I love hip-hop, but my knowledge of it is nowhere near as wide enough, so I’d like to address that.
Whilst I love solo hip-hop tracks where someone like Kendrick Lamar or MF DOOM is completely bossing a track, I’ve really grown to love posse cuts where there’s a lot of interaction between the MCs, especially if they’re trading bars quickly without dropping a beat. Also love cuts where the other MCs are hyping up those about to come on the mic, like ODB does for Ghostface Killah on on Da Mystery of Chessboxin’.
This was my example from the samples round, which perfectly shows this kind of the playful “show me what you’ve got” kind of posse cut.
Another example: love the way Q-Tip, Phife, Jarobi and Busta Rhymes trade lines on this. The flow is so effortlessly brilliant.
So yeah. Give me your posse cut recommendations, or tracks with lots of cool trading lines between MCs!
Kind of – it’s around the time he was discovered by Large Professor and just before he started to work on Illmatic. Think it was Serch who got him his deal with Columbia too
Might be a bit of a cheat because both of the posses on these are all from the same crew (Wu Tang and OGC), but two of the best hip hop tracks ever imo