- R.A. The Rugged Man - Song Of The Day -

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3-27-14 // I've collabed with this man J-Live in the past on "Give it Up," but this is his brand new shit. He drops some real straight-to-the-point razor sharp lyricism on this one. I like this joint a lot.

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4-9-13 // This beat is mean!!!!!!

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3-22-2013 // Two new school MC's both born in the 90's spitting meaningful content. The beat by Funk Volume's DJ Hoppa sounds like some straight vintage throw back shit. Smooth joint with a good message and solid-ass lyrics.

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3-14-13 // When super lyrical MC's like Apathy and Celph Titled step to you to be on a joint, you want to spit something really interesting lyrically cuz you know they're gunna kill it..(and as expected those boys went HARD!!!)....So when Apathy sent me a beat called "Caveman," I wanted to go left field and real heavy with it. I thought back to when the Nation of Islam and the Nation of God's and Earths were a heavy influence in HipHop and a lot of black kids that I knew used to tell me white folks were cavemen out of the Caucasus mountains and we were devils before we were even born...I wanted my verse to be the blue-eyed, leprosy-infected demon's theme music. Selling drugs to the community, raping and destroying cultures and creating AIDS...I wanted everything bad ever said to me about white people  in my verse, mixed in with a lot of truths too. Also to the Nation of Gods and Earths the 85'ers are those that are dumb, deaf and blind with no knowledge of self, so I purposely only wrote 85% of my verse on the topic till I switched into typical whiteboy stereotypes like wrestling, bar brawlin, and lacrosse playing. This is probably the most anti-Caucasian verse ever written, but it was written by a self deprecating weirdo white guy so i think its funny and it works... I swing low, like Jim Crow...enjoy. Also this appears on the Demigodz brand new album Killmatic which is out right the fuck now.  Pick that shit up, ASAP... !!!

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3-13-13 // Classic R.A. The Rugged Man and Vinnie Paz, off Paz's latest album God Of The Serengeti.

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3-1-13 // Pharoahe Monch still got it.  He got extra super lyrical as he usually does on this feature he did for Torae's upcoming album.  Plus I'm an old school head so I love his little Whodini "One Love" homage thoughout the verse.

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2-28-13 // Old school veteran Erick Sermon of the legendary EPMD produced this joint and teamed up with new school MC from Atlanta, Georgia Jarren Benton. A little after recording this song Jarren went on to sign with Hopsin and his Funk Volume label.

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2-27-13 // Song of the day don't always gotta be some Hip Hop shit. This joint went #1 on the R&B charts back in 1960 but the reason I like it is because when I dissect the lyrics the entire song is basically Jackie Wilson threatening to murder some bitch that's cheating on him. Some disagree with me on that but I'm convinced.

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2-26-13 // How the fuck is nobody bumping this joint right now? Now this is what I call a BANGER. Three of the undergrounds finest making this a slept on underground anthem. Three super talented MC's on one dope beat trading rhymes back to back.

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2-19-12 // This beat is hard. Extra P is a beat legend.

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Artist: Kid (Kid N Play)

Track: Why Don't You Stay // 2008

2-18-13 // RAPPER SIGHTING: You ever wondered what happened to Kid N Play from house party? Well a few years back KID put this video out but no one seemed to notice. I haven't heard anything else from him since. i always thought KID was a great entertainer from movies to rocking the stage. 

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Artist: Davina (ft. Raekwon)

Track: So Good // 1997

2-15-13 // This chick was on Loud records in their prime, label mates with Mobb Deep, Big Pun, Wu-Tang Clan, etc. She was nice on the boards too and produced her own shit. She murdered the beat on this joint. And her label mate Raekwon The Chef gave this joint that hard edge it needed. The streets ate this shit up when it dropped. Last I heard from her she was living in Germany, hanging out wit some folks I know over in Berlin.

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2-14-13 // Happy Valentines Day...play this song for your bitch. The first DIRTY HIPHOP song ever recorded back in 1975, this was more than a decade before rappers like Just Ice and 2 Live Crew were spitting X-rated rhymes and 4 years before mainstream rappers like Sugar Hill Gang dropped "Rappers Delight." The first half of the song he's "Smoking weed" and "looking between the thighs of a big pussy lady" but at 2:35 minutes into the song he goes crazy on some serious storytelling shit...he starts breaking bottles with his dick in a redneck bar and has an episode with the Ku Klux Klan.

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2-13-13 // Celph spit 64 bars over four vintage DJ Premier beats on this mix he did for Sam the Sleazebag.  There's a reason why I collab with this man often. He's got punchline after punchline and funky-ass wordplay.

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2-12-13 // In the early 90's K-Solo put out two albums on Atlantic records and was a member of the Hit Squad. After that we didn't hear too much from him. This joint is an extremely RARE song that he dropped independently in 2004. Also, Solo came from the same stomping grounds as I did: Suffolk County. One more thing I gotta point out: Solo was known as 'Wolfgang' Murder Mouth...over a decade before ODD FUTURE existed.

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2-11-13 // Prodigy opens the song perfectly with the incredibly misogynistic rap lyric "fresh out this Bitch pussy." I always loved this joint. It's kinda like Mobb Deep does "Cunt Renaissance" over a PRINCE sample. The sample didnt clear for obvious reasons and this classic never got an official release.

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2-8-13 // The beat is open as fuck for the super lyrical Black Thought to go in on it and demolish it to pieces.