I’ve been neglecting my CFB fam but what better time to slide back in with a throwback what with Bliz’s buzzworthy Schooly D Mix in fresh circulation and my right calf muscle still twitching from all of the B-Boy dancing I did at the ridiculously epic “The Year is 1988” party this past weekend? Thanks to both, I’ve taken a break from April’s sudden electro-pop obsession to come back home to my beloved old-school hip-hop. The first song I had to look up was “Mistadobalina,” by Del Tha Funkee Homosapien (who I had no idea was Ice Cube’s cousin). Check it out:

Cute and catchy song, but “fraudulent foe with the strength of Hercules/the way ya on my dick must really hurt ya knees” is the perfect example of a lyric that I didn’t pick up on in 1991 when this song came out. Aside from exchanging his “Tha Funkee” for the linguistically preferable “The Funky,” Del hasn’t changed his style much. He just dropped the album Funk Man (The Stimulus Package) last month – it’s free and even comes with written lyrics, which I find pretty odd but at least I’ll catch his next hip-hop quotable if there’s one to be had. I’ll leave that for y’all to judge.

Del The Funky Homosapien – Funk Man (The Stimulus Package)

I saw Notorious this weekend and really enjoyed it. Instead of replicating a full review over here you can catch it over at my own site if you’re curious about the details. Just know that it was hot, especially for true fans, and I highly recommend it. The best part of the movie, though, beyond the chance to reflect on the significance of one of hip-hop’s finest artists, was the music itself. As much as I bump Biggie occasionally on my own being in a theater full of heads rhyming along made his dopeness really sink in. A really smart early scene showed a young Frank White freestyling on a Fulton Street corner in Brooklyn (which nowadays has plastic surgery and law offices, but those are the wonders of gentrification, I guess). The freestyle in the movie was cribbed from this real footage below. He was definitely one of the best to ever do it.

…Double XX Posse?

I’m just as hype over “Funk Dat 2009” as Emynd is, and it immediately made me think of my other favorite irreverent throwback hip-hop track catchphrase, “I’m Not Gon’ Be Able To Do It.” How hot is it to tell some really cute light-skinned girl about herself in the 1992 era of New Jack City and Mike Tyson’s rape conviction? I’m all about how the bass opens up this track and the thats’s-not-a-word nonsensical lyrics like “move into a crib in some suburbian area.” Such a great combination; it makes me want to start saying “Eat My Shorts!” again just to be a new jack crotchety old-head.