The year: 1996. While some heads were with the cousin of death, wrapped up on Reasonable Doubt & All Eyez On Me, I was walking into thrift stores, lifting a Sony walkman, then proceeding to Tower Records to further lift some tapes. One of them being Bronx representative Nine’s sophomore Cloud 9 album. This was by far one of my favorite joints off that LP. The sample is so ill that I’ve included that as well (320-rip). Check for the video after the jump.
DOWNLOAD: Nine – Make or Take f. Smoothe Da Hustler | Mediafire
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No need to lie and act like you were some tough liitle kid when you were young. We all know you probably had your mommy buy that walkman and those tapes for your birthday.
I thought Smoothe da Hustler was gone, rumor had it, he died in the late 90′s. However, glad to hear some new iish from this dude, where Trigga at? Classic emcees these cornballs no nuthin about. Word to these Bo Jacksons.
`96 > the good ol` days..Damn..This is 1 of my fav. Tracks E V E R!
Everybody go and get that QuiNine (2009) Album!!!
Smoothe da Hustler and Trigga the gambler are down with ice t lable
Smg and FINALLEVEL
and my name in the lights N-I-N-E
damn and i thought 2dopeboyz were all about gay love with drake…
props Nine was sick.
A few other notable hip hop albums released in 1996.
Ghostface Killah – Ironman
Redman – Muddy Waters
Nas – It Was Written
OutKast – ATLiens
Fugees – The Score
Makeveli – The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory
Heltah Skeltah – Nocturnal
UGK – Ridin Dirty
Mobb Deep – Hell on Earth
Westside Connetion – Bow Down
The Roots – Illadelph Halflife
Too Short’s track ‘Gettin It’ was nice as hell too.
Many of these are still in heavy rotation today. Best believe.
^^^^nice list.@Groucho
I love that song. I have it on my Ipod.
This goes hard! Sometimes I can understand why people say Hip Hop is dead, there’s not enough raw shit like this around nowadays.
meka girl knows how to cradle nuts. the mr get fly man, that notorious ready to die man. wheres max b?
realnigashiit.
that song is TOUGH. i’ll be mean-mugging everybody for the rest of the night, thanks dudes
ill song yo peep xxl site they post this song as a new song lol they be peeping what ya do
i feel like because of me this song re surfaced i posted this shit up the other day … this song was by far one of the illest nine songs ever…smooth da hustler had another banger “Broken Language”
just so you know im not lying http://thugscalmdown.blogspot.com/2010/08/classicoldmixtape-music-part-4.html that is no coincidence … NINE thank me for your 2 days of internet love i know its been a while
this information is really useful and definately is comment worthy! hehe. I’ll see if I can try to use some of this
information for my own blog. Thanks!
This album is one of my all time bangers! The production was STUPID and Nine was def a solid rapper. Plus, I stole this tape from Tower records in Boston back in Sept of ’96, too. Haha! Tried to buy the CD on Amazon couple of years back and it was sum’n crazy like $60. Kinda wish you didn’t post the original. Always thought it sounded like a scene from some late 80′s car chase scene or some shit. How i never seen this video and Lyin King was gettin crazy love on YO! MTV Raps and Rap City?
Never heard this but I was hoping for a verse from the “Transmitter, North Carolina vagina hitter”…
CLASSIC!!
I remember mentioning this guy when Shake had that post about when you first discovered hip hop.
if u havent had this album or even song in ur collection for years, KILL URSELF
my MIXTAPE GET THAT
http://www.datpiff.com/KASH_REL_SIGGY_DIGGY_T-_GHOST_KASH_YOUNG_ROB.m141440.html
Good post. One of my all time favorite records.
OMG!!!!! Yo, Mad respect. I listen to this dude on my ipod every other week. Definitley one of the greatest out of the 90′s Hip-Hop scene. I feel like he got slept on after some other stars came about, but he’s a DOPE sound. I appreciate U hittin the site with NINE!
sometimes I wonder if any of you ever know what your talking about… This wasnt even one of the best cds from 96′*smh* its crazy
fucking love Nine and this is my favorite track from him, good shit my fav 2deep post yet
Nine and Smoothe performed Make or Take at Brown Bag Thursday. Here’s a video i recorded of their performance.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peL4IyGZqhg