speaking of the underground today i'd like to toss out some vintage chicago/esque shit from the year 2000. when galapagos4 was just starting out they had a neat little group called the netherworlds. comprised of murs, anacron, and himself the group made a dope LP called "pals" that helped establish galapagos4 as a label known for quality underground chicago hiphop. as time went on the legendary jagoff murs* went on to find relative-fame with the living legends crew and his buddy slug from atmosphere. they combined to make the supergroup felt, offering up tribute LPs for christina ricci, lisa bonet, and rosie perez. anacron moved out to LA where he's continued his nice rapping (in fact on his myspace last year he had a couple'a really really nice cuts... i think it's mysp/anacronmusic -- the club song alone is worth the price of admission) and himself... well i have no idea to be honest.
the netherworlds - fat boys* = i was privledged enough to meet THE LIVING LEGEND murs at a hotel party weekend festival thingy in galesburg illinois in march of 2001, i believe. basically some kid at the quad cities colleges (knox?) convinced his school that it was a good idea to invest ~$20k in having a weekend long underground rap festival for a "cultural experience" and there were only one or two hotels in all of galesburg, so you literally had underground rappers from all over the country converging upon a hotel with all kinds of underground hip hop fans from all over the country for a weekend. it was sublime.
on either saturday or sunday morning after a wake-n-bake or 5 and playing asshole with screwdrivers (not recommended) a friend and i were chillin in the hallway when MURS walked by, long before his fateful run for president. after a minute or so of soulless conversation, he noticed that my friend was wearing some leather kenneth cole laceless zip up shoes (he worked at the downtown store at the time) and straightup asked "so i'm looking at your boy's shoes and i have to be straightup with you... is he a burrito or what?"
nevermind the chick he hooked up with and nailed on top of a building they scaled in the middle of the night. clearly, my friend's taste in footwear screamed out "flaming homosexual" to a mind as astute as MURS'. in my generous drunkenness, i mustered up something akin to "OH I KNOW YOU... YOU'RE THAT RAPPER DUDE MARS. MARS FROM THE LIVING LEGENDS. MAN I LOVE THE LIVING LEGENDS... YOUR BOY SCARUB IS FUCKING DOPE! CAN YOU TELL HIM THAT I LOVE SAVVY TRAVELER?!" and proceeded to troll the dude until he wandered off, no doubt in pursuit of better company/bitches/etc. as the years went on i heard more stories from magazine/record-label people who have backed up my observations on MURS. hell, once i was told unsolicited that out of all the rappers this record label dude had ever dealt with MURS was far and away the biggest douche he had encountered in all his days...
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The track is called "Take It Back" and features Marsha Ambrosius of Floetry singing the hook. This is one of my favorite hip hop songs of the last 5 years. This is what hip hop is all about.
