Money Boss Players - Ghetto Chronicle Daily
posted on Nov 29, 2005Money Boss Players - What U Saying (Link Expired)
Money Boss Players
Ghetto Chronicle Daily
Section 8 Records, 1994
It is what it is. Rap crews get their shine for a minute and just flicker away for no real reason. You might overhear the initial rah-rah but before you even have the chance to give their Source spread a skeptical once-over the newcomers have fallen off. But what to make of a group of kids from the Bronx who simply let the music speak for itself? The problem with the Money Boss Players (emcees Lord Tariq and Eddie Cheeba and producer Minnesota) is that they were unpretentiously ghetto fabulous: you wanted them to blow the fuck up even though they never explicitly claimed to desire pop stardom or even underground notoriety.
Like most of their music, Ghetto Chronicle Daily was pressed exclusively on vinyl in paltry quantities. In the middle to late ‘90s, the grittiest mixtapes transported the MBP’s fantastically violent, hyper-stylistic, and likeably arrogant brand of hip hop to the very streets that they render in striking detail. The raw, uncompromising tracks command respect for the crew’s skill and sincerity before you absorb a single rhyme. Over the hardest of drum sounds, the MBP’s blend stoic reportage with cocky criminal boasting and earn the right to title their EP like a local newspaper. One cannot help but notice their exacting attention to the lingo, behavior, and fashion of their beloved streets. These stories are made more lifelike and compelling as a result of such perspicacious detail; adherence to a plotline and character development is rare.
Songs like the fast-paced, cinematic “Saturday Night, Sunday Morning” and the swingy “What You Saying” are inviting and mirthful but also caustically threatening: the rhymes rarely promote endeavors more ambitious than spending dirty money on wanton nightlife debauchery. The MBP’s paint a portrait of Bronx life that is conceived, created, distributed, and received through the fictive, convoluting lens of the most famous art form ever birthed in that borough. Thus Ghetto Chronicle Daily delivers on the promise of its title: it is an objective depiction of inner-city existence that purports to unfold in real time even as it is clearly manipulated at every turn by its creators. The record is no less worthwhile for its poetic deception: the emcees adapt ably to Minnesota’s broad range of sounds, sounding convincingly sadistic (“Nighty-Night”) or gleefully invincible (“Used To Fear Death) depending on the track.
Until recently, the music of the Money Boss Players has been hoarded in secrecy, largely unavailable to the masses. So much so, in fact, that lifelong record collectors practically catch the Holy Ghost upon discovering an original copy of anything with their name on it. I nearly flipped my own wig when I first heard that they would be appearing on Sadat X’s Experience and Education LP (Female Fun Records, 2005). Haters foolish enough to dismiss the Players as a famous-for-not-being-famous “random rap” crew rank foremost among people who need to check Ghetto Chronicle Daily (aging b-boys and connoisseurs of the ‘90s East Coast DIY aesthetic got next). The EP’s rarity is virtually irrelevant to a discussion about its quality. The material itself is so dope, so mature, so rich, and so fully realized that the inevitable comparisons to early Kool G. Rap will not seem far-fetched in years to come. Ghetto Chronicle Daily is the truth, point-blank.
Comments for "Money Boss Players - Ghetto Chronicle Daily"
I have been trying to hear this whole ep for literally the last decade, Minnesota’s production on the track What U Sayin is quite possibly the illest I’ve ever heard. Sadly that is probably the only track off this I will probably ever hear unless of course someone bootlegs this shit. Or mp3’s it. For the love of god somebody mp3 this!
— Fresh's Chess Piece Feb 3, 07:59 PM
If you stick around a while we’re going to be bringing back all of the site’s audio for a few days every couple of months. I know there are only 2 tracks attached to the review though. Maybe someone else can help you…
— rafi Feb 3, 08:29 PM
Can anyone out there PLEASE point me in the direction of mp3’s for this unattainable classic?
— Rob May 24, 05:40 AM
Man.. I never heard that album.. But after hearin’ the MBP catch wreck all over Sadat X’s WILD COWBOYS album.. I wanna hear that Ghetto Chronicle Daily album.. If anybody has it.. Get at me at jugghernot@yahoo.com.. I got ‘nuff classic Hip Hop to exchange and make it worth ya’ while.. peace.
— mreman May 26, 07:18 AM
HAHAHAHAHA I got that crack for all you! That’s right I got the whole thing in mp3. I’ll be upping onto www.smokingsection.net in the next couple of days. So head over to my man Gotty’s site and give him some support. Just remember THE SMOKING SECTION IS MAJOR!!!
Props on Oh Word! nice to see you’re still keeping on!
— notes from underground Jun 12, 04:43 PM
We will be re-releasing Ghetto Chronicles by January, 2007!!! The crew, under the name Boss Money, has a brand new underground album out now as well. Go to www.myspace.com/bmgbossmoney for the link to check out the CD, its Money Boss classic shit!!!! They also just released a 12” overseas with the P Brothers (check the review in XXL magazine, July 06 issue with Busta on the cover).
— JayBee Aug 28, 02:37 AM
I just wanted to say I am feeling their music, especially Rosary! That’s that sh*t right there. Boss Money is NOT getting the recognition they deserve!!
— Tisha Mar 19, 05:10 PM
Ok, its official, the crew is back together!!! And…we found a case of albums we are getting ready to auction off!!! Ghetto Chronicles daily as well as Section 8! check them out on myspace:
http://www.myspace.com/moneybossforlife
— JayBee May 15, 09:49 PM
What other record have the same break as the “What You Saying” from MBP??? I know that there is one but i don’t remember the artist!
— Tomala WRO Feb 29, 06:51 AM