Track- Hiding Place; Artist- Little Brother featuring eLZhi; Production by James Yancey

On the way back from the hangover the other night while listening to the little brother mix with fletcher I re-realized the greatness of Hiding Place. Three good mc's (yes fletcher big pooh is good just not as good as Tigallo) all spit great verses. It is rare, atleast to my memory, that Rapper Big Pooh may have spit a hotter verse than Tay on the same song. The production by Jay Dilla is amazing as he uses the sample excellently and each rapper spits heat.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ug50Eoq35xY

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RAPPER BIG POOH

Where you gonna hide?
Rapper
Where you gonna hide?
Dilla Dog, Jay Dee
Where you gonna hide?
Elzhi
Where you gonna hide?
Phonte
Another little brother presentation
Sending this out across the nation

I'm a hell of a problem, nobody has the answer
Pooh be spreaded out, like a body of cancer
My stanza, get it going like a car, (vroom)
Usher in the new era, like this y'all (this y'all)
I'm raw strip down, no minerals
A distilled emcee, no chemicals
No subliminals
A smooth criminal before the rape charge
I, shake and bake, bring terror to your squad
My, peers ferocious
I'm so focusing
I pray to God that the world knows this
No one exposes flaws in your scheme dog
Me and Dilla go hard, my Lord
You don't want know problems (problems)
I'm a nigga that'll solve 'em (solve 'em)
Without a doubt, ya
I'm in the booth, cold knockin niggaz out
Tell my tales by word of mouth
Ya, you know me
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Great verse. LOL the only Big Pooh verse that really stands out to me. He really went in with this one. The problem/cancer line, minerals/chemicals, the whole verse is heat and Pooh flows very very well. Great job R.B.P.
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ELZHI

[Hook]
Where you gonna hide?
When the sun goes down, and the lights in the city get low
Where you gonna hide?
When your peeps aint around, and there aint no place to go
Where you gonna hide?
When the hood starts watchin, and the boys got they eye on your safe
Where you gonna hide?
Aint nowhere to run, and there aint no hiding place

Don't compare me to jokes
I'll strangle the air in your throat
Like you jump from a chair and choke
In mid-air from a rope
Got a big gun and carry a scope
The flair of the smoke
Keep niggaz quiet like words that librarians spoke
I'm arrogant, outlandish
Blow your face out, and shake out the dandruff
The jakes wont make out the handprints
I'm as real as it gets, with the steel and the clips
Bark and make niggaz duck, and kneel and do splits
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eLZhi, my second favorite rapper behind Lupe and in front of Phonte. He is always a little more grimey/gangster with his lyrics outside of Slum Village and this verse is great proof. I have seen it argued in some places this is the best verse on the Minstrel Show. You cant get better then the librarian line and the confidence in words throughout the verse are TOUGH. That is Detroit grime Elzhi straight gutter to yo head lyrics! Not much else you can talk about just read/listen and admire the wordplay and flow.
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PHONTE

It gets no realer than this
Its Tay and Elzhi dropping that definitive shit
This should have been a double album commemorative disc
Cause hip-hop might need us
And in your town, no telling where you might see us
My whole team coming through in tees and wife beaters
Out, doin their damn thing like beavers
Yo, its P to the H-O, I finish the job
Plus my Dominican Broad
Making me chili con caso
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Good verse by Phonte but not one of his best. One of the best LB songs in my opinion but one in which he may be tied or behind Big Pooh :-O
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ELZHI

Work and plan a perfect verse
Then burst like a person
that jerked from a circus cannon
Then landed to the earth
Its me on the song, featured your fleet
Breathing is strong
It's a gypsy reading a palm
with a drawn heater
Never gone of the wrong reefer
A bong chief, of the don ballest
As long as the bronze is bronze sneakers
Got ways of a thuggie, thinking I wont come and get you
Dressed like a gun with pistols, and AK's in a bundle
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More eLZhi, not as strong as the previous verse but still gutter and still good. Its hard to beat El over a J Dilla beat.
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PHONTE

And Tay is blazing it lovely, cause I'm one with the game
So I sat back, chilled, dropped Foreign Exchange
And a lot of rap niggaz got lost
Heard Phontigga carrying tunes and assumed he don got soft
They didn't understand it was my next direction
So I'm playing postman and addressing questions
Like, yes I'm still a LB, no I'm not leaving
No I don't eat meat, but yes I'm still beefin
But all these wack niggaz putting records out
This is all live nigga, check it out
Lb, S bill a fam on a mission
And I ain't worried about people biting "Minstrel Show"
they still teething on "The Listening"
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This verse is a lot better from Phonte. I love the end about the people still teething off the Listening. And that line in there about people assuming he got soft was good too (you hear that fletcher! lol) That is one of the reasons I like Phonte so much, his wordplay is so amazing and he manages to keep it real in every song.
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J DILLA

Where you gonna hide?
When the sun goes down, and the lights in the city get low
Where you gonna hide?
When your peeps aint around, and there aint no place to go
Where you gonna hide?
When the hood starts watchin, and the boys got they eyes on your safe
Where you gonna hide?
Aint nowhere to run, and there aint no hiding place
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The production was great. Really wish LB had a chance to spit over alot more Dilla beats. This is one of my favorite Little Brother songs as all three went in lyrically and were backed up by an incredible beat.

In HOB news I havent wrote lyrics down in a long time, I'll definitely need to get started back up on that.

HOB UP! BobbyOnes out.