How about this freshness. A truly magical time with unbelievably cool people just like you.
What's up everybody, I'm Violent J.
And I'm Shaggy 2 Dope and we're the ICP, the Insane Clown Posse.
and this is What's in Our Bag at Amoeba Music.
We're out here in a van and Chop usually drives us everywhere we're going. All he plays is today's rap.
What up, y'all. Chop in this bitch.
But I need to educate his youngness, and our other friends, the Axe Murder Boyz
which are two young men, very young and ignorant.
I could be at Jay-Z status one day.
So we have to show them the ways of music.
This is the second NWA album without Ice Cube
but even without Ice Cube, it's an amazing record.
This is where Dr. Dre was born, the great, late Eazy-E.
This is a super group of all time. They should teach about NWA in the high schools.
They should have an NWA class.
Class ain't over, bitch.
NWA is the Beatles of rap, hands down.
Eh... I mean, they're dope, I don't know about the Beatles though.
Sir Mix-a-Lot, everybody knows 'Baby Got Back.'
but what they don't know is him before that, y'know what I'm sayin, he was cranking out
hit after hit after hit before that. That just blew up mainstream.
This is his second record 'Seminar.' It's like the superest record ever, to me, from Mix-a-Lot
I've actually seen him referred to on TV as a one-hit wonder.
C'mon man, just on this record, ''Beepers,' 'My Hooptie'
'Gore-tex,' y'know, 'I Got Game,' 'I'll Roll You Up,' all that stuff.
This record is so super fresh because each song is like a whole different style.
The best way to satisfy everybody is just to have a little bit of everything
Mix-a-Lot belongs in the Hall of Fame, y'know.
One of the most slept-on great, greats.
Public Enemy, you know this is when rap was creating itself. It had characters.
You had Flavor Flav dancing around, wearing all the colors with the clock.
This is where the origins of ICP come from.
As Chuck D was serious, Flavor Flav was y'know, everything but the clown paint.
This is where we saw how fresh Flavor Flav was.
Ok, you had NWA, which you're scaring the nation. And then you had this come out.
This shit is epic. I'm talking about Scarface, Willie D, and Bushwick Bill, together.
The most ruthless, hardcore, controversial, insane
the scariest, most censorship-free, not giving a fuck album
is Geto Boys. Fuck 'em. Right here.
On this album, they talk about things you cannot talk about. You can't bring them up.
That's fuckin' awesome.
I know he ain't with this, but KRS-One, 'Return of the Boom Bap.'
That right there, just said it, boom bap, it's still like that boom bap
we still refer to that today, you know what I'm saying.
This is straight up considered a rap classic, you know what I'm saying.
If you listen to it, you'll see why, 'cause it's the shit.
I met the man down the street at the House of Blues, and that was fresh.
He's the shit though. Forget about it man, he's a pioneer and classic record right there.
Fuck yeah.
I have this rare Michael Jackson fan-made documentary, which I've never seen.
I was very happy to discover this, but of course, you come here at Amoeba
you're gonna find something you never knew came out.
Yeah, that's wassup.
Both of us love Michael Jackson, hands down the greatest.
People called him a freak, people called him different, people said he wasn't doing it the right way
but he did it the right way.
Speaking of Michael Jackson, nothing like a little Dub C.
He used to be in the WC and the Maad Circle and all that stuff.
But this is first solo record after Westside Connection came out.
This has got like some bangers on it, man.
Holy fuckin' sh-
Just way he flips it, man, nobody does it like Dub C. Just his style of rap is just insane, y'know what I'm saying.
I spread my shit out, got west coast, little east coast, little Seattle, y'know what I'm saying.
Watch when worlds collide.
And the capper is this bad boy right here. C'mon man, stop playing.
Ohh, that's dope. NWA t-shirt, that's so dope.
I'm rocking this today.
Perfect, thank you guys.
Cool.
You got it.