Oh glorious day! For once, the weather Denver, Colorado is so well known for, has decided to happen on a weekend day. Did you know that Denver has the second most sunny days after San Diego? No shit, true stuff right there. So for once, I have motivation to hammer this Sunday Lite post out as fast as I can, because I have to get out in this weather. I was couped up all day yesterday writing for other projects, so I'm itchin' to get the hell out of this apartment, although I should spend all day today writing as well, but fuck it. As The Biz says "It's spriiiiing agaaain". So after this, I'm going to bust out to the park and walk off some of this winter blubber I've acquired. Actually I never got rid of the extra winter luggage from the year before. It's a bitch getting older....and getting a desk job....and writing more. I have lots of excuses for the extra weight I've put on, but I've been trying to cut back on some of that spare tire causing garbage. Cutting back on the beer, no more soda pop, trying to cut back on the sweets (I have a sweet tooth from hell) and trying to get some more exercise. This is new to me, never had to watch my weight before, but I guess that's part of getting older.
It would be a great day for to catch a few innings of baseball, speaking of which, if anyone is down with fantasy baseball, there is a few openings in a free yahoo roto league I'm in. If anyone is interested, hit me up.
You all aren't here about to read about my fat ass, so on to the music......
Big Red - Created A Monster (Produced by Diamond D)
http://www.zshare.net/audio/diamond-d-and-big-red-created-a-monster-mp3.html
I really don't much about this 12 inch, other than it was released in '95 on Payday, who seemed
to drop the ball more back then than Elektra. The B-Side was "How You Want It" and that too I think was produced by Diamond. If anyone has it, lace it up. As most Diamond beats, it has a deep, thick bass line. Big Red isn't a special MC by any stretch of the imagination, but he still holds his own and reminds you why you liked the mid-90's so much. I think dude showed up on Diamond's lackluster "Diamond Mine" mixtape from last year. Speaking of Diamond, make sure you pick up the rerelease of "Ultimate Force - I'm Not Playing" which was early Diamond, well worth picking up!Walkmen - Fortress (You'll have to change the file info, it has Obie Trice as the artist. This song was on some early Obie Trice material I had on a disk)
http://www.zshare.net/audio/walkmen-fortress-mp3.html
All my Star Wars nerds STAND UP! Yeah, this shit is mad corny, but how many hip-hop joints sample the "Imperial March" from Star Wars? For those of you that haven't had the pleasure of hearing this joint before, it samples the "Imperial March" from all the Star Wars joints, which is kind of cool in its own nerdy sort of way. I think it's talking about Star Wars in the song, hell I never really listened to the lyrics, I'm too busy imagining Darth Vader bumrushing some dudes off the stage with his Light Saber. The 12 inch dropped in '98 on Atomik Recordings with "Countdown Theory" as the B-Side and there was also a CD maxi single that had instrumentals, remixes and the such for both songs. The maxi-single came in at around nine tracks if I remember right. Both tracks were produced by Celp Titled, so I'm assuming there was some kind of Demigodz tie with these cats. I remember when I first heard this song on "Underground Hip Hop" early in '99, I was kind of shocked. It was something I didn't want to like, but still did. Those were the early days of finding stuff on the internet for me and this and "Scapegoat" by Atmosphere were the two early joints I was fiending back then. Guess it's just the nerd in me.Masta Ace Inc. - The Inc. Ride
http://www.zshare.net/audio/02-the-i-n-c-ride-mp3.html
You should all have this and if you don't, get off the fuckin' computer and go buy "Sittin' On Chrome" and all of Ace's other joints. It's no mystery that Ace is my favorite artist. The dude is just amazing to me. I do have to admit, "Sittin' On Chrome" is my least favorite of all of Ace's joints, which means I still like more than most other albums. But in the celebration of the up oncoming Spring season, which leads into Summer and this track just gives me those Summer vibes. With it's smooth as silk Isley Brothers sample, this song sounds best when played in any kind of a convertible with a system. If you have to, you can substitute and vehicle with the windows rolled down and the volume turned up.Blahzay Blahzay - Ice Grillz
http://www.zshare.net/audio/blahzay-blahzay-ice-grillz-mp3.html
I've always like Blahzay and alway kind of wondered why they aren't more looked up upon as
one of the better groups of the mid-90's. Regardless of their perception in the hip-hop circles, they dropped a nice album in'96. After that though, not much has came out of the camp. This track here is the last thing they did that I know of. It was a 12inch that got released in '00 on Fat Beats and it's some nice shit. The horn sample alone is worth the price of admission. Shit is dark and gloomy, but you have to keep listening to it, it's that good. I'm not sure what Blahzay is up to now a days.Constant Deviants - Can't Stop
http://www.zshare.net/audio/constant-deviants-cant-stop-wont-stop-mp3.html
Ace Lover - Weedspots http://www.zshare.net/audio/ace-lover-weed-spots-feat-uncle-paulie-mp3.html
At the turn of the century (god that make it sound old) I was pretty down on Hip Hop. I mean, sure there were a few things here and there, but all in all, if 86-96 were the "Golden Years" then 98-03 were the "Dirt Ass Brown Years", because there wasn't much out there. I did a lot of downloading of single tracks on both Audio Galaxy & Napster. I hadn't yet fell into the lure of full albums, mainly because I was still sporting the Dial-Up internet connection, guess not much changes....but, every now and then, I'd run into some artist that I really liked. The bad thing, most of these artists only had 12 inch releases under their belt. Ace Lover comes straight out of NY, so maybe someone like Crooklyn can speak on him better than I can, but dude is a noted freestyler and even has an album out as 2 for 5 with Oktober. This joint has a cool little beat to it as Ace Lover describes the spots to pick up his favorite buddah sess. I'd like to see more from this cat. I heard he has a mixtape of sorts, if anyone has that, hook me up!Trav's Top Spins For The Week:
I downloaded a lot of stuff this week and I'm still trying to play catch up. Top that off with the eight or so CD's I bought this week, didn't seem like I had enough time to check out everything I'd like. But I did have some quality time to play some stuff.
1. Yaggfu Front - Action Packed Adventure
Every once in awhile you just have to pull this album out and give it some play. For me that time was this week where it caught major play for me this week. I admittedly slept on it when it dropped. I did pick up when it was released, but after a few spins and all the crazy stuff dropping in '94, I put it to the side where it didn't get much play and I ended up losing the CD in one of my many moves or one of the parties I had back in my younger days. Well I found it used a couple years ago and I had to wipe the eye boogers out from sleeping on this cause it's quality hip hop. They are making some more noise, so be sure to check them out
2. Boodah & The Bandit - Drugs On The Mind EP
The bad thing about the amount of material found on blogs is when do you have time to listen to all of it? I know it's a problem for me. I can't even remember where I got this but it was sometime ago and I'm just now getting around to listening it. I remember seeing the cover at the CD stores back in the day, but for some reason I thought it was on some Brotherhood Creed shit. Well I sat down and decided to give a listen and damn this is some good shit. After the first listen, I listened to it again. Goes to show you shouldn't judge a book by it's cover.
3. J-Zone Discography
Still pumping my man J-Zone's stuff. The man is just different and that' something that you don't find much. I know, a lot of people think just because something is "different" that it equals good (Aesop Rock anyone?) but Zone is different in a good way. I hope he doesn't keep his threat of not rapping anymore, that would be a pity.
4. Frankenstien - Bootleg
If you read this blog at all, you know I'm a Frankie Ano fan. The dude just had his own flavor behind the boards and while he wasn't the best lyricist in the world, he still put out great songs. The bootleg joint that I posted up here before contains the majority of his work and it great to put on if you are in the mood for some mellow laid back joints.
5. (TIE) Hell Razah - Renaissance Child Little Brother & Mick Boogie Presents "And Justus For All" Pacifics & Illmind - The Case
Some new stuff I've been spinning as well. I'm a fan of Wu, but when it comes to their weed carriers, I usually balk at them. Last years Bronze Nazareth was pretty nice, nice enough to get me to want to check this out. While not good enough to hang with some of the Wu starters, it's a nice 6th man off the bench type of release. Some nice beats and entertaining to keep it in the rotation for a week or two. Little Brother has been one of those groups that people either love or hate them. Myself, I've always been kind of partial to them. They put on a great live show and most of their stuff is pretty nice. "Minstrel Show" was somewhat of a disappointment to me. It just got boring to me after a couple weeks. True I played the shit out of the first couple weeks, but still, a classic album shouldn't lose it's luster after two weeks. Well after another medicore attempt with the "Seperate But Equal" mixtape, LB comes with "And Justus For All". There are some great joints on here and some not so great joints, but the good stuff is holding off the bad stuff for now. I'm not familiar with The Pacifics really, but I've heard of Illmind. I wasn't really impressed with Illminds rendition of Jay's "Black Album" mixes, but some of the stuff I heard after that was rather nice. I was pleasantly surprised by this album/EP. It's not very long, but some joints on here. It'll be getting more play in the upcoming days.
WHY??????
Time for more mind boggling (at least to me) bits of information that flies out my head from time to time......
Why do we have to be subjected to "Producer Beef" now between Timbaland & Scott Storch? What has hip hop come to?
Why does Scotty look like one of those hoser hipster kids I used to shove in a locker in high school? Does he really think he is a white Kayne West? Sorry but white people just can't pull off that look without questions of your sexuality coming up.
Why must we be subjected to a re release of Boot Camp Clik's "For The People"?
Why the hell did the Patriots get Adrline Thomas? Fuck, that's all they need.
Why the hell can everyone else find cheap copies of Nine's debut "Nine Livez" and I can't? DAMMIT!
Why can't anyone make a good baseball game for PS2?
Why is it taking me for fucking ever to catalog my music collection? There has to be an easier way
Why do I want to like that Redman mixtape, but can't?
Why does this even make more hesitant of the new album.
Why does this new online Poker in the United States suck ass? I can only find a couple sites on the internet now to play live money poker.....
Why does the US government think that they have to keep me from playing poker online? Don't they have something better to do, like feed the poor or make universal health care available?
Why did the whole Dipset movement take over O-Dubs Soulsides site a couple weeks ago? I wouldn't even think they knew that exsisted. Maybe I shouldn't even mention them, that's the last thing I want on this site.
Why do people insist on saying Masta Ace jacked Eminem's style. I swear I'm going to go upside someones head for saying that shit one of these days. KNOW YOUR HISTORY!!! Em has already acknowledged Ace's influence on him.
Why can't Nas find that "Dead Little Indian" release since he can find some of those people he did for those remixes?
Why don't I believe Dr. Dre when he says "Detox" will be out this year?
Alright, I'm going to soak up some rays.....or maybe I'll just take a nap.......
Peace, Trav
27 comments:
Now, you know you can't post that Star Wars joint without the accompanying A-Team joint!
This was also produced by Celph
http://www.zshare.net/download/01-f-l-a-team_dirty-cms-mp3-zip.html
hey travis, dope blog! thanks for all the links and info. i am coming to denver this week for some meetings. i work for red bull and we have meetings through thursday. got any suggestions to check out some dope local hip hop djs or shows?
wes
wesallmond@gmail.com
My boys in Cleveland used the Imperial Death March around 96-97. It's hard to mess up that loop
Easy Travis,
Props on the Blahzay 12'', been wanting to hear that for a while. I had that 'Created a monster' single but never really got on with it. We got 12''s going on over at FDB - let me know what you think mate.
Hope you enjoyed your Sunday, I love it when the sun is shining on a spring afternoon and you can kick back on the sofa and treat yourself to a little snooze whilst listening to some tunes... serious chill time.
Jaz hit me with the Ultimate Force LP and I am hyped for the release: one of the best things I have heard in ages.
Laters
Dan
doesn't diamond d look like a fat ja rule in that picture?
ditto on "sitting on chrome" being my least fav ace release, but still dope as hell.
lol @ "..squiggy squiggy sounds.."
i'd love an ace lover album, too. or the 2 for 5 release(s).
found this on albumbase: http://rapidshare.com/files/466533/Oktober_-_Projekt_Building.rar.html
yo, if i find my copy of 9 lives and it's in decent condition, you can have it for a coupla bucks and s&h.
how/what are you using to catalog your music? itunes seems to be the best for me, but it's also taking me forever to complete it, but for different reasons, maybe..
can i get in on the dipset/o-dub story? i've probably been to soulsides 2-3 times in the last year. did they hack into it? or o-dub has been obsessed with them? my bad, i'm out of the loopSSSS. i fell off a long time ago. lol
random guess: is that your gonna be your guest blogger appearance?
trav if you only want to have a list of your computer collection, try http://www.listmaker.cc/ i'm using that and it's very fast and it give you all those details you may need or not (total files, size, lenght etc...) well i don't know if this is what you're searching for, did you already send out those discs? already any ideas concerning the site, desing.. or anything let me know, though i don't have much time on my hands because exams are aproaching here.. peace
listmaker is cool and tiny and fast, but it's too simple..
i'm at a friend's computer, and here's a quick test i did of how listmaker does it's thing:
http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dfxtc8j_0hh6kq9
i don't remember making this list, but it's similar to how itunes would do it- and you can add more categories/columns:
http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=ptkLB-0PDRriel7Z1rASjRw
the 1 negative i can think of right now in itunes is from the created list, you can't easily determine how many albums you have, cuz it lists all the songs in that album.
"CONSTANT DEVIANTS" These are my people...... was in the studio for much of the recording of CD's shelved and vaulted classics
........first joint was "Catch A Speed Knot " on VESTRY ST. (NYC) Records .....Got a few spins after they rushed that radio show at COLUMBIA U.(lol)..lead rapper M.I.C is now solo and DJ CUTT does remixes and produced
a gang of stuff for NORE (In House Production Team for Thugged Out Militainment), RICK ROSS, and he was a former producer for Crazy Cat Catalogue(Derik"D.Dot" Angelettie) - Notorious B.I.G, Black Rob, 50 Cent, Lil Kim..etc,
They still grind together with Impact Music Group a multimedia entertainment Co..... I might throw a few of those older joints from (94' - 96' ) on my blog......
@Chile, that's the last baseball game I bought. It was alright, but nothing great. Last baseball game I truly enjoyed was High Heat
@Stag, thanks man, didn't even know that exsisted.
@Wes, I sent you an email with some nightly stuff
@GO, yeah I don't think even I could screw that up
@nawledge, hit me up with an email on the contact link. I might have something for you.
@Dan, stuff looks good over, saw those singles last night. If my Aboriginal partner would ever move out of the Outback and get hispeed internet, he has a shit load of singles as well.
What did you think of that Blahzay? I really like it.
I need to pick up that Ultimate Force.
@Alley
I have a 2 for 5 album I can hook you up with it's not bad at all. I have an Oktober album, but I don't remember which one, I'll look.
I've been just typing a list of my shit out. I have a bunch of stuff on my new computer, but I have a shit load of loose stuff that I'm trying to inventory as well. I had it typed out before, but I've gotten so much new stuff since last Aug when I last did it.
Man, yeah, if you want to get rid of that Nine, I'd be much obliged. I have a handful of stuff I want on CD and thats one of them.
@Chris
I'm just being to thorough when making this list, year, then in what format I have it and all that stuff.
Send me your address again on MA.com, I erased it accidentally since CC shortened our private messages.
We'll think about a site redesign this summer when both of us are a little less busy
@Supreme, yeah put some of that material up. I've always liked them. I think I heard another song of theirs before, but I can't remember the name of it.
Dipset didn't hack Soul-Sides.com. What Trav means is that their Stans flooded the comments section on a post that's more than a year old. I thought that was weird too.
And hey, I'm still going to insist that when Ace surfaced from his hiatus in '01, his flow was very "Em-esque" but I've already had this argument back over at the site.
Trav - just to say this again - you really have one of the best rap blogs out there. I appreciate all the time you put into your posts. Keep on keepin' on.
Oliver, sorry, should have made that Dipset thing more clear. It gave me a good laugh though. I didn't notice it was over a year old though. I did think it was odd that I missed it though when I thought it was a couple weeks old.
And look at you trying to bring that Ace/Em fight here. I'm just kidding and I respect your opinions and thoughts greatly, but I'll disagree with you here. I thought Em had nasally flow and kind of an off beat/on beat thing in his early recording days. If Ace sounded like Em, I think it's because Em sounded like Ace first.
Alright, so not the best argument. It's no hatred on Em, I actually enjoy his early stuff.
Anyway, thanks for the props, O, means a lot coming from you.
And no Alley, Soul Sides isn't the guest blog spot either. I hope to have the guest blog spot done this week.
Trav,
I'm not making a federal case of the whole Ace/Em thing. I can see how Ace fans took umbrage at it but I never realized how offended some of them would be about it. Regardless, it's not a big deal to me and I didn't think you were trying to come at me sideways about it or anything.
I think it's funny that I've been put in position to defend Em (which I'm not) since I've been pretty down on him for most his career. As I've gotten older, I've relented a bit - dude is talented but he'd never make my Top 10.
Wow, I just found this site today and I have to say that I'm impressed with the stuff you guys have got on here. I've already found like 10 things I have to download and check out. Do you use Soulseek? My usernames on there are spooky69 (regular version) and surferdude69 (test version). Hit me up so I can add you.
Anyway, there was a post about the old school Dr. Dre mixes on here a couple weeks ago. I'm not sure if this is the same one you posted (since it's still downloading for me), but here's a link to "86 in the Mix":
http://rapidshare.com/files/13184571/VTRCM86ITMiDDMRB.rar.html
It's got 300 different records mixed together in a single 60 minute track! It's a great listen.
Anyway, keep up the good work. I'll definitely be checking back here often.
Yo, no need to cut back on the beer, just switch to the light stuff. Works for me.
cut back on the beer.. AND pork rinds!!
trav, i found cloud 9 and nine lives both in good condition (i had a fire @ the house a few years ago, and some cd booklets sustained water damage.) if you wanna give me your list, i'll se what else i have. i'll give you 1st dibs just cuz you're travis from wydu. i've thought for a while now to throw them all up on ebay or something..
alley 81 al at g mail dot com
hollah! let's discuss details and addresses and such..
and stop typing your music 1 by 1. use itunes. it's free. just a couple of changes in the settings/preferences, and you can just drag folders of music into the thing, and it does it all for you. then you can export it into a txt file or whatever.
Yeah, Alley don't sell a thing until you give me a chance...hahaha.
I want my hard copies included in the list. I have more retail and cd-r's than I have computer files. I know, I'm going about this the most difficult as possible
hmmm you have more retails and cdrs than puter files.. i dunno.. my advice is to rip 'em all, and put away your hardcopies like i did- but i only ripped maybe under 2000 rap related stuff.. i haven't touched my alternative music, or po stuff, or oldies as in doowop oldies, and classic rock like doors and shit, and i have yet to rip my soundtracks, but over the years i've just dl'ed them from elsewhere.
itunes is a great ripper. fast. and organizes well. just a memory hog tho it seems.
if you don't wanna rip, maybe just go to like amazon or discogs, and copy & paste their info.
Reggie is gonna deliver a dope album I think/hope,peep this freestyle
http://www.zshare.net/audio/redman-freestyle-dj-green-lantern-3-6-07-mp3.html
For mp3's I use Advanced Disk Catalog, very use to use
hook us up with the free prg link fritz
nice reggie freestyle btw
Here you go
http://www.uploading.com/files/H1GY3W5D/Advanced_Disk_Catalog_1.49.zip.html
Lets see how deep you go with the Hip Hop. On that Masta Ace Inc. - The Inc. Ride song. Who is sampled saying "Incorperate the INC into a flow"...HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM? A hint...I produced the group in the 90's
It was one of the Leaders wasn't it? I want to say Busta or Dinco D on "Scenerio" if I'm thinking right.
You produced them? Intersting...The mystery of dread continues to thicken...or maybe unthicken?
it was dinco d- cuz he sez something like "..so yo the D the what the O, incorporated INC into a flow.."
did this dread produce atcq or lons?
nevermind, the biffhop csi just contacted me, and and it's not the btf dread that we all know and love (nor is it kwame), but it is indeed producer dread aka raheem who did 1 track on t.i.m.e.
which reminds me.. does anyone out there have rumpletiltskinz? and is it any good?
Wow, that makes two past players in the game to post in one day. Nice.
Alley, I have that rumple, it's not bad, it never grabbed me but it's worth a listen
trav, scratch the rumpletilskinz request for me. i just backtracked on btf2's cbox and someone hooked it up. thanks anyway.
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