One of my favorite periods of hip hop. The Era in which #TheBombSquad ruled with a mighty fist. Their dense super chaotic style was part thrash part go go part Metallica part Mandrill part Anthrax part Antipop Consortium part Overkill part Outkast everything but the bathroom toilet....with a lil Edwin Starr on the side. Of all of their projects (I’m taking Nations Of Millions OUT of the picture because that’s like naming Thriller as your favorite album......) the 1991 #SonOfBazerk project was like nothing I ever heard before——an entire album in which no breakbeat, shrill noize, soul ad lib reference was safe: there is always an album that is so inside baseball that this deserves a triple meta reference: like an album for those who like albums of inside references of other albums. Like imagine when first hearing @PublicEnemy and you did the “name that sample!” game (they would cram like 10-30 a song sometimes)——well the music was chaotic enough but add on top of that a group who 80% of the time was lifting EVERY lyrical reference: a Tavares line here, a Jackson 5ive reference there, then go to Ohio Players and then make self references to their own Public Enemy fam Just hearing about the passing of Almighty Jahaell (the Bobby Byrd to Bazerk’s James Brown) this is beyond “you had to be there” talk. Even when I speak to cats they’ll be like “oh that ‘Change The Style’ or “Swivy” video was crazeeee or maybe they rocked “J Dubbs Theme”——I was there for that entire album every nook & cranny. Studied it, applied it, still listen to it. Salute Brother!