I've been listening lately to XM 65 The Rhyme -- the old school rap channel -- in an effort to broaden my hiphop horizons and give West Coast rap more of a chance. (I was always an East Coast fan.) I can't quite get into Tupac, because his songs seem to be way too serious, about a 12-year-old girl having a baby that she throws in a trashcan, and things like that. But I have become a fan of the late Eazy E ("We Want Eazy!").
One morning last week, a song called "Nika" by Vicious rolled up on the playlist, and it sounded really familiar. I realized after a few measures that it had a really similar foundation sound to B.I.G's Big Poppa. I looked it up, and it looks like Nika was released a few months before Big Poppa. I scanned the internets ;) and found nothing about the correlation between the two. But I know I'm not crazy. Anybody know the connection?
Listen for yourself:
Nika
Big Poppa
Thus passed another 21 mile commute to work up the Fairfax County Parkway.
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I'll have to play that for my husband. Last weekend he was organizing all of our music on the computer and everywhere else we have it in our house and he had two old school rap categories. He listened to them all day Saturday. Music does make a boring commute go so much faster!
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