Summer Jamz '08: G'Z Up, Prose Down
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1.Parliament-“Give Up the Funk (Tear the Roof Off the Sucker)
2.N.W.A.-“Alwayz Into Somethin’”
3.Dr. Dre-“Nuthin’ But a G Thang”
4.Above the Law ft. 2Pac & Money B-“Call It What U Want”
5.The Dove Shack-“Summertime in the LBC”
6.Domino-“Getto Jam”
7.The Twinz-“Round N’ Round”
8.Snoop Doggy Dogg-“Gin and Juice”
9.2Pac ft. Shock G & Money B-“I Get Around”
10.Mista Grimm ft. Nate Dogg & Warren G-“Indo Smoke”
11.Ice Cube ft. George Clinton-“Bop Gun”
12.The Lady of Rage-“Afro Puffs”
13.Sam Sneed ft. Dr. Dre-“U Better Recognize”
14.The D.O.C.-“The D.O.C. and The Doctor”
15.DJ Quik-“Jus Lyke
16.W.C. and the Maad Circle-“The One”
17. Tha Dogg Pound-“Let’s Play House”
18. Kurupt ft. Nate Dogg-“Girls All Pause”
19. Warren G ft.Nate Dogg & Snoop-“Game Don’t Wait”
20. Warren G & Nate Dogg-“Regulate”
21. Warren G & Nate Dogg-“Nobody Does It Better”
22.Parliament-“P-Funk (Wants to Get Funked Up”
Radio raised me. Power 106 and 92.3, The Beat, filtering in fuzzy and faint from the battered and bruised transistor, blank cassette in at all times—just in case. “Gin and Juice” and Maxells as madelines and tea, inside my broom closet bedroom, tattered with tapes as trophies. The holy trinity: The Chronic. Regulate and Doggystyle; the latter, swiped from a shuttered Music Plus, purchased by me for a mere $7 from a kleptomaniac, entrepreneurial ex-friend. Last I heard, he’d moved to
Contrasted with the cluttered condo clusterfuck of this last Bush year, that
So maybe Mike Davis was right. Maybe
The story’s rote by now. The big money boom. Suge Knight, the mad villain, burning blunts and Cohibas, glowering at the world from a plush aerie inside a pitch black
But for a few short years there, say that stretch from The Riots until 2Pac got shot, G-Funk owned the sound of our summers. Pure California ride music to cannon out of every car stereo, soundtrack every party, the ideal accessory to cheap weed, smuggled liquor and the baking black asphalt. I don’t know what kids listen to today. Weezy? Jeezy? The Game’s compelling but hollow nostalgia? We had it good. After all, who better to make sun-scorched jams than the kids from the real land of the endless summer? Like Nate Dogg and Warren G said, “Nobody Does It Better.”
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