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Field Mob - Can’t Stop Us (MCA, 2000)

It’s weirdly gratifying to recognize how much I still love their music, and particularly the first album. I have almost no conception of how they’re remembered elsewhere (one-hit wonders? DTP cast-offs?), but I see this record as some kind of unimpeachable classic. It’s all there in “Can’t Stop Us,” with its tongue-twisting, proto-Gucci wordplay (“slick 6 style switch like a whip stick shift”), mixing hardscrabble reality rap with Southern Gothic mysticism straight out of Harry Crews (“a punch in a snake fight or a preacher that play dice”). Today, most of their time is spent complaining about money Ludacris owes them, riffing about weed on Twitter, and trying and failing to pander to an audience that’s mostly moved on. They don’t live in Albany anymore, and neither do I.  But you won’t have to wait for a Field Mob biopic to get an impression of their city: it’s the underlying subject of every song they recorded. If not a movie, they at least have earned a statue.

this is a great album. i have never heard so much talk about girls with micro-braids. “All I Know” w/ Cee-Lo is another obvious pick.

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    Field Mob had lines for days Sean J: Shit we comin’ after the whack rappers Studio gat-clappers slash jackers Them...
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    YESSSS. So underrated. All 3 albums. 229 stand up
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    Their last few tapes were mostly a lot of disappointing post-Wayne identity crisis but at one point I spent a lot of...
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    this is a great album. i have never heard so much talk about girls with micro-braids. “All I Know” w/ Cee-Lo is another...
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    Great post. I remember Field Mob mostly from watching Project Dreamz on BET when I was 14 or 15. To this day think about...
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