Yes In My Backyard: Download O.C. and A.G.'s "Think About It"
Yes In My Backyard is a semiweekly column showcasing MP3s from new and emerging local talent.
O.C. and A.G. are New York hip-hop legends holding their own. The two members of longstanding pan-borough collective Diggin' In The Crates (the same one that spawned Fat Joe and Big L) still sound deadly: their first album-length collabo, Oasis (Nature Sounds, due November 10) is all effortless flow and perfectly skeletal boom-bap. Both rappers' most famous works are 15 years behind them: O.C. is the nimble voice from 1994's classic-beyond-classic, back-to-basics manifesto "Time's Up"; A.G. is best known for 1992's neck-snapping Runaway Slave. But their no-fat, no-gristle rhymes remain monstrously aerodynamic, zipping past sloppy up-and-comers--not retro, just timeless. "Think About It" is a lean motormouth boast meant to set the real from the imagined--one of those rhymes that manages to take shots at soft MCs and corrupt governments alike while still giving props to good weed and hip-hop's roots. 
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