When you hear “check it out now” the final layer of melody echoes 1-2, 1-2 1-2-3-4 from the lowest registers of the piano. First you hear the hi-hat and the snare, then you hear the eerie wailing, and as the words “to all the killers and the hundred dollar billers” comes in, you get your first taste of the bass. Cue up track 15, or if you have a tape rewind from the end of side two to the beginning of the song, and push play. If you don’t have a copy of the album or the single, borrow one from somebody right NOW. Concentrate instead on the music to this song. Forget for the moment that there’s no “Part I” on this or any other album (it does exist, but only as a single b-side) – it’s not relevant. II” took the hard in hardcore to a whole new level. You ain’t know? Let me tell you about it Dunn.įor a start, the lead single “Shook Ones Pt. For a whole generation of hip-hop heads, this was the album that made Mobb-phonics and MD beats a way of life. Although they already had one album notched on their belt by 1995 (the mostly forgettable “Juvenile Hell”) this is the album where it all really started.
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