Catacomb "Straight From The Catacomb" (Road To The Riches Freestyle) [VIDEO]

Location does half the work here before Catacomb spits a single bar. St. Albans, Queens — the same neighborhood that shaped so many of the names in that tag list — with the A Tribe Called Quest mural as backdrop. New Vegas Films keeps it unfussy: the MC, the wall, the block. The beat is "Road to the Riches," Kool G Rap and Polo's 1989 street classic, and Catacomb treats it the way a freestyle over a beat like that should be treated — with full awareness of what it carries. No distance, no irony, straight address. The tag list reads like an honest accounting of influences rather than namedropping: Kool G Rap, Nas, EPMD, Erick Sermon, Boot Camp, 50 Cent — the complete Queens and New York underground timeline from the late 80s forward. Catacomb is working in that lineage openly, on the corner where it was built. That's the whole point.