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Check the Technique 22: ‘[S]ometimes we wouldn’t get anything done for a whole week, because we’d be messing around’.at mess about, v.
Check the Technique 22: ‘[S]ometimes we wouldn’t get anything done for a whole week, because we’d be messing around’. Check the Technique 287: ‘[I]t was the last day on that one and we had to master the album right then. So I was like: “Let's just pull an all-nighter”’.at pull an all-nighter (v.) under all-nighter, n.
Check the Technique 273: ‘I said to myself, “We need somethin’ that’s going to be more up-tempo, something that can bang in the clubs”’.at bang, v.1
Check the Technique 314: ‘It was big right away [...] That was the track that definitely blew our shit up’.at blow up, v.3
Check the Technique 347: ‘In our ’hood, heads used to smoke PCP and what we called ‘boat,’ which was marijuana laced with embalming fluid’.at boat, n.1
Check the Technique 62: ‘Nervous put out Diggin’ in Dah Vaults, which was not authorized by the group [...] Nervous went back and bootlegged our shit!’ .at bootleg, v.
Check the Technique 335: ‘Culture didn’t really get along with GF, so me and Culture broke out’.at break out, v.
Check the Technique 314: ‘Everybody was buggin’ when that [i.e. a hit record] came out. It was big right away’.at bug, v.6
Check the Technique 311: ‘[H]e heard me when I used to play around, just buggin' out’.at bug out, v.2
Check the Technique 25: Caldato, who was indeed initially opposed to using ‘bullshit’ mics, eventually embraced them.at bullshit, adj.
Check the Technique 344: That was the first song I ever wrote [...] I was trying to find a girl I could sing it to, and maybe if I did she'd give me some butt.at give (someone) butt (v.) under butt, n.1
Check the Technique 97: ‘[M]y champ, DJ Red Alert, came through’.at champ, n.
Check the Technique 291: ‘I told my moms that I wanted turntables for Christmas [...] and she bought me some corny-ass ones’.at corny-ass (adj.) under corny, adj.
Check the Technique 180: ‘Back then, in 1989, I was sorta homeless, just couch surfin’, with this girl or that girl, in this hotel or that hotel for a couple days’.at couch surfing (n.) under couch, n.
Check the Technique 271: ‘They [i.e. the Mobb Deep rappers] used to roll pretty deep out there with all their boys, probably ten guys most of the time’.at deep, adv.
Check the Technique 487: Props also to my diggity-dope and hard-working editors Adam Kern and Porscha Burke.at diggity-dope, adj.
Check the Technique 454: ‘One day I saw RZA doing a block party in a neighborhood that is one of the roughest on Staten Island [...] and he was out there all by himself, holding it down’.at hold down, v.
Check the Technique 384: ‘In some cases you have to take a certain percentage off whatever Ahmir says about stuff like that. He's a drama king’.at drama queen, n.
Check the Technique 443: Phife was so amazing, so crazy [...] He was the fire-starter and he always brought that edge.at edge, n.1
Check the Technique 30: ‘The guys flipped out once [the song] was done. They knew they had something amazing’.at flip out, v.
Check the Technique 376: ‘[O]nce I started playing breaks they knew, they just flipped out’.at flip out, v.
Check the Technique 280: ‘Premier's the type of dude who would fuck with us [i.e., be friends with us] whether we were known or not’.at fuck with, v.
Check the Technique 324: ‘Getting over in New York was really big to us back then’.at get over, v.1
Check the Technique 332: ‘I was smoking a lot of weed back then, that's a gimme’.at gimme, n.
Check the Technique 270: ‘I love that album. How raw it was, how grimy it was [...] the way I felt living in the ’hood’.at grimy, adj.
Check the Technique 464: ‘I play [chess], but I’m not as obsessed as RZA and GZA. They'll go twenty games straight, but I can’t hang like that’.at hang, v.4
(ref. to 1940s) Check the Technique 171: ‘“Last of the Spiddyocks” [a song] [...] That was a term from when my dad was growing up, and it meant a real jazzhead type of person. You dressed a certain way and listened to a certain kind of music. It was just a type of socialite when he was young’.at -head, sfx
Check the Technique 170: ‘She chose the groups who would appear on In Living Color and we were like “Oh, hell yeah!”’.at hell yes! (excl.) under hell!, excl.
Check the Technique 19: ‘When you’re in a commercial studio, you just have to think a different way, like: “Let’s knock this song out and get out of here’ .at knock (it) out, v.
Check the Technique 128: ‘The style that B-Real kicked on there was brand-new—no one had ever heard anyone kick it like that’.at kick it, v.2
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