PAPOOSE

Tipped off to this one by Mixtapes Etc - 'check' out Papoose's "Chess", offa DJ Kay Slay's first NYC Drama:

Papoose is the reigning Best Underground Artist on a Mixtape, and this totally strategic new track is officially the first  MP3 anthem of my young Summer 2005.  Watch out for all those chess masters - your thugs, your government, DJs, MCs - and shit, while you were chilling out on that hook, Papoose was taking your queen! And then -

used to be a artist
but now you an exec
you signed a bunch of wack artists at your desk
you make sure they wack so you can sound fresh
I guess they just your pawns
you playin chess

IMPRESSIVE - suddenly I'm feeling a slightly new kind of bad for Memphis Bleek. I don't think the pyramids were built from the top down, but whatever. Re: DJ Kay Slay's comment on 'dictionaries,' dig up the impressively systematic "Alphabetical Slaughter."

UPDATE: WOW totally coincidentally the deranged 8+9+3 has just posted an MPfree of the classic Michael McDonald jam "I Keep Forgetting" that the "Chess" chorus hook is sampled from... but ALL SCREEWWWWWWED UP. Just one of many peaks in the epileptogenic Swiss Alps that is the DIPSET DETOX WITH MICHAEL MCDONALD AT EPCOT CENTER epic, now in its 19th episode and showing NO sign whatsoever of slowing or sleeping or slacking.