Clipse — Lord Willin'

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The boldest, brashest hip-hop debut of 2002 came from the Clipse, two brothers who loved knotty wordplay, spaced-out future-funk beats and discovering increasingly gymnastic ways to describe the drug trade. Emerging from Virginia Beach—halfway between Outkast’s Atlanta and Mobb Deep’s New York—the Clipse’s Malice and Pusha T were steely, smooth, impossibly witty and, thanks to long-time collaborators The Neptunes, reinforced by some of the most forward-thinking beats of the decade. Clipse and The Neptunes had readied an entire major label album in 1999 before getting dropped by Elektra. Once The Neptunes became the in-demand hitmakers of the moment, the Clipse were signed as the first rap group to their Star Trak imprint. Though The Neptunes were producing hits for Britney Spears and Usher, <i>Lord Willin’</i> was a completely uncompromising sucker punch of street-level slick talk and avant-garde beat work. The shockingly sparse lunchroom-table beat of the album’s lead single, “Grindin’”, was more minimal than anything on the radio—the rhythm and silences were as stark as anything by Run-DMC, but the glossy textures were teleported from the future. Malice felt it was too minimal, and Pusha T said he had a difficult time finding a way to even rap over such a peculiar beat, going as far as to write the song three times. However, their ice-cold delivery helped propel it to become the group’s first Top 40 hit, and a defining song of the early 2000s. The album’s follow-up single, “When the Last Time”, is ostensibly a club record, but swerves on abrasive synth noises, and features no shortage of the duo's ambitious rhyme combinations like “Obnoxious with the women/Hot tucked in the linen”. Not long after the release of <i>Lord Willin’</i>, the Clipse turned up on the debut solo single from Justin Timberlake, and helped launch a pop-culture phenomenon along the way. Meanwhile, a teenaged Kendrick Lamar honed his craft freestyling to the “Grindin’” beat. For decades, Pusha T stood forth as the critically acclaimed elder statesman of crime rap—and it was the unique rhyme combinations, vivid grind talk, breezy punchlines and cool demeanour of the instant classic <i>Lord Willin’</i> that gave him his bona fides.

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  1. Intro 2:16
  2. Young Boy 4:25
  3. Virginia 3:57
  4. Grindin' 4:24
  5. Cot Damn (feat. Ab-Liva & Rosco P. Coldchain) 5:01
  6. Ma, I Don't Love Her (feat. Faith Evans) 4:17
  7. FamLay Freestyle (feat. Fam-Lay) 1:57
  8. When the Last Time 4:14
  9. Ego 2:48
  10. Comedy Central (feat. Fabolous) 4:33
  11. Let's Talk About It (feat. Clipse) 5:10
  12. Gangsta Lean 5:20
  13. I'm Not You (feat. Jadakiss, Styles P & Rosco P. Coldchain) 4:18
  14. Grindin' (feat. N.O.R.E., Birdman & Lil Wayne) [Remix - Main] 4:16
  15. Grindin' (feat. Sean Paul, Bless & Kardinal Offishall) [Selector Remix - Main] 3:47