makes me think of backpacks, train rides, skipping school, park benches, hash joints, markers, and bubble gum tasting kisses on endless house parties. thank you life for letting me grow up in the 90s
There do not exist speakers loud enough on earth for how hard I want to bump this from July 22, 1997 to now. Happy 18th anniversary CoFlow on dropping a classic!
Legends. This album is the bible of abstract underground. Bigg Jus and El-P went on to found the Definitive Jux label; Aesop Rock, Cannibal Ox, Cool Calm Pete, Del the Funky Homosapien, RJD2, to name a few. Has to be one of the best hip hop songs of all time when put in perspective.
Company Flow is the best group ever in hiphop. I love RTJ but the are not Co Flow. Company Flow was sooooo far ahead of their time. Like no one was sounding like this back then.
Del’s first two records came out before this and Hieroglyphics were already Bay Area legends. Bro, Del was damn near retired when he did that one album for DefJux.
there's plenty of stuff like this in the sidebars if you go off of the side on the FunCrusher Plus Album page. Stuff like De La Soul and GZA are really good
The rest of this album is great if you haven't given it a listen. Krazy Kings(an amazingly well done chorus) and Population Control are two favorites. Company Flow also has a dope song called "Simple". Outside of that, just explore, there's plenty of good hip-hop out there. You seem to have good taste, you'll run across it.
"we call can't be pimps and we all can't rap." I finally listened to this album for the first time a few days ago and I've listened to this song 42 times already. One of the illest songs and a unique album.
This is the Hip-hop album that solidified my fantacism. Netflix Hip-hop Evolution Season 3 Ep 3 sent me here for my fix this time. I first heard 15 seconds of Infokill (12 inch version) and searched for the track/album for 4 years listening to everything I could. Hip-hop saved me from despair. So thankful!...
This is what I grew up listening to when I was younger. I like mainstream shit but I still digg 'real' hip-hop like this. Wish I could go back to the times of Rawkus Soundbombing and Lyricists Lounge. Good Times!
"Rugged like Rwanda. Don't wander too far or get chopped up" is a reference to an unreported genocide that occurred in 1994 under the watch of the Catholic church. The more you know
Daaaamn y'all dropped the knowledge! Its like that?! I appreciate the double reference in that rhyme its facts like this that make hiphop so fascinating and raw sounding
"Unreported," if every media organization writes something about it, if it's taught in schools/universities, and it's one of the biggest criticisms of the UN, its not unreported
I tried looking for this album everywhere and I couldn't find it! I live in the Bay Area and all the major music stores didn't carry it. I was so desperate to buy this album that I ordered a used copy for 30 bucks on the internet. I'm broke, but at least I have the music!
Lyrics: [Verse 1: Bigg Jus] Rugged like Rwanda Don't wander far or get chopped up Quick to rush the spot like baby urine get mopped up Tags that spray your hall with rap aerosol Organized graffiti lectures in can control Or level with the devil racing uptown first to Fort Apache I'm much too much for any demon style to master me From the Throgs Neck Bridge to the Hell’s Gate, lyrically detonating Sparking M-80's and bottle rockets into nigga chaser Downtown graffiti deface a heroin debaser Open up your eyes ad clean out your nature Wide open like the Grand Canyon Emcees couldn't hang if they was lynched by the Grand Dragon Searching for my styles like Job Corps Coming home on work release, shoplifting at the rap store But sabotaging me ain't easy I'm crooked like Nathan Wind starring as Cochese With a big baseball bat, you get robbed like DeNiro A sandwich still ain't nothing but a hero Just a small sample of the abstract When the rhyme get crazy hot and lyrics don't know how to act Whether shooting joints or wax I’ll go all out and attack crabs and herbs that's crazy wack We all can't be pimps and we all can't rap You got to get your dollars on 'cause it's on like that Here's what I want you to do: niggas with the green axe And burgundy 4Runner, inhuman like Blade Runner When I'm rhyming all summer, just listen to the drummer Transistor blister, feedback freak the impedance Funk flow, we expose frequencies in sequence Napalm gets dropped long-range like fiber optics Check the rhyme activity-your skills is microscopic Peace to my crew and my nigga El-P Who's here to spark it, causing all these crabs to flee [Verse 2: El-P] Check it and I inflict it. Quadra 950 lungs misty Calling me “Maximilian” ‘cause I'm that crazy robot Teetering on the edge of outer space Spitting buckshots ‘til black holes surround me. You found me As far as I'm concerned, I got your ashes in an urn Big up the temperamental, holds-none-barred kid What's your confunction? Tracks is type dusty Drinking water out the well of life and I'ma piss it back rusty Flesh in phonics. You're goddamn right I'm on it like aorta pacemakers hooked up to clappers Clap off. Welcome to my free-form jubilee Look at me, the witness to the shit you wanna be DBA, lyrical P, burners insipid I’m a sycophant, feeding on fats passed and dipped In and out of my invisible state. Forerunner rep tyrannical Wrecks like TECs, bust mechanical Rusty garden weasel painting beats on an easel Shoot a head up. What, bitch? You're boxing shadows Look out my way, you’ll pull the breath out your battle Breaking your double helix and now the shit is single Not mono. I burn the needle out your phono El-P the third gunner on the grassy knoll, stroll Keep the seventh seal of heaven in my pocket You're faggot like Sprockets. Yo, motherfuck the Houston Rockets I'm so sick of recycled metaphors Bet, but I'd fuck Laura Ingalls only when she's done with her chores Got rappers tip-toeing on a Highway to Heaven Got manners like Bruce Banner when he's stressed I'm sick of your corny beats and your crowd-involved hooks 'Cause I'm a thinker Evil anus letting off stinkers [Bridge: Bigg Jus & El-P] Eight steps to perfection The sum of each part forms a octagon Let rhyme styles get sparked Eight steps to perfection The sum of each part forms a octagon Where rhyme styles get sparked [Verse 3: Bigg Jus] The holy terror, last move you made was an error, won't win Playing taps on a violin You can never comprehend the rhyme origin Irate when I get Chinese-Jamaican like a Chin Hot rocking corduroy, Ballies that's so fitted Niggas came and assed out my tracks and left 'em shitted Fuck the movement, lubricate the smooth shit Just to let you know, never do I use it Strictly the blueprint for the ghetto music in my cypher Shorty the sniper, Jeep like Cherokee When I take aim handling wall-to-wall emcees Mr. Madman attract lyrics like magnets That fuck up speaker cabinets when I'm stabbing it Like the Juice, then go Bronco busting loose That's my word. You couldn't shoot or try to compute the math To kick any tight sport like the vandal I manhandle. Emcees get murdered like Tenor Saw Or trapped in the bedroom with the Texas Chainsaw Massacre. One Two Three, The Taking of Pelham Eastwick, underground New York be the dwelling I keep telling ‘em the state of the mind be the mentals If you murder up in the ghetto, you’re murdering a temple
I'm getting really tired of seeing comments that just say REAL HIP HOP it's just like you don't need to tell this is hip hop let the music do the talking lol
makes me think of backpacks, train rides, skipping school, park benches, hash joints, markers, and bubble gum tasting kisses on endless house parties. thank you life for letting me grow up in the 90s
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Amen brother. God bless those heady days. Simpler times for sure. God bless brother.
Like the movie KIDS
God damn yes
@@TheRedeyeriko Without the Aids though...
this WHOLE ALBUM is FUCKIN DOPE!
you'll NEVER find shit like this again.
Rip steez
RIP steelo one of best
Absolute Mega Super Facts!!!!!!! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
There do not exist speakers loud enough on earth for how hard I want to bump this from July 22, 1997 to now. Happy 18th anniversary CoFlow on dropping a classic!
+RapReviews True!
+RapReviews definitely can feel u son....
2 decades.
Fuck now I feel old as dick thanks for that
RapReviews lol this album can drink now
One of the greatest and most important songs in the history of rap
Legends. This album is the bible of abstract underground. Bigg Jus and El-P went on to found the Definitive Jux label; Aesop Rock, Cannibal Ox, Cool Calm Pete, Del the Funky Homosapien, RJD2, to name a few. Has to be one of the best hip hop songs of all time when put in perspective.
Funcrusherplus... CLASSIC ALBUM B!😌
Company Flow is the best group ever in hiphop. I love RTJ but the are not Co Flow. Company Flow was sooooo far ahead of their time. Like no one was sounding like this back then.
big juss left the group by the time def jux came to foundation
Del’s first two records came out before this and Hieroglyphics were already Bay Area legends. Bro, Del was damn near retired when he did that one album for DefJux.
Kool Keith is the god of abstract underground hip hop
"rugged like rwanda" is still one of the dopest opening lines i've ever heard. juss absolutely destroyed this track.
OZtheTechnician always thought the same thing
I always thought it was bug it like Rwanda
which-by the way-I thought was the dopest opening line I've ever heard. Either way, I guess...
Falls off quick after that though.
OZtheTechnician you Damn right he did🔥
Greatest hip hop album of all time. Who agrees?
4:43 minutes of perfection.
This is Real Hip Hop. No matter what year. This is fire.
Classic album. I still listen to this and wonder how the hell so many good samples are put together on this album. Company Flow = Hip-hop royalty.
The underground hip-hop national anthem.
Wish I wasn't so young to this type of music... this is too good... my god.
plenty left to look into
Casabade any suggestions??
there's plenty of stuff like this in the sidebars if you go off of the side on the FunCrusher Plus Album page. Stuff like De La Soul and GZA are really good
The rest of this album is great if you haven't given it a listen. Krazy Kings(an amazingly well done chorus) and Population Control are two favorites. Company Flow also has a dope song called "Simple". Outside of that, just explore, there's plenty of good hip-hop out there. You seem to have good taste, you'll run across it.
peep my music playlist over 300 songs plus albums of my favorite songs all company flows shits in ther too
One of the best tracks I've ever heard. This never gets old.
"we call can't be pimps and we all can't rap." I finally listened to this album for the first time a few days ago and I've listened to this song 42 times already. One of the illest songs and a unique album.
There will never be hip hop this raw made like this again
Bro isn't listening to the hip hop underground
This brings me back to my first few months of college. This is real hip-hop. Kill all that wack shit.
Nothing but '93-'97 for me. Some deep underground shit from nowadays. Ignore all this crap goin on, HipPop i dont need this fake ass bullshit.
The best track on the album such a psychedelic undertone the backing beat provides
This shit was so far ahead of its time.
"Emcees couldn't hang if they was lynched by the grand dragon..."
"Just a small sample of the abstract"
when rhymes get crazy hot and lyrics don't know how to act
This track literally, NEVER gets old. 365, 24/7 I can always be in the mood for this. Complete brain warp
"rugged like Rwanda don't wind up far or get chopped up/ quick to rush to spot like baby urine get mopped up" geeze 🔥🔥🔥🔥
This is the Hip-hop album that solidified my fantacism. Netflix Hip-hop Evolution Season 3 Ep 3 sent me here for my fix this time. I first heard 15 seconds of Infokill (12 inch version) and searched for the track/album for 4 years listening to everything I could. Hip-hop saved me from despair. So thankful!...
El-p's flow.
Epic tune.
This is what I grew up listening to when I was younger. I like mainstream shit but I still digg 'real' hip-hop like this. Wish I could go back to the times of Rawkus Soundbombing and Lyricists Lounge. Good Times!
Yep absolutely
Eight steps to perfection
The sum of each part forms a octagon
Where rhyme styles get sparked
"Rugged like Rwanda. Don't wander too far or get chopped up" is a reference to an unreported genocide that occurred in 1994 under the watch of the Catholic church. The more you know
@-COLOMBIANCHANNEL-TM Correct.
Daaaamn y'all dropped the knowledge! Its like that?! I appreciate the double reference in that rhyme its facts like this that make hiphop so fascinating and raw sounding
"Unreported," if every media organization writes something about it, if it's taught in schools/universities, and it's one of the biggest criticisms of the UN, its not unreported
It was on like every tv back in the day the conflict in Sierra Leone Rwanda And the Congo
Just a small sample of the abstract
Wicked like Caucasia!
Yeah man about 30 years later and here we are!!!
Whoever gave this a thumbs down is a buffoon.
Ronojoy Sen people from Rwanda probably
Word
I tried looking for this album everywhere and I couldn't find it! I live in the Bay Area and all the major music stores didn't carry it. I was so desperate to buy this album that I ordered a used copy for 30 bucks on the internet. I'm broke, but at least I have the music!
Dan the automator was definitely inspired by funcrusher plus during the production of deltron 3030
Two masterpieces
The lyrics are untouchable
Happy 20th Anniversary to this masterpiece of an album
Lyrics:
[Verse 1: Bigg Jus]
Rugged like Rwanda
Don't wander far or get chopped up
Quick to rush the spot like baby urine get mopped up
Tags that spray your hall with rap aerosol
Organized graffiti lectures in can control
Or level with the devil racing uptown first to Fort Apache
I'm much too much for any demon style to master me
From the Throgs Neck Bridge to the Hell’s Gate, lyrically detonating
Sparking M-80's and bottle rockets into nigga chaser
Downtown graffiti deface a heroin debaser
Open up your eyes ad clean out your nature
Wide open like the Grand Canyon
Emcees couldn't hang if they was lynched by the Grand Dragon
Searching for my styles like Job Corps
Coming home on work release, shoplifting at the rap store
But sabotaging me ain't easy
I'm crooked like Nathan Wind starring as Cochese
With a big baseball bat, you get robbed like DeNiro
A sandwich still ain't nothing but a hero
Just a small sample of the abstract
When the rhyme get crazy hot and lyrics don't know how to act
Whether shooting joints or wax
I’ll go all out and attack crabs and herbs that's crazy wack
We all can't be pimps and we all can't rap
You got to get your dollars on 'cause it's on like that
Here's what I want you to do: niggas with the green axe
And burgundy 4Runner, inhuman like Blade Runner
When I'm rhyming all summer, just listen to the drummer
Transistor blister, feedback freak the impedance
Funk flow, we expose frequencies in sequence
Napalm gets dropped long-range like fiber optics
Check the rhyme activity-your skills is microscopic
Peace to my crew and my nigga El-P
Who's here to spark it, causing all these crabs to flee
[Verse 2: El-P]
Check it and I inflict it. Quadra 950 lungs misty
Calling me “Maximilian” ‘cause I'm that crazy robot
Teetering on the edge of outer space
Spitting buckshots ‘til black holes surround me. You found me
As far as I'm concerned, I got your ashes in an urn
Big up the temperamental, holds-none-barred kid
What's your confunction? Tracks is type dusty
Drinking water out the well of life and I'ma piss it back rusty
Flesh in phonics. You're goddamn right
I'm on it like aorta pacemakers hooked up to clappers
Clap off. Welcome to my free-form jubilee
Look at me, the witness to the shit you wanna be
DBA, lyrical P, burners insipid
I’m a sycophant, feeding on fats passed and dipped
In and out of my invisible state. Forerunner rep tyrannical
Wrecks like TECs, bust mechanical
Rusty garden weasel painting beats on an easel
Shoot a head up. What, bitch? You're boxing shadows
Look out my way, you’ll pull the breath out your battle
Breaking your double helix and now the shit is single
Not mono. I burn the needle out your phono
El-P the third gunner on the grassy knoll, stroll
Keep the seventh seal of heaven in my pocket
You're faggot like Sprockets. Yo, motherfuck the Houston Rockets
I'm so sick of recycled metaphors
Bet, but I'd fuck Laura Ingalls only when she's done with her chores
Got rappers tip-toeing on a Highway to Heaven
Got manners like Bruce Banner when he's stressed
I'm sick of your corny beats and your crowd-involved hooks
'Cause I'm a thinker
Evil anus letting off stinkers
[Bridge: Bigg Jus & El-P]
Eight steps to perfection
The sum of each part forms a octagon
Let rhyme styles get sparked
Eight steps to perfection
The sum of each part forms a octagon
Where rhyme styles get sparked
[Verse 3: Bigg Jus]
The holy terror, last move you made was an error, won't win
Playing taps on a violin
You can never comprehend the rhyme origin
Irate when I get Chinese-Jamaican like a Chin
Hot rocking corduroy, Ballies that's so fitted
Niggas came and assed out my tracks and left 'em shitted
Fuck the movement, lubricate the smooth shit
Just to let you know, never do I use it
Strictly the blueprint for the ghetto music in my cypher
Shorty the sniper, Jeep like Cherokee
When I take aim handling wall-to-wall emcees
Mr. Madman attract lyrics like magnets
That fuck up speaker cabinets when I'm stabbing it
Like the Juice, then go Bronco busting loose
That's my word. You couldn't shoot or try to compute the math
To kick any tight sport like the vandal
I manhandle. Emcees get murdered like Tenor Saw
Or trapped in the bedroom with the Texas Chainsaw
Massacre. One Two Three, The Taking of Pelham
Eastwick, underground New York be the dwelling
I keep telling ‘em the state of the mind be the mentals
If you murder up in the ghetto, you’re murdering a temple
I would do dangerous things for this album on vinyl.
HAZE Presents: NY REALITY CHECK 101 W/DJ PREMIER
Love that album to this day.
+Emmanuel Mejia That album was gold... I should never have sold it
Thats what put me onto this track!
As soon as you hear "Rugged like Rwanda", you know shit is going down.
Never seen any company with as much flow as this one. Perfect name.
I'm getting really tired of seeing comments that just say REAL HIP HOP it's just like you don't need to tell this is hip hop let the music do the talking lol
Pedro Lopez its a comparison to this new school bullshit
The underground sound vibrates the streets.
I just love El's verse on this one, and this beat is just perfect boom bap
Ice cube, it was a good day sample filtered behind those drums
2:20 - 2:35 the flow is so sick !
one of the best song i've ever heard
This beat...
Beyond inspiring
im 19 and i got a bunch of cds im collecting ima pass it down to my children #respect
A decade later I hope you still got those CDs bro
Rugged Like Rwanda!
Introduced to this gem my freshman year of high school 2012. Glad I was put on by my friend
Respect from Azerbaijan🇦🇿✌️
real underground,real hip hop,sick flows,sick beats lot of respect
Brings back so many memores from my freshman/sophomore college years, chillin in the dorm studying and shit
Omg I been looking for this song!!! For 10 years 😳 thank god I found it
Remember when this dropped... Was 14 then... One of my favourite albums
Contains a sample from the movie "The Warriors" how cool is that?!!
Roberto Martinez elo telephone line
classic album
Classic album!
2019 and still slappin
Man now this is serious if you’re here to listen this song you are a hip hop big fan
Just a small sample of the abstract
This a great song. Company flow is awesome.
this is one hell of a good song!
sick... man childhood memories... so long ago i almost forgot company flow...
Masterpiece for all times
my favorite song off the album
this is awesome i love old school rap
I wonder who the fuk the 31 people that disliked this are from? One of the DOPEST tracks EVER!
Still bangs in 2020. 🔥🤙🏽💯
2019 and still a dope track
GENIUS HIP HOP!!! BRING IT BACK!!
Don't wander far or get chopped up!
you sound like the best dad ever. mad respect to you my man.
old school vibes
Favorite Track
word
Classic underground
Real hip-hop right here yo I miss these fools.
dang thanx i almost 4got about this !!!
big bloodclaat tune! respect&peace from budapest, hungary
Dope, great album
real talk, this shit givin me goosebumps
fantastica!!!
flawless material
Techno in slowmotion with a bedtime story !
I love this.....hip to the hop..."jive turkey"
this song is like underground hip hop on steriods
That instrumental is a killer
man this shit brings me back to somethin great. I remember listening this on my way to driver retraining back in 1999 or so. wish I could be 20 again
Wow gotta hear this!
We all can't be pimps and we all can't rap....
Jahari Kavi read it as it was said
900cats me too
Jahari Kavi without a doubt
Still blowing my mind in 2024 🔥🔥🔥
RESPECT FROM SERBIA!!!
That sample is great makes me high without smoking !! ;)
ya......I am feeling this
Dope smooth shit from 0:00 - 4:43
Got manners like Bruce Banner when he's stressed
the best track from this album..thumbs up if u think that too
That beat 🌬🪐☪️
The ERA were lyrics actually meant something and it was done for the love of the music!!!
word is bond