The PK 27 -- Track 1

I realize convincing a person to vibe with your musical tastes is about as hard as convincing a girl to fellate you with Altoids, but still we try, don't we? Idealjetsam's Tribeca -- New Jersey is the Mecca -- pick, and the YouTube worthy who posted it claiming it as the "blackest white funk," got me pondering if it wasn't blacker white funk than David Bowie's Low, or the white blacker funk of The Average White Band.

Those dudes were Scottish! "I'm the One" is the move like Kobe 24!

Which got me thinking about "Word is Bond," the first track off of Brand Nubian's third album, Everything is Everything, the song of which samples the AWB classic, the album of which is either an underappreciated hip-hop classic or a dookie on wax, depending upon whom you ask (I'm in the former category, as if you can't tell, Gary Grice).

Word to Internet metaphors, thinking about "Word is Bond" -- and salt water trout -- hyper-linked me to the 2nd-best song on Brand Nu's debut, One for All: the incomperable "Step to the Rear."

In the Louvre of Hip-Hop, "Slow Down" is behind bullet-protected glass, don't take photographs. However, follow me into this other room to bear witness to the biggest display of unbridled braggadocio, carnality, and straight-up flow that few have tried yet one has mastered.

Grand Puba was like Rakim with a libido, "Step to the Rear" his version of "Follow the Leader." To this day, Rakim may be the God, KRS ONE the (Blast)Master, but no one can match the sheer "blackest hip-hop Dracula" of Grand Puba Maxwell. And the fact that dude is uglier than Bukowski helps cement him as such.

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