Digging In the Crates:

DIGGIN IN THE CRATES: LEGENDARY EMCEES

 

I know I have previously starting a thread on how BBC IS THE DOPEST CREW IN NY... THEY ARE EXTREMELY TALENTED< BUT IT SLIPPED MY MIND TEMPORARILY HOW FUCKING GOOD D.I.T.C was, I will go as far to say day one is one of the top ten best this hip hop songs. and the tribute to big L is the best tribute song ever...

 

 

 

 

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D.I.T.C. Members include:

 

O.C. (Brooklyn, N.Y.)

Lord Finesse (Bronx, N.Y)

Show (Bronx, N.Y.)

Fat Joe (Bronx, N.Y.)

Buckwild (Bronx, N.Y.)

A.G. (Bronx, N.Y)

Diamond (Bronx, N.Y.)

Big L R.I.P. (Harlem, N.Y.)

 

What is everyone elses favorite d.i.t.c track?

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THIS RIGHT HERE IS SOME ILL ASS LYRICS:

 

 

 

rtist: D.I.T.C. (Diggin in the Crates)

Album: D.I.T.C.

Song: Day One

Typed by: mag464@lulu.acns.nwu.edu

 

[Diamond D]

Now its the mad magician with the ill deposition

No repetition holdin down Bronx tradition

My composition simply squash the competition

Step up and get beat into submission

Cause this musician with the street intuition

7-35 fuel-injected transmission

My opposition will have to recognize my steez

Exotic trees leave a trail of scuffed up knees

So please you couldn't touch this cat with a stick

Quick to inflict tricks blaze up in the flick

Son I'm sick and you could put that on my mama

Exclamation point, quotation, comma

Lay up on the beaches when I'm down in the Bahamas

The skills go back to the days of wonderama

So pass the scama, son its time to get this money

So we can relax and recline where its sunny

 

[big L]

I went from standin on the corner sellin cocaine

To rippin shows live on stage the hoes yellin my name

To be precise rippin mics is the light of my life

You frontin like you trife but never pulled a heist in your life

The price of my ice is sky high, I'm a fly guy

Its every thugs dream I really love cream, its in my blood stream

You mad cause I got more chicks than you, more bricks than you

More nines and extra clips than you

Where I live it ain't a nice town

You can't walk around with ice down

Some clown probably gettin stuck right now

Peace to D-I-T-C, Show and AG, Fat J-O-E

Diamond D, Lord Finesse, and me

I'm from the East Coast, this is how we roll in New York

A bunch of rowdy niggas holdin the fort

Jackin creeps, packin heat, these Harlem streets is for keeps

Much love to all my peeps who got a couple of sheets

 

Chorus: Yo, most these rap cats don't know

Where it started, wher it came from

We been rappin this shit since Day One

Diggin In The Crates originators

Why niggas playa haters

Knowin damn well you can't fade us

 

[A.G. (Andre the Giant)]

You better take me out quick

Cause I'm accurate when I bust mine

And make it count like Jordan at crunch time

Just in case I play Fishburn and double up on nines

You can never make it rain or stop my sunshine

So I keep eyes on these chumps the whole time

Take note of your technique like we sceme on dimes

Disregard your crew, fuck your heart

Put a slug in me, it'll be marriage

'Til death do us part

Until then master this art and kill them

With the pen thats dramatic, automatics I commit sins

Hold my head, but when I've had it I test chins

If that ain't real then feel the stainless steel

Bang'em and hang'em like they did our relatives

Thought he was the best on the mic that ever lived, negative

Wu-diggity if you with me then say word

Lets get twisted like bottlecaps [and] create like Spielberg

 

[Lord Finesse]

Check the referral, man my whole squad's thorough

We worldwide niggas is nice in one burrough

We all gleam, plus we feind for more cream

You got some nice players they just on the wrong team

Nahmean...as the world turns

Avoid concern we'll set you straight like a perm

Rap apostle lyrical type picasso kinda hostile

Nothing less than colossal, you dig me like fossils

Be the cat with the groovy soul

Lotta rappers out here acting with no movie roles

You know the deal I represent skills

And niggas with bank reels that live to make a mil

On the real thats my motto

To hard to follow

When dinasour perform goin out like bravado

Hard to hit like lotto underworld role model

D.I.T.C. we be them cats to tomorrow

 

Chorus

 

[O.C.]

Holdin it down for D.I.T.C niggas stink like feces

Goin against raw dogs ya lost

The way I simulate rhyme and rhythimatic timin

On beat off beat drunk flow here we go

Assignments handed out each individual stand out

Carryin his own clout

Phenomenal motions of rap I pose a threat

Foes I put em on a block like a hole in a pin

Lyrical genocide on the witty side

Niggas give me respect due like the pope in a synagogue

Who waitin my odds O.C. far from a fraud

You waste my time nigga so I bagged your broad

Blow your mind ditto with no conscience

I decide the law motherfucker I'm Congress

This concludes my repetoire what I be on

MC's make way for mine or get peed on

Fuck that

Diggin' In The Crates

Production: DJ Premier, Show, Diamond, Lord Finesse, Buckwild, Rockwilder, Ahmed

Tracklist

1. Thick - Big L, O.C. & A.G.*

2. Get Yours - O.C., Big L & Diamond

3. Where Ya At - Big Pun & Milano*

4. Way Of Life - Fat Joe & Big L*

5. Day One - Diamond, Big L, Lord Finesse, O.C. & A.G.*

6. Hey Luv - Milano & Cuban Link

7. Foundation - Diamond, O.C., A.G. & Lord Finesse*

8. Champagne Thoughts - O.C.*

9. Ebonics (DJ Premier Remix) - Big L*

10. Drop It Heavy - A.G., KRS-One & Big Pun*

11. Da Enemy - Fat Joe & Big L*

12. Stand Strong - Big L, Lord Finesse, A.G. & O.C.*

13. Weekend Nights - A.G.

14. Thick (Rockwilder Remix) - Big L, O.C. & A.G.*

15. Tribute - O.C., A.G. & Lord Finesse*

* - Best Tracks

D.I.T.C., which stands for Diggin In The Crates, is an eight member collective of dope MC's and producers. In 2000 they released their self-titled debut. Every member of D.I.T.C. has each had success on their own and have had solo careers or other groups and side projects that have also brought them fame. But when you bring together MC's Fat Joe, Big L, O.C., A.G, and solid, banging production by Show, Buckwild and Lord Finesse and Diamond (who are also MC's) the combination is dope, classic hip hop at its finest. D.I.T.C. is a near perfect album that can be played through without skipping a song and then be rewound and played again without it sounding tired or monotonous. The thing that makes every song so good is the sharp, clever and witty lyrics from the MC's and the banging beats, which were produced entirely by the in house D.I.T.C. producers, except for three Premo tracks, one Rockwilder track and one Ahmed track. Some standouts include "Thick," and its remix, produced by Rockwilder, "Where Ya At," which only features Big Pun and Milano who drop good verses over a thight Show beat, "Way Of Life" and "Da Enemy", which features the winning combination of Fat Joe and Big L, the two Diamond produced joints, "Day One" and "Foundation", both of which feature tight verses from Diamond, Lord Finesse, O.C. and A.G., the solo O.C. joint "Champagne Thoughts" produced by Buckwild, Big L's "Ebonics" (Remix) produced by Premo, the blazin posse cut "Drop It Heavy," which features one of Big Pun's dopest verses ever, and also dope verses from KRS-One and A.G., "Stand Strong", which has another dope beat from Show, and a solid lyrical performance from Big L, Lord Finesse, O.C, and A.G, and "Tribute" which is dedicated to their fallen group member, Big L. The album is definitely as dope as I as said it is and every serious hip hop fan needs to have it in their collection, so go cop it and I promise you, you won't be sorry.

FUCK! I JUST WROTE A BIG RESPONSE, AND I PRESSED BACKSPACE WHEN I WAS ON THE SUBMIT REPLY BUTTON!

 

 

shit!

 

 

well, I like DITC. How's that a response for you?

works for me.

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big l was very talented. rip

BIG L TALENT COULD HAVE HAD LED HIM TO BE THE MOST RESPECTED RAPPER IN THE WORLD. SO MUCH POTENTIONAL THAT GOT RUINED BY A GUN BLAST. BIG L RIP...

 

 

HE MADE DITC WHAT IT WAS>>

ditc rule. LORD FINESSE IS THE SHIT

Big L was the shit

the enemy

 

fatjoe

big l r.i.p

BIG L is nodoubt one of my favorite emcees

 

R.I.P.

Throw your L's up!!

 

 

And it dont mean lazy motherfucker either!

 

GET EM UP!!

Big L is the man..

 

"Nowadays girls want you for your money, I'm like half, I got nothing but love for you honey"

i was jus listening tio day one last night

BUMPKIN< BECUZ DITC IS THE SHIT..

Bump this shit up, for classic hip hop...

yo, ethreadz, you know where to get PM flix to post up? i'm ignorant to the internet ways, so i was wondering if you have the chance, start one up. if you start a pmer thread, I'll type out the Quality Of Life article that he wrote.

i was listening to DITC the other night. i must say i wasn't feeling Big L's voice. it annoyed me. perhaps its like a brothers keeper thing and you get used to it. all around i enjoyed the stuff though. dope beats.

Originally posted by Weapon X

yo, ethreadz, you know where to get PM flix to post up? i'm ignorant to the internet ways, so i was wondering if you have the chance, start one up. if you start a pmer thread, I'll type out the Quality Of Life article that he wrote.

 

 

do you mean the oldschool Pm, who use to write with revlon, or the dude from upstate Ny...Because I dont recall the quality of life article?

i'm not sure. in the Quality Of Life mag (the one with Cav, PM, and AZ articles/interviews) features some pictures of scraps: nike, pmer (1989); pmsley (1989); joeypm, fuel; pm throwup on a red train from 96, some 1988 pm and bones, and a "freedom" production by joeypm, fuel, and revs.

it's gotta be the olschool pm, right? i don't know about no upstate - they're almost all new york city transit pictures.

no doubt, I give Pm lots of credit, and others have requested some pm pix on 120z... I know that sixcentz has a couple pm flix, but the pics are unfortuantly limited..I will peek around and see what I can do... But I would love for others to contribute, Because the thread would fall apart quickly with only a couple of flix, even if pm paid his dues. .

for real. i suppose I will look, too. at any rate, I will type out that article. It's prety cool, albeit not that long.

^ I would defiently be down to see that article... any kind of history involving new york transit days is golden.

you lack the minerals and vitamins

 

O.C. - Time's Up.

oh man, Time's Up is too amazing!

 

 

the pm article is typed, I just gotta cut and paste. although, i doubt this is the best thread to put it into. it's not even an article, really. More like an opinionated piece. damn cool, nonetheless. now my search for pmsley flicks begins.

O.C-Times up/O-Zone

Lord Finesse-Funky Techican/Food for thought/Yes you May(original

and the remix)/Kicking flavor with my Man/Actual facts

Showbiz and A.G.-Fat Pockets/Soul Clap/Giant in the Mental/anything off of Goodfellas/We Do That Too

Big L-Devils Son/School Days/Fed up wit tha Bullshit/8 iz enuff/The ememy/Streetstruck/Let 'em have it L... and some other shit

Diamond D-I got plans(with Scientifik.....on Sci's album) and everything on his 2 albums------his joint on Soundbombing2 is fuckin' sick.

Fat Joe tha Gangsta---Shit is Real(premiers' remix).....I don't know,I never really felt his voice....

and the tribute joint is dope........

Ghetto Dwellas(A.G.)-anything Party Arty spits sounds ill.......