This blog's 11 regular readers should be familiar with Juvenile & B.G.'s 187 and the story of how it was a song from the advance cassette of 400 Degreez that somehow ended up on DJ Skribble's 2nd Traffic Jams album by now, but the internet tells me there was another track from that tape by the name of Cash Money Gorilla which was conspicuous by its absence from the retail tracklisting of the album and still remains lost in promo-purgatory to this day.
First thought : ZOMG unheard 1998 Juve and Mannie! Second thought : I simply have to hear this shit. Youtube offers a solitary mention of the song in the comment section of 187 alongside the info that a slightly different version of U.T.P also featured on this mythical tape, whilst Google is the exact opposite with hundreds of mentions of the song since pretty much every press blurb for 400 Degreez strewn across sites like Amazon, CD Universe, Best Buy, Yahoo etc appears to be the one for the O.G advance tracklist album with Cash Money Gorilla and 187 on it, which only serves to make me feel like this godamn song is NelsonMuntzHaHa!JPG-ing me from afar as karmic retribution for shouting "kiddie fiddler" at Baby on Wayne's last UK tour when he got hit in the head with a bottle at the Rex.
One of you Connected For Life bloggaz can pretend you've got a signed copy of the cassette if you like, as long as you go and get an old rap journo like Y.N who probably has boxes upon boxes of 90s promo tapes under his bed to rip and upload it afterwards. You know you're gagging to hear this as much as I am and it'll be the first time Y.N has made himself useful on the internet since 2006 so it's 'appy days all around.
5 comments:
Good info, never heard about Cash Money Gorilla before. Title promises something bananas. Joohvee!
It's a bit frustrating how each and every unreleased Lord Finesse and O.C. track, instrumental, freestyle, blip and blurp is unearthed and neatly packed on 12“ (not that I'm complaining, as long as they find their way to the web), whereas something like a scrapped 400 Degreez album track rottens in a dark vault somewhere. If that was a Jay-Z or Nas track you can bet it would have appeared a long time ago. I'm wondering where the Southern (and Bay Arean) equivalents to all those nineties NYC mixtapes are, that often contained unreleased material. Was this a strictly New York phenomenon? If not, who are the Doo Wop, Clue, Flex, Kay Slay equivalents of the nineties in NO, ATL, MIA, and Mmphis? Maybe they are forgotten, with DJ Screw as the lone exception, due to his unique mixing style. O.K., I'm off topic now.
We need a southern answer to J-Love circa the early noughties when he was collating all the rare/unreleased moments by Slick Rick, Rakim, Nas, Mobb Deep etc to release on mixtapes.
Preferably this southern answer to J-Love wouldn't be a fat ginger saltine who honks and hoots all over his own mixtapes of these rare gems.
I read somewhere J-Loves Peurto Rican, which would explain his amnesty from n-bombing.
Then again almost every white rapper of note has said it and never been V-Nasty-ed, so who knows.
Mick Hucknall from Simply Red is the only ginger allowed to drop n-bombs because Brand Nubian sampled Holding Back The Years.
Yup, especially since it was Supreme Allah who produced it.
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