Nice & Smooth

I love 90s hip hop.

And one of the groups that I used to really like back in the day was Nice and Smooth.

They had a song called, You Can't Have Your Cake and Eat It Too.

It went a little something like, You can't have your cake and eat it too.

We had all the greats, numerous greats from the 80s, the Ready Rock Cs, the Dougie Freshes, the Greg Nices, even Rizal went under a different name in the 80s because he used to beatbox for Mikey D. um, uh, wise from status Sonic.

Um, I could just go on, uh, beat master T, um, DMX, DMX, Buffy from the fat boys.

Got to, got to remember a Buffy rest in peace.

And obviously, you know, going to like New York or whatever, back in, say, like, the 80s, you know, was a huge thing because we were all, like, little kids, you know, but he actually came, you know, so he was way ahead than most people would actually do because he'd seen beatboxing from the American side, like, firsthand.

So he was doing it.

I had only heard it via... record so my my first routines was like okay let me try and imitate doggy fresh let me try and imitate let me try you know all the guys that i heard on record the buffies you know the the greg nices whoever yeah and stuff like that but chaser you know and you know he he he witnessed it different and had a very unique style i kind of imitated a style then formulated my own style around that style.

You know what I'm saying? So, um, so Chase was always that guy that people were like, but I'm, you know, I'm going to be honest.

I'm glad that we became, we became allies.

but they that bvds were like the hot underwear for like a while where i think i think um there are a lot of the uh commercials and stuff i know i do everything in my bvds you know yeah

so but with this debut record of dos effects um uh i i love the way that they flow i love and i know i've talked about this but In the 80s and 90s, a duo that went back and forth, like I mentioned Nice and Smooth, we've mentioned other things, but having that back and forth dynamic, they had it.

Does that make sense? They were

incredible.

Yes, they had.

We talked about it with Nice and Smooth.

We've talked about it with OutKast.

When you have a one-two punch, I mean Tribe Called Quest, where... it's not just two random guys rapping right it's i mean even even something more recent which i don't know if you ever listen to run the jewels but killer mike and lp where it's like these two guys on their own are honestly like okay like i kind of like lp but then you put them together and and the thing about dos effects is what i love so much about dos effects is first of all just the songs right like you mentioned it's The way they rap and the way they do the back and forth, you cannot help but...

"Yo, I'm telling y'all, da, da, da, da." Yo, Ebro, I kid you not, my brother, besides my daughter being there, besides my bro- my actual brother being there, my wife, my family, all, just amazing turnout.

All the artists, um, Peter Gunz, Greg Nice, Strafe, I mean, Cynthia, TKA.

It was, like, the story of my life, but told with artists.

Yeah.

Mm-hmm.

You know, we had so many different styles of groups from PE to Nice & Smooth to De La-

Rockwild

... to Tru- you know, Rakim.

Yeah.

No, everybody had it.

Nice & Smooth, like, like, Nice & Smooth, like, every song.

In that era, yeah.

So I'm still learning and I'm still going around, and I told you about the Earth.

I think she's, um, Smooth B's wife.

I could be wrong.

I could be very wrong, but I think that Smooth B's baby mother, she used to be the Earth, and that's the one who spoke to me and told me I had it all wrong, that I needed to find a elder.

So I'm going around.

I don't know that Prince is watching me.

Boot Camp Click.

Greg Nice.

Greg Nice.

I think Tribe might have been on there.

That's crazy.