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DFX: MC Shan, Marley Marl Get Props In First Q-B's Finest Video

QUEENS, N.Y. - Rap's old school got down with the new over the weekend, when MC Shan and Marley Marl hooked up with Nas, Capone, Nature, Tragedy, Havoc of Mobb Deep and Cormega to shoot the first video from the upcoming ode to Queens, Q-B's Finest.

Nas amassed a who's-who of the borough's rap icons for the compilation, which hits stores November 21.

[article id="1442857"]"Marley Marl and MC Shan had laid down a foundation back in the day, and then that inspired all of us,"[/article] Nas said of Queensbridge's hip-hop heritage while shooting the video for QB's Finest's "Da Bridge 2001" [RealAudio]. [article id="1442857"]"They laid down one of the first neighborhood records, 'The Bridge,' the original. Years later, here come Nas, Mobb Deep, Capone, Noreaga, all these [acts]. We're just from this one same neighborhood." [/article]

The work that Marley Marl and MC Shan did on "The Bridge" brought rap's street sound to a wider audience in 1986. Marley Marl's Cold Chillin' Records was a force to be reckoned with in rap's formative years.

However, for Nas, Capone, and the rest of the current crop of rappers on Q-B's Finest, the album provides the opportunity to salute old-school rappers, as well as the neighborhood that inspired them.

[article id="1442857"]"We all wanted to do this for the longest time, but nobody really took the first step,"[/article] Nas said of the album. [article id="1442857"]"It was something everybody wanted to do, because we all grew up together. We may be on separate sides of the planet, everybody doing their thing with their crew and their cliques; one dude from one block, he from that block, I'm from this block. But at the end of the day, we're all from this one hood. That, that's what this is all about." [RealVideo][/article]

Q-B's Finest track list

  • "Intro"
  • "Da Bridge 2001"
  • "We Live This"
  • "Real N---as"
  • "Find Ya Wealth"
  • "Straight Outta Q.B."
  • "Oochie Wally"
  • "Our Way"
  • "Fire"
  • "Pile Raps"
  • "Street Glory"
  • "We Break Bread"
  • "Money"
  • "Self Conscience"
  • "Die 4"
  • "Kids In Da PJs"
  • "Teenage Thug"

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