Ras Kass Appreciation Thread

[The Ruler 09]

One of the lines that hit me was on the Game diss, just after Steve Irwin died, and he said your the crocodile hunter, I am the sting ray lol, just the way he dropped it and the timing made it a raw line lol.

 

[The_Hillsta]

fukk it Imma post both them shyts.....The old Ras, gotdamn. Don't get me wrong he still can spit better than the average.....But his older shyt

 

[the rhyme king]

soul on ice is lyrically better then illmatic if u want to be honest real spit.

 

[The Ruler 09]

Apparently on the west coast Ras' cyphers were so incredible people on the east coast heard quotables from them solely through word of mouth.

 

[The Ruler 09]

Wouldn't Hip Hop be in such a better place if rappers like this were in the forefront. Backed by great production and marketing etc.

 

[Capo Dei Capi]

like real talk him and pac are my faovirte west coast rappers i wish those two would have made a song together.

In prison Pac wrote a dream album list with rappers and producers I can't remember exact as while since I read this but think it was in Vibe I saw it in the 2pac special compilation they put out early 2000's.

Ras Kass was on a track with Easy Mo Bee producing.

Ras speaks on it here.

° dubcnn.com >> Westcoast News Network

dubcnn.com : It was rumored that 2pac was suppose to be on Rassasination, was this ever true and what track?

It was definitely foreseeable. I know he respected my flow, as I looked up to Pac. Actually in a letter 2pac wrote to Wendy Day (while he was incarcerated) he made a dream album. One of the songs was Ras Kass and Easy Mo Bee. I did “get yo grind on” and “the end’ with Mo Bee, outta respect to 2pac, who had just recently died.

 

[the rhyme king]

fukk it Imma post both them shyts.....The old Ras, gotdamn. Don't get me wrong he still can spit better than the average.....But his older shyt

dude had everything the rhyme schemes the metaphors the wordplay punchlines the flow everything.




I step through crews as if they was holograms
Been inside of more vaginas than a diaphragm, so I don't give a damn
Kid, I am the man that you think you are
5'5" and throwing hooks like Abdul-Jabbar
Servin' these kids like pediatrics, practice the tactics
And suckers cover your head, just like a prophylactic does
Thought he wasn't when he was gettin' retarted
Rented a U-haul truck when the LA riot started
Slid my homeless brother a buck, and ducks duck
The verbal buck-buck, boo-ya, who ya
Figure will be stylin' when Cali is an island (FAT!!!)
It's my fault, my shake from Brooklyn to Vegas
The earthquakes on lyrics ya plates like San Andreas
Would be rumblin', you're not ready for my fly type of genre
I'll rock your world like ugly Wanda



those three lines are ridiculous.

 

[the rhyme king]

In prison Pac wrote a dream album list with rappers and producers I can't remember exact as while since I read this but think it was in Vibe I saw it in the 2pac special compilation they put out early 2000's.

Ras Kass was on a track with Easy Mo Bee producing.

Ras speaks on it here.

° dubcnn.com >> Westcoast News Network

yeah ras kass also said he saw pac at the jack rapper convention back in the 90's and this letter proved he also knew who ras kass was being that he had him on one of his concept tracklists before he was released from prison.

and also he hard the track riot where chino xl dissed him on the song with ras kass so he knew who ras kass was

 

[The Ruler 09]

In prison Pac wrote a dream album list with rappers and producers I can't remember exact as while since I read this but think it was in Vibe I saw it in the 2pac special compilation they put out early 2000's.

Ras Kass was on a track with Easy Mo Bee producing.

Ras speaks on it here.

° dubcnn.com >> Westcoast News Network

Wow, never knew that. I would love to see that letter.

 

[The_Hillsta]

dude had everything the rhyme schemes the metaphors the wordplay punchlines the flow everything.




I step through crews as if they was holograms
Been inside of more vaginas than a diaphragm, so I don't give a damn
Kid, I am the man that you think you are
5'5" and throwing hooks like Abdul-Jabbar
Servin' these kids like pediatrics, practice the tactics
And suckers cover your head, just like a prophylactic does
Thought he wasn't when he was gettin' retarted
Rented a U-haul truck when the LA riot started
Slid my homeless brother a buck, and ducks duck
The verbal buck-buck, boo-ya, who ya
Figure will be stylin' when Cali is an island (FAT!!!)
It's my fault, my shake from Brooklyn to Vegas
The earthquakes on lyrics ya plates like San Andreas
Would be rumblin', you're not ready for my fly type of genre
I'll rock your world like ugly Wanda



those three lines are ridiculous.

I'm tellin you bruh, This was how he was spittin on everything you would hear him on....."And when my voice hits the mic, I electrocute spit like beat street" line always had me ......Still do.

 

[Rakim Allah]

The one that made me a Ras Kass fan...still remember the day I first heard Mike Nardone from We Came From Beyond 88.9, play the this joint.



This was a paradigm shift in lyricism to me in 94. The West was killing it with lyricists from Ras, Saafir, Kurupt, Hiero, Solesides, Erule,
Acey and Project Blowdiens, and etc. The pre 96 Soul on Ice( 94-96 ) was EPIC. From spittin on Wake Up Show to Soul on Ice Demo to performing at Unity, Ras was my Fav rapper while The God was in limbo(Eric B/MCA).

 

[Capo Dei Capi]

Oh really, what did Jay say?

I don't remember tried searching quickly but found nothing. This was around 2002 may of been Ras who said it but I doubt he's lying. This was probably around the time him and Nas were dissing each other though.

I'll post these tracks later on for those who never heard or knew they were disses. I would of loved to see Ras and Nas fully go at it, these were just light jabs. Nas was defedning alchemist thats how it started.

Wow, never knew that. I would love to see that letter.

I'll try and find it I'm 90% sure it was in a vibe compilation of all there old 2pac interviews realeased 2000-2001 I don't know if I still have it hopefully someone else can confirm I'm pretty sure I saw a tracklist though

 

[The Ruler 09]

I don't remember tried searching quickly but found nothing. This was around 2002 may of been Ras who said it but I doubt he's lying. This was probably around the time him and Nas were dissing each other though.

I'll post these tracks later on for those who never heard or knew they were disses. I would of loved to see Ras and Nas fully go at it, these were just light jabs. Nas was defedning alchemist thats how it started.


I'll try and find it I'm 90% sure it was in a vibe compilation of all there old 2pac interviews realeased 2000-2001 I don't know if I still have it hopefully someone else can confirm I'm pretty sure I saw a tracklist though

Dope man, I look forward to seeing all that shyt, props.

 

[oO J Smooth Oo]

Soul on ice is my favourite album ever behind illmatic

 

[mobbinfms]

First time I heard Ras was when the video for Miami Life started playing on Rap City. shyt blew me away. I copped SOI the day it dropped.