Words By Darius Sinclair â„¢
1994 must’ve been a magical year for hip hop. Snoop, Outkast, Biggie, Nas, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, Dr. Dre, Gang Starr. Even Queen Latifa was shining that year. But low on the radar was a rapper who still is an active player in game: Ras Kass.
Yes. Ras Kass.
Even I was shocked by Kass’s first official appearance in 1994 with the track “Come Widdit”, featuring Ahmad and Saafir from the Street Fighter soundtrack. The album itself had lots of competition. But these three made magic with their West Coast flows over the East Coast beat. Complete with scratches, a stinky horn and a Star Wars beam-up sample, the beat takes you back to the grimey days of ’94. Ras Kass shines, of course, with a impressive vocab and witty punch lines and the “guests” (Saafir and Ahmad) are solid. It makes you upset the trio haven’t been on more tracks together.
This track should be placed on your ‘classic hip hop’ playlist. It was put on a ignored soundtrack, so thank God for p2p for making it accessible again. Now we can witness the early stages of what brought us Rasassination and Soul On Ice.
A1 – Come Widdit (The Fredwreck Remix) (4:15)
A2 – Come Widdit (Joe Quixx Remix) (4:57)
A3 – Come Widdit (Radio) (4:33)
B1 – Come Widdit (The Fredwreck Remix Instrumental)(4:50)
B2 – Come Widdit (Radio Instrumental) (4:35)
Ras Kass, Ahmad, and Saafir – Come Widdit
Bonus Cut – Ras Kass – Won’t Catch Me Runnin’
Read T.C.’s take on the same track over @ Stray Shots From The Smoking Section.
Do you have any promos, maxi-singles complete with B-sides, instrumentals, etc like they used?
Shoot’em to us.
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ras kass deserves more shine then he got.
http://www.zshare.net/download/174233e66a8d/
whole Streetfighter OST 1994
That soundtrack was vicious… NaS, Public Enemy, The Pharcyde, Craig Mack (yeah I know)… that joint was highly overlooked.
“One On One” was my shit!
*calms down*
i’m a huge ras kass fan so any anonymous songs, features and all that please post..
the birth of the nevergonnahappen Golden State Warrior project.
Ras Kass is the best on the West, hands down. If you don’t believe me listen to “Soul On Ice”, especially the song “Nature Of The Threat” and tell me he ain’t nice. Never heard that Street Fighter soundtrack, but me & my niggaz used to play the arcade game EVERY single fucking day at the corner store. The amount of quarters we pumped into that machine would’ve done thousands of loads of laundry! HADDOKEN!!!
I like Ras Kass, but i think i llike Fred Wreck better. Thanks for the OG, and FW remix and INST.
DAMN !!! Face Made A New Classic
Scarface’s forthcoming album ‘Made’ (out December 4th) : “Girl You Know”
Crazy Song !
Video for Hell Razah’s new single Razah’s Ladder’.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDelRzvwxaQ
SunZ oF MaN Rider
This is one of my favorite games ever,
Streetfighter third Strike, it’s too killa,
and I’m betting I can dog anybody here in it. haha
but good post though, I’m real hype for Number 4 to drop.
No one can take me in Street Fighter!!! I’ll put money on it!!!
^^^BULLSHIT
Streetfighter third Strike, it’s too killa,
and I’m betting I can dog anybody here in it. haha
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I pick Alex and lay aggins to WASTE.
Aggins is killin’ me with the Street Fighter threats! Gimme good ol’ fashioned Ken… flaming dragon punch will murder you cats!
Speaking of Ras Kass… anyone have “Jack Frost”? I have the rest of Van Gogh, but I’m missing that joint.
Ras Kass is a tragedy…like a Greek Tragedy, an alcoholic that thinks the world has somehow done him wrong, he remind me of Eddie Kane from the five heartbeats. The kid got TALENT but he will never put two and two together and be a success,
I was going to college in Atlanta in 94 (Da House!!) and I was one of the lucky few people to hear the original 94 version of Soul on Ice (Patchwerk Records is located in Atlanta) that was different than the one released in 1996 which had samples changed and different songs.
The demo that is floating on the net has some of the original cuts but not all of them and some that didnt make the album like the crap remix for Wont Catch Me Runnin’
The 1994 version of Soul on Ice was an unadulterated classic. It would have made the Top 100 Hip Hop albums of all time.
street fighter teaser trailer
http://www.gametrailers.com/player/26535.html
Does anyone have the Diamond D remix of Soul on Ice? That beat was sick, and that shit is hard to find.
Samurai Banana,
I have the 12 inch on vinyl.
this is the kind of stuff that embarrasses me about the ‘hip hop generation’ (read: guys that listened to rap music)
everyone genre can blah on and on about their favourite song from some b-grade movie compilation, (but they usually dont) but what makes it so sickening when ‘the hip hop generation’ does it is the complete obliviousness to their own sickening self absorbtion & childish devotion to their own superficial minutae (excuse my language please) and some kind of a belief that when they do it its ‘real’ & ‘dope’ & ‘true’ & means you’re a ‘real hip hopper’ & ‘devoted’ to ‘the culture’ instead of just a lame boring music nerd.
what happened with hip hop was this:
you were at an age when you had first had the time, disposable income & like minded peer group for you to really waste too much time on stuff that wasnt gonna pay the rent, ie: too much ‘hip hop’.
NOW your situation is different, responsibility is everywhere, you’ve grown up, & dont have the time to spend on being a fan like what you used to, and so the past takes on this rosy glow of being ‘the golden years’ & ……… actually fuck this im going to write this up proper and send it in its too long for a post.
i like the site and the music i just want to dead some of the music nerd fanboy bullshit.
no offense
calm down, can’t someone just reminisce?
@DMONEY,
I like where you’re going with this. Send it to Gotty and see if he will put it up. Props to say what others are thinking but wont say.
^ lol, my dude you ok?
Personally, I think there’s a balance, even if the scales are tipped towards the “golden age.” I’m the first to say the past is the past. But @ the same time, you can’t scream on youngins saying “hip-hop was better when…” & not give examples, this track being a good place to start.