"Classic" - Strong Arm Steady & Statik Skeltah
Strong Arm Steady & Statik Selektah come correct with some classic cruisin in convertibles with your crew on those hot summer afternoons bumpin boom-bap shit. What is there to say about a song like this? Just three veteran MC's who know exactly what they're doing; Mitchy Slick's blunt slickness, Krondon's burning gravel throat, and Phil Da Agony's scattershot shout, complementing each other perfectly as the smooth, stringy beat. Neither genre-defying nor overly defined; not overly derivative, but still pretty precedented; not an apex, but one of many quiet little everyday pinnacles, not GoAT but just... damn good. And while that praise can sound faint it is anything but; as much we like to talk about the ruthless, reckless innovators blazing their boundary-shattering trails throughout the turbulent yet stagnated world of music/art/the actual world, how we sometimes forget: exploring familiar grounds need not diminish their value or enjoyment. Especially when its this shit. Aw yeah. Dude comin' in hard on the third verse. Have we heard it all before? Sure, kind of. But who gives a fuck? It's all in the title.
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