In our never-ending quest to bring you the classic tracks behind our favorite hip-hop cuts, today we bring you the U-Roy and Hopeton Lewis collaboration “Tom Drunk.” It only takes a few seconds’ worth of listening to realize that the song’s best riff was long-ago copped by Reflection Eternal for “Fortified Live,” a tune notable for some of the ’90s greatest rhymes: To wit:
I’m sippin wishing well water imported from Pluto
That’s why my eyes is glassy, so ain’t got to ask me
The interplanetary Illuminati move your body
I trekked the stars first, so fuck Kirk and Scotty
And:
So gather ’round, to hear the profound brown vomiter
Absorb the sonic energy manifestin through your monitor
Reflection Eternal is back with a new video, by the way—can’t say we’re huge fans, but always nice to see the great James Worthy get a visual shout-out.
Also, please let us know how the new Grooveshark widget works for y’all. This could help liberate us from the tyranny of YouTube, provided it works as advertised.
scottstev // Jul 2, 2009 at 12:09 pm
It works.
Brendan I. Koerner // Jul 2, 2009 at 12:10 pm
@scottstev: Thanks for the feedback on Grooveshark. Still cautious ’bout using it–main fear is site slowdown. But I’ll keep at it ’til there’s a problem. Another great cut skedded for this afternoon…