Video: Hieroglyphics Rap City Freestyle ‘98

The some shit you’ve never seen series returns. This originally ran as part of the Hiero Rap City episode supporting Third Eye Vision (yes there was once a two hour block on daytime BET dedicated to the Hieroglyphics crew) though this video was ripped from a later “Best Of Rap City Freestyles” episode, which accounts for a few of the jerky and random edits. (A few more are my doing though). Hit the jump for bonus footage of Ras Kass and the great Joe Clair freestyling as the credits run over their faces.

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12 Responses to “Video: Hieroglyphics Rap City Freestyle ‘98”

  1. Rob Pursey Says:
    December 28th, 2009 at 2:08 pm

    GREAT clip.

    Gotta love Hiero – I could listen to this shit all day. So natural.

  2. mark p. Says:
    December 28th, 2009 at 3:01 pm

    Best vibe ever. Casual smashed it.

  3. walkmasterflex Says:
    December 28th, 2009 at 8:48 pm

    first thing i noticed was a-plus is 5 feet tall

  4. 101 Says:
    December 29th, 2009 at 11:44 am

    casual’s verse is used in something else, and i can’t place it. anybody know?

  5. DQ Says:
    December 29th, 2009 at 7:05 pm

    gr8

    cut my dreadlocks off but i never went soft

    rahhhhhh

    straight from suburbia city’s never heard of ya

  6. MF Says:
    December 30th, 2009 at 6:49 am

    101, Casual’s verse was from I Gotta (Get Down).

    http://www.zshare.net/audio/705686818fec2c1b/

    Noz, any chance of a re-up of the Casual jams in this post sometime?

  7. noz Says:
    December 30th, 2009 at 3:47 pm

    yeah i will up the whole tape when i find it.

  8. Tamam Says:
    December 30th, 2009 at 6:18 pm

    ras kass is like crossing nostradamus like clarence thomas nostradamus

  9. Saul Goode Says:
    December 31st, 2009 at 3:39 pm

    Nice ish. Would love to hear that Casual ‘Meanwhile’ album. Jake One should do an all Cas album ala Freeway ‘Stimulus Package’. Or an even better Oaktown fanboy fantasy is an all Jake Uno produced Casual-Keak collabo joint.

  10. noz Says:
    December 31st, 2009 at 6:22 pm

    ” Jake One should do an all Cas album ala Freeway ‘Stimulus Package’.”

    I think I remember Cas talking about this happening on youtube.

  11. Nesta Says:
    January 6th, 2010 at 1:00 am

    I wonder if that was the same episode when Ras was flying around in a helicopter with Big Lez.

  12. BenH Says:
    January 8th, 2010 at 7:58 am

    The entire content of Meanwhile can be found over at T.R.O.Y in one of the Hiero producer compilation methinks. The whole tape has that raw, spur of the moment catching wreck over breaks feel to it… I wouldn’t be surprised if he never meant it to be an album proper.

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