H-Virus
Hank Scorpio
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Post by H-Virus on Oct 24, 2013 20:05:50 GMT -5
I just found this CD buried in a box at the back of my closet and figured I'd give it a listen for the first time in about ten years. While I'm listening, tell me your opinions of WWE's big foray into gangster rap.
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PrimeTyme
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Post by PrimeTyme on Oct 24, 2013 20:14:49 GMT -5
The Kings was actually a pretty decent song, I also remember really enjoying Kane's and the New Age Outlaws themes as well. The rest I don't remember too well, I should dig my copy out of the cobwebs someday.
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Post by Kayfabe FAN don't want none on Oct 24, 2013 20:27:18 GMT -5
Jericho's song is sick!
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Post by CATCH_US IS the Conversation on Oct 24, 2013 21:00:56 GMT -5
Snoop Dogg and WC's version of Stone Cold's theme was the best song on the album.
Big Show's song, which he used for a bit in early 2000, is the only solo theme of his I ever really liked.
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TheDieselTrain
Fry's dog Seymour
Chicks Dig Hootie.
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Post by TheDieselTrain on Oct 25, 2013 7:22:14 GMT -5
Grab yo bitches!!!!!!!!
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DragonMasterP
King Koopa
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Post by DragonMasterP on Oct 25, 2013 8:01:58 GMT -5
I really wish I knew why I keep watching that whenever I'm watching Wrestlemania 2000 on the collection. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 25, 2013 8:07:27 GMT -5
I hated it as a kid, but that's largely because I'm not at all a rap fan and didn't know it was basically nothing but that when I got it. These days, it's not something that I'd go out of my way to listen to naturally but I don't have any ill will toward it or anything.
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Post by Branimal on Oct 25, 2013 13:24:52 GMT -5
"You can't run from me, look at my teeth!"
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Post by Bravo Echo November on Oct 25, 2013 13:29:56 GMT -5
Loved The Kings, plus Kane, Taker, and Gangrel's songs were fantastic. The album's line up is especially impressive and really shows how popular wrestling was at the time.
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Post by Maxx Rage on Oct 25, 2013 17:35:30 GMT -5
Gangrel's song is easily the best song on the album for me.
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chazraps
Wade Wilson
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Post by chazraps on Oct 25, 2013 17:49:25 GMT -5
See, here's my issue with "The Kings,"
Now, hear me out. It's probably the last great Run-DMC song, and the production does a great job utilizing and flushing out the reinterpretation of the bassline in Donna Summer's "Love to Love You Baby" that the original DX theme was based on.
However, as the theme for the huge anti-authority anti-corporate group, it's problematic for me that the first verse is essentially how you better clear your RUN-DMC samples (A group who famously never cleared their samples) or else they'll sue you.
Outside that, it's great to hear.
As for the rest of the compilation, it's a great showing not only how popular wrestling was, but the collaborations that emerged were really well put together. Whoever A&Red that project deserves some sort of award. Plus, it's great that a lot of the underground artists on there could not only get some mainstream-ish shine, but walk away their first, and perhaps only, platinum record.
My favorite song from the project is probably "Wreck." The fact that the WWF brought together ODB and Kool Keith, arguably the two most out-there artists to ever step to the mic, for a song about Mick Foley is an incredible feat and we're all better off knowing that that exists.
Funny story, the project came about because the WWF wanted Method Man to rap over The Rock's theme. Meth was a huge wrestling fan, but wanted to give his boy, producer Rockwilder, a check so he told the company he would only do it if Rockwilder could re-do the beat. They obliged, then asked Snoop to do the same with Austin's. After that, the project was born.
I like Jericho's version as well, but apparently it wasn't supposed to be that slow. If you listen to it, that track is much slower than how R.A. the Rugged Man usually raps. He wanted to get one of his boys to redo the track and make it a bit faster, but they wouldn't let him as it would have sounded too different from Jericho's original theme.
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chazraps
Wade Wilson
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Post by chazraps on Oct 25, 2013 17:51:00 GMT -5
Also, I think the best rap version of Gangrel's theme was done by Nyle vs. The Naysayers nine years later:
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TheDieselTrain
Fry's dog Seymour
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Post by TheDieselTrain on Oct 26, 2013 6:52:18 GMT -5
Takers theme on there us incredibly good.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 26, 2013 9:18:20 GMT -5
I really wish I knew why I keep watching that whenever I'm watching Wrestlemania 2000 on the collection. Because it's before the first match? And it has D'Lo as a pimp which = buyrates. |
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Post by rapidfire187 on Oct 26, 2013 10:26:37 GMT -5
Gangrel's song is easily the best song on the album for me. Yes! |
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