Masta Ace Incorporated released Slaughtahouse 31 years ago this month. 🔥 A loose concept album, it’s both an intense exposé and a roughneck tribute to the hip-hop lifestyle that broke new ground by merging the grimy lyrical sensibility and beats of East Coast rap with the funk-influenced subsonic bass grooves of the West Coast producers of the time. The track “Jeep Ass Niguh” was a major hit and a quintessential cruising song of the summer of ’93. It would later appear reworked as “Born to Roll