Monday, December 1, 2008
Old School Mondays:: R.I.P. MC Breed Edition

I posted Breed's classic breakthrough Ain't No Future In Yo Frontin' in the summer as a accompaniment to an Awesome Dre riff, but I didn't stop to think how many Breed albums I actually owned. I have at least two (20 Below and Funkdified) and perhaps another (The New Breed), so there was more Breed in my past than I recalled. I'm not sure most people look back at Breed as a major player during hip hop's Golden Age, but I think he certainly had a big impact. For starters, I think he was the first guy from Michigan to make national noise, so without him I'm not sure we'd have seen those that followed (Eminem, Dilla & Slum Village, Royce, Black Milk, etc & so on).
But more than that, he was one of the first guys not from NY or LA that I remember having a big song (like Mix-A-Lot on the West Coast), and that showed folks that hip hop was being done well in all corners of the US (and continent, it was being done well in Canada too!). Anyway, I think there's plenty of people that had fond memories of his music when they heard he passed a couple weeks ago, so let's give a hearty herohill big up to Breed and celebrate his memory with a few of the better jams from his first four albums.
MP3::
MC Breed - Ain't No Future In Yo' FrontinMC Breed - Gotta Get Mine
MC Breed - Ain't Too Much Worried
MC Breed - Late Nite Creep (Booty Call)
MC Breed - Real MC
Video::
MC Breed - Ain't No Future In Yo FrontinMC Breed - Gotta Get Mine f. 2Pac
Dudes, give some respect to the rappers from the UK...in particular the greatest of all-time...Rebel MC
Mario "Street Tough" Eleftheros
good stuff
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