Dress Archie's Great Rap Verses (Song #7: Pastor Troy- This Tha City)

Now for me, when the "Great Verses" list was started, one of the driving forces behind it was putting up some new music and maybe new rappers that some of you haven't heard. My first two songs I don't think really achieved that goal; I am sure most of you had heard Gettin' It and while Big L is pretty well-known, I figured you hadn't heard that freestyle.


With this in mind, I present to you Pastor Troy. I first came across the Pastor Disaster when I was real young and and just getting my feet wet in rap music. I can't remember where I heard of him, but at the age of 12ish I bought one of his CD's. Little did I know what I was getting myself into. Pastor Troy is most likely best known for a feud he had with Master P, but other than that, he has little audience outside of the South. I actually at one point had a couple of his albums, but as I've gotten older I've either lost them, or they didn't make the switch to my new computer.

Athletes are constantly in need of pump-up songs, and even when I was real young I tried to find rap that would pump me up. With this I present to you This Tha City. This song has been an Alex Hart pump-up staple for a good long time now, and nothing got me more rearing to go than verse 2.

While not the most exciting verse lyrically, the passion that Troy throws into his spitting is undeniable. It sounds as if he's gutturally yelling the thing out through clenched fucking teeth, as if he's taking a big fat shit (in a good way). This song needs to be listened at high volume levels, and works best if your feeling belligerent or aggressive so drink some cheap whiskey, listen to this, and (to quote Juanfeesh) stomp some gumps. If I could best some up this song I would leave it to the Pastor himself:
You cracking smiles, we cracking mugs selling drugs
We what hoes love, ATL fucking thugs.
This might not be the best verse I throw on here, it sure is one of the hardest and hopefully you'll bump it at some point.

Out like Brett.