Group members A-Plus and Tajai started rapping together as teenagers under the name Rhythm & Excellence before bringing in Opio and Phesto. This feeling was punctuated by the video, which depicts the group in places like Yosemite National Park. Sure, the song fixated on roughly the same things as something like The Chronic - smoking weed, stealing another dude’s girl, talking shit - but the mellow vibes made the few hundred miles between L.A.
“Sometimes it gets a little hectic out there,” explained Oakland group Souls of Mischief in their 1993 single “93 ‘Til Infinity.” “But right now, yo, we gonna up you on how we chill.” The debut from these four members of the Hieroglyphics crew was defiantly relaxed and laid-back, a cool glass of lemonade in comparison to the gin and juice pouring from the west. Tupac, meanwhile, had proved to be a commercial force over the summer with “I Get Around,” but he continued to clash with the law, getting into a gunfight in Atlanta and arrested for sexual assault in New York City. Dre and Eazy-E had bubbled over, leading to the eye-for-an-eye releases of “Fuck Wit’ Dre Day” and “Real Muthaphukkin G’s.” Dre had already positioned himself as hip-hop’s new don and was on the verge of cementing his power with the impending release of the feverishly anticipated debut album from protégé Snoop Doggy Dogg.
Los Angeles was the molten-hot core of hip-hip in the early ’90s, and no year was more heated than 1993.
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