Rest in peace, Freaky Tah. Sitting down with MTV, Hav and P speak on wishing they had the opportunity to work with their fellow Queens-based quartet while they were still around.
“I definitely wasn’t checking for other people” Havoc revealed. “I missed a lot of stuff in the ’90s that I like now. I just had tunnel vision. There was a lot of dope acts that was out back in the ’90s, like the Lost Boyz. I never paid attention to their stuff.”
The Lost Boyz — a rap group from South Jamaica, Queens, New York — broke out in 1995 with their hit record “Jeeps, Lex Coups, Bimaz & Benz,” and though they were known for high-powered party anthems, Hav wasn’t a fan in their heyday. He is today, though. “Now, when I look back on it and I listen to their stuff now, it’s like, ‘Yo, they had that sh–.’ They always kept the party poppin’. I really appreciate their music, and I’m glad that they made it,” he said. “That’s ill that they are even a part of the era that we came from.”
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And In that 3 minutes you understand why the 80′s and 90′s were so great with regards to hip hop not many cats were out there trying to emulate each other. I think its starting to move back to that now though.
NY rappers used to hate on each other A LOT back in the 90s. That’s one of the reasons why the South was able to take over relatively easy. Cats down South don’t “beef” nearly as much as Up North rappers do. While those NY cats were beefing and “not paying attention to each other”, Southern cats were able to come through with a relatively unified movement and take the game by storm.
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