Pete Rock
Peter Phillips (born June 21, 1970), better known by his stage name Pete Rock, is an American record producer, DJ and rapper. He rose to prominence in the early 1990s as one half of the critically acclaimed group Pete Rock & CL Smooth. After the duo went their separate ways, Rock continued with a solo career that has garnered him worldwide respect, though little in the way of mainstream success. Along with groups such as Stetsasonic, Gang Starr, A Tribe Called Quest and The Roots, Rock played a major role in the merging of elements from jazz into hip hop music (also known as jazz rap). He is widely recognized as one of the greatest hip hop producers of all time, and is often mentioned alongside DJ Premier, RZA and J Dilla as one of the mainstays of 1990s East Coast hip hop production. Pete Rock is also the older brother and younger cousin, respectively, of rappers Grap Luva and the late Heavy D.
Biography
Early life
Pete Rock was born in The Bronx, New York, the sixth of seven children born to Jamaican immigrant parents. His family moved to Mount Vernon, New York when he was seven years old. During high school, he met his future recording partner CL Smooth. According to Rock, his father was also a part-time DJ who had an impressive record collection. Rock would often accompany his father to a cricket club called Wembley in The Bronx and watch as he spun records for the guests. His first job was as a paperboy, in his neighborhood.
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Pete Rock
ALBUMS
- 80 Blocks From Tiffany’s released: 2011
- Monumental released: 2011
- PeteStrumentals released: 2011
- NY's Finest released: 2008
- Class Is in Session released: 2007
- Pete Rock Invented the Remix released: 2006
- Underground Classics released: 2006
- The Surviving Elements: From Soul Survivor II Sessions released: 2005
- My Own Worst Enemy released: 2004
- Soul Survivor II released: 2004
- 4 Pete Sake: The Pete Rock Years Remixes, Volume 1 released: 2003
- Lost & Found: Hip Hop Underground Soul Classics released: 2003
- This Is What They Meant (GE-OLOGY Remixes) released: 2002
- Soul Survivor released: 1998
- The Black Album (Pete Rock Remix) released:
80 Blocks From Tiffany’s
Released 2011- 80 Blocks (intro)
- The Promo (trackstar blend)
- The Promo
- Jimmy Page
- Santana
- Mic Check
- Onsmash (trackstar blend)
- On Ice
- Ha (trackstar blend)
- Lumdi (trackstar blend)
- Lumdi (remix)
- Get Em Lo Gang (trackstar blend)
- Step (trackstar blend)
- Sandman
- High Life
- Skinz
- Ebony Eyez (trackstar blend)
- Ebony Eyez
- Double Doors (trackstar blend)
- After the Marv
- Sky High (trackstar blend)
Pete Rock Invented the Remix
Released 2006- Shut 'em Down
- Juicy (remix)
- Can't Stop the Prophet (remix)
- The Bitch in You
- The Militia (remix)
- Flow On (remix)
- Jump Around (remix)
- Fakin' Jax (Rude Youth remix)
- Slow Down (remix)
- Reminisce (remix)
- Real Hip Hop (remix)
- The Rap World
- Before You Walked Out of My Life (remix)
- Fades 'em All (remix)
- Family Affair (remix)
- I Got a Love
- One in a Million
This Is What They Meant (GE-OLOGY Remixes)
Released 2002- This Is What They Meant (GE-OLOGY's Hot Sauce n' Grits remix)
- This Is What They Meant (GE-OLOGY's Fish n' Cornbread remix)
- This Is What They Meant (Pete Rock's original version)
- This Is What They Meant (GE-OLOGY's Hot Sauce n' Grits remix instrumental)
- This Is What They Meant (GE-OLOGY's Fish n' Cornbread remix instrumental)
- This Is What They Meant (Pete Rock's original version instrumental)
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PeteStrumentals
by: Pete RockI'm all about makin it happen
Can it steady yappin
Cheddas stack cap I get it crackin
Bringin the action
Center of attraction
Late night on the creep trashin
Mashin on the party crashin
Rap with a passion
Not a quitter or a forfeiter
One of them raw rap cats
With hollow point rhymes
Comin to hit ya
I'm talkin and I shot at all them fake rappas
Who fake wanna be gun clappin
Cats claimin they the baddest
Claimin that they ran the streets ragged
Knowin they chillin hard in the village up
Up in the gay bar talkin to faggots
I'm not a gangsta
And I'm not a thug nor a blood
Or cripp
Strugglin brotha tryin to hard to get rich
I've been nice in this hip hop *ish
From way back when
Days of the jeffersons
Good times to what's happenin
You niggaz want beef
Then call my name out
Still rockin the Mecca when the soul brother
Like it just came out
Let's get it on
Lebanon
Strong as an ox
An' I spit flows blowin up yo' audio box
Document muh style I'm cool when I rock
And I rush like the Bus
Followin' muh blocks
G's up I'm on set y'all niggaz freeze up
I make dirty dolla's turn 'em in to clean bucks
My stocks rise
It's cool, it's no surprise
And them laws, the rules
You make, I straight defy
Rebel in the highest form
The fifth born
Gully nigga on the track screamin they saw'em
Stop the dat
Rewind that
Thoughts combine that
Criminal minds
An' rhymes
Underline that
Dolla' dolla'
Street scholla'
Flow then ya falla
Expert
Puttin in work
For the next saga
So yo get yo' lean on
Flows you fiend on
Fuckin with U. and N. the 2000 phenom
[Chorus]
Yeah, U. and N. sound greater than great
Still up, holdin my 'gz up
Not my name hold weight
And you can betcha bottom dollar money mo' I make
Let's get this cake
Son do what it take
Yeah, U. and N. sound greater than great
Still up, holdin my 'gz up
Not my name hold weight
And you can betcha bottom dollar money mo' I make
Let's get this cake, c'mon
Hold up
Applause for the cause you know
You could call it telephone love tap
High explosive experiment
Situate depressed upstate
Bless a blessed a what's up with you
What you talkin, pocket filled well then feel
Yeah it's good, like you should
I'm Dino, begs no pardon
Borrow no lending, begs no friends
Ya hear me all my mens love women, raw
Links with mommy cuban
Or takes me back to union
Baby girl got cousins and now one of 'em frontin
U.N
Checker flagging me down
Fast-en ya sound
How we quick to pick me up in that lex-ed iced edition
State ya position
Back jabbin this bone wishin
Ms. don't have me whiff missing
Puttin everything Dwight Gooden-nuff talk
You can have a ball and go walk
Hear me now, feel me later
Later Dino Braves smooth and get paid
Feelin the shook up
Keepin the stick up
Forever keep this hit the wikka wikka
A verbal contract the way life is put on you
Now the harsh facts circle your world at
Allow you like a wise author
Sci-fi writins and novels
Ridin ova potholes
Play King Arthur inside my brothel
The size of waffles gunshot holes
Blowin like the U.S marshall
Of Luis Armstrong
And the winner falls sprawl spot it
And at the same time he shot it
Frollic with raps and fiber optics
Like 4, 5, 6
Hard to get at
Sharp as an axe
Order jockage
Armored trizzack
Tryin to be modest
Fiery thoughts burn like L's with chronic
Make ya lungs black, sip gold hell in a bottle
Blow willa sinna maholla that's on the house
Compliments on my corner moral
How I get down
Chase his ass round like cat and mouse
You feel my passion?
(fuck life) if I ain't mackin
Niggaz wanna see me stagnant
Similar to two magnets
We can never be a package
A printed jewla
Show my crew love
Before this rap *ish
Who can fool us
Beautiful lust
Don't think I'm too cool to bust
Loot and do drugs
Who's who
Few knew it was fool proof
But true it was, crime organiza
Forty fiva
Hit ya Porsche up, (fuck) you in lava
Hit them to my product
Just a taste was life threatenin
Stretch his limbs out
To 5 seperate ends
Prey on my fall and every cent
Like I don't know it
I hold macs posin in flicks like Dinero in Ronin
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Yeah, U. and N. sound greater than great
Still up, holdin my 'gz up
Not my name hold weight
And you can betcha bottom dollar money mo' I make
Let's get this cake
Son do what it take
Yeah, U. and N. sound greater than great
Still up, holdin my 'gz up
Not my name hold weight
And you can betcha bottom dollar money mo' I make
Let's get this cake
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