On first listen, the beats on this album sound like ‘meh’. Colour me unsurprised.

Pete Rock and Smif-N-Wessun feat. Black Rob - ‘(I’m A) Stand Up Guy’

Doo Wop & Snaggapuss recruit B.R. to unleash speech over the classic ‘J.Beez Comin’ Through’ instro.

Bounce Squad feat. Black Rob - ‘Live At The State Building’

B.R. – now repping for Duck Down Records. Is that a cartoon monkey hat he’s rocking on stage? Woah.

Winding-up our week of Robbie O coverage, here are some of his finest features on other people’s records…
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Freestyle Friday on Thursday? How’s that for future shock…
Banco “getting it in”, as they say in the classics.
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Pretty standard stuff, although the ‘Whoa’ video is always worth a shot. Who’s idea was that Red Baron hat though?

‘You Don’t Know Me’
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Black Rob Week continues with B.R. and Shyne going in on Stretch’s old Hot 97 show, before they both got sent off for separate up north trips.

Black Rob & Shyne on Stretch Armstrong’s XL Radio (Sept. 24, 2000)

As the man himself once said, “Your arms too short to box with Rob”. Fresh back from another “vacation”, B.R. just hit us with a new one, so it seemed the perfect opportunity to dip back into his extensive catalog of mixtape/unreleased burners.
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