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from A-Town Rush (Arvis, 1992)

Seagram f/ Gangsta P – “Straight Mobbin“

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from The Dark Roads (Rap-A-Lot, 1992)

I finally managed to grab a clean mp3 of Kilo’s proto-futuristic tongue twister “The Piz”, which appeared on the original Arvis Records release of his second LP but omitted from the more commonly found Wrap/Ichiban pressing. The Atlanta rapper was toying with the izz suffix more than a decade before Snoop Dogg introduced the speech pattern to a generation of awkwardly ironic soccer moms. As were Oakland’s Seagram (who we’ve talked about before) and Gangsta P. This NYT article recognizes neither. Both are better than “Double Dutch Bus.”

Tags: Frankie Smith, Gangsta P, Kilo, Rap-A-Lot, Seagram, Snoop Dogg

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