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155847, RIP west coast hip hop legend KMG
Posted by True, Sun Jul-08-12 03:35 AM
http://youtu.be/QT8q9SMYjlw
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155848, RIP ... ATL will remain the most slept on west coast group of all time
Posted by Hellyeah, Sun Jul-08-12 03:53 AM
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155849, ^^
Posted by JAESCOTT777, Thu Jul-12-12 03:54 PM
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155850, RIP VSOP
Posted by urbgriot, Sun Jul-08-12 09:30 AM
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155851, damn....R.I.P. KMG
Posted by kelvinmercerlookalike, Sun Jul-08-12 09:33 AM
*CROCKER*
word booty.
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155852, RIP to the big homie
Posted by Nick Has a Problem...Seriously, Sun Jul-08-12 09:50 AM
That was one of my favorite groups coming up
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155853, RIP KMG
Posted by ProgressiveSound, Sun Jul-08-12 02:19 PM
Flow On...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBbz_2SLDd4&feature=youtube_gdata_player
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155854, RE: RIP west coast hip hop legend KMG
Posted by tapedeck, Sun Jul-08-12 04:30 PM
Pretty cool group. I really dug some of their music. Cold 187um was tight on the mic. KMG will be missed.
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155855, RE: RIP west coast hip hop legend KMG
Posted by murph71, Sun Jul-08-12 05:21 PM
One of the underrated "voices" in West Coast hip-hop....Smooth...no bullshit...straight to the point....
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155856, Damn...RIP
Posted by Brew, Sun Jul-08-12 05:42 PM
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155857, i'm from pomona
Posted by justin_scott, Sun Jul-08-12 05:47 PM
above the law (and suga free) are pomona legends. livin' like hustlers and vocally pimpin are still two of my favorite albums.
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155858, R.I.P. ....damn
Posted by Dr Claw, Mon Jul-09-12 07:59 AM
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155859, RIP
Posted by Alphabet, Mon Jul-09-12 10:30 AM
Black Superman..one of my favorite songs still...
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155860, My favorite west coast group PERIOD.....RIP KMG
Posted by Record Playa, Mon Jul-09-12 11:30 AM
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155861, KMG, the numba one mack daddy..... RIP
Posted by J_Sun, Mon Jul-09-12 12:31 PM
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"Sometimes I contemplate moving to a warmer place, then the lake and skyline give me a warm embrace" © Common
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155862, "....eatin chicken like a mafucka, rollin my Caddy" RIP
Posted by Dstl1, Mon Jul-09-12 01:35 PM
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155863, RIP, this Spin write-up did a decent job:
Posted by Bombastic, Mon Jul-09-12 04:37 PM
http://www.spin.com/#blogs/remembering-kmg-and-above-laws-enduring-influence
In memory of the cool, calm, and collected half of the criminally overlooked West Coast rap group
Above the Law's KMG the Illustrator, who died on Saturday, begins "Murder Rap" from the West Coast group's 1990 debut Livin' Like Hustlers with some Flavor Flav-like words of encouragement for his rhyming partner and producer, Cold 187um: "Yo, Cold 187, they tryin' to give you a murder rap / And you ain't even like that / Yo, serve the niggas, cause they deserve to get dissed." KMG often played the tough-guy cheerleader to Cold 187's swaggering quarterback, though those times when he does rap more extensively, he earns his moniker "The Illustrator."
From Livin' Like Hustlers' title track: "KMG, the number-one mack daddy / Eatin' chicken like a motherfucker, rollin' in my caddy / With my brim cold bent to the side, I bump and slide / Go mack in the back, 187 to the side / Street pilgrims, pioneering the land / Above-the-law status, with a gat in my hand." Those first few lines are, well, pretty damned illustrative, presenting a clear and cogent picture of blaxploitation badassery, rendered with quiet confidence and colloquial regular guy-ness (the boast of eating lots of chicken is an added, low-rent bonus) and aided by a sneaky, relaxed flow that's the opposite of gangsta rap's tendency to Incredible Hulk its way through boasts and sound-offs. Referring to hustlers and dealers as "street pilgrims" is just good writing. It suggests the single-minded, risk-filled spirit of hustling, and if you want to be all Howard Zinn about it, well, it indirectly invokes the damage done by criminals and drug dealers to their community, not unlike the pilgrims' arrival and subsequent violation of what they would all call America. Boasting “above-the-law status” is, besides invoking the name of the group, a more delicate way of saying, "Fuck the police."
And that's KMG — the quiet, wizened half of a very underrated, mostly forgotten group (if you're just a little baby, you may know "Murder Rap" from the film Pineapple Express). Standing back quietly, waiting for the right moment, he'd dropkick his way through with an eminently quotable verse. Inspired by his buddies in N.W.A (Livin' Like Hustlers was released on Eazy E's Ruthless Records), KMG formed the G-funk attitude as much as Cold 187um helped co-found the sound with mentor Dr. Dre, always figuring out a more refined, smoothed-out way to deliver reality raps. He will be missed.
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155864, WTF? I hadn't heard from him in a while, Cold Um sent me some songs
Posted by -DJ R-Tistic-, Mon Jul-09-12 09:42 PM
a year or so ago that were decent but I wondered where KMG was.
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155865, "When you wake up in the morning I only give ya five pushes
Posted by mrhood75, Mon Jul-09-12 09:49 PM
I'll be out by your garage, waitin' behind the bushes
Drinkin' coffee, smoove waitin' to toss see
Like a true hoe gigolo should be
See I'm a giant and the rest of them are fakers
Especially when it comes to the bitches and they moneymakers
A simp nigga hesitate to diss a tramp
But I don't So ease back Mafioso
And call it what you want" (c) The Illustrator
R.I.P. to a true boss playa, KMG.
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155866, Untouchable, on the Cali streets...
Posted by natlawdp, Tue Jul-10-12 09:54 AM
on the corner where the dope and destruction meets...
dope group, R.I.U. KMG
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