Mobb Deep | Shook Ones Part II As I mentioned earlier I wasn’t always a huge fan of Rap. In fact, if you asked me just seven years ago I would have said the exact opposite. While Wu had an extremely integral role in tearing down this needless bias, hearing the above mentioned song for the first time might have actually been the singular moment my mind started to change. Of all places I heard the instrumental during the opening scene to 8 Mile. There was just something unsettling about the out of tune guitar riff, coupled with the dirge like sirens in the background pulsing with the unrelenting grit of the boom bap drums. The beat was quite honestly just like a nightmare set on repeat, and after discovering the actual song I came to find the verse’s reflected this as well. The most sinister part of it all though was that, after hearing both Prodigy and Havoc’s unflinching testimonies, I believed them. The line, “I’m only 19 but my mind is older” still gives me chills, my heart goes out to that 19 year old and there’s part of me that feels like he never left that song. That genuine lack of hope or even the slightest interest in whether he lived or died came across in that tune with devastating effectiveness. It’s clear that these two characters have no desire for sympathy, nor pity, and that’s part of what makes the song as powerful as it is. Although Shook Ones will forever be a classic for me, I’m still wary of that 19 year old every time I hear the song and somehow I just know the situation remains the same.
Posted on: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 09:42:42 +0000
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