This is volume 1 from The Power Move Mixtape series by DJX released in the early 90’s in various locations across Canada.
Original late 80’s early 1990’s hip hop set mixed live when you would hit record on a cassette deck and record live from start to finished. In 2011, Timon “Bronco” Heinke, a member of the hip-hop forum, finally broke it down. THE POWER MOVE SHOW OLD SCHOOL MIXTAPE VOL. The internet mystery was solved on the internet. Havoc and Prodigy never broke their silence.
MOBB DEEP SHOOK ONES PT 2 RAP GENIUS MOVIE
What started as a debate between DJs and hip-hop die-hards became an internet mystery.Ĭheck message boards from around the “8 Mile” era - the movie was released in 2002 - and you’ll find far-flung debates about not only who Mobb Deep sampled, but also what instrument was playing. Yelawolf Shook Ones, Mobb Deep Real Muthaphuckin Gs, Eazy E Nuthin But A G Thing. That made the “Shook Ones” beat perfect for freestyling - one of the reasons Eminem used a “Shook Ones” sample for a climactic MC battle in the movie “8 Mile.”īut almost no one knew where the beat originated. Lyrics proclaiming revolution and rebirth in a chemical age enhance. The beat was cold, ponderous and sparse, giving the lyrics nowhere to hide. One reason the song’s lyrics carried such a sense of chilly menace was the melancholy, strangely passive notes that played beneath them, propped up by almost mechanical-sounding drums. When “Shook Ones Part II” debuted in 1995, there was no debate that the Queens duo had devised an instant rap masterpiece, in part thanks to the dense, precise lyrics Prodigy delivered to kick off the song: “I got you stuck off the realness, we be the infamous/You heard of us, official Queensbridge murderers/the Mobb comes equipped for warfare, beware/of my crime family who got ‘nough shots to share.”Īlso Read: Mobb Deep's Prodigy Dies at 42 Mobb Deep rapper Prodigy, who died Tuesday at 42, leaves a hip-hop legend behind: “Shook Ones,” the grimy classic he created with partner Havoc, contains one of the most-passionately debated and mysterious samples in music history.Īnd it only exists because Prodigy stopped Havoc from throwing it out.