Two quick thoughts about this record:
1) AZ’s one of those MC’s that proves a dope flow should never leave you. It’s like a good jumper or riding your bike. Once you got it, you should be able to keep it forever.
2) Statik Selektah continues to murder beat after beat and while he’s getting a decent amount of props, I feel he’s heavily underrated in terms of his quality, quantity, and consistency.
Just realized I hadn’t posted up the latest visuals from Cat and Stas…my bad! Better late than never. Dream Hampton made her directorial debut on this one and it came out super fresh.
“don’t funk with my grooooove”
I’ll be honest, I’m swamped with work these days so I haven’t watched this entire bio, but I still felt the need to toss it up here on TAOD. Y’all should be up on Ali Vegas, but if not, peep the video to see what he’s all about. I still remember the first time I heard “The Specialist” on the In Too Deep Soundtrack in ’99 and being blown away. I’m not sure if he’ll ever realize his full potential and reach the lofty goals we all seemed to set for him (“y’all critics got a lot of nerve, I’m [Nas] to the third”), but one thing’s for sure: dude can rhyme.