For these that may keep in mind again to 2001, it was undoubtedly the period the boy band. Teams like The Backstreet Boys, NSYNC and 98 Levels have been burning up the charts and filling up stadiums.
Round that point, a gaggle known as LFO (Lyte Funkie Ones) hopped on that wave and hit large with their smash single “Summer time Women.” They have been like the opposite aforementioned pop teams however much more mellow.
Phrases like “pop” and “mellow” have possible by no means been used to explain Brooklyn’s excessive voltage duo Billy Danze and Lil Fame, collectively often called Mash Out Posse or M.O.P. So when the 2 sides teamed up for the music “Life Is Good” from LFO’s 2001 album the identical identify, it turned heads. Some folks have been even questioning if was a distinct group with the initials M.O.P.
HipHopDX caught up with Danze and Fame, who have been acting at Crimson Bull Music Presents The Increase Bap in Nashville, Tennessee together with the venerable DJ Premier, in addition to their longtime producer/supervisor Laze E Laze previous to LFO singer Devin Lima’s dying. In a dialog after the present, the duo revealed the story behind one the unlikeliest collaborations in Hip Hop.
“I really like that fucking file,” Fame famous. “I can’t keep in mind the story ’trigger I used to smoke rather a lot marijuana.”
Fortunately, a way more sober-at-the-time Laze remembered precisely the way it went down and it was much more random than it appears on the floor.
“I didn’t even know the group,” he stated with fun. “I simply heard the beat and was like, ‘This shit is scorching. Let’s do that shit.’ I didn’t give a fuck in regards to the group. And Danze and Fame] have been like, ‘Yo, we’re gonna do that,’”
The music was apparently a shock to the trade identical to it was for most people. Laze acquired a name from one his fellow executives when the music was launched.
“Puffy known as me and was like, ‘Why’d you do a file with LFO?’” Laze recalled. “I stated, ‘I don’t know who the fuck LFO is motherfucker. We was drunk. We simply favored the beat. We didn’t give a fuck about LFO, however we favored the beat.’”
The collaboration was so stunning attributable to M.O.P.’s type, which might be greatest described as the right soundtrack to a battle due its aggresssion.
When Onyx exploded onto the scene in 1993, they have been recognized by many as the primary Hip Hop group that screamed like a heavy metallic band and impressed mosh pits at their reveals with songs like “Slam” and “Throw Ya Gunz.”
Onyx are ten thought-about the pioneers the type, and it is smart contemplating M.O.P.’s mainstream success didn’t hit till years later. However in line with Laze, who was round each on the time, it was truly Danze and Fame who have been inspiring Onyx.
“I took Onyx on their first tour and truly, I’ma be sincere with you,” he stated. “I’ma offer you some historical past right here. I used to blast ‘How About Some Hardcore’ on the primary tour Onyx went on, so to be completely sincere with you, Onyx was influenced by M.O.P. Fredro Starr’s] my brother and Sticky Fingaz is my brother and so they’ll inform you they have been influenced by M.O.P.’s sound greater than vice versa as a result of M.O.P. didn’t know who Onyx was.”
Danze added, “We got here up in an period music the place it was cool to be completely different. You couldn’t observe what another person did as a result of it’s known as biting, so that you don’t wanna do what another person is doing. So, it was simply the way in which we grew up and the frustrations from all of the turns that we took in our life. Fame raps his ass f, however we’re actually not rappers. We’re simply fucking superb at rap].”
The aforementioned live performance’s co-headliner, DJ Premier, additionally occurs to be an element some M.O.P.’s largest songs, together with “Comply with Directions” and “Half and Half.” Fame, who produces underneath the identify Fizzy Womack, recalled assembly Preemo and the way he was influenced by the Gang Starr beatsmith.
“Let me inform you simply being within the studio for the primary time with Premier man, I used to be a giant fan,” he stated. “I’m a fan all types music, however Premier was an underdog once we was arising and I used to inform Danze] ‘That’s that nigga.’
“I’m taking a look at it from a music perspective however Laze knew him. So, I’m like, ‘Are you able to contact that nigga. That’s that nigga proper there.’ Preem’s been a foul motherfucker. So far as performing and producing within the studio, I picked up rather a lot from him. I picked up rather a lot from Laze, I picked up rather a lot from DR Interval. From Preemo, I used to be influenced by] the way in which he chop shit.”
Since they’ve been within the recreation, not many artists have actually been in comparison with M.O.P. — a testomony to how distinctive their model music is. Nonetheless, the controversial Tekashi 6ix9ine has not too long ago garnered vital consideration for his sound, which bears a hanging resemblance to Danze and Fame’s aggressive type. However as Laze tells it, M.O.P. will endlessly be in a category by themselves and actually must be credited for sparking a motion that has been immortalized in Hip Hop.
“Billy Danze invented crunk,” Laze claimed. “He walks and thinks and breathes it. All this lure shit comes from Billy Danze. It’s his. They don’t even realize it. That’s how he lives. M.O.P. is their very own bodega. Their very own retailer music. There’s nothing ever gonna be like M.O.P. It’s solely gonna be M.O.P.
“You may’t emulate them, so after they resolve to cease making music, it simply gained’t exist anymore. As a fan rock n’ roll — Ozzy Osbourne and Frank Zappa and all these guys — I spotted that when Frank Zappa died you’ll by no means hear Frank Zappa once more. When M.O.P. stops making music you’ll by no means hear something like M.O.P. once more.”