She might have been thinking about her departed family members while she was playing it… not knowing that her remaining relative will soon be reminiscing over her. She’s a huge hip-hop fan (she famously geeked over Killer Mike while listening to Nas' Illmatic in an earlier episode), so it makes sense that she’d be listening to it. Julia Garner’s Ruth Langmore is listening to it in her truck as she’s driving home, where she meets her demise.
#Pete rock reminisce over you series#
More recently, in the series finale of the Netflix hit Ozark, “They Reminisce Over You (T.R.O.Y.)” scored the show’s most popular character’s final scene. Pitchfork, meanwhile, included the song at number 35 on their Top 200 Tracks of the ’90s. The song has been referenced by Gang Starr, Kanye West, De La Soul, and Method Man, among others. The song has a big legacy: The Source named it one of the “100 Best Rap Singles Of All Time.” Spin put it on their list of the “Top 20 Singles of the ’90s,” and it was ranked number 90 on VH1’s 100 Greatest Songs of Hip Hop. The song also mentions other people from his life: “My grandmom Pam holds the family together/My uncle Doc’s the greatest, better yet the latest/If we’re talking about a car, uncle Sterling got the latest/I strive to be live ’cause I got no choice/And run my own business like my aunt Joyce.” But even though these people are specific to his life, the sentiment of reminiscing over them is one that we can all relate to. Smooth told XXL, “before his passing, I definitely learned to respect and as the years went by I learned to cherish his memories like all the rest of my fallen soldiers in my life that meant something special to me at one point or another.” “But only you saw what took many time to see/I dedicate this to you for believing in me.” As C.L. Roy, pointing out that their relationship didn’t start out on a positive note: “T to the R-O-Y, how did you and I meet? In front of Big Lou’s, fighting in the street.” But it soon becomes clear why Troy fits into the story: he was another positive role model. It’s in the third verse that he addresses his late friend T. Dixon died in a freak accident while on tour his death also inspired the title of Heavy D & the Boyz’s next album, Peaceful Journey. The song was originally inspired by the tragic death of Troy Dixon, better known as “Trouble” T. Like the best hip-hop - and the best music of all kinds - it transcends its era. Smooth’s lyrics eschew the toughness of that era’s hip-hop for something bigger: the song thanks those who have helped us on our paths and remembers friends and family after they’re gone. Pete Rock’s incredible production sounded great in ’92, and it still sounds great today. It’s a great album, but the highlight is easily “They Reminisce Over You (T.R.O.Y.)” It’s a song about nostalgia, and three decades on, it can make those of us who lived through hip-hop’s late ’80s/early ’90s “golden era” feel nostalgic. Smooth released their debut album, Mecca and the Soul Brother. Thirty years ago this week, Pete Rock and C.L. So heres the math: one classic hip-hop group, two memorable singles, one killer 7-Inch. Older artists thought that us younger cats were ripping them off, but it wasnt like that. So it was just something that needed to be straightened out. They didnt seem to care about how their music affected anyone else, they just wanted money. Again over a mid-tempo groove, and again with Petes trademark warm horn samples, CL explained in Check the Technique, On the song, I was talking about sampling, and I was basically reacting to how everything was such a procedure when you had to clear stuff. Straighten It Out, although not the runaway smash that They Reminisce was, is equally emotional and soulful. His status as a storytelling MC remains underrated, but here it remains proudly on display. Grooving very deeply over a filtered bassline and a now-ingrained Tom Scott saxophone riff (Today), CL Smooth lives up to his moniker, weaving various tales and lessons about family and friends. They Reminisce Over You – a tribute to their late friend Trouble T-Roy (a member of Heavy Ds crew) – is one of the most beloved hip-hop tracks of the 90s, and rightfully so. Originally, both were their own 12-inch singles, but for this special, first-time-ever 7-Inch release, they are paired together.
These two songs are taken from the groups legendary first full-length from 1992, Mecca & The Soul Brother.
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