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Beatnuts forever rar10/28/2022 Until Pete Rock attempted to salvage some cash for him and InI by negotiating with a label called BBE/Rapster, a label he'd already done business with when he released the first Petestrumentals album of, you guessed it, Petestrumentals. Dedi's entire planned catalog of releases was shelved. Well, aside from a feature still remembered 20 years later on Sadat X' Escape From New York, (which is an absolute classic song, might I add) you guessed it. After all that, what chance did poor Dedi have? Regardless to say, InI's album The Life I Live has been in release hell ever since, being bootlegged to kingdom come as Center Of Attention for 20 years straight. The first, InI, barely got through with releasing a single and one measly video for it after Sylvia was done with them, and even then it was only because they were approved by her predecessor and she couldn't do anything about it. Unfortunately, Pete Rock had an entire roster of such acts under his then-fledgling vanity label Soul Brother Records, and Dedi was the second act scheduled for release. This skeletal witch from Hades made it her mission to oppose any and all hip hop acts selling under 500,000 units. So, there was no reason for Dedi to fret.Įxcept Dedi forgot that he was in the music industry: A cutthroat wasteland ruled by numbers and stats. And by the time Dedi's turn came about, Pete was just as active outside of his camp, working with legends such as Das EFX, AZ & Def Squad's Jamal. Think about that the next time you try to make one of those dumb-as-all- fuck top 10 lists hip hop heads and critics like to throw around. That's almost more than what the two late hip hop giants Biggie and Big Punisher were able to achieve in their regretfully-short lifetimes combined. The All Souled Out EP, Mecca And The Soul Brother & The Main Ingredient are three timeless contributions to hip hop that deserve to be revered within the genre, each for their very own unique reasons. By that point, Pete had already made epic strides in the industry, mainly with his three collaborations with his forever-underrated former MC, CL Smooth. That meant he had the luxury of affording the beats of one Peter Phillips aka the aforementioned Pete Rock, who is one of the godfathers of crate-digging boom bap. Why shouldn't he? He was a member of one of the hottest underground cliques in 90s boom bap: Heavy D & The Boyz, Pete Rock & CL Smooth, InI and more. Dedi here thought everything was set for him in the rap game. Today's post concerns a very mysterious nickname: Why does Sylvester James by day and Dedi by night call himself The Original Baby Pa? Was he the person who coined the term? Or is it yet another attempt to distinguish oneself from the rest of the herd of MCs trying to make it? Join us up next on (drum roll) A waste of everyone's valuable time!
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