Jul 31, 2015

"Straight From The Lab" tracks leaked over several days starting with some snippets on November 20th. The first leaks were 128kbps and put out by a guy named PattyPancho/Paco. During this time there were groups putting these out as CDS/VLS. I saw several noob groups try to pass them off as legit releases, and even WCR had a "VLS" release of Monkey See Monkey Do where they just increased the volume and reversed the cuss words for a clean version. The Killah Kuts put out Come On/Canibitch and Bully/Monkey See Monkey Do on vinyl, and there's the previously mentioned Straight From The Lab vinyl. None of these predate the online leaks from Paco. If I remember correctly the full vinyl didn't show up until December. I don't have the vinyl scene release but maybe detroitskills can check the nfo and see if it has a rip date.

I found some old AIM logs to clarify some things.

Me: can he get older stuff like our house in cdq?
Pattypancho: getting these songs was a one time thing
Pattypancho: he stole the cd from ems brothers
Pattypancho: car


Me: how did you even find this guy?
Pattypancho: he posted on a messageboard
Pattypancho: but no one responded but me
Me: it wasn't dashadyboard right?
Pattypancho: no diff board
Pattypancho: i was the only one who responded and walked him through the ripping process
Pattypancho: i guess i got lucky
Me: he didn't know how to rip a cd? not surprised he was dumb enough to steal something like this.
Pattypancho: yeah lol
Me: didn't you say it had like 20 tracks on it? what happened to the rest?
Pattypancho: yeah
Pattypancho: but a lot were released
Pattypancho: some were 50cent
Me: you remember any of the others on there?
Pattypancho: there were like 2 more songs he never gave me
Pattypancho: no names either



I believe Monkey See Monkey Do was the first full track he leaked, followed by Come On In/6 In The Morning, and Canibitch. I did some trading with him and got Bully and Love You More in return. I leaked Love You More on D12World with the most obnoxious tags ever, they repeated the entire song, and I believe I was shouting ICP related phrases. Paco released an untagged version the next day.



Me: send another song i've hooked you up with 4 already and you told me 1 for every 2.
Pattypancho: dawg
Pattypancho: tonight i will give you the kim song
Me: why not now?
Pattypancho: cause i'm waiting
Me: for?
Pattypancho: it's too long to explain
Pattypancho: lol
Me: try...
Pattypancho: seriously man
Pattypancho: aight
Pattypancho: everybody claims to have these tracks
Pattypancho: soon as i leak one someone jumps and says "i been having that track like a week ago" "i leaked it" " "i got 30 tracks"
Pattypancho: i wanna sit back and watch how many tracks het leaked when i don't have s--- to do with it
Pattypancho: which should be ZERO



By the end of the week he leaked all of the tracks he had except for We As Americans. For some reason he told me he wasn't willing to trade for that song and he wanted to keep it rare. Two days later someone anonymous leaked it... I'm not sure if the CDR was ever ripped again properly, but even if it was a higher bitrate the sound quality is just odd. I can see why you guys think they originally came from vinyl, but I spoke with someone else that was friends with Nate and he said his version of Canibitch that he receieved from Nate the previous year was the same quality.