Classic Material: South Circle – Anotha Day Anotha Balla [1995]

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I had to go on down to the old Houston, Texas duo South Circle from Suave House. They released Anotha Day Anotha Balla in 1995 around the time Eightball & MJG released On Top Of The World, and Crime Boss released All In The Game. 1995 was a year with some bomb albums, and this was one of them albums I consider to be the bomb, while also helping pioneer the south in the mid 90’s. I also decided to put this up because some youngstas may not know much about Suave House. I thought Mr. Mike and Thorough really could spit decent raps. They sounded good together, they had the G-Funk smoothed out Southern tracks produced by Mo-Suave and the album wasn’t full of features besides Tela, Eightball & MJG. The beginning of the album starts off with a gangsta track, sounding really dark with the funky worm going on and they began spitting their dark raps. Skip on down a few tracks you got “Unsolved Mysteries” featuring Eightball (who steals the show). Then you got the pimped out smooth “Attitudes”. After that you can skip on down to dark “No Escape” featuring MJG (who also steals the show on this one too). Overall this was a good gangsta rap album with heavy bass lines and that funk sound that was underrated from the South during the East Coast/West Coast dominance. It sad how a lot of pioneer independent record companies in the South fell off. All I have to say to the CEO’s; start paying your people! Peace.

Example: South Circle feat. MJG – “No Escape”