151 - Code of tha Street
151 - Code of tha Street is one of my favorite albums. To me, the sign that it is a great album is that every time I listen to it, I like it more. When I first bought it, I think I skimmed through it pretty quickly and I think the only cuts I really went back to and bumped were "Throw It Up" and "West Coast." I also didn't really know you were reppin the NW, I thought you were just a Cali guy (w/ the Clippers jersey and LA map on the cd), then I figured out when I listen to the lyrics more you really do rep the S.E.A. and I guess are one of those guys who shoots back and forth up and down the West Coast.
One day last year I was on a long ass bus ride from Iowa to Minneapolis and I had the 151 cd in there and the bus ride was so long I really did soak the album, and I discovered that "Hustlaz Prayer" is such an amazing cut, especially the chorus. It was dark, there was pretty violent thunder and lightning outside and I was on this bus, it is probably one of the more memorable connections I have with a song to a sitaution. I'll always remember that, I must've bumped it like 20 times from Des Moines to Minneapolis.
Then last May I started lovin "Thug Entrapeneurz," great great song and I couldn't wait to get home to Seattle for the summer and drive around the city bumpin it. That was probably my favorite song last June.
And yes, D-Sane did lace an amazing intro. That's what made me buy the album b/c I heard the intro on northern-ridaz and I'd just sit there on my computer and keep listening to the stream. Then I saw it in a CD store here in Minnesota and got excited, immediately copped it.
But w/ the album as a whole, I like it today much much more than the day I bought it, that's one sign of an excellent album.
Then I learn 151 goes on to be in tha Lac, do the best Seattle anthem of all time (Dirty South from the Lac), man keep doing your thing you're a very talented person.