South Central Cartel: South Central Cartel - COMPACT DISCS

South Central Cartel: South Central Cartel - COMPACT DISCSTitle: South Central Cartel Artist: South Central Cartel Label: Snow Dog Records Product Type: COMPACT DISCS UPC: 4526180418269 Genre: Rap Hip Hop Release Date: 2018 04 06 Number of Discs: 1 Snow Dog Records present a reissue of South Central Cartel's self titled debut album, originally released in 1991. Los Angeles's South Central Cartel were pioneers in the West Coast gangsta rap genre, in the same league as Dr. Dre, NWA, Eazy E, Ice Cube, Compton's

Title: South Central Cartel
Artist: South Central Cartel
Label: Snow Dog Records
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 4526180418269
Genre: Rap/Hip Hop
Release Date: 2018-04-06
Number of Discs: 1

Snow Dog Records present a reissue of South Central Cartel's self-titled debut album, originally released in 1991. Los Angeles's South Central Cartel were pioneers in the West Coast gangsta rap genre, in the same league as Dr. Dre, NWA, Eazy E, Ice Cube, Compton's Most Wanted, Above the Law, Da Lench Mob, Mac Dre, and Kurupt. South Central Cartel (S.C.C.) was one of the first West Coast groups to gain national popularity in the immediate wake of groundbreaking and controversial releases by NWA and Eazy-E, and they're still etched in hip hop's collective memory for pushing the envelope with their unapologetic embrace of gang affiliation, automatic weapons, violent crime, and prison and car culture. South Central Madness is their debut album, originally released on Pump/Quality Records, with subsequent albums released on Def Jam West in a deal between their G.W.K. (Gangsters Wit Knowledge) imprint and the West Coast division of Rick Rubin and Russell Simmons's label. Over a now-classic bed of sample sources (Delfonics, The Temptations, Barry White, Funkadelic, more), with lyrical sample drops of their hip-hop contemporaries (MC Breed, LL Cool J, Ice Cube, Public Enemy, NWA, Geto Boys, Big Daddy Kane), lyricists Havoc, Havik, Prodeje, and Young Prodeje along with singer L.V. (later featured on Coolio's "Gangsta's Paradise") deliver a solid bridge from hip-hop's established East Coast chart-dominating status quo toward the West Coast-centric "G-Funk era", Crips vs. Bloods subtexts and the definition of what it meant to be hard. Videos for the singles U Gotta Deal Wit Dis (Gangsta Luv)/Ya Getz Clowned (1991) and Papa Was A Rolling Stone (1992) feature up-tempo Havoc and Prodeje in black baseball caps, shades, and curls that Eazy-E should have trademarked, riding and further extending the ominous Compton MC legacy. "Ya Getz Clowned" actually samples MC Breed's "Ain't No Future In Yo' Frontin'", released just months before, tightening a food chain of club/radio DJ/producer sample/remix culture that was evolving fast in 1991. An interesting and maybe still unresolved footnote is that an unrelated up-and-coming duo from Queensbridge named Mobb Deep with members Havoc and Prodigy who would release their debut Juvenile Hell in 1993.

Tracks:
1.1 County Bluz
1.2 Say Goodbye to the Badd Guyz
1.3 Ya Want Sum a Dis
1.4 Conspiracy
1.5 Neighbourhood Jacka
1.6 U Gotta Deal Wit Dis (Gangsta Luv)
1.7 I Get My Roll on
1.8 Ya Getz Clowned
1.9 Hookaz
1.10 Pops Was a Rolla
1.11 Think'n Bout My Brotha
1.12 South Central Madness
1.13 Livin' Like Gangstas
1.14 Papa Was a Rolling Stone (House Mix)
1.15 Papa Was a Rolling Stone (Extended Mix)
1.16 Papa Was a Rolling Stone (Dub Mix)