in such a bleak, painful place rn. ended up listening to some Nas, and then got the urge to listen to Mobb Deep, and stuck this classic on, and I could live in it for a bit
like, it’s been my favourite of theirs for a while, but it’s about the only thing comforting me rn
which tracks do something like that for you?
Sorry you’re struggling currently @sycamore. I still get goosebumps from Roots Manuva on this track:
UGK - One Day
They Reminisce Over You (T.R.O.Y.) " is a song by Pete Rock & CL Smooth, inspired by the death of their close friend Troy Dixon (better known as “Trouble” T. Roy of Heavy D & the Boyz) in 1990.
Pete Rock in a 2007 interview with The Village Voice:
I had a friend of mine that passed away, and it was a shock to the community. I was kind of depressed when I made it. And to this day, I can’t believe I made it through, the way I was feeling. I guess it was for my boy. When I found the record by Tom Scott, basically I just heard something incredible that touched me and made me cry. It had such a beautiful bassline, and I started with that first. I found some other sounds and then heard some sax in there and used that. Next thing you know, I have a beautiful beat made. When I mixed the song down, I had Charlie Brown from Leaders of the New School in the session with me, and we all just started crying.[1]
Never really listened to Ironman until this year so this absolutely took me out. Was used to Ghost going wild rhyming crazy shit, didn’t expect this.
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Maybe more melodramatic than emotional, but good
Was gonna post this. One of the few songs I can think of that’s made me cry.
ROther vandross the king of this type of thing really
Not sure if this counts
great bit of nostalgic melancholy, the darkness seen through the cloud of back-in-the-day bong smoke
Absolutely awful circumstances but this always makes me really feel it
Yeah, this always gets me too…
Oh yeah, reminded me of this one, first verse , man…
Not so much a song but when MF Doom mentions Subroc it always gets to me, especially the ‘Everything is going according to plan, man’
From Tablik and savage females with fake nails to face veils
You out your frame for still bagging 'em, too
You know I know, these hoes be asking me if I’m you
Like my twin brother, we did everything together
From hundred raka’at salats to copping butter leathers
Remember when you went and got the dark blue Ballys?
I had all the different color Cazals and Gazelles
The “SUBROC” three-finger ring with the ruby in the “O”, akh
Truly the illest dynamic duo on the whole block
I keep a flick of you with the machete sword in your hand
Everything is going according to plan, man
