For the Kids: Nottz & The Bad Seed
Damn, talk about slept on! I was starting to pack up all my old crusty 12″s and get the last of them into my Mac, when what should I stumble on but this banger from VA’s own NOTTZ, who I’ve kinda been sleeping on in the course of this website’s stumbling progress.
Now, Nottz needs little introduction: Dominick “Nottz” Lamb is a motherfucker on the boards who’s discography is a mile long: Busta Rhymes, Styles P, Ghostface, Rah Digga, Royce Da 5″9, Game and on and on and on. An absolute monster with the SP1200, Nottz trademark, NYC flavored bangers have been amongst my favorites for damn near a decade.
About this tune? Crazy dope beat. Sampled from “Annie”, Nottz breaks it down into a staccato arrangement of piano chord hits, dusty boom-bap drums and those familiar, fat, bass notes that shook my brains back in the day. Solid…..and the rapper?
Well, Bad Seed was in O.B.S. (Original Blunted Soldiers), a mid/late 90’s NYC crew on the Makin’ Records label, affiliated with Jean Grae (back when she was What? What?), Mr. Khalil from Da Bush Babee’s, Pumpkinhead and the Mhrolocks. They all went their separate ways after inevitable label bullshit and I’ve heard nothing from Bad Seed since. Another rap casualty? Anyone out there know, holla.
July 26th, 2007 at 2:13 pm
yeah, The Bad Seed had 2 underground hits “For the kids” and another one… i forgot the name, it was quite at the same time.
then, some street albums dropped, and lately, he released a proper album called “dirty urine”.
September 11th, 2007 at 1:29 am
Yeah.. SEED is definitely doing big things..he recently was on tour with MIMS..and he was just signed to a major record label..I don’t want to let all his secrets out but be looking for him in a town near you..DIRTY URINE IN STORES NOW..check him out at mochacity.com or myspace.com
February 13th, 2008 at 9:36 am
Actually, Nottz uses an ASR-10, not the SP.