M.O.P. aka Mash Out Posse started life in true Zulu nation fashion as a street gang who redirected their energies into producing music. Consisting of Billy Danze and Lil' Fame aka Fizzy Womack from Brownsville, Brooklyn.
In retrospect this seems from a former age of hip hop when the music was hard as nails and threatening, and NYC hip hop remained a insular world (pre Jay-Z, fiddy, Kanye, becoming massive). Basically Warriorz continued M.O.P.'s unrelentingly aggressive, stressed and violent raps with some of DJ Premiers & Fame's best soul thumpin productions , even hitting #6 on the UK singles chart with Cold As Ice, aided by a toothpaste ad! This received radio play with barely contained contempt of DJ's, about 50% of the lyrics had to be edited leaving an unlistenable mash of gaps, whilst still retaining the terrifying threat 'you ain't cold enough to freeze hot floods when they run up in ya'. M.O.P. keep it real, no boasts about money here, just survival tactics for those without, one of the greatest hip hop records is Ante-Up where Danze & Fame warn a newcomer to Brownsville the dangers of showing your jewelry in public whilst positing their unique approach to distributing the wealth, 'gimme your fuckin watch before i pop one in your brain'. In fact what better metaphor for hip hop in general than 'I'm a mess with stress but I present it with finesse', however please beware of such bloodthirsty and angry gangsters they 'have the constitutional right to bear arms, to flair arms, whenever we fear harm, so calm down, ease back, CALM DOWN, EASE BACK', and these dudes are peeping round corners.
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