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Chubb Rock ft VA – Yabadabadoo

Chubb Rock ft VA – Yabadabadoo

I Gotta Get Mine Yo! – 1992

Members: Richard Simpson aka Chubb Rock

Origin: Brooklyn, New York, U.S.

Associated labels: Hyztory Records, Select Records, Champion Records

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  1. Take me back to 93, since half of you wasn’t breathing Cubb and Biggie are from the same hood and Big came out shortly after Cubb so it’s safe to say who inspired Big to go harder!!

  2. When I heard the B-Real references in the track back in the day, I felt it was a dis towards the subject matter of B-Real. Chubb was a conscience rapper at heart and was against the murder / kill a man / hand on the pump lyrics and decided to chime in. I think he saw that Hip Hop was going to a negative place and weighed in. He understood the power of words and that some of the youth take lyrics as gospel. I could be wrong, but that's how I broke it down at the time.

  3. For all those who came here after watching Vlad like "who the fck is Chubb Rock and what's with the Cypress Hill diss?" – if you knew the Chubbster's music you'd know that the lines in this track were clearly a reaction to the "gun talk" that Cypress threw around and made popular, and he was suggesting them to take out their enemies with lyrics instead of with the gat (i.e. "and ya know we had to what ya? … time for some lyrics") – it's exactly the same sentiment as Jeru brought forth on his masterpiece "Come Clean" e.g. "leave your nines at home, bring your skills to the battle" … "I don't gang bang or shoot out bang bang, the relentless lyrics the only dope I slang" … "The skills are shot cause any idiot can let off a glock" etc. etc.

    Yeah he's going at Cypress in a way, but to me it's more a diss on "violence in hip hop in general" than a specific attack on Cypress per se. They just happened to have the most popular song around referencing gun violence at that time, so Chubb latched onto that to get his message across (he could have targetted hundreds of lesser known gangsta groups that were around at that time, but would have had less of an impactful outcome). Chubb was an advocate of peace in hip hop, a very "clean rapper" – believe it or not kids, he had songs condemning things like gun violence, rape/violence against women, drugs, materialism, and he even had a song about withdrawing US forces from the Middle East – but he had mad skills on the mic, dope as it gets.

    Obviously Cypress weren't seen as "gangsta rap" but they were an easy target for his message, and the "gangsta rap" vs. "lyrical hip hop" theme was such a thing back then, not only from an anti-gun standpoint but also the fact that 1000 other rappers were saying the same non-creative, non-lyrical stuff in their tracks about busting caps, and it wasn't just Chubb and Jeru speaking out against it, lots of lyricist types were on that tip. For the record, I've always been into both full-on gangsta shillz, and also MC wizardry (and some that combined both), but props to Chubb for speaking out (for what it was worth).

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