Heltah Skeltah Hoodie Boot Camp Clik
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- Heltah Skeltah was an American hip hop duo which consisted of rappers Jahmal “Rock” Bush and Sean “Ruck” Price. The two were also members of New York supergroup Boot Camp Clik, along with Buckshot, Smif-N-Wessun and O.G.C
- A quarter century ago, Duck Down Records began with Heltah Skeltah’s Nocturnal, an album too menacing and gritty for mainstream audiences. It was a classic that set the tone for the label’s future. In their prime, Heltah Skeltah’s Jahmal “Rock” Bush and Sean “Ruck” Price, were among rap’s deadliest duos, an unsung power coupling that deserves Mount Rushmore consideration alongside the likes of Outkast, Meth & Red, Tip and Phife, and Bun and Pimp. With his deep baritone, Rock could rip trees out of earth with vocals alone. And Ruck could rhyme words that the targeted force of a garrote. They felt unstoppable.Heltah Skeltah were a faction of the Boot Camp Clik—a coalition of Brownsville AKA Bucktown’s hardest emcees. This was pre-gentrification Brooklyn, before the neighborhood’s character was swapped out for expensive lattes and supposedly woke trust fund allies. The Clik was composed of Black Moon (Buckshot, Evil Dee, 5ft), Smif-N-Wessun (Tek and Steele), Originoo Gunn Clappazz (Starang Wondah, Top Dog and Louieville Sluggah), and Heltah Skeltah. In ‘96, Dru Ha and Buckshot followed their success with Black Moon’s Enta Da Stage and Smif-N-Wessun’s Dah Shinin’ would transition Duck Down Management into Duck Down Records, bringing aboard O.G.C. and Heltah Skeltah.Signing with Duck Down Records in ‘95, Heltah Skeltah and O.G.C. started out as a group that went by The Fab Five—a nod to the Beatles—releasing “Blah” on Side A and “Leflaur Leflah Eshkoshka” on Side B. “Leflaur” made a surprise debut at number 80 on the Billboard’s Hot 100. The faction would split up into their famed groups and join Black Moon and Smif-N-Wessun to form the Boot Camp Clik. “Leflaur” would become Nocturnal’s lead single.
Released on June 18th, 1996, Nocturnal brought sonics and themes that continue to resonate today. Masterminded by Da Beatminerz, the production ranged from horrorcore-slanted, concrete wall-rattling boom-bap to lo-fi curb stomps that somehow spurred introspection. Lord Jamar and Buckshot crafted the intro, “Here We Come,” which starts with Starang introducing listeners to the madness. The chants of “Here We Come” creep in the background making it feel like the voices are following you. The kind of score built to soundtracks Michael Myers stalking his victims.
Rock and Ruck are masters of detail and not only in the storytelling sense. On “Grate Unknown,” Rock described a body convulsing following a bullet to the spine, which earned the album’s parental advisory sticker: “I deliver a nine slug to your spine/And leave you on the floor, vibrating like a fault line.” Or take Ruck’s technical prowess on “Soldiers Gone Psyco,”: “My parabellum be swelling cerebellums when you’re dwelling. With Caucasoids, you’re void, my n**s rebelling.” In this world, Ruck and Rock didn’t need a pencil and pad to lyrically kill their opponents.
The duo rapped like extensions of one another. Rock thrashed through his verses, the haunting menace behind his voice turned bars jagged as rusty razor blades. To balance, Ruck’s verses played out like showcase ciphers with zero room for error. If Rock was the blade that ran across your skin, Ruck was the sting that followed. They were in complete sync.
Nocturnal was never meant for the casual rap fan, despite its later ubiquity on college radio. It’s dark — shrouded in enough violence to make anyone pearl clutch and look over their shoulder on a cold walk home. It conveys the daily struggles not only Ruck and Rock take on, but the rest of the Boot Camp Clik and those living in Brownsville too. Things that they have experienced, the ones that keep you up at night.
