This was the first LONS song / video I heard on a VHS I ‘borrowed’ off some lad who had MTV and taped it of Yo MTV Raps, love this album for me this is Busta at his best, proper rapping no gimmicky over the top gruffness 🔥
Leaders of the New School - “Sobb Story”
Hip hop/rap music has always been lead by the streets. It’s a music culture that was born from the streets; there’s no getting around that fact. But one of the things that has always made hip hop uniquely universal is that it allows for diversity.
On “Sobb Story,” Leaders of the New School (dope name for a group by the way) demonstrated the essence “struggle rap” long before that ever became a twisted and disrespectful term.
Rapping about not having a car to drive is real. And while it’s not your garden variety hardcore hip hop, “Sobb Story” nonetheless goes hard! It delivers one of those shining moments in hip hop/rap music where the subject matter is light and relatable, even funny, but the style, sound, and feel is hard…