In my opinion "Bizzare Ride To The Pharcyde" is the most creative album on the West Coast Hip Hop Platform. Their choice of samples mixed with keyboards and unorthodox rhyme flows used to take me on that next level.
The Pharcyde introduced the world to Jay Dee aka J Dilla. RIP. Their chemistry was magical. To this day, I still think his best productions are with them.
It’s really incredible, and they found all the samples in one storage space full of records! Jay was incredible and LA Jay was the shit too, he did pork and fly as pie remix
@@KtotheGyep Dilla did the second album labcabin but the first one was produced by J-Sw!ft who went by Jay Dee early on and changed his name since Dilla was coming up and there was some confusion I guess. Theres a funny part on the first slum village album where I think its maybe dame dash or just blaze clowning Dilla for having the same name as the guy from the first Pharcyde :)
@@sooperheep Yeah, I don't like when artists use other artists' names.. like Young Guru. He said he got the okay from the original Guru, but still. Then there is Lil Nas X. How did Nas let him use his name? That can be confusing for sales and even credibility. Common Sense had to change his name and drop the "Sense" because of the rock group that came before him. So did Biggie Smalls..
SlimkidTre's singing on that album was sublime. He should've dropped a solo album. Fatlip was butter with the rhymes. "She Said" might be my 2nd favorite song from them. The original "Soulflower" with The Brand New Heavies is my #1 favorite and "Passing Me By" is my third favorite.
I always seen Pharcyde as Hieroglyphics adjacent even though they had their own unique style. They stayed in heavy rotation and seemed to have that uplifting summer vibe to it. Definitely slept on and true legends in the hip hop game!!!.
they definitely have some overlap in style and vibe. I live in the bay but I gotta be real, pharcyde has way more next level music. fun little story: I ordered some stuff from their website when I was in high school, back around 99/2000. it took like 10 weeks to get it and they sent a handwritten note with it apologizing and threw in a bunch of extra shit. makes up for the time I saw them 10 years ago and brown forgot his verse to passing me by. but really, they seem like cool dudes.
I gave an Uber ride to Fatlip's son RZA last year in Long Beach. Dude was cool as hell. I put on Fatlip's song "Goldmine" from The Wood soundtrack. We were bumping our heads to it the whole drive. 😊
Man those days were something special. No streaming, mp3s, no sound cloud, etc. Walkman, headphones, cassette tapes and backpack was the dress code. Baseball cap was optional.
Del The Funky Homosapien, Freestyle Fellowship, Alcoholiks (midwest rap), Brand New Heavies ( UK acid jazz group who did a rap album) and I don't remember where Boogiemonsters were from but they were dope as hell too. Rap music today is so sad that I'm glad that I kept all my 90's cds.
If you want to know about the L.A. Hip-Hop scene that had nothing to do with gangsta rap, just look up the Good Life Cafe documentary featuring groups like Jurassic 5, and Freestyle Fellowship. L.A. was definitely deeper than just gangsta rap.
Man I've been a big fan of The Pharcyde since they started with the big hit "Passing Me By." This group is seriously underrated. Still love listening to their music to this day.
I first heard them on The Brand New Heavies joint, Soulflower. That still might be my favorite song from them. It was the best song on the whole album and they were a brand new group at the time. I was like, "who are these guys?" This was before the alternative rap, backpacker, lyricist movement came into full swing and they came out the gate with both barrels blazing. They inspired a bunch of copycat groups like Das Efx did the year prior. Anotha Level and Down South were both Pharcyde rip offs. I wouldn't say Souls of Mischief we're because their sound was different.. They just had a couple of high pitched voice emcees.
@@KtotheG Yeah bro I totally agree. You dropped some gems to chew on regarding The Pharcyde's influence. Me and a few of my buds still love listening to their music.
Pharcyde one of my favorite groups ever from first time hearing Ya Mama and Soulflower on BNH album. I went to that Cypress, 311, and Pharcyde show in Philly-1996. So happy Fatlip is doing good
Back in the day, I’d occasionally see fatlip walking around LA like mid-city or melrose with a homie. I always wanted to give him dap, but didn’t, cuz I want to come across like a weirdo smh.
Ice Cube could not have been talking about the Pharcyde. Jacking For Beats came out in 1990 on Ice Cube "Kill At Will" album. The Pharcyde dropped in 1992!!!
Not the Pharcyde per say but the “funny hair cut guys”. It was a dance culture at that time … Cube kinda dissed it wit “I don’t dance and shake my butt I leave that to the Niggas wit the funny haircuts” lol
Pharcyde changed the game with original concept and video visual effects. PMB@Fish r my fav. Copped that album and kept it in rotation. Would love for them to drop something new new.
But didn't Jackin' For Beats come out in '90 or '91? I know it was on the Kill At Will EP, which dropped after Amerikkka's Most Wanted but before Death Certificate. Pharcyde didn't drop until '92. I've always thought Cube was talking about East Coast rappers and break dancers. Big Daddy Kane came to mind immediately... his dancers had the step fades, so did Tupac. Kwame had the blonde streak in his gumby before that became popular. Bobby Brown had his infamous asymmetrical slope gumby. Kid had the Eraserhead flat top. I always saw that as a jab against the East Coast, but not a malicious one. I mean, Cube did do a song with Kane.
@@thebrogressiveagenda9936 Nah, Cube had called out dancing before on Amerikkka's Most Wanted. I think it was on the song "Turn off the Radio," where he was dissin' R&B and dancing rappers... he said something like "Next time I turn on a video and see R&B lovers trying to out dance each other.... I'm sick of that shit... listen to the hit." It was mainly New Jack Swing artists and East Coast rappers dancing in their videos with big flamboyant hairdos... and of course, he continued his R&B and New Jack Swing bashing on Death Certificate. Pharcyde may have been known in LA before the fame, but did they have a video out before "Passing Me By?" I think Imani probably took offense because Cube managed and produced Anotha Level, which was a copycat group who bit them hard.. They addressed it on Labcabincalifornia.
Not sure if Imani was saying Cube specifically was talking about them or just theyre type of being hip hop dancers from the West who were a little more eccentric but yes Jackin for Beats came out 2 years before Pharcyde first single. But he easily could’ve know them as dancers in industry
Ha, it's good seeing these cats on camera because I recognize every one of their voices and all the lyrics from ya mama to runnin away (oh damn I forgot about the remix to fallin with Mya, I got to go find that joint right now). Respect fellas
@@dexenationgracey1979 A lot of East Coast rappers had funny haircuts in the '80s... Kwame comes to mind and BDK's dancers. But those West Coast guys were just hatin'... because DJ Quik was talkin' shit, too, about "twigs" (dreadlocks) and fades. The East Coast/West Coast beef was real. The media blew it up, but there was true animosity on both coasts, with some fans and some artists. New York started it, though...
Soren Baker is invited to the picnic. He is a white guy that knows the music, followed it and gets the people that are involved in that era. Much respect.
I’m pretty sure he was talking about Digital Underground. He even jacked their beat from Humpty Dance on that part of his song. If it wasn’t DU, it woulda been MC Hammer or maybe Kid N Play.
Sorren knows Young MC is from NY, and he wrote Ton Locs songs. Better examples were Freestyle Fellowship, E-Rule, JJ Fad, even King T wasn't overly gangstafied.
I remember hearin Runnin in 95. I was in my senior year of high school. I was high & my buddy played it in his Chevy Cavalier. My mind was blown🤯 My man J Dilla on the beat
Man it's good to hear these brothers speak on the realness, yeah the other seems like dancing skateboarding craft they all got into their own circles for the most part but just like those were trendy scenes the trendy gangs did develop within them as they spoke on the kod's the sex jerks, mobsters, weirdos and the pozers 13. The Far Side came with that newness, that ill flavor for the early 90s helping to express the diversity that was here within Los Angeles Cali and the West Coast in general.
Now today everybody is a gangster in hip hop,every rap song that's out today is about trapping,thuggin,and killing somebody. The artists that's on positive and political situations don't get air play cause they look at positivity as being lame and boring.
Pharcyde breed of rap is too intelligent for the race war divide and conquer bullshxt. The D.evil wants fake dumb leaders flipping all truth that leads to efficiency, unity, peace, laughter, HONOR, advanced psychology, enlightened HUMOR, clarity, JUSTICE, Mirror wRap sun beamsz.
Imani interrupts and refutes just about everything that Fatlip says...I know he has to be tired of that. I wonder if that's why they broke up? Imani is being kinda annoying, to keep it real.
@@jonnycatbxny6046 Man, I hate being interrupted... I can see if you're excited and we all just chillin and having a good time... but if it's an interview, debate or serious conversation, I hate that with a passion.. I take it as disrespect.
I thought ice cube was talking about #NWA not #pharcyde. If it's true then damn after all these dacades. I see now they mentioned the haircuts, wow. But pharcyde was their own thing, which is missing in hip-hop
One of the greatest beatmakers you never heard of. He produced Bizarre Ride, Quentin, Da Waskalz, etc. I think Delicious Vinyl considered him a house producer. Career cut short by things the band can talk about.
i mean, Imani clearly means it as 'he was referring to people like us" rather than Cube specifically taking about The Pharcyde. Jackin 4 Beats came out in 1990 before anyone knew who Pharcyde was.
In my opinion "Bizzare Ride To The Pharcyde" is the most creative album on the West Coast Hip Hop Platform. Their choice of samples mixed with keyboards and unorthodox rhyme flows used to take me on that next level.
The Pharcyde introduced the world to Jay Dee aka J Dilla. RIP. Their chemistry was magical. To this day, I still think his best productions are with them.
It’s really incredible, and they found all the samples in one storage space full of records! Jay was incredible and LA Jay was the shit too, he did pork and fly as pie remix
@@sooperheep So J Dilla wasn't on their first album? I know he did productions on their second. He also did Busta Rhymes' first album.
@@KtotheGyep Dilla did the second album labcabin but the first one was produced by J-Sw!ft who went by Jay Dee early on and changed his name since Dilla was coming up and there was some confusion I guess. Theres a funny part on the first slum village album where I think its maybe dame dash or just blaze clowning Dilla for having the same name as the guy from the first Pharcyde :)
@@sooperheep Yeah, I don't like when artists use other artists' names.. like Young Guru. He said he got the okay from the original Guru, but still. Then there is Lil Nas X. How did Nas let him use his name? That can be confusing for sales and even credibility. Common Sense had to change his name and drop the "Sense" because of the rock group that came before him. So did Biggie Smalls..
Labcabincalifornia is one of the best Hip-hop albums of all time. I still bump that CD especially on long road trips.
Facts they also helped introduce the music world to Jay Dee AKA J Dilla much props to them for doing that.
SlimkidTre's singing on that album was sublime. He should've dropped a solo album. Fatlip was butter with the rhymes. "She Said" might be my 2nd favorite song from them. The original "Soulflower" with The Brand New Heavies is my #1 favorite and "Passing Me By" is my third favorite.
@@KtotheG Hey, don't forget about Otha Fish that's a brilliant record.
@MR.PHILLY_TITAN
That's your opinion.
@@elvinsolano6177 Yeah, it's nice, but it's not in my top 3 or 5. I have Runnin' at #4 and Pandemonium at #5.
Their 2nd Album is so amazing 💯👏🏾🔥🔥🔥
I always seen Pharcyde as Hieroglyphics adjacent even though they had their own unique style. They stayed in heavy rotation and seemed to have that uplifting summer vibe to it. Definitely slept on and true legends in the hip hop game!!!.
they definitely have some overlap in style and vibe. I live in the bay but I gotta be real, pharcyde has way more next level music.
fun little story: I ordered some stuff from their website when I was in high school, back around 99/2000. it took like 10 weeks to get it and they sent a handwritten note with it apologizing and threw in a bunch of extra shit. makes up for the time I saw them 10 years ago and brown forgot his verse to passing me by. but really, they seem like cool dudes.
The Almyghty Myghty Pythons
I gave an Uber ride to Fatlip's son RZA last year in Long Beach. Dude was cool as hell. I put on Fatlip's song "Goldmine" from The Wood soundtrack. We were bumping our heads to it the whole drive. 😊
Pharcyde was dope ass group. Original and different. Dope beats and rhymes
Just like New York, LA had it's alternative, underground, backpack Hip Hop scene. Pharcyde, People Under The Stairs, Living Legends...
Man those days were something special. No streaming, mp3s, no sound cloud, etc. Walkman, headphones, cassette tapes and backpack was the dress code. Baseball cap was optional.
Del The Funky Homosapien, Freestyle Fellowship, Alcoholiks (midwest rap), Brand New Heavies ( UK acid jazz group who did a rap album) and I don't remember where Boogiemonsters were from but they were dope as hell too. Rap music today is so sad that I'm glad that I kept all my 90's cds.
Pharcyde is iconic! Fan from Flint’MI.
If you want to know about the L.A. Hip-Hop scene that had nothing to do with gangsta rap, just look up the Good Life Cafe documentary featuring groups like Jurassic 5, and Freestyle Fellowship. L.A. was definitely deeper than just gangsta rap.
oh yeah they covered that exclusively throughout various of sirens videos with volume 10 and others like Akil from J5.
The Era of West Coast Creativity...
Project Blow
Blu & Exile
@@maddpropz Mykill Miers Payback instrumental is one of the best in history
What a time it was🤘🏿...dancing, tagging posers,KOD,jerx etc..salute farside and Soren Great interview
The bizarre ride is the definition of L.A. Hip Hop
Man I've been a big fan of The Pharcyde since they started with the big hit "Passing Me By." This group is seriously underrated. Still love listening to their music to this day.
Me2
@@mauriceporter1590 I hear you fam
I first heard them on The Brand New Heavies joint, Soulflower. That still might be my favorite song from them. It was the best song on the whole album and they were a brand new group at the time. I was like, "who are these guys?" This was before the alternative rap, backpacker, lyricist movement came into full swing and they came out the gate with both barrels blazing. They inspired a bunch of copycat groups like Das Efx did the year prior. Anotha Level and Down South were both Pharcyde rip offs. I wouldn't say Souls of Mischief we're because their sound was different.. They just had a couple of high pitched voice emcees.
@@KtotheG Yeah bro I totally agree. You dropped some gems to chew on regarding The Pharcyde's influence. Me and a few of my buds still love listening to their music.
Pharcyde one of my favorite groups ever from first time hearing Ya Mama and Soulflower on BNH album. I went to that Cypress, 311, and Pharcyde show in Philly-1996. So happy Fatlip is doing good
Back in the day, I’d occasionally see fatlip walking around LA like mid-city or melrose with a homie. I always wanted to give him dap, but didn’t, cuz I want to come across like a weirdo smh.
You should’ve-he’s a legend
Ice Cube could not have been talking about the Pharcyde. Jacking For Beats came out in 1990 on Ice Cube "Kill At Will" album. The Pharcyde dropped in 1992!!!
Not the Pharcyde per say but the “funny hair cut guys”. It was a dance culture at that time … Cube kinda dissed it wit “I don’t dance and shake my butt I leave that to the Niggas wit the funny haircuts” lol
He was just making a reference
Pharcyde changed the game with original concept and video visual effects. PMB@Fish r my fav. Copped that album and kept it in rotation. Would love for them to drop something new new.
Graduated in 94. Pharcyde stays in my rotation. Passin me by , been my ringtone for about 15 years. 😂 respect to these west coast originals. 🙌🏽
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But didn't Jackin' For Beats come out in '90 or '91? I know it was on the Kill At Will EP, which dropped after Amerikkka's Most Wanted but before Death Certificate. Pharcyde didn't drop until '92. I've always thought Cube was talking about East Coast rappers and break dancers. Big Daddy Kane came to mind immediately... his dancers had the step fades, so did Tupac. Kwame had the blonde streak in his gumby before that became popular. Bobby Brown had his infamous asymmetrical slope gumby. Kid had the Eraserhead flat top. I always saw that as a jab against the East Coast, but not a malicious one. I mean, Cube did do a song with Kane.
Exactly. The timeline doesn't match up.
Just because their first mainstream hit was in 92 doesn't mean they weren't known in the industry before that
@@thebrogressiveagenda9936 Nah, Cube had called out dancing before on Amerikkka's Most Wanted. I think it was on the song "Turn off the Radio," where he was dissin' R&B and dancing rappers... he said something like "Next time I turn on a video and see R&B lovers trying to out dance each other.... I'm sick of that shit... listen to the hit." It was mainly New Jack Swing artists and East Coast rappers dancing in their videos with big flamboyant hairdos... and of course, he continued his R&B and New Jack Swing bashing on Death Certificate.
Pharcyde may have been known in LA before the fame, but did they have a video out before "Passing Me By?" I think Imani probably took offense because Cube managed and produced Anotha Level, which was a copycat group who bit them hard.. They addressed it on Labcabincalifornia.
@@KtotheG he was talmbout the line on jackin for beats tho? That was after amerikkkas most
Not sure if Imani was saying Cube specifically was talking about them or just theyre type of being hip hop dancers from the West who were a little more eccentric but yes Jackin for Beats came out 2 years before Pharcyde first single. But he easily could’ve know them as dancers in industry
Brown deserves his flowers too. The music lives on and I will remember all 4 members. Respect 🫡
So glad they're giving J-Sw!ft his flowers
Great show! Great group!
Ha, it's good seeing these cats on camera because I recognize every one of their voices and all the lyrics from ya mama to runnin away (oh damn I forgot about the remix to fallin with Mya, I got to go find that joint right now). Respect fellas
Legendary. Dope Interview 👊🏽💯💯💯💯💯💯
Hell yea Pharcyde, mad skillz, still bang ur music
Virginia in the house
The Mexakins also had that funky vibe
Much Gratitude
Wrong, Cube was talking about Digital Underground in that song.. the brothers with the funny haircuts..
I think Kid N Play fits that more.
I think you're right too
@@dexenationgracey1979 A lot of East Coast rappers had funny haircuts in the '80s... Kwame comes to mind and BDK's dancers. But those West Coast guys were just hatin'... because DJ Quik was talkin' shit, too, about "twigs" (dreadlocks) and fades. The East Coast/West Coast beef was real. The media blew it up, but there was true animosity on both coasts, with some fans and some artists. New York started it, though...
He was speaking figuratively.
Pharcyde!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Soren Baker is invited to the picnic. He is a white guy that knows the music, followed it and gets the people that are involved in that era. Much respect.
He's cool, but trying to talk like a black man from the 80s is annoying. I get he's a fan but its weird to imitate a people from musicians.
Legendary group. Great interview!
Hard in working and living
I’m pretty sure he was talking about Digital Underground. He even jacked their beat from Humpty Dance on that part of his song. If it wasn’t DU, it woulda been MC Hammer or maybe Kid N Play.
Maaaaaaan i would LOVE to hear the album from the "Horrible Brothers"
saw u guys live in Copenhagen about 26 years ago in Loppen in Christania 🔥, pls come back soon, i'm down for a couple of tickets
I seen them when they came to Houston with Cypress Hill back in 91
I remember seeing them at Maverick Fat Lip back in the day. Flat Lip and them shows were dope
7A3 (Coolin' In Cali), anyone?
Pharcyde & Hyroglephics could have been as big as WU-Tang if they would have kept going.
TRUE WESTCOAST HIP HOP LEGENDS!!!
Dude, it's THE PHARCYDE 😭 But your journalism is usually on point 🙏🏾💜
Thanks for the interview. That title is hella click-baity tho lol.
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I heard Ice T before NWA. Age 11 Ice T dropped his song 🎵 Colors 🔥💣🔥💣🔥🎧🎤🌎🚀😎
any chance the Pharcyde will be doing shows in LA? 19disc
Already
Designer gangs was real in the 90’s I was from NBT NTS we use to beef with KWS MVP’s the
Mexican KMT’s damn y’all took me back to 89-93
Drop was the best Rap video ever
I think he meant they were the type of dudes cube was talking about in Jackin for beats
Sorren knows Young MC is from NY, and he wrote Ton Locs songs.
Better examples were Freestyle Fellowship, E-Rule, JJ Fad, even King T wasn't overly gangstafied.
That track switched up a FEW times.
Can we get a Pharcyde & Souls of Mischief Verzuz Battle ?
EPIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!
More gravitate to soft loving.
Hate it that they did not continue to make more music
Great interview with a great group. Keep up the good work
Glad to see these guys is all good I know they was beefin for a long time. Where Booty Brown at tho?? 👀
I thought cube was talkn bout Digital Underground 🤔
I remember hearin Runnin in 95. I was in my senior year of high school. I was high & my buddy played it in his Chevy Cavalier. My mind was blown🤯 My man J Dilla on the beat
Man it's good to hear these brothers speak on the realness, yeah the other seems like dancing skateboarding craft they all got into their own circles for the most part but just like those were trendy scenes the trendy gangs did develop within them as they spoke on the kod's the sex jerks, mobsters, weirdos and the pozers 13. The Far Side came with that newness, that ill flavor for the early 90s helping to express the diversity that was here within Los Angeles Cali and the West Coast in general.
Doesv Ice Cube like Solana Imani? He is so brilliant, I really respect his opinion.
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Hey Soren, can you get Divine Styler and Scheme Team?
Yeah, I can’t take too much of Imani
❤️
Now today everybody is a gangster in hip hop,every rap song that's out today is about trapping,thuggin,and killing somebody. The artists that's on positive and political situations don't get air play cause they look at positivity as being lame and boring.
Pharcyde breed of rap is too intelligent for the race war divide and conquer bullshxt. The D.evil wants fake dumb leaders flipping all truth that leads to efficiency, unity, peace, laughter, HONOR, advanced psychology, enlightened HUMOR, clarity, JUSTICE, Mirror wRap sun beamsz.
Some also gravitate towards popular styles
At that time
Please interview Frost!
j swift was making hits at like 16/17
Where’s bootie brown ?… The stuff he made with Moka only is 🔥
I can see why these dudes broke up…
Most hip-hop groups break up.
Every group breaks up
You guys are so smart
Jackin for beats came out b4 the pharcyde by dam bear 2 years
Jacking for Beats was out way before Pharcyde?
Imani interrupts and refutes just about everything that Fatlip says...I know he has to be tired of that. I wonder if that's why they broke up? Imani is being kinda annoying, to keep it real.
That's Imani keeping it real. He has a unique sucker free - care free look on life.
Ok.. Now I know I'm not bugging, dude was getting on my nerves lol
@@jonnycatbxny6046 Man, I hate being interrupted... I can see if you're excited and we all just chillin and having a good time... but if it's an interview, debate or serious conversation, I hate that with a passion.. I take it as disrespect.
Who are they talking about in the beginning? Who is Jay?
J Swift
@@gloryusmusic -- Right. I figured that out later. I was thinking Dilla at first, but I couldn't imagine Dilla wearing pink panties.
Is that Boxingego?
Some will be backwards.
And crossing for rich humor
I thought ice cube was talking about #NWA not #pharcyde. If it's true then damn after all these dacades. I see now they mentioned the haircuts, wow. But pharcyde was their own thing, which is missing in hip-hop
That title is grammatically wrong.
Who are they talking bout in beginning
They’re talking abt J Swift their producer on the first album
their genius producer.
One of the greatest beatmakers you never heard of. He produced Bizarre Ride, Quentin, Da Waskalz, etc.
I think Delicious Vinyl considered him a house producer. Career cut short by things the band can talk about.
@@gaylordfocker7990 quinton's on his way quinton's on his way!!!
@@konstantgrowth7551 Quinton’s EP is a classic to me.
Ice Cube Was Talking About Pharcyde on “Jackin’ For Beats”
helluva clickbait headline there m8s. Misleading aint the word
i mean, Imani clearly means it as 'he was referring to people like us" rather than Cube specifically taking about The Pharcyde. Jackin 4 Beats came out in 1990 before anyone knew who Pharcyde was.
Souls of mischief ???
uhh ice cube was talking about everyone in the game.......not even sure Pharside was even out in 1990 smh
You spell the name right in the caption... but not in the video.
Booo!
Imani needs to let Fatlip and Tre talk. He comes across badly in this interview.
Shout out to Slim Kid3. AKA Trey, my boy from IHS. Inglewood luv.