Damn… if that’s true, then I’ve got to give Smooth Triumph some credit for cleverly disguising what I originally conceived as an intentional mistake with an actually quite humorous factoid.

Also, I’m not, IMHO, down with the idea of Nas playing T La Rock in his biopic. N’s getting a little bit up there in age (34 going on 35), and I don’t think he’d be able to pull off playing a young T quite well. Crazy as it sounds, I’d feel a bit better about someone like Ace Hood, Lupe Fiasco, or even Li’l Wayne performing the role.

Go work on your writing errors before you try and insult me again. Notice how there are no misspelled words in all four of my posts (including this one).

Sorry, but you spelled “front” wrong. You spell it with one “r,” not three.

And, no, I’m not a fronter. I might be a fifteen year old white teenager with autism (there, I said it; let the flaming begin), but I’d rather listen to Big Daddy Kane, Rakim, young LL Cool J and Kool Moe Dee before all of the Soulja Boys, T-I’s, Young Jeezys and Yung Jocs that have plagued the radio currently.

frrrnt.

and like AZ said in the same movie, “I’m about to blow, dun.”

Yes, “Verbal Assassin” WAS on the 2000 “Lost Tapes” LP. It’s track six, as a matter of fact.

And, also, I would personally just as well be IMMENSELY interested to see what would happen/take place if T La Rock were to go up against Nas for the right to claim the biographical picture name. Although, in my opinion, I feel/believe that T, despite not having the spiritual/metaphysical edge that enables Nas to become even more lyrically dangerous in battle, still has the skills to get his/do damage, and would absolutely whip him like a slavemaster if they ever went head-up (if you notice how upgraded/updated his flow was in “On a Warpath,” and his gaining of a better ability to articulate/speak flavorfully, with evolutions in rhyme/vocabulary utilization structure compared to “Lyrical King,” you can only imagine how reinvented his techniques are nowadays).

I’d also give it to him on the influential strength of La Rock having written what is quite possibly the greatest song in hip-hop history (with the Treacherous Three and Spoonie Gee’s “The New Rap Language” following close by in second place).

I just finished reading the entirety of your interview, and I honestly have to say, without any level of flattery or overt praise, that it was the most detailed analysis of T La Rock’s works, life, and unfortunate endurance of misrepresentation, dissimulation and insidiousness on the part of all people that deceived him, failed to pay the man when he truly deserved/earned acquired/obtained money, and swindled personal possessions without ever thinking about creating any clones from the master copies I have ever read. I’d always wondered in the past why he wasn’t making music to a great extent any more. I’ve originally thought that it was because of shameful, sad incidents in that same manner of format, but had no idea what actually occurred/took place, and to how serious and existence-damaging an extent it was (or they were).

It was no mystery to me that he (including most, if not all, of the other rappers/groups signed under Fresh/Sleeping Bag Records at that time, including Just-Ice, EPMD, Mantronix, Tricky Tee, 12:41 (old-school KRS-One preceding Boogie Down Productions and his solo career) and the like) was victimized by poor business practices, bad/lack of proper management/promotion and poor advertising consequently/constantly/consistently holding/restraining the companies and their incredible collection/assembly/compilation of albums/records back from good RIAA certification and Oricon chart rankings (“On a Warpath,” if it had been additionally released here in the United States, should have achieved Platinum certification (2x Platinum status should he have decided to wait and release it in 1990 instead of ’89)), but I haven’t been able earlier on to find any real information on what the causes/situations/questions at hand were. So, now more than ever, I’m EXTREMELY grateful to finally gain more knowledge/understanding of these problems he previously had (and probably still does to this day in some way).

Cosign Pim, PLEASE ROBBIE try to get a Kurtis Mantronik interview! IMO Just Ice “Cold Getting Dumb” is the GOAT beat in hiphop.