I think the 2nd album was recorded right before jail, I'm not 100% sure. Godfather Buried Alive you mean? It may have had some tracks done in jail but I do think it was recorded before he went in, and just came out later on. I could be wrong though. I wasn't into that record as much. But word, his first record. God damn.I miss the 90's too bro.
Shyne Poe was a bad mother fucker. His first album was nice. I agree, his second was not the same. I thought he recorded that one while he was in jail on some type or work release or something. Either way, he was never able to capture the same fire again. I blame that fuck P Diddy.
I love that shit, still listen to it regularly. People gave him shit for kinda having a similar voice and flow as BIG but personally that just made it better to me. It was different enough to me and I thought he was sick and had some real unorthodox rhymes and didn't really sound like anyone else.
Seriously though Commission is one of the definitive mafioso rap songs. The chorus is so perfect. Everything about it.
Plus like I posted, whatchu Gonna do...
"Once upon a time not long ago/when gangsters rocked waves, sold dope and sniffed blow/there was a young G by the name of Shyne Po/ putting it down, cuttin it up and cookin it now"
SO EPIC. That record was hard as fuck. I try to get into new hiphop shit but it just isnt the same. Like even the new Game record, it's sick, the new Dre album I LOVED, but none of that shit gives me the feeling of that stripped down early/mid/late 90s New York shit. Everything now in 2015 sounds too futuristic and computer-y to me. I love the old school stripped down mid 90s gangster shit. Just doesn't get any better IMO