Big Mike

Remember when you were 11 years old and you and your friends pooled your allowance together and bought the "Dangerous Minds" soundtrack cd because it had Coolio's "Gangster's Paradise" which was clearly the coolest thing thus far in the decade? Well I do, but after i played out gangster's paradise two or three times, this Big Mike track was all i played after school in 5th grade.

This track "Havin thangs" was definitely the best thing on that album. His whole rant starting at 3:40 is just as pissed off nearly 20 years later... he's got that pissed off thug delivery down that every gangster rapper now has, that i feel like was just starting to emerge at that time. i mean seriously, you go any older than this in rap, and you quickly start getting the funky poppin and lockin delivery of old too $hort or NWA. his delivery here to me has that distinct "modern urban" sound, where its just straight thug and pissed off. i love it.