Pete Rock and CL Smooth "Next On The Menu" is an Overlooked CLASSIC

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From the Who's The Man Soundtrack. The song is almost Perfect.

 

[I love Latina women]

Classic

 

[Bugsmoran]

Yeah I messed wit that joint heavy when it dropped

 

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I was feeling biggie's Party and Bull@#!" Harder at the time. It until later that realized how live this track was.

Notice the 1992 Versace reference. In before Pacv or Big.
Big up to CL Smooth.

 

[wizworld]

So much of Pete Rock & CL Smooth's high quality output blends together in a somewhat problematic way. If you put this on one of the albums and take another song off, it doesn't really change anything. Initially I put the blame on CL's rapping style, but the beats kinda blend together in that way too. Pete was giving different sounds to other people for his remixes. Was Pete allowing CL to pick the beats? I don't know, but it hurts their standing a little amongst "great" hip-hop groups imo.

 

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So much of Pete Rock & CL Smooth's high quality output blends together in a somewhat problematic way. If you put this on one of the albums and take another song off, it doesn't really change anything. Initially I put the blame on CL's rapping style, but the beats kinda blend together in that way too. Pete was giving different sounds to other people for his remixes. Was Pete allowing CL to pick the beats? I don't know, but it hurts their standing a little amongst "great" hip-hop groups imo.

Timing hurt there standing more than anything. They were sandwiched in between the era of West coast dominance and east coast resurgence with Wu tang, Mobb Deep and Nas. The little lane they had merged into a bigger one which gave them very little room to maneuver.

 

[wizworld]

Timing hurt there standing more than anything. They were sandwiched in between the era of West coast dominance and east coast resurgence with Wu tang, Mobb Deep and Nas. The little lane they had merged into a bigger one which gave them very little room to maneuver.

Why would any of this matter if their music was more memorable to the masses on a song by song basis?
The masses know "TROY" & maybe "Straighten it Out".
But a lot of the songs Pete did for other artists went further.
Maybe Pete needed to rap on more Pete Rock & CL Smooth songs to break up the monotony. CL has the smooth flow, but Pete's raps had that bounce and were more memorable imo. I'm starting to think CL was dubbing a lot of Pete's bouncy/high energy beats for all those smooth "cleaning your crib" joints.

 

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Why would any of this matter if their music was more memorable to the masses on a song by song basis?
The masses know "TROY" & maybe "Straighten it Out".
But a lot of the songs Pete did for other artists went further.
Maybe Pete needed to rap on more Pete Rock & CL Smooth songs to break up the monotony. CL has the smooth flow, but Pete's raps had that bounce and were more memorable imo. I'm starting to think CL was dubbing a lot of Pete's bouncy/high energy beats for all those smooth "cleaning your crib" joints.

You Gotta understand the country was under the hypnotic control of west coast gangster rap. That whole "cool dude from the hood" wasn't about to have the appeal of snoop, ice cube, scarface ,biggie or Pac no matter what they did.

 

[Ghpstface]

This shyt is nasty fukk all that other shyt yall talking

 

[NigerianDonDada]

always loved this record

 

[THE K-MAN]

Would have been perfect on Mecca

 

[Don Jesus]

flawless "Summer Madness" sample and those drums is the reason why the 90s is the best decade ever