the nod to dms on the “biatch, back up off my tip” line in the chorus…just pulled out that cassette the other day. mix-a-lot is definitely underappreciated. i always liked my studio from the i’m a trip ep.
June 6th, 2009 at 6:41 pm
Nice video. Back in October Jake One put together a tape of Seattle artists he paid tribute to in “Home”. Born Supreme, Samson & Swift, DMS, Vitamin D, Source of Labor, Sensimillia … Townbizness.The link is still live at http://www.sendspace.com/file/mspcpp This and more of his Seattle reminiscing and tune-giving was at http://whitevanmusic.blogspot.com/
June 15th, 2009 at 12:31 am
C.D. Livin’ in the 20Sick…
September 22nd, 2009 at 6:16 pm
plug
http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Content?oid=684682