The 25 Greatest Boot Camp Clik Songs of All Time
By Insanul Ahmed | Jul 20, 2010 | 12:00 pm | Permalink
#6. Black Moon - "Buck 'Em Down (Remix)"
Released: 1994
In some ways, the Boot Camp was the forbear of the weeded pilot rap of Curren$y and Wiz Khalifa. Sure, Buck and 5 were more concerned with guns and blunts than streetwear brands and bongs, and their albums were far more consistent, but the intent and construction is strikingly similar: laid-back stoner rhymes over deep and spacious boom-bap. It's all smoke-something music. One could even draw a more direct line with the "Buck 'Em Down (Remix)," as Buckshot works his own airplane analogies on the intro.
Trouble July 21st, 2010 at 05:57 PM
Nice list honoring a solidly underrated squad...but drop that 2Pac shit. Also, Rock's 1st verse on Operation Lockdown describes how the BCC came into the rap game...one is Buckshot, the 5 is the Fab Five, etc..
88er July 21st, 2010 at 09:16 PM
actually agree w/ one of these lists for a change. I Got Cha Opin might just be my fav. hip-hop song of all time so I'm glad y'all put it at #1.
BCC July 22nd, 2010 at 01:11 AM
There is a video floating around that explains Leflaur Leflah Eshkoshka came from. I remember it involves NBA Jam. Complex your writers suck big dicks they never get anything right or do the homework. Fucking hipster bitches.
GRANDPUBA July 22nd, 2010 at 01:07 PM
HAHAHAHA... Nobody likes hipsters
DRU HA July 22nd, 2010 at 12:19 PM
Oh and missing Smif N Wessun's "Let's Git it On" & "Won on Won".
beanoo617 July 22nd, 2010 at 02:16 PM
the album version of gotcha opin knocks more than the remix
dmfslimm July 29th, 2010 at 03:16 PM
word.
beezy July 22nd, 2010 at 03:42 PM
"Blah" is glaringly omitted from this list.
David July 22nd, 2010 at 06:59 PM
Good list, but leaving off "Let's Git It On" is just shameful.
Zephry July 25th, 2010 at 04:38 PM
I would disagree with the Pac track (especially given that it is one of the sloppiest mixed tracks I've heard in a bit. It sounds like they just mixed it to get it out. Pac's overdubs are louder than the other rappers' verses, and it makes the "stutter/echo" effect they were probably trying to create just sound jarring. I disagree with King Kong, too. I don't see how that ranked higher than a LOT of the other tracks. And Blah? Not there?
Blap August 5th, 2010 at 02:35 PM
OK let's set some things straight... "It sounds like they just mixed it to get it out." Well, dip shit, that's exactly what they did. How do you think Pac recorded hundreds of songs in the 11 months he spent on Death Row? Please watch this video, recorded September 1996 (while Tupac was doing the One Nation project with BCC and others), to maybe mitigate your ignorance and learn something about how Tupac worked in the studio: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3XhpvaCwZc ... Props to the author for choosing the Military Mindz OG over the Better Dayz version. However, to the author I must also say that that you mischaracterized the nature of the One Nation project. The point of One Nation was to show the world that artists from both coasts could come together and make great music in harmony, and that in reality there was not an all-encompassing "East vs. West Coast" war (like the media loved/loves to portray) but simply a problem between the Death Row and Bad Boy camps. So you have misrepresented Tupac's motivation and then, based on this misrepresentation, called the "purity of his motive" into question. Yes, Pac + family were still beefing with Bad Boy, even dissing them some of the tracks slated to be on One Nation. But this fact is not out of alignment with the nature or purpose of the One Nation project. The idea was to shatter the misconception that you espouse here in your review. Oh well. R.I.P. Makaveli. Peace
Zephry July 25th, 2010 at 04:42 PM
Also, MJB & Smif-N-Wessun @ number FIVE? Really? I think Cession at the Doghille could have been put somewhere on this list as well.
Zephry July 25th, 2010 at 04:43 PM
And how about Timz N Hood Chek?
dmfslimm July 29th, 2010 at 03:15 PM
totally cosign.
bob July 26th, 2010 at 04:29 PM
"Gangz All Here" one of the best posse cuts ever. i always listen to all 9 minutes of that track. it should have made this list somehow