R.I.P Sean Price
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Sean killed this shyt
womanareliars
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They finished the mural for him earlier today. If you're in BK it's on Bergen & Kingston. According to a Duckdown rep I got in contact with the official memorial show is on August 27th at S.O.B.'s. If you wanna donate to his family you can do it at
https://www.crowdrise.com/seanp
https://www.crowdrise.com/seanp
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/10/a...with-deep-brooklyn-roots-dies-at-43.html?_r=0
Sean Price, Rapper With Deep Brooklyn Roots, Dies at 43
Sean Price, in New York in 2012, has a solo project coming out this month.
MIKE LAWRIE / GETTY IMAGES
By JON CARAMANICA
AUGUST 9, 2015
Sean Price, a rapper who for two decades embodied the rugged essence of peak-era Brooklyn hip-hop, died in his sleep on Saturday morning at his home in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn. He was 43.
His death was announced by his label, Duck Down Music. No cause was specified.
Mr. Price was born in Brooklyn on March 17, 1972, and never left. In the mid-1990s, under the name Ruck, he was part of the duo Heltah Skeltah, which in turn was part of the extended Brooklyn crew Boot Camp Clik. For them, Brooklyn was “Bucktown,” a place of street warfare and menacing talk.
At that time, New York rap was at its grittiest, in part a reaction to the smoothing-out that was already happening in West Coast rap. Mr. Price had an ideal voice for the sound — sneering, barrel-shaped and nimble — which he applied to rhymes that were breezily, alarmingly tough.
In 1995, Heltah Skeltah released a 12-inch single with the duo’s fellow Clik members Originoo Gunn Clappaz, calling themselves the Fab 5. The single, “Blah”/“Leflaur Leflah Eshkoshka,” is one of the essential documents of that era, with Ruck pugilistically rapping on “Blah,” “Blunts get smoked and chumps get choked/When they try to quote the notes that B-I-G Ruck wrote.”
Heltah Skeltah’s 1996 debut album, “Nocturnal,” continued in that rousing vein. But by the time of the duo’s second album, “Magnum Force,” its sound was beginning to stand at odds with hip-hop’s emergent new-money aesthetic.
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By the 2000s, the boom-bap hip-hop in which Mr. Price specialized had become something of a heritage sound, but he remained resolute. From 2005 to 2012 he released three impressive, lyrically vivid, sonically old-fashioned solo albums — “Monkey Barz,” “Jesus Price Supastar” and “Mic Tyson” — that showed he hadn’t evolved a bit, by design. He understood the approach that best suited him — the New York classicist style of hard rhyme jabs over production full of soul samples and snappy, firm drums — and never wavered. “The best rapper in Brownsville,” he boasted in a 2009 song, as if that were still the most important thing to him.
“If he made a great song and only 50 friends of his heard it and liked it, he was happy with that, and then he went on to the next song,” said Drew Friedman, known as Dru Ha, Mr. Price’s manager and an owner of Duck Down, which has released all of Mr. Price’s solo and group material.
In recent years, Mr. Price had also recorded songs for Boot Camp Clik releases, a Heltah Skeltah reunion album, and as part of the underground rap collective Random Axe. He had recently completed his next solo project, a mixtape called “Songs in the Key of Price,” to be released this month.
He is survived by his wife, Bernadette; a daughter, Shaun Price; two sons, Elijah Price and Terri Merritt; and several brothers and sisters.
By Sunday afternoon, he had already been memorialized with a mural in Crown Heights.
Sean Price, Rapper With Deep Brooklyn Roots, Dies at 43
Sean Price, in New York in 2012, has a solo project coming out this month.
MIKE LAWRIE / GETTY IMAGES
By JON CARAMANICA
AUGUST 9, 2015
Sean Price, a rapper who for two decades embodied the rugged essence of peak-era Brooklyn hip-hop, died in his sleep on Saturday morning at his home in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn. He was 43.
His death was announced by his label, Duck Down Music. No cause was specified.
Mr. Price was born in Brooklyn on March 17, 1972, and never left. In the mid-1990s, under the name Ruck, he was part of the duo Heltah Skeltah, which in turn was part of the extended Brooklyn crew Boot Camp Clik. For them, Brooklyn was “Bucktown,” a place of street warfare and menacing talk.
At that time, New York rap was at its grittiest, in part a reaction to the smoothing-out that was already happening in West Coast rap. Mr. Price had an ideal voice for the sound — sneering, barrel-shaped and nimble — which he applied to rhymes that were breezily, alarmingly tough.
In 1995, Heltah Skeltah released a 12-inch single with the duo’s fellow Clik members Originoo Gunn Clappaz, calling themselves the Fab 5. The single, “Blah”/“Leflaur Leflah Eshkoshka,” is one of the essential documents of that era, with Ruck pugilistically rapping on “Blah,” “Blunts get smoked and chumps get choked/When they try to quote the notes that B-I-G Ruck wrote.”
Heltah Skeltah’s 1996 debut album, “Nocturnal,” continued in that rousing vein. But by the time of the duo’s second album, “Magnum Force,” its sound was beginning to stand at odds with hip-hop’s emergent new-money aesthetic.
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By the 2000s, the boom-bap hip-hop in which Mr. Price specialized had become something of a heritage sound, but he remained resolute. From 2005 to 2012 he released three impressive, lyrically vivid, sonically old-fashioned solo albums — “Monkey Barz,” “Jesus Price Supastar” and “Mic Tyson” — that showed he hadn’t evolved a bit, by design. He understood the approach that best suited him — the New York classicist style of hard rhyme jabs over production full of soul samples and snappy, firm drums — and never wavered. “The best rapper in Brownsville,” he boasted in a 2009 song, as if that were still the most important thing to him.
“If he made a great song and only 50 friends of his heard it and liked it, he was happy with that, and then he went on to the next song,” said Drew Friedman, known as Dru Ha, Mr. Price’s manager and an owner of Duck Down, which has released all of Mr. Price’s solo and group material.
In recent years, Mr. Price had also recorded songs for Boot Camp Clik releases, a Heltah Skeltah reunion album, and as part of the underground rap collective Random Axe. He had recently completed his next solo project, a mixtape called “Songs in the Key of Price,” to be released this month.
He is survived by his wife, Bernadette; a daughter, Shaun Price; two sons, Elijah Price and Terri Merritt; and several brothers and sisters.
By Sunday afternoon, he had already been memorialized with a mural in Crown Heights.
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WhodatWhoadi
Naw
WTF!!
rip....
so use to hearing "P
rip....
so use to hearing "P
Rise In Power to the god!
Not forgotten.
Not forgotten.
probably just someone trying to cash in on this shyt. I ain't buying shyt unless I know some of the money if going to his fam
TOP 5
I cant help but be reminded of the old Tash line, "with all these rappers, how the fukk we lose Pun?" Swear we always lose the good ones. R.I.Peeeeee!
phonthought3000
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been bumping P all weekend....had to post this one time for gawd Megasean
and RIP........P
They finished the mural for him earlier today. If you're in BK it's on Bergen & Kingston. According to a Duckdown rep I got in contact with the official memorial show is on August 27th at S.O.B.'s. If you wanna donate to his family you can do it at
https://www.crowdrise.com/seanp
I'm halfway minded to take off a couple days this week and drive up there to see this. Wow. Can't believe Ruck is gawn. Glad they included the Decept symbol too. He said in a couple lines too, "Decept to death." Wow. My my my, can't believe this sh!t. I aint never been one to get really bent out of shape over an entertainer passing away. Like I don't know them, didn't break bread with them, etc.. But this one is different. Ruck was one of the few I could really relate too, not saying that simply as a long time lifelong BCC stan. Ruck was the kind of dude you root for. When he won, we all won, an everyman. Wow.
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Mannnnnn breh, when people around my way were bumping bass heavy music in the whip, I was bumping Clans, Posses, Crews, and Cliks, which had absolutely no bass. Just pure boom bap. Beautiful times.
I discovered him in my senior year of High School when Jesus Price Superstar dropped. I had always been meaning to check for more shyt from him but he always got lost in the shuffle.
Now that I got spotify I'd been bumping some of his Heltah Skeltah shyt.
This Nocturnal shyt sounds even better than Dah Shinin
Now that I got spotify I'd been bumping some of his Heltah Skeltah shyt.
This Nocturnal shyt sounds even better than Dah Shinin
pez
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Dude was top 10 entertaining. Great personality carried him. Always made me laugh and be inspired listening to his stuff.
