Phonte On Making "Hiding Place" With Elzhi

For many fans of LB, "Hiding Place" was one of the shining moments of Little Brother's critically acclaimed LP, The Minstrel Show. You had Little Brother teaming up with a lyrical juggernaut like Slum Village's Elzhi making it one of the most anticipated team-ups since Marvel Vs. Capcom.

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Elzhi's battle-tested, laser sharp flow going back and forth with Phonte's wit was indeed one for the history books. While it wasn't a competition per se, the internet debates raged as to who took who on the track.

"It was like iron sharpening iron," Phonte remembers. "It was one MC making the other one better. It was one of my favorite moments of all the albums."

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• Phonte
• Little Brother
• The Minstrel Show
• Elzhi
• Hiding Place

[jthesnake77]

I like and respect Phonte, but ELZHI is on ANOTHER LEVEL, and this verse (especially when he starts off) shows this perfectly....

"Don't compare me to jokes

I'll strangle the air in your throat

Like you jump from a chair and choke

In mid-air from a rope

Got a big gun and carry a scope

The flair of the smoke

Keep niggaz quiet like words that librarians spoke."

Definition of FIRE rhyme schemes/multi's

[kngjames83]

"Precise" is the perfect word to use when describing Elzhi's rhyme skillz. I love seeing dope MCs admiring other dope MCs! We need more of this in Hip Hop. Props to Phonte and Elzhi. Two of my favorite MCs!!

[kihro]

@cbmuzik thats what i be trying to tell people. but anyway they are all good and with out them we'd have to listen to industry rap, but i'd be like baatin, "fuck this rap shit, ill listen to classical."

[jthesnake77]

@spiderman5876 Again phonte is a very good emcee (and overall great artist) in his own right, but Elzhi is the ILLEST technical emcee alive and his flow/tone just makes it sound so easy/smooth...He's a mix of Nas and Big L for me...

Elzhi "spits fast"? Since when? I mean he can, but you said it like he's Twista, Bone Thugs, Tonedeff @ his fastest (tonedeff is amazing also FYI)...No one today can touch Elzhi.....Only ppl ever in my opinon who can are 97-02 Em, Pun, Big L, G Rap, Nas, Monch

[cbmuzik]

Phonte and Elzhi are on different ends of the spectrum. Phonte is a storyteller, you see what he's saying the entire rhyme...you see yourself i na lot of his rhymes. Elzhi is a lyrical technician...his joints bang around in your head....you be like: "The HEEZY?!?!? Let me rewind that joint. You here what he just said?!" Like it catches up to you a second later...lol But they are both vicious in their own right. Love em both.

[Dreal05starnation]

@jthesnake77 yo for got my favorite part haha

i plan da p[erfect verse then burst like a person that jerked from a circus cannon that land to the earth\

[undermisensiOPC]

i want a music video to this song so badly

[jamekididdleshmiddle]

@BlindLegsGAZA thats my favorite line in the song.

i feel bad saying how bad elzhi makes big pooh look in this song.

[mcmastermind]

I remember when I first heard this song, and Elzhi's verse. I believe I put the shit on replay until my hands hurt. Elzhi went bananas on that track, and shit, so did everyone else. I must say that is a perfect track. Great song for a Great album.

[ravenstyle5]

MAN, I WOULD LIKE TO HEAR ELZHI & PHONTE DO A MIXTAPE ALBUM 2GETHER!!!! I would say album BUT you gotta respect that they 'were' in their groups. Nas, Elzhi, & Phonte are my inspiration for lyrics!!!