Fave Hieroglyphics release from the 90s'?
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Fave Hieroglyphics release from the 90s'?
The Oakland Hip Hop collective were founded in the early 1990's by Del Tha Funkee Homosapien and Pep Love and consisted of Souls Of Mischief (Tajai, Phesto, Opio, A-Plus), Casual, Extra Prolific (Mike G & Snupe) Pep Love & Jay-Biz (The Prose), DJ Toure and producer and manager Domino and Kwam (Del's ex manager).
Their first official recording as the group was 1991's "Burnt" found on the B-Side of Dels "Mistadobalina"... the crew were listed as The Hyrogliphics..."Burnt" was later sampled by NYC Hip Hop group Babbletron.
Throughout the 90's the crew released a series of classic singles (including SOM's timeless Billy Cobham sampling "93' Til Infinity") and essential albums, but which album in your opinion was the best one?*
*I am just including the officially released albums in this poll and not the unreleased (Casual-Meanwhile, The Prose, Extra Prolific-Masterpiece, Del-Future Development etc) or compilation albums (Heiro Oldies etc)
Dope Domino compilation and write up here...
http://www.thetroyblog.com/2009/05/11/h ... ies-domino
http://www.hieroglyphics.com
http://www.urbanumpires.com/
http://www.discogs.com/artist/Hieroglyphics
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thinking about this for the first time i guess i agree with you. and that would move del from the top spot to one of the last spots for me cuase i could never really get into no need for alarm. production was weak compared to his first album and all the other hiero releasesThun wrote:I feel like "I Wish My Brother George Was Here" is technically not a Hiero album.Huldrich Bullsh!t wrote:wish my brother george was here closely followed by fear itself
Undert that assumption, Fear Itself
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what about "Burnt" which I mentioned in the post?pradadon wrote:93 till for me.
I agree with Thun with regards to IWMBGWH.
Del's first Heiro sounding song was the B-side Eye Examination that did not appear on that album.
IWMBGWH is a Hiero album to me, Del founded the crew and that was his first album and there were members doing background vocals too.
You don't have to consider it a Hiero album though that is essentially up to you.
Props to those that are voting and discussing.
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Re: Fave Hieroglyphics release from the 90s'?
Jaz wrote: The Oakland Hip Hop collective were founded in the early 1990's by Del Tha Funkee Homosapien and Pep Love and consisted of Souls Of Mischief (Tajai, Phesto, Opio, A-Plus), Casual, Extra Prolific (Mike G & Snupe) Pep Love & Jay-Biz (The Prose), DJ Toure and producer and manager Domino and Kwam (Del's ex manager).
so refresh my memory who were the Shamen? Just the Prose early name or another combination?
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CRASH DDZ wrote:Jaz wrote: The Oakland Hip Hop collective were founded in the early 1990's by Del Tha Funkee Homosapien and Pep Love and consisted of Souls Of Mischief (Tajai, Phesto, Opio, A-Plus), Casual, Extra Prolific (Mike G & Snupe) Pep Love & Jay-Biz (The Prose), DJ Toure and producer and manager Domino and Kwam (Del's ex manager).
so refresh my memory who were the Shamen? Just the Prose early name or another combination?
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pep_Love
That information could be wrong though Crash but I also remember seeing a Rap Pages interview where they mentioned The Prose.
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all good.Philaflava wrote:No I don't think it's better. I would say 93' might be 1B to Casual, however this is my list of favorites.Jaz wrote:you think the Del album is better than 93 Til Gloss?Philaflava wrote:In order
Casual-Fear Itself (1994)
Del No Need For Alarm (1993)
Souls of Mischief-93 Til Infinity (1993)
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No, that ain't true. There was a cassette release of FD on Hiero Records back in '96 or '97, along with a couple of demo/B-sides/remix compilations.Jaz wrote:it's not on the list because it wasn't officially released in the 90's.Mr. J Selectah wrote:My favourite is Del's "Future development" 1996 LP, which is not included on the list...Casuals "Fear itself" was the one that i disliked the most.
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if it was released on Elektra like it was supposed to be then it would have been an official release, I stated on the thread that I wasn't including the unreleased albums and the compilations.Kool Max Power wrote:No, that ain't true. There was a cassette release of FD on Hiero Records back in '96 or '97, along with a couple of demo/B-sides/remix compilations.Jaz wrote:it's not on the list because it wasn't officially released in the 90's.Mr. J Selectah wrote:My favourite is Del's "Future development" 1996 LP, which is not included on the list...Casuals "Fear itself" was the one that i disliked the most.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_Development
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The Afronaut wrote:Slightly off topic:
Can someone please school me on how the following play into the Hiero history/legacy:
Extra Prolific
The Prose
J-Biz
Thanks in advance for any info.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hieroglyphics_(group)
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Thanks Jaz.Jaz wrote:The Afronaut wrote:Slightly off topic:
Can someone please school me on how the following play into the Hiero history/legacy:
Extra Prolific
The Prose
J-Biz
Thanks in advance for any info.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hieroglyphics_(group)
So why did Snupe leave EP and Hiero? Why did Mike G eventually leave? Why did Pep and Jay-Biz drop the Prose moniker?
Thats more or less what Im getting at. Sorry for not clarifying that in my og post.
Also, Toure? as in the journalist dude?
Snupe got kicked out. Dunno why Mike G left, and I don't know why Pep went solo.The Afronaut wrote:Thanks Jaz.Jaz wrote:The Afronaut wrote:Slightly off topic:
Can someone please school me on how the following play into the Hiero history/legacy:
Extra Prolific
The Prose
J-Biz
Thanks in advance for any info.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hieroglyphics_(group)
So why did Snupe leave EP and Hiero? Why did Mike G eventually leave? Why did Pep and Jay-Biz drop the Prose moniker?
Thats more or less what Im getting at. Sorry for not clarifying that in my og post.
Also, Toure? as in the journalist dude?
There's various stories about why Snupe got kicked out. One of em is that he slept with Casual's underage sister. Another is he ran up in the Jive offices and made a scene causing SoM to lose their record deal. Dunno if any of these stories are actually true tho, but I do know that Snupe was kicked out.
The story about Cas' sister is definitely true.KITFUNK wrote:Snupe got kicked out. Dunno why Mike G left, and I don't know why Pep went solo.The Afronaut wrote:Thanks Jaz.Jaz wrote:The Afronaut wrote:Slightly off topic:
Can someone please school me on how the following play into the Hiero history/legacy:
Extra Prolific
The Prose
J-Biz
Thanks in advance for any info.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hieroglyphics_(group)
So why did Snupe leave EP and Hiero? Why did Mike G eventually leave? Why did Pep and Jay-Biz drop the Prose moniker?
Thats more or less what Im getting at. Sorry for not clarifying that in my og post.
Also, Toure? as in the journalist dude?
There's various stories about why Snupe got kicked out. One of em is that he slept with Casual's underage sister. Another is he ran up in the Jive offices and made a scene causing SoM to lose their record deal. Dunno if any of these stories are actually true tho, but I do know that Snupe was kicked out.
I believe Snupe went off on Jive executives at the release party for the Low Down Dirty Shame soundtrack. Extra Prolific and Casual were reportedly dropped from Jive shortly afterwards.
Souls were dropped later, probably due to the lackluster performance of No Man's Land.