Bonus Song Thursday - Pras (feat. Ol' Dirty Bastard and introducing Mya) "Ghetto Supastar (That is What You Are)"

The Great Albums

Bill Lambusta

Albums, Music Commentary, Criticism, Billlambusta, Brianerickson, Music

4.3 • 749 Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2017

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

It's Bonus Song Thursday! This week, Bill and Brian recount a track that, according to Bill, "was in the air" throughout 1998/1999. Pras, formerly of the Fugees, made his solo debut in grand fashion and had a hand from Mya and Wu-Tang Clan's Ol' Dirty Bastard. They discuss how - in total ODB fashion - he just kind of showed up one day and was asked to drop a verse (and took to the assignment admirably). Along the way, they talk about how the Fugees operated similarly to Wu-Tang, fostering members' solo careers following the success of a massively-influential group effort. Will Smith enters into the discussion and so too does superior LP side 2s. All this and more on this week's Bonus Song Thursday edition of the Great Albums podcast.

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0:00.0	How does this look?
0:01.5	Do I look okay?
0:02.4	Yeah, you look fine.
0:03.4	All right.
0:03.6	You look fine.
0:04.4	You look good.
0:07.7	Man, man.
0:10.3	Look at the sky.
0:12.6	Goal superstar.
0:13.2	Yeah, a superstar.
0:17.7	That is what you are.
0:20.1	Coming from a far
0:21.8	And this is the great albumbums podcast, Bonus Song Thursday.
0:40.8	Bonus.
0:42.0	What are we just listening to right there, Brian?
0:44.0	That was Praz, featuring Old Dirty Bastard and introducing Maya with Ghetto Superstar.
0:51.9	That's from 1999.
0:53.7	Well, we do hear every week on the podcast podcast is taking album of music and talk about what makes
0:58.2	it great.
0:59.2	And then we follow it up with a bonus song episode where we just do a single song, do a little
1:05.0	bit of a deep dive into it and just kind of chat about it.
1:08.9	A little bit later, we might have some listener interactions.
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