Author: Nonce

Format: Import

Release Date: 28-02-1995

Details: Amazon.caEveryone knows about L.A. rap’s G-Funk, but there’s another, less celebrated side to Angeleno rap that’s been harboring some of the country’s most talented rappers. Rhymers like Ahmad, the Pharcyde, and the now defunct Freestyle Fellowship–dissenting voices to G-Funk’s gangsterized clique–have looked back to the east and taken New York’s original old school dynamics and freestyle lyrics to new levels of technical proficiency. From this retrominded school of West Coast doggy dog refuseniks comes the debutWorld Ultimate from the duo the Nonce. More than any of their South Central cohorts, however, the Nonce get permanently stuck in a New York state of mind. Juggling old school styles with new school production, the pair come closest to A Tribe Called Quest’s jazzy hop. And on “World Ultimate,” the tight beats are standard Pete Rock whi