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Good Morning Hip Hop: Rainy Dayz - Raekwon

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Good Morning Hip Hop, Peace Morning All Happy Friday.... Lets Talk About This One Raekwon - Rainy Dayz a classic off the  Only Built 4 Cuban Linx. With one of the most anticipated Wu Albums Rae came with it on this with the Lyrical Darts and Top Notch Production from Rza... With so many hits on this album, it was one of them joints you just left it on Repeat and handled your business. Released August 1, 1995 was the perfect time to drop his Debut album. The End of Summer of '95 was a damn vibe in itself that year. Music was at an all time high, and cats was dropping some classic hits in '95. The album Debuted at number four on the Billboard 200 chart, and number two on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart, while selling 130,000 copies in its opening week. The album was certified Gold by October of 1995. Raekwon hails from Staten Island, NY, but was born in Brooklyn, NY. Rae's style was for the hood dudes the drug dealers and the stick up dudes. His music was s...

Good Morning Hip Hop: Above The Clouds - Gang Starr ft. Inspectah Deck

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Peace Morning all... Another Friday is upon us, and I had to show love to one of my Favorite Mcees and Producers of all times. Guru and DJ Premier of the Legendary Gang Starr... With the new album "One Of The Best Yet" out now. Bad Name video dropping today at 11am EST Video below when it hits. I wanted to reminisce on one of my all time favorite Gang Starr Tracks "Above The Clouds." Above The Clouds Features Inspectah Deck of Wu-Tang Clan and is no doubt on of the best features ever in Gang Starr history. This track is one of Premier's most iconic tracks in my opinion of course. But I will bet it is in most people's top 10 Preemo Beats. Included the video below to give you Preemo's Insight of how that track came about. Guru and Deck on this track together was a masterpiece. The two voices on one track was like a match made in heaven. With Preemo's melodic beat and fire verses from the two this track was a banger when it came out. Hip Hop ne...