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Cydeways: Best Of The Pharcyde,The Pharcyde

- Cydeways: Best Of The Pharcyde
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The Pharcyde
Released 2001

Otha Fish
05:23
876 plays

Passing Me By
05:03
7,635 plays

Ya Mama
04:22
728 plays

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songs

- 1
- It's Jigabooo Time
- 01:28
- 441 plays

- 2
- Ya Mama
- 04:22
- 728 plays

- 3
- Oh Shit
- 04:30
- 662 plays

- 4
- Quinton's On The Way
- 02:10
- 390 plays

- 5
- Pack The Pipe
- 05:05
- 660 plays

- 6
- Return Of The B-Boy
- 03:34
- 466 plays

- 7
- 4 Better Or For Worse
- 00:37
- 438 plays

- 8
- Passing Me By
- 05:03
- 7,635 plays

- 9
- Otha Fish
- 05:23
- 876 plays

- 10
- Drop
- 05:39
- 1,251 plays

- 11
- Runnin'
- 04:56
- 1,945 plays

- 12
- Somethin' That Means Somethin'
- 03:30
- 559 plays

- 13
- Devil Music
- 04:14
- 436 plays

- 14
- She Said
- 04:25
- 1,105 plays

- 15
- Panty Raid
- 04:04
- 428 plays

album review

If rap music has taught people anything, it's that even the annoying shimmer of a Mercedes Benz and a pool of high-price hookers can't overshadow true talent. Surprisingly enough, it became clear that the Pharcyde is one of hip-hop's few modern ensembles that stares down modern-day rap and challenges it to a fight. Crafty and cool, Cydeways isn't necessarily genius. Its off-beat and stylistic rhythms and rhymes are an acquired taste at best. But the album still carries innovation that hasn't been touched in years: rap music thriving on a genuine mix of fact, fiction, humor, and memory. "Runnin," "Ya Mama," and "Oh Shit" are creative excerpts from a diary that these boys have carefully crafted. It becomes a kind of coming-of-age story, from making jokes about each other's mother to getting their ass kicked in school. Its undeniable soul is what makes the Pharcyde an underappreciated addition to hip-hop's overplayed and overrated existence in the coming century. So if you still believe in hip-hop, but have become intimidated by its current barrage of smut, simplicity and stupidity, fear not friends -- the Pharcyde's got your back. ~ Darren Ratner, All Music Guide