Stop Counting
This is how we chill from 93 Til–wait, we’re no longer chillin’…
“We hailin’ from East Oakland, California and, um sometimes it gets a little hectic out there…”
I think “Gully State Warriors” might be the greatest thing I’ve ever heard of. (Sam, do you take full credit for that?)
Anyway, I started thinking…
If anything (other than Gully State, of course), these Warriors are, in the literal sense of the words, Souls of Mischief: Ejections; Matchup problems; Unconventional, “do as you want as if authority didn’t exist” basketball; Anti-red state in their thuggish appeal; A renegade bunch of rabble-rousers that’s stunning the NBA to its very core (and court); A Bullet-clad Fedora; A tormented Baron Davis finally wreaking havoc again; A tormented Matt Barnes that nearly quit to play in the NFL (!) finally finding himself; Stephen Jackson.
In case you didn’t get where this comparison came from, Souls of Mischief is/was a seminal early to mid 90’s hip hop group from Oakland, California. Their greatest hit was a song called “93 Til Infinity” off an album of the same name.
Golden State’s playoff drought began in the 92-93 season, a season referred to by most basketball fans as “93″. (Update: The Warriors made the playoffs in 94, losing in three games in the first round, making me a moron and poor fact checker. I apologize for getting your hopes up. I will just watch the game now. Actually, though, if you still want to run with this, just agrue that the 94 Warriors didn’t matter. If I remember correctly, they didn’t matter to each other…)
Even stranger, on gate night ‘06, the day before this year’s NBA season tipped off, Del the Funky Homosapien announced that Souls of Mischief were working on their first album in 11 years.
The obvious question: With the drought over and the potential for one of the greatest doubly concidental upsets ever (music and basketball in the same city) looming large, have we reached infinity?
(By the way, I may not be the first person to mention this. If someone else beat me to it, point us in their direction.)
29 Responses to “Stop Counting”
May.3 at 10:44 pm
Kadavour says:
did u mean Golden State’s playoff “drought”?
May.3 at 10:46 pm
Kadavour says:
yea, someone suggested that ‘93 to infinity be their theme song in an article on this site a couple days ago. that instrumental was - scratch that - IS sooo chill
May.3 at 10:50 pm
Russ Bengtson says:
“‘93 ‘Til Infinity” is possibly my favorite hip-hop song of all time. Definitely in the top 10. I can roll with this.
May.3 at 10:56 pm
Jake Appleman says:
I thought I fixed that typo. Fixed now.
May.3 at 10:58 pm
Jake Appleman says:
I must have missed when it was suggested. Inadvertent swaggerjacking. Awesome. Not at all.
May.3 at 10:58 pm
Sam Rubenstein says:
the credit for Gully State Warriors goes to the Warriors themselves for being so gully. Which is the highest possible compliment you can pay a man.
Ron Artest wears #93 as some kind of tribute to 93 till infinity. Allegedly.
I’ve read (and written) so much about how crazy the Oakland crowd is. Watching it now… it’s even crazier than people described. Allright, back to watching the game.
May.3 at 11:05 pm
Ben Collins says:
I love how this is pretty much the exact counterpoint. And I love how I accidentally mention movie symbolism in mine. (Don’t tell anyone, but I’d be rooting for the Warriors if this was ANY team but the Mavericks. ANY. I’m jealous of Warriors fans.)
May.3 at 11:36 pm
Drolfe says:
*tells everyone*
May.3 at 11:37 pm
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May.4 at 12:53 am
Chris says:
Warriors are doin it!
May.4 at 1:26 am
cameron says:
Well, they did it, holy shiznit.
May.4 at 1:35 am
the brown guy says:
GULLY STATE JUST WON !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
May.4 at 1:38 am
whooo! says:
#4 on slam’s top 50 players… dirk nowitzki. http://slamonline.com/online/2006/11/4-dirk-nowitzki/ shame… i knew he wasn’t on tim duncan/kobe bryant level yet.
May.4 at 2:00 am
ALX8725 says:
WARRIORS SHOCK THE WORLD!!! SHOULDVE BEEN A SWEEP THOUGH! JUST THINK ABOUT GAME 2 AND GAME 5 AND HOW THE WARRIORS LOST… THOSE REFS EFFED UP!
May.4 at 2:14 am
Tom Jackson says:
Jake, you’re a lot smarter then me, to be sure. How-eva, some might say it makes you a “moron” to have used “an” infront of “moron,” instead of “a” … just saying
May.4 at 2:42 am
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May.4 at 5:58 am
FLUD says:
I’ve been a Souls fan since then. Finally got to see them for the first time ever this year. There’s no hiero fans in ireland at all. AY-MAY-ZING. Now the warriors go and pull this shit?!! We are in infinity and it rules.
May.4 at 6:00 am
James says:
You’ll have to excuse me for not being up to date on modern america slang - but what in the blue hell is ‘gully’ supposed to mean? I presume you are not talking the small trenches made by water eroding soil?
May.4 at 6:01 am
James says:
*talking about
May.4 at 7:27 am
Jake Appleman says:
Kids, let this be a lesson. Never post anything past your bedtime.
May.4 at 7:32 am
Jake Appleman says:
Also: Never edit anything while you’re watching the end of Rockets/Jazz.
May.4 at 7:36 am
FLUD says:
A friend of mine was calling sea gulls “Water Pigeons” this weekend past. He also fell off a roof. We were partying like the whole Bay area is RIGHT NOW… That’s kinda gully I guess. Del Del Del Del Del Del Del…….
May.4 at 7:44 am
uamini says:
“Del the Funky Homosapien announced that Souls of Mischief were working on their first album in 11 years.” Uhm, no….their last album came out in 2000
May.4 at 11:58 am
Oliver says:
swaggerjack is the name of my favourite ale
May.4 at 12:00 pm
allenp says:
Gully means gangster or hardcore.
May.4 at 2:11 pm
Jake Appleman says:
ok, now the carelessness is getting comical. whatever, it’s sunny out. i promise to never blog after 9pm ever again.
May.4 at 2:12 pm
Jake Appleman says:
ok, now the carelessness is getting comical. whatever, it’s sunny out. i promise to never blog after 9pm ever.
May.4 at 3:47 pm
uamini says:
As long as you don’t click twice on Submit Comment everything will be alright
May.4 at 5:57 pm
WeS says:
During game 1 on TNT or maybe it was game 2, they ran the instrumental to “‘93 til infinity” when coming back from a commercial and showing the city of Dallas. Someone at TNT is feeling the irony too. We should all get shirts made. “Gully State Warriors… ‘93 til infinity (2007)”