People Who Inspired Me To Rap: Redman

🎶Sim simma, who got the key to my Bimmer?

Jack move, that's how we act when we team up

Throw your triple beam up, this is fish scale

I bailed out the county with counterfeit bills

My slang be high range Brick City

Watch how you sniff, son, I'm highly octane

All you hear is bang, bang (bang, bang)

Yo, remember you, bitch? Shit, I forget my last name

It's all about game, nothin' else, for delf

Walk through the woods then stomp on your foot

With high, I take out any comp' in the hood

Gorilla impact in this rap habitat

Get you steppin' in your Air Max, bounce

You cockin' it back but where it at? Bounce

I got a six pack of Heineken and Big Kap on the wheels

In two laps, I give Stella Her Groove Back🎶 - Redman (I’ll Bee Dat).

I’ll never forget the first time I ever heard those lyrics. I was over my dad’s house for the weekend at the end of 1998 and we were watching music videos. A five year old me sees this funny music video with a bunch of animated activities taking place. My dad tells me “Joe that’s Redman” and I was just like “why is his name Redman?” “He’s light skinned but he doesn’t look like the color red.” The name of the song for that music video we were watching was called “I’ll Bee Dat” and it came from Redman, one of my biggest heroes from Hip Hop who inspired me to rap.

Reggie “Redman” Noble has been one of my top five biggest influences from Hip Hop my entire life. When I developed the skill of rapping when I was just 8 years old my rapping persona took a lot of inspiration from him. For me personally, Redman represents the purest form of classic Hip Hop personality with a lot of humor added to the mix. I’ve always felt like Redman is cut from the same cloth as Hip Hop originals like LL Cool-J, given his 100% straight Hip Hop style mixing some of everything together with sharp lyricism. I’ve always identified with his funk-based sound that shaped the production on his albums because I grew up on so much Parliament-Funkadelic music thanks to my family

🎶Look out, it's the Funkadelic Funk for chumps

Who don't be knowin' my name, I tear the frame out ya punks

I make ya slide, make ya slip, make ya wanna back flip

I get biz' with the skit, I DJ like Quik

The topnotch of the block, 'cause I carry a Glock

Holy hot rocks I'm hot, so give up the props

My style is hummin' comin' at'cha

Duck or get backed up

Dispatcher, "Red, get freaky to the rapture"

So come on light the Buddha, check your honey while I scoop her

The Superfly, Jimmy Fly Snuka rips the roof off

Then hook off on your crew, to the check of one to two

It's you, who?

(Ah yo) Redman with the Kung-Fu🎶 - Redman (Blow Your Mind).

As an emcee Redman stuck out most because of his lyrical ability and humorous tone. Hailing from Newark, New Jersey (commonly referred to as Brick City) Redman’s lyrics told tales of his adventures in New Jersey’s inner city from a hard core, yet comedic perspective. I identified with Redman mostly because of his personality. Everytime I heard his music, saw his music videos or even watched movies he was featured in I felt like I was listening to and watching a mirror image of myself. Redman is also known for his love of smoking a good joint that gets him high and even though I was never a smoker or a weed head, I heavily identified with the funny persona he brought to the table as a side effect of his love of getting high.

🎶I'm just a smoky boy, I'm from the land of the lost

You can't see me like Charlie Angel's boss

I'm often coolin' round the Bliddocks

I rock round the Cliddock

My Gliddock cocked from here to 16 for Liddocks

I tried to Thomas if I'm gettin' scopic

I was built like two tits but now I'm butter like Blue Bonnet

Now who got the funk, we got the funk

A yo well, I got the weed, we got the blunt

I never sniff, I used to puff Buddha's in the jail

Back in 88 when it was 20 cent a gram

You couldn't read me in braille, hell

I write my names on walls in smoke spots when I'm buyin' L

The fly guy with force like Luke sky

Down for 8 ball see twa bitch if you fly

The funkadelic been rockin' mic's since the fourth grade

I terminate like X and I terminate like Schwarzenegge'🎶 - Redman (Can’t Wait).

When listening to Redman’s rapping style I always heard a clever sense of wordplay that I in turn mimicked as a kid. The way all of his words and syllables just bounced off of each other has always been such an intelligent sense of flow. I came to learn in time that this was a part of custom as New Jersey emcee. Many other rappers who I like from New Jersey share that same sense of flow and wordplay. In addition to his humor and clever lyricism, Redman also knew how to be the life of the party as he made one of my top favorite party anthems in Hip Hop history, “Let’s Get Dirty”

I swear I can never get tired of this song and every time I hear it I have to play it on repeat. “Let’s Get Dirty” for me is the full fun Hip Hop package: dope lyrics, very energetic and a song you can jam out to nonstop. It’s also another contributing factor to why Redman aka Funk Doctor Spock is in my top five. Whether it’s learning from his clever lyrical ability, identifying with his humor or just all around loving his energy, Redman will forever be one of the greatest rappers of all time and one of my biggest heroes in Hip Hop who inspired me to rap.

🎶Poppa Bear at the table, and

The porridge is pourin'

Since +Def+ is the label

I belong in a morgue

I'm walkin' half-dead, actin' senile

With bigga niggaz from jail

Than the one on "Green Mile"

I'll huff and puff, blow the club down

I'll snuff a duck, I'm headed Uptown🎶 - Redman (Let’s Get Dirty).