Too Many Rappers music video?

[Mr. Juice]

Just came across the photo again for the "Too Many Rappers" single and thought--as I did the first time I saw it--where's the music video for this?

The guys are obviously caught in mid-rhyme, so there has to be a video camera capturing this, right?

Right?

[pesto pizza]

listened to the original version last night and it would have been the best track on the album.
the remix version is rubbish,so much so i skip it and I have tried to like it.

[Jiberish]

I liked the OG version, but I definitely think they made it better. Even if, only because of MCA's new first verse which is worlds above the old one.

[Guy Incognito]

there maybe film of them doing it but i doubt it was ever the finished product.

the version that made it on to the album shits over the original from a great height.

Original is lumpy and the remix has bags more energy and sounds more menacing

[Micodin]

The OG instrumental on vinyl is that shit tho. It's crazy bugged out.

[cj hood]

said this before here, but...this track had all the potential in the world but they slept on it. it's the weakest track on the album. 2nd version is slightly better than original.

[Extra Cheese]

the song is ok to me but I just feel like this track didn't come together organically. qtip was hanging around with them a lot when "get it together" was made, the biz was around often with them in the studio, its always been a team with them. This song felt collaborative just for the sake of doing a collabo. from what Mike D. said they talked about who would it be cool to do a song with and they decided nas. but nas was never in the studio with them they just transferred beats and rhymes and then put it together.

I mean nas and common were in the studio together and working together and "ghetto dreams" was made. personally it also feels like nas was holding back like on some, oh i can't say that they'll be offended type shit.

[Brass Monk]

personally it also feels like nas was holding back like on some, oh i can't say that they'll be offended type shit.

I disagree. All Nas' lines on that track are taunts about a rival not being a cutthroat, mobster etc. I've heard tracks from Nas where he is holding back to be non-offensive and politically correct. Too Many Rappers is not one of those tracks.

I agree about the track not coming about organically like the Q-Tip collabo and perhaps suffering as a result though....

[Jiberish]

It feels less organic than the Q-Tip track or the Biz tracks for sure. But with Q-Tip they just chopped up a freestyle he did to the same beat and wrote rhymes to fit in around him. That's pretty inorganic.

It is the much better song though.

Same goes for Biz on What Cha' Want. not sure about Do It. But I wouldn't be surprised to hear that it was sampled out of some other Biz[ness] that he did hanging out with them.

But yeah, at least they were all hanging out. That is the difference. That's what feels off. I think the remix makes it feel a bit more cohesive than the OG track did.

[cj hood]

the song is ok to me but I just feel like this track didn't come together organically. qtip was hanging around with them a lot when "get it together" was made, the biz was around often with them in the studio, its always been a team with them. This song felt collaborative just for the sake of doing a collabo. from what Mike D. said they talked about who would it be cool to do a song with and they decided nas. but nas was never in the studio with them they just transferred beats and rhymes and then put it together.

I mean nas and common were in the studio together and working together and "ghetto dreams" was made. personally it also feels like nas was holding back like on some, oh i can't say that they'll be offended type shit.

Good point...

[Bernard Goetz]

It feels less organic than the Q-Tip track or the Biz tracks for sure. But with Q-Tip they just chopped up a freestyle he did to the same beat and wrote rhymes to fit in around him. That's pretty inorganic.
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Same goes for Biz on What Cha' Want.

I'm pretty sure Biz was there for Drunken Praying Mantis Style, which they sampled for What'Cha Want.

[Jiberish]

I'm pretty sure Biz was there for Drunken Praying Mantis Style, which they sampled for What'Cha Want.

Yes. They chopped up something he did from another session. Which is what I just said.

[Micodin]

The difference between the Biz & Tip collaborations and Nas is the Boys were in the studio at the time bugging out with the Biz and Tip and working on music that would either become something or nothing. That's what's nice about hearing the Biz samples and Tip's freestyle chopped up for Get it Together. They were actually collaborating.

With TMR they sent Nas the beat and he laid down the raps in Atlanta while they were in New York. They never really hung out or worked on the song together in a traditional since.

Sadly that's how most collaborations are done nowadays.

ps. I just noticed I pretty much said what Extra Cheese said. But, you get the point. :)

[Bernard Goetz]

Yes. They chopped up something he did from another session. Which is what I just said.

Yeah. I reread your post - it was the "same with" part that threw me.

[Jiberish]

Ah the boards. Members misunderstanding other members since what ever day members joined up on.

[pshabi]

I'm just hoping to one day be able to confirm Nas's suspicions about Russian Blondes.

[Jiberish]

I'm just hoping to one day be able to confirm Nas's suspicions about Russian Blondes.

I hear they are the wettest.