The Hatred – Now this instrumental sounds more like what you would expect from the Trackmasters. The instrumental was cool but no one, including the host, impresses on this one.
Kirk Gowdy bats second, and sticks with Chubb’s conscious theme, discussing the violence that affects the inner-city but Tone must have missed the conscious theme memo and drops boastful lines, and at one point claims to “have more juice than the fuckin’ movie”. Not as strong a song as the first two, but still decent.ĭon’t Drink The Milk – Our host invites Kirk Gowdy (not to be confused with the legendary sportscaster Curt Gowdy, who I’m sure influenced his moniker) and 1 half of the Trackmasters, Poke, to join him for this weird cypher session. Chubb takes verse one and raps as his alter ego, Nasal (and he rhymes just as the name suggests), and spits about racial issues (I’m still trying to understand what Chubb Nasal meant by “Bill Cosby niggas” we all know what that would means in today’s climate, but what did it mean in ’92?). Pop ‘Nuff Shit – Chubb stays in his aggressive mode, dropping more battle rhymes over a decent backdrop. The instrumental compliments Chubb’s rhymes well, and I love the sick saxophone loop brought in during the hook. I’m The Man – The Chubbster puts his grown man swag on as he brags and boasts with a sophistication not many emcees are able to pull off. Some-O-Next Shit – Chubb kicks IGGMY off by going for the neck of any emcee within earshot, as he rips the shit out of this raw instrumental. For anyone who questioned if Chubb could bring it hard, he confirms that he can on this one. I ran across it at Half Price Books store a few years ago and since I was familiar with some of the singles, and it was on clearance for a $1, I quickly added it to my collection. Chubb would turn to himself and bring in the fledgling production duo, the Trackmasters (who at this point spelled their name as Trackmasterz) to help him produce his 4th release I Gotta Get Mine Yo!īefore today, I’ve never listened to IGGMY in its entirety. But after The One, Chubb and Howie decided to go their separate ways. He would go on to release And The Winner Is… in ’89 (more on that a bit later) and easily his most commercially successful album, The One, in 1991 – which included three songs that would reach number one on the billboards Hot Rap Singles charts: “Treat ‘Em Right”, “Just The Two Of Us”, and “The Chubbster” and a 4th single that didn’t reach number one but is probably my favorite song his catalog (“The Big Man”).Ĭhubb’s cousin, Howie Tee, handled all the production duties for Chubb’s first three albums. Chubb Rock was a pre-med student at Brown University when he received the hip-hop bug and decided to drop out and pursue his music dreams, years before Kanye would coin the action as the title for his classic debut album.Ĭhubb Rock would sign a deal with Select Records (which was distributed by Arista), where he would release his self titled debut album (which I don’t currently own and have never heard, but will eventually track down a copy) in 1988. Richard Simpson, better know to the world as Chubb Rock, is a Kingston, Jamaica born emcee who moved to Brooklyn, NY as a kid.
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