It’s Supposed To Bubble
Dr. Jeckyll & Mr. Hyde – “Freshest Rhymes In The World“
from The Champagne Of Rap LP (Profile, 1985)
While the rest of the internets is sweating hard as fuck sounds-like-Kane-but-not-as-good fast rap, this week Cocaine Blunts focuses on cheese ball 1980s rapps. Hip hop growing pains records that are just a little bit corny in retrospect, no diss intended.
Jeckyll & Hyde were a duo of would-be Uptown Records mogul Andre Harrell and some other guy Mr. Hyde. “Genius Rap” is their significant record, I guess, but they also dropped a full length entitled The Champagne of Rap. They presented themselves as the sophisticated alternative to shell toes, they rocked suits and shit and may have been the first bougie rappers ever. But you wouldn’t know that to hear “Freshest Rhymes,” a surrealist diss record towards sharks, Darth Vader, Godzooky and uh Dave Winfield in the form of an 808 beat down. But rather than, or in addition to, using raps, they are armed with Steinbrenner contractual clauses (how topical) and guns that turn men into squirrels. Yes.
October 2nd, 2007 at 12:19 am
“It just be like that sometimes.”
October 2nd, 2007 at 1:52 am
“gettin’ money” and “fast life”/”a.m p.m” > any obscure paul c engineered 12″ on a “hear no evil” mix.
October 2nd, 2007 at 3:51 am
Tighty Whitey beat me to it…but what he didnt express is the “no-way” style hand movements that were made when that line is said.
did’t we have a talk about how i actually love that Genius Rap song onetime?
October 2nd, 2007 at 5:46 am
What’s funny is that if this song were done today it’d be by some skinny white kid on the internet and be a hit on youtube as some sort of rap parody. Fucking hilarious though!
October 2nd, 2007 at 6:38 pm
That was nice. But this is classic. Check out how the Mr. Met lookalike is all geeked up to see the true heir to the legacy of Soulja Slim.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3pj6vkcn-E
October 24th, 2007 at 9:14 am
Obviously you all were’nt around when AM PM came out. Sure, in retrospect there is a level of corn to all early hip hop. But the significance and relivance was in the feeling of time. There was nothing harder than the Proclaimation “AM PM all night long, turn your radios up cause we are on!” It felt and sounded good then and the memory feels good now to those that were there and knew the significance.