Throwback Thursday: Watch Evil-Loc bust out “My Hood” back in ’98

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There’s really nothing more fantastic than seeing a packed show with the audience going off, but it always seems to be a lot more impressive when it’s a local hip-hop artist. Despite the Midwest’s long and strong hip-hop scene, it’s a rare thing to see a packed venue for a rapper in these parts.

Here’s a video that showed up online just a couple weeks ago. It goes all the way back to 1998 with Topeka g-funk king Evil-Loc rocking out a packed Granada. The audio’s blown out a bit, so all you can hear is a massive wave of bass and Evil-Loc (who now goes by the name E-City the Streets) just blasting out verse after verse with a stage full of people going the hell off.

The album which “My Hood” is off of 2-Deep-N-The-Game. It came out in 1998 and managed to move 17,000 copies, which is pretty astonishing for a local release, especially when you factor in the basic premise that there was no local airplay for independent hip-hop at the time. Loc’s CDs were nearly omnipresent at every Hastings in the area for a time, and now rank as underground hip-hop classics among heads in the know.

E-City’s got a new album in the works called Movin Units, courtesy of his own Mean Mugg Records. He dropped a new cut off it just this week called “I’m Mic Vic,” and you can check that out below.

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