This song reminds me of Wu-Tang Clan!

I did not find that much information for this song...

Coast Contra "Dont Worry" | On the Radar Live Performance [04:30 (03:53) | On The Radar Radio | https://youtu.be/Hgoc7j6b1qs]

Coast Contra is a Los Angeles based rap collective that formed when it’s members Rio Loz, twin brothers Ras and Taj Austin and Eric Jamal met each other living in the 505 Apartments of LA.

Ras and Taj Austin, sons of West Coast rap legend Ras Kass and soul songstress Teedra Moses, met Colombian-born Rio Loz in high school to assemble Coast Contra. After releasing their first mixtape The Coast Contra Tape Volume 1 the trio later found its fourth member Eric Jamal, a bubbling rapper out of North Philadelphia, PA who had recently moved into the 505 Apartments.

Coast Contra’s first official single “Queen & Slim” featuring BJ the Chicago Kid is the title track from the blockbuster movie with the same name, released by Motown Records in November 2019. Their follow-up single “Legacy” jump-started Coast Contra’s musical takeover in 2020.

Since then the group has been dropping freestyles over beats used by hip hop legends including Nas, Mobb Deep and Big L among others. Their most popular freestyle as of July 2022 is over Dreamville artist JID’s “NEVER” from his debut studio album in 2017, The Never Story. On March 24, 2022 Coast Contra released their debut studio album Apt. 505 named after the place the collective met and came together as a group.

"Coast Contra (noun): a universe within your universe where anything is possible, limitations non-existent."

"Nuclectic (adj.): a diverse range of sounds from Soul Trap, Boom Bap, and Latin Trap."

From coastcontra.com^[[1] https://genius.com/artists/Coast-contra/bio]

Rough Lyrics from transcript, OP video:

[Music]

1. Who said life don't come from pitch black? (Who Said!)

2. Who said one life can't make an impass? (Who Said!)

3. Who said they bru? (Who Said!)

4. Who said that?

5. Who said that?

6. All this game come for free.

7. Don't worry.

8. Money don't make you rich.

9. Don'tworry.

10. Smiling don't cost a thing.

11. Don't worry.

12. Ain't no price on this, bitch.

13. All this game comes from you.

14. Don't worry.

15. It's your voice in this too.

16. Don't worry.

17. Who else going to speak the truth?

18. It's our time in this, bitch.

[Music]

19. Don't worry.
20. We all the news say this is the sound of our society.
21. Stress levels high sound like anxiety.
22. People getting high drugs coming variety
23. cuz pharmaceuticals they going to pop it off of sobriety.
24. The streets say this is the sound of our struggle.
25. We live check to check 9 to five.
26. Try fast money.
27. The fes might bust you.
28. Everybody stitches so [ __ ] we don't trust you.
29. The youth say this the sound of confusion.
30. We left the god the problem child to solution.
31. Daddy left me.
32. The old head's useless.
33. And mama say I'm just like him.
34. Godamn.
35. The women say this sound like my frustration.
36. Broke ass [ __ ] they ain't [ __ ] I hate man.
37. He better drop a bag, a purse, a vacation.
38. Ain't no being faithful. [ __ ] him in replace.
39. The men say, "Don't this sound like [ __ ]
40. Want six figures from a [ __ ] but won't [ __ ] a man below six feet if he ain't rich.
41. Y'all too hard on a [ __ ] That's why life's a bitch."
42. And we say this [ __ ] sound like an agenda.
43. Sound alarm.
44. We trying to f[ __ ]
45. Pick me against you.
46. What really is the issue?
47. Good and evil.
48. Black and white convince you.
49. Rich and poor, gay and straight offend you, divide and conquer.
50. That there's the mantra.
51. They play both sides.
52. All of our enemies amplify chaos.
53. Feel like divine way off the savior is unity.
54. We all coach contra leaning to your conscious.
55. Think for yourself cuz false prophets, they can't help, they just profit.
56. Look inside, you'll find a wealth they can't.
57. I said move down let me speak.
58. I got something to set you free.
59. I got something that you can't find.
60. I got that [ __ ] to blow your mind.
61. I got something to make you move.
62. Just that [ __ ] that make you break the rules.
63. I got that [ __ ] the wrong [ __ ] prove.
64. And now it's all up to you.
65. Yo, my [ __ ] look the baby new.
66. Shit's getting harder every day.
67. Thank God we made it through.
68. You don't understand.

[Music]

69. You got to have back to life.
70. I came to sacrifice to bet my vice.
71. I rap on my pillow.
72. After life still going to be black as Christ.
73. So don't cross me cuz he might feel had to take it back to basics.
74. Brick by brick,my foundation like a drug.
75. Love is the law of all creation.
76. I followed the law and that's what makes me a real ass [ __ ]
77. All this game come for free.
78. Money don't make you rich.
79. Don't worry.
80. Smiling don't cost a thing.
81. Don't worry.
82. Ain't no price on this [ __ ]
83. All this game come from you.
84. It's your voice in this too.
85. Don't worry.
86. Who else going to speak the truth?
87. It's our time in this [ __ ]
88. Who said light don't come from pitch black?
89. Who said one life can't make a impact?
90. Who said they rules?
91. Who said that?
92. Who said that?
93. Who said don't come from pitch black?
94. Who said life can't make a impact?
95. Who said they rules?
96. Who said that?
97. Who said that?
98. All right, let's take this

[Music]

99. in the morning.
100. It's a good day.
101. We
102. It's a good day.
103. Let the kids play.
104. It's a good day.
105. Shit's okay.

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1. Spelling, Op's video -> OP video
2. Fixed lyrics numbering and spacing
3. Again, fixed lyrics numbering and spacing, missed a number
4. Title spacing, added a space before bracket, added a zero on yt video length

The show has been suspended as cultural history more broadly faces erasure at the institutional level. What should be built in its place?

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Apparently, the show's TV ratings had been on the decline. The year after celebrating hip-hop's golden anniversary in 2023, the show's annual viewership fell off a steep cliff — down nearly 50% in 2024. The network hasn't pulled the plug outright; "suspended" is how BET's CEO Scott Mills described the current state of both its hip-hop and Soul Train award show franchises in an interview with Billboard. Yet, the announcement couldn't have come at a more precarious time. The shelving of the show just so happens to coincide with the sale of Paramount Global, BET's parent company, to Skydance Media — a merger cleared by the Federal Communications Commission after Paramount agreed to pony up $16 million to settle President Trump's lawsuit against CBS' 60 Minutes. Skydance also made a few concessions in the run-up to sealing that FCC deal, including a pledge to eliminate all of Paramount's DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion) initiatives: No more Office of Global Inclusion. No more aspirational goals "related to hiring female employees and employees of color." No more annual bonus incentives for meeting said DEI goals.

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Welsh, Spanish and English!

Topical twist at the end (no spoilers) but generally one of Epic Rap Battles' best, IMO.

Is ERB OK for this community? I honestly don't know. But this is a good one. 🙂

Aretha Franklin’s “One Step Ahead” on the sampler.

Tek and Steele from the Boot Camp Clik