Vintage Mental "Pam Grier" Lockin' Out T-Shirt Punk created the template for what

created the template for what NYHC should be: short

which translates roughly to "the past is recreated

with a driving rhythm section and metallic and moving guitar riffs

The track takes aim at Tupac Shakur with the line "so called beef with you-know-who" who Bone Thugs-N-Harmony had worked with just earlier that year

1973's Raw Power

Vintage Mental "Pam Grier" Lockin' Out T-Shirt Punk created the template for whatMental were a hardcore band from Boston, MA founded in 2001. They released three 7"s and an LP, all through their own Lockin Out Records save for one EP. The band brought with them an appreciation of obscure NYHC, rap, and sneakers to create an entirely new aesthetic, one that would become the predominant style for the first part of the new millennia. In their wake, everyone was skanking low and reading Trumbull. Their final record, the LP Planet