Certain color caps resembled certain people that were doing s**t different than everybody else. Back when we used to sling and do what we do, we would have certain color caps. I always ran with that as one of my traits in anything I do to separate myself from others. Raekwon: Only because being that we from the block, we was finagling in certain situations where the things that you was dealing with had to be separated from what everybody else was dealing with. ' : Where’d you get the idea to come out with a purple tape? I thought it was a defect when I got mine.?

This was confirmed on an interview Rae did with 'I wanted to portray an image that if I was selling crack or dimes in the street, you would recognize these dimes from other niggas' dimes. The purple Tape in reference to the album was because the original cassette's plastic was entirely purple Raekwon marked the tape distinctively as a reference to drug dealers' method of tagging their product, to distinguish it from that of others'. So Rae came up with the theory, like a Cuban link is one of the roughest chains to break. The chain we used to rock back in the days was Cuban links. Ghostface Killah later specified 'We already had the title.

Lets first look at the title of the album, according to Wikipedia 'The album's title serves as 'a warning of its musical potency to those not prepared for the uncut raw contained within.' Although the original intended title was 'Only Built 4 Cuban Linx Niggaz', this idea was eventually dismissed in favor of a more market-friendly one. Luckily record companies were still making tapes, and even luckilier (is that a word?) Raekwon requested that his tape be purple. This all leads to the release of Only Built for Cuban Linx in 1995 (AKA the Only Real Purple Tape). Oh yeah, Lisa Loeb’s current release is called the Purple Tape CD (wack). There is also no concrete proof that this cassette were coloured purple be it previously or re-release. Which for all you LL fans (no Todd Smith aka LL Cool J), has been remastered and re-released sometime in 2008. Next came Lisa Loeb’s demo (what’s up with demos and the color purple?) in 1991. Meaning that a more apporpriate title might have been “the clear tape with the purple case”. However, there is no real proof that this tape was actually tinted purple. It was nicknamed The Purple Tape by Pixie fans because it was (surprise, surprise) purple. Personal research suggest that the first purple polyphonic product was The Pixies first demo, which was released in 1987. I have seen a sealed one go on eBay for about $5k in 2010. The Purple Tape aka Only Built 4 Cuban Linx is a tasty morsal of golden age rap memorabilia, Why were the tapes Purple? how valuable and reare is it?Īpparently on 10,000 of these Tapes were ever made. This will bring back great memories for those old enough to remember, and for the younger fans, something to think about as they already heard about this.

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