the pharcyde, as they used to be
fatlip's solo album is finally coming out in the next month or two. i wonder what the hell took so long. shit, i remember hearing about a release date for it as far back as 1999! i got an advance copy, and while it's not amazing, it's not at all bad either. a sucky thing about it is that anyone who really cares about fatlip will probably already have heard several of the songs, since they've appeared on singles and as leaked demos in various forms over the years. oh well.
listening to the album (which was originally called
revenge of the nerd but has been retitled
the loneliest punk) got me thinking about how much i used to LOVE the pharcyde. i mean i used to play my
bizarre ride tape over and over and over in my janky fake walkman for like two years. i liked
labcabcalifornia too (especially the first single, "runnin") when it came out, but overall it kinda lacked the cohesion of the first album -- i'm pretty sure that's a result of the group using several producers instead of just j-swift. later, after fatlip got the boot for smoking crack and slimkid bailed to record singy songs about floating among the cosmos or whateverthefuck, i pretty much stopped paying attention to the pharcyde. sad days for sure.
anyway, all that is a longish way of introducing one of my favorite remixes from
bizarre ride:
"passin' me by (fly as pie mix)." it's got a super cool loungey feel to it and bootie brown just killllls it vocally, doing some sort of smart-ass mock-sinatra thing.
oh yeah, one pharcyde remix i've been trying to find for a while is the baka boyz version of "ya mama." it was rejected by the pharcyde's label for some reason, so it was never officially released, but being that the baka boyz were dj's on power 106 in la, they played it on-air once in a while. it had the same lyrics as the original but a totally new vocal take, just like the mix i posted above. if you have a copy of the baka boyz remix or know anything about it, please let me know. thanks.