151- CODE OF THE STREETS is a must have.
NorthWest WESTCOAST CLASSIC
QUOTED FROM SEATTLE WEEKLY by Sterling Clover
"On Code of Tha Street, though, 151 has forgotten just enough to make him interesting. In particular, he's forgotten what it means to live or be any other way. On the best tracks, the narrative flow is suffused with a sense of movement and place, zooming in to the slightest actions of a moment, panning out to reflect on the course of his life. From "All Began": "It all began holding my heat/Patrolling my street/I'm saying who move the yea'/ Controlling who eat/Just kick back, rolling, smoking my leaf/Who really want beef/I serve it up/Clips get touched/Niggas get murdered up." "Clips get touched" is as impartial and passive a description of murder as it gets: Nothing is promised, nobody is blamed. Stories with no actors, no victims, just narrators. And as narrators go, 151 is one of the most striking around."
