Bobby Lyle - Good Inside

Extra Prolific - Jump On It

Bobbi Humphrey - Baby's Gone

Nothing better than tripping over a sample source, especially when it was used on a favorite by one of your favorite artists. (#9 on my unpublished list of 10 essential Extra Prolific songs)

1:37 - 1:43 was sampled by Extra Prolific on the track Having Fun.

Tyler, The Creator and 9th Wonder were mentioned in the YouTube comments, so I'm assuming they sampled it too.

Extra Prolific - Missing Link

Church.

A fellow fan of Mr. Lee shared this with me and I thought I would pay it forward to those who are interested.

I was told that this material was his last recorded as a member of Hieroglyphics, though I'm not sure how accurate that information is. He does give a shout to the crew on the first track, but there are other audio clues that lead me to believe that this was recorded later, most notably the flows used by Lee and Pep Love (featured on track #2) were those established and utilized post 3rd Eye Vision, the last time Lee recorded with the collective.

There are five tracks included here. I'm not sure if these were intended for a specific project, or just a collection of tracks that bridge his post-Hiero secular period to his current output representing Christ. The music here probably won't change your life (some rough recordings), but there's some solid material for fans of Extra Prolific and Hiero completionists.

Extra Prolific - MCs (Missing Link) (Featuring Pep Love)

Extra Prolific - Missing Link: Download

There's a track about 'the ladies' included so if you Hiero, I'm fly-bro, jaw gymnastic, calistylic fans want to get mad at that, have at it.

Snupe (Extra Prolific) on Red Clay

Peace...

We recorded this in high school..."Low End Theory" was barely out.........before u know it we are on the same label w Q-tip..by this time we had no desire to put it out because it was too old.....later Tips song comes out...i wonder did he hear the demo? - Snupe


Extra Prolific - Let It Ride featuring Tajai (Produced by A-Plus)


Tribe diehards: "SUCKA NIGGA IS WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY BETTA!!!!!."

Errr...yeah. But that's not why I posted this. Just thought it was an interesting comment from Mr. Lee. I think they sampled different versions of the song, but it would be funny if Q-Tip heard the demo while handling business at Jive/Zomba, and then proceeded to pull a fast one.

Hieroglyphics - Menace II Society (update)

Original Post: Link

Had an opportunity to ask Domino about the track. Here's what he had to say.

...I do remember that track and believe I have a cassette copy somewhere. I will look around for it and if Cas is cool, I will post it at some point.

The story behind that track is, Jive was doing the soundtrack to Menace to Society and had Casual and Souls submit songs for it. The Souls submitted “Our Secret” a song we has left over from the 93 til sessions. Casual went in and did a new song on a beat by Extra Prolific. It was recorded in NY around the same time (late 92’) we were mixing Fear Itself and 93 Til.

The Main thing I remember is the chorus with Ex Pro saying ”I’m a menace and its like that.” and Casual following with “I’m Menace, and ain’t nobody gona strike back”. The beat was kinda dark and uptempo but thats about all I can recall…..and one Cas line “basically, the way I live is trifelin’.

We submitted them and The Hughes Brothers rejected them both saying they were not West Coast sounding enough. Based on what ended up on that soundtrack, it probably wasn’t a good fit anyways.

I will look for that tape and hopefully I can share it with everyone.

Dom

Shout out to Domino for always being cool with fans. The track may see the light of day.

Good call by The Hughes Brothers not accepting the track submitted by Souls of Mischief. Great track, but maybe not the right tone.



Doesn't really seem to fit in with tracks like this:

A (Very) Brief Conversation: Casual

Casual and Snupe: The Pimp Hieroglyphics

@Smashrockwell speaking of extra prolific, does a song titled "menace to society" (w/ Snupe) ring a bell? Saw the title in the BMI database

@wboothe you work for BMI? Was there an audio file? Thats was a song we recorded for the Movie Menace 2 Society.. Bellrung.

@Smashrockwell nope, just being a diehard hiero fan doing research. no audio file on the site. dont suppose you have a copy, do you?

@wboothe Domino does i'm sure.

@Smashrockwell you know that's some holy grail shit right there? hope it surfaces some day.




From a historical standpoint, this is a pretty significant track. The proposed title track to one of the seminal Hood Films of the 90s, I'm really surprised Jive didn't include this track when the album was released. Casual and Snupe - both perhaps a little more "G" than their peers - were signed to Jive and inclusion on this soundtrack may have increased their exposure, possibly growing their audience beyond those in New York and LA who have a high appreciation of freestyles, complex flows and lyrical stylings.

Cash Money (featuring Casual) - Extra Prolific

"even if our demo tapes add to the myth of Hiero's gifts..." - Del

The conversation brought me back to a time before swapping MP3's was the norm. When I first started finding music on the internet (97ish), we used to trade cassette tapes through the mail. Most of this was done on the Hoopla - the official message board of Hieroglyphics. All of these unreleased gems were gold to me. I tried sharing them with friends, but they couldn't get past the really shitty sound quality. Never bothered by these hiss filled recordings, I was instead highly appreciative of the fact that I had music that no one outside of the artist and their crew was supposed to hear. The demo experience has always been a mind blowing one for me.

As you can see, I didn't directly ask Cas to put the track out there, but if you have no compunction in doing so, add him to your twitter and ask him to do so on some "hey, i saw your tweet mentioning the menace to society track. could you please...".


Hieroglyphics - Bubble Up


Extra Prolific - Jheri Curl


Casual - Oakland Survival

Del The Funky Homosapien - No More Worries (Yo MTV Raps, 1993)

Snupe, yo!

I really should get back to that Favorite Rappers thing.