Throwback Raps: Tha Fedaralz – Below Dago x Got Me Twisted x Raise And Blaze
Tha Fedaralz “Below Dago“
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Tha Fedaralz “Got Me Twisted“
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Tha Fedaralz “Raise And Blaze“
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I might need to take back what I said about Tha Fedaralz going that far back since I’m not exactly sure how far back they actually go. These songs were featured on some skate videos that go back to the mid-200ts so the songs could be only a few years old. But listening to them myself, they sound like the smoothed out, backpack rap of the Hieroglyphics variety that was pretty common in the late-90s/early-200ts so I made the assumption that the songs and the group were fairly old.
Not that I’m biased toward the backpack era (okay, maybe I am a little bit) but there’s something missing in P. Chase’s (formerly known as Destro of Tha Fedaralz) recent mixtape that make these old Fedaralz cuts ill. It’s not that he sold out or anything–1. because I can’t imagine him making much money off a free mixtape on DatPiff; and 2. because his lyrical style hasn’t really changed much except for a few references to drug dealing. But songs like “Below Dago” and “Raise And Blaze” were, y’know, actual songs with concepts and structure and not just music with rapping on top of it. It’s unfair to compare these songs to mixtape joints that were consciously trying to be just music with rapping on top of it. But I hope P. Chase/Destro still has it in him to write songs as good as these Fedaralz joints.
Check out a couple more Youtube joints after the jump.
Reading be fun though:
