"Now what do they have to do with each other?", well absolutely nothing and I was planning a whole different post with whole albums etc, just to find out after I finished; that I couldn’t upload them, so I have to leave you with the few tracks I uploaded..
First is the 1991 Tommy Boy released "Ooh I love You Rakeem" EP (well most people refer to it as EP, though there are only 3 different tracks on it, i wonder what GO14 says ;) ) from RZA then still known as Prince Rakeem, just after its release he would go to jail and after that he would go on and bless us with the Wu, who I feel don’t need any further descriptions...
1."Ooh We Love You Rakeem (Baggin' Ladies Mix)"
2."Ooh We Love You Rakeem (Baggin' Ladies Instrumental)"
3."Deadly Venoms (Vocals Up)"
4."Sexcapades (DMD Mix)"
5."Sexcapades (Wutang Mix)"
6."Sexcapades (DMD Radio Mix)"
7."Sexcapades (DMD Instrumental)"
8."Sexcapades (Wutang Instrumental Mix)"
download (rapidshare)
Second is the promo only pressing of Jeru The Damajas „East New York Stalks“ released after the prophet left the Gangstarr Foundation featuring the Gangstarr diss track “Friend or Foe” main mix also known as “Friends”. Premier had produced his entire debut album “The Sun Rises In The East” and his second release “Wrath of the Math” after this they parted ways, some say due to financial disagreements but I remember also hearing that premier had something going on with Jerus sister or something like that well any way, here it is. (rapidshare)
Chris
5/29/2007
Bobby Digital and The Damaja
Tuesday Lite
I hope everyone had a great and safe holiday weekend that consisted of no DUI’s or any run-ins with Po-Po, no accidents, but plenty of memories and hot bitches (or women for those easily offended). Memorial Day is made for BBQ’s and lot’s of drinking for those of you overseas. Some of my most fond memories occur on Memorial Day’s of the past. This one won’t be in any scrapbooks for me, if I did that type of shit, but it was pretty “ho-hum”. Saturday consisted of a 14-hour day doing catering. The morning blew ass, sitting up tables for a 250 people person party all by myself and taking it down pretty much all by myself. The afternoon was a bit better since we did a private party with a filthy rich doctor who liked his booze. The good doctor ended up doing shots with us and it was even rumored he was taking a few tokes of the Mary Jane, although I didn’t witness that. By the time I got home and took a shower it was late enough that I blew off the BBQ I was supposed to be at. It was already late and I was beat and didn’t want to deal with the massive operation of playing catch up with the rest of the drunken assholes. So I just sat down with a 12-pack of cold CL’s and watched “Beerfest” until I could no longer keep my eyes open.
Sunday was spent recovering from basically moving 50 tables and 500 chairs from the day before. My old ass isn’t in the shape it once was. It wasn’t a bad day to go storm chasing here, but I didn’t want to do anything but sit on my ass, which is what I did. There was a few video games, sleeping on the couch watching the resurgent
I’ve decided to “loosely” track my beer intake this summer to see how close I get to my fellow
MUSIC
Well since this is a music blog, I best be for tossing up some music for the peoples consumption. Again, no real rhyme or reason behind these particular tracks except it’s shit I like. Some I might actually be in or over my heading explaining a couple of them, but what the hell, I never said I knew everything. First off....
Some Shameless Promotion
If you've been around this blog since the beginning, and I doubt many of you have, one of our firsts posts was a review for an MC who I have a lot of respect for, my man Lex. I agree that it's easier to like someones music when you actually have some sort of connection with them, whether it be friends in the "real world" or just through message
boards and that way, but while Lex is a cool dude who have had the pleasure to deal with in the past, his music speaks for itself. I hate using labels such as this, but it's "Grown Folks" music, dealing with real life issues that us 30 somethings with kids and bills deal with. I highly suggest giving this a listen. I have yet to listen to it (I just got the link for it 5 minutes ago), but if this is half the album the "Vague Clarity" is, it's well worth the listen.
Peace y'all. I've just released my second CD entitled "forward movement." This is to serve as a Street Album/Mixtape style album. My main objective with this project is to show my talent and versatility on the mic as well as generate a buzz for my upcoming projects. There are 21 songs on this project and it is being released for free d/l as well as tangible purchase. If you would like to purchase a CD, you can visit my myspace page here. Domestic sales are $5 (shipping & handling included) & foreign sales are $8 (s & h included). Paypal is my preferred method of payment.
I encourage anyone with a blog or website that enjoys the CD to post a link to the album on their page. I also encourage you to post this link, or your own on any messageboards and online communities that you may frequent. Again, my mission is to spread the word on my music and the best way to make that happen is thru word of mouth. If you support the music, please help me push it forward. Anyone who wishes to review the CD please feel free to do so and post it on your page. I ask that if you do decide to write a review that you send it over to me once it's posted. All feedback is welcome.
http://myspace.com/lexsinistahcircle
Lexicon718@gmail.com
Lex - Forward Movement http://www.diabloarcher.com/LEX_-_forward_movement.zip
2. Strut prod. by Duke Entertainment
3. Let Em Know prod. by LR Hook
4. The Fight prod. by C-Royal
6. Bobby prod. by Bluntmosphere
7. Everybody prod. by Eska Hines
8. Our Day Will Come prod. by DJ Wallsauce
9. The Spotlight prod. & cuts by C-Royal
10. I Found You prod. by DJ SoulClap
11. Manage Your Fate ft. Laif & Crash prod. by Absoul85
12. Schemin prod. by Maurice Marotte
13. The Raw Deal prod. by Rashid Hadee
14. Sins (Remix) ft. Laif prod. by N1Illa
15. Enterprising (Acapella)
16. HARDCORE prod. by Mercury Waters
17. Step Up Your Game prod. by RaRa Aguilar
18. Nice Guys ft. Amen Almighty prod. by E-Noids
19. Politickin prod. by ND
20. For The Kids prod. by E-Noids
Give it a listen, leave feedback, post it on your blogs if you like it....
Sweet N’ Lo feat Tha Alkaholiks – Excuse Me As I Rip It
Since we are discussing beer and binge drinking, we might as well post up a
track from the ultimate hip-hop drinkers, Tha Alkaholiks. This was from the Sweet N’ Lo album from . I don’t know much about them, after all I was never big on female MC’s or groups for the most part, but in my quest to track down most of Tha Liks material, I ran across this and had to have it. I believe they say in the track that it’s produced by E Swift, which I can totally see, it sounds like some E Swift beats. Swift used to be one of the most slept on producers around. As of late, he seems more focused on trying to fit in with the mainstream instead of sticking to his own signature dope sound, but it’s all good. All I know this track gets me amped for the J-Ro and Tash solo albums that are reportedly supposed to drop this summer.
The Mighty Maestro – One Man Band & Stop Selling Me Dreams
These are from a
Positive K – Quarter Gram Pam
I’ve always liked Pos K, even before his “I Got A Man” which is the reasoning behind his one hit wonder label applied to him by the mainstream. I can’t remember if I first heard him on the “Nightshift” 12 inch or “I Ain’t Havin’ It” track with him and MC Lyte, but I liked both, especially the “Nightshift” single that contained both the album version and the remix version with Big Daddy Kane. Despite all of that, this track dropped way back in ’87 a good five years before the “Nightshift” single. He definitely improved from this track, which he sounds a bit uncomfortable on the mic and doesn’t have that cocky arrogance found on his only LP he released. I won’t even venture to guess who produced this joint either, but it’s nothing remarkable. He had been known to work with Big Daddy Kane, who I greatly doubt produced this since he himself was just starting out at this time. He also did some work with Jazzy Jay of the Zulu Nation fame, which is possible or maybe even one of the First Priority Family members such as Milk D or King of Chill. It sort of reminds me of LL Cool J’s “Dear Evette” or “Bristol Hotel”, which kind of deals with the same fast woman as the subject matter. The main reason I put it up is it’s early introduction to Positive K, who will always been known as “that guy who did that song “I Got A Man”.
The Tribezmen – Who Got The Vibe
Some typical Boom-Bap Jeep music from the mid 90’s, which fine by me. I know next to nothing about this group. I think it was one of those tracks I picked up off of Vinyl Addicts during they’re heyday. It’s nothing out of the ordinary from the music that came out during this time. It sounds like something that Da King & I, Das Efx, Lords Of The Underground or any of those groups from that time could have made. I’m not saying it’s a bad thing because that’s the reason I love that era of hip-hop and if you were down with that era of hip hop, you’ll probably more than likely love this track. I wouldn’t mind hearing an album from these cats though.
King Bee w/ Ultramagnetic MC’s – Cold Slammin’ (Hydro Mix)
Why the hell I haven’t put this on a WYDU Classics Volume
already I have no clue, but it should have been on one of the first ones. This shit is fucking incredible. Although, I’m not a big fan of Kool Keith on his post Ultra days, I was a big Kool Keith fan from the Ultra days and this track shows why. Again, it’s not totally different from other stuff that was coming out during this time, but it just does it so well. There is a version that appears on King Bee’s “Royal Jelly” LP that was released ’90 that isn’t as good as this one,but it’s not bad either. One of the King Bee MC's sounds like the dude from “Urban Dance Squad” which isn’t a good thing. The album, which I think a lot was done by Ced Gee isn’t all that bad and I think can be found on Bust The Facts.
Trav’s Top Spins For The Week
After not really downloading anything for almost two weeks, I finally took a day and caught up on some of the stuff I wanted to listen to. This past weekend was a good way to sit down and listen to some albums I’ve been meaning to listen to and a few things got more than one listen and here’s the list.
I didn’t know what to expect from this when I started listening to it. I’m not going to say it’s classic or anything, because it’s not. That being said, it’s the best thing I’ve heard from KRS since “I Got Next” and that’s coming from someone who considers KRS as one of the top 3 most important figures in modern Hip Hop history. It does get a little tiring listening to Kris say the same thing over and over and over again, but he has a right to say what he’s saying. The beats aren’t as good as I was hoping, but Marley hasn’t really made anything “mind blowing” in my opinion since the Lords and one could argue that K-Def did most of that album. I found it mildly annoying that he uses the same horn lope for the third time Musika. With all that being said, I can see this growing on me. I listened to it once then for some reason I wanted to listen to it again about three hours later, which is always a good sign.
3. Blue Scholars – Bayani
5. DJ Jazzy Jeff – The Return Of The Magnificent
WHY?????
Why does Pharaoh Monch sound completely out of place on that “Rehab” remix by Amy Wino errr Winehouse. Don’t get me wrong, I love anything Pharaoh Monch usually puts out, but listening to him rhyme about Nicole Ritchie and Lindsey Lohan on a song that might as well be their theme song, it just all seemed a little…hmmm…contradictory?
Why couldn’t I put down the book written entirely about the making of the Beastie Boys “Paul’s Boutique”? It’s no secret that I love that album and think it’s one of the most creative albums of any genre, so reading about how it came about in a 123 page book was good enough for me to knock out 76 pages in one sitting last week. I haven’t read it since, but I’ve been busy.
Why is being a professional football player hazardous to your health? Another NFL player, Marquis Hill, passed this weekend. At least it wasn’t a Denver Bronco this time.
Why can the Tennessee Titans kiss their hopes of a good season goodbye next year? See the Madden ’08 cover. To me, they are still the Houston Oilers, so fine by me.
Why do I hate that “Throw Some D’s On It” joint so fucking much?
Why do I have no clue who this Mims dude is? Am I really that old?
Why am I really getting amped for that Royce and DJ Premier album after listening to “Hit ‘Em” over and over? (someone hook me up with a non mixtape version)
Why aren’t more people doing remixes like they did in the old days, like “Flava In Your Ear”, with a bunch of guest artists…I kind of miss that.
Why does there seem to be more quality songs this year than last year? So far this year, I could argue that “Nostalgia”, “Can’t Forget About You” and “Mr. Slow Flow” are all worthy of the top spot so far, at least in my book and all could have easily been the best last year.
Why do I just want to punch the TV screen everytime I see that fat pig Rosie O’Fat aka Rosie O’Donnell. That fat bitch just annoys the fuck out of me and shouldn’t be allowed on public TV anytime between the hours of 6 a.m. and midnight. Don’t get me wrong, I’m fairly liberal, but she’s just a fucking quack.
Why is the Hip Hop magazine an endangered species? Will they ever come back? Probably not.
Why did Miss
Why are
Why do I HATE all the reality bullshit shows. Age of Love? The Bachelor? Give me a break.
Why do I feel guilty then to say I kind of like that “The Lot” show about movie directors. I originally stopped on the channel because of the hot Latina announcer it had then laughed at one of the movies and started watching it I’m not sure it’ll rope me totally, but summer TV is pretty shitty usually.
Why did I want to go Phil Helumuth on the bitch who went chasing for a flush against me last week while playing poker and why did I just get up and walk away when she caught it on the river? I flopped a set and bet it hard, this was already after raising my pockets pre-flop. This lady had nothing on the flop and had to catch runner runner anyway you looked at it when she called my bet, but still made the call. Heart on the turn and heart on the river….good night now.
Why after listening to “Hip Hop Lives” did I have a dream that KRS stole money from me?
Why would Domingo have that same dream?
Why am I just now enjoying Pack FM’s “Whutduzfmstand4?”
Why is my uhhh cracked copy of Fruity Loops not working now? Not that I’m trying to be the next Primo, but it’s fun to play around with.
Why can’t even a Primo beat on “Get It Done” save Skyzoo? He just makes me want to fall asleep.
And finally…..
Why can women get away with blowing off their significant other all day, but if a guy does that we are in deep shit?
5/24/2007
So Corny It's Good Part Three: Bobby Jimmy & The Critters
Parr started his career as a jack of all trades of sorts doing stints as a
comedian, a morning host for LA's KDAY station, and his own record label, Rapsur Records. He started the label after writing the lyrics for "We Like Ugly Women" that sold a modest 50,000 records on the independent route. He discovered that he had something and began writing more comedy raps. He would come up with the character "Bobby Jimmy", which was based off of a childhood friend. It was his Rapsur Records label that would release his first album, "Ugly Knuckle Butt" in '85. That album had the "classic" track "Big Butt", which would gain some plays on radio stations as far away as my little ho-dunk town, which is where I'd first hear of him.His second album, The Beginning: Roaches, was released on the west coast independent "giant" Macola records and spawned hits such as "Roaches", which sold 300,000 copies of the single. The album would go on to sell over 100,000 copies and would outrage groups such as NOW (National Origination of Women) who were up in arms about "We Like Ugly Women" (can't people take a freaking joke???). They would boycott KDAY, which did a lot of good. African-American groups were angered at Parr's "Jive Talk" on the album, which Parr would explain his character had a speech impediment. That in turn, would piss of the speech therapist. Go figure.
Records, 1990)
Bobby Jimmy & The Critters - Roaches: The Beginning (Macola Records, 1986)
5/23/2007
An Interview With A Hip-Hop Blogger and Re-Ups
(Edit Note: I actually wrote this a three weeks ago, before the "Crisis" posts, which uses some of the same ideas as this post.)
Sharing and swapping music amongst ourselves has been around since the dual tape decks on our home stereo systems. One person would buy a new release from a retail outlet, then sharing it with other people, who would dub it. At least that’s how it worked among my friends. My generation would also sit by the radio, sometimes in the middle of the night, listening to the radio with our fingers on the pause button, waiting for that one special jam so we could have it at our disposable at any time. For the most part, this would last through out the late 80’s and most of the 90’s.
The file sharing sites stayed fairly popular until the RIA
A started it’s rampage on them, charging people with copyright infringement like they were detainees at
The next in the line of evolution concerning music sharing would be the message boards. Depending on who’s board and their policies, you could find some good material on them. Soon there were message boards dedicated just to the act of sharing hip hop and other kinds of music among it’s community members. Places like Boxden, Gorilla Arms, and the legendary Cocaine Blunts boards were places were like minded people could get together and share music with each other. Their novelty though, would be short lived. Wading through posts of absolute crap that only the wannabe suburban gangsta would want to listen to and it made it difficult to find those illusive, hard to find gems. The message boards wouldn’t be the answer either.
Step in the blogs. The first ones I would find would be in Feb of ’05, although some had been around since ’04. At first, it would only be a few blogs out there that would post up a few single tracks. They were more into sharing the knowledge, getting the rare history of Hip Hop out there for the masses to hear. They were the archeologists of the art form, bringing tracks like the first ever Jay-Z recording from ’96 and other jewels to all who visited their domain.
In today’s “Blogosphere” among the Hip-Hop themed blogs, there are many different kinds of
blogs. You still have the single track blogs, you have the blogs who still offer up the albums, and you have blogs that concentrate more on the critical analysis of today’s hip hop music. We all have our own audience out there. You have blogs and blog authors such as Dallas Penn , Jeff Weiss, Noz and his XXL gigs, and Bol aka Bryan Crawford who get (I’m guessing) thousands of readers. These bloggers are more into the commentary point of view when it comes to Hip Hop and they even cover other topics and events. They are the bloggers who would be the closest to “professionals” as there can be. Their regular readers follow their blogs because of their knowledge and the fact that they can plain out write well.
I hope to change some of that over the next month or two. Once a week or so for the next few months, I hope to interview some of the other bloggers out there. I honestly got the idea from reading a blogger interviewing Jeff Weiss and thought that it would be kind of a cool idea if I did it for some of the “local” blogs like mine. I already have “behind the scenes” communications with some of the bloggers out there myself, through emails, myspace messages and the such, so hopefully getting some of them out of their shell will be interesting. Another reason for the interviews is to get some practice for what I hope will be future interviews with artists….fingers crossed of course.
To lead off with our “Get To Know Your Favorite Blogger” series, we’ll do like KRS and interview ourselves. Yeah, you all probably know as much as I want you to know about me, but what the hell, I think I’d be a damn good interview regardless.
Interview with Travis from WYDU
WYDU: What got you into Hip Hop music?
Travis: Hearing too much whiney, screaming, make up wearing glam rock from the 80’s, that shit was horrible. It was either get into Country or Rap and I didn’t look too good in a cowboy hat.
W: Is Hip Hop dead or alive?
T: It’s on life support. There is some good music out there, but you have to wade through the muck to find it. The music is never going to be what it was in the late ‘80’s to the mid ‘90’s, I think once people my age understand and have that golden revelation, they’ll be more content with the state of hip hop. Plus, Hip Hop isn’t over until Vanilla Ice has another platinum album.
W: Why did you start blogging?
T: I still hate using that term, but I’ve come accept the fact that that’s what I do, I blog. After reading so many good blogs after discovering Cocaine Blunts early in ’05, Polarity and I thought we had what it took to do our own blog. Personally myself, I had been helped so much by others on the internet, I wanted to share the wealth and help others out there find the lost gems from their past years or discover something they missed the first time around. Plus I had dreams of being the first blogger to ever gross over a million dollars blogging, so far I have $999,975 (my mom sent me $25 to not ever post another post like our first one).
W: Do you get any naked photos from your fans?
T: Sadly enough, not from the women and thankfully enough, not from the guys either. There was the one time that I thought I received some racy photos from an admiring female fan, but then I realized it was just one of those porn sites sending me an email to renew my account. For any hot chick out there that wants to send me photos, this one is a good example of what would be expected. A guy can dream, can't he?
W: What are the perks of blogging?
T: Well I can’t say I’ve gotten concert tickets (edit note: I have received concert tickets since this interview was conducted because of this blog) or have had XXL or The Source knocking on my door to have me come write for them. I haven’t gotten any ass due to my “star status” either. I’ve even used my favorite pick up line of “Girl, what do you mean you don’t recognize me? I’m only the most famous blogger in your apartment complex!” (thanks to Phonte), but alas, no dice. What I do get is the false sense of confidence and having my ego pumped up because over 200 people read my blog and thinking I’m more important than I actually am. I have received a few promo copies here and there and one or two “famous” people like MC Big Star or MC Whats His Face email to thank me for an album they have been looking for. The names, of course, have been changed to protect the innocent, or just to hide the fact that even big named stars download music as well.
W: So chicks don’t dig the Rap Blogger?
T: It’s hard to believe, but no, they don’t seem to care. I think you have to be a soul/funk/jazz blogger, I’ve heard of those cats get chicks stalking them and the such. It’s amazing what a lil’ Miles Davis does to the moistness level of chicks panties.
W: Who was your favorite Fat Boy?
T: I always kind of partial of Buffy myself.
W: What is your favorite “Guilty Pleasure” hip hop album?
T: Hmmm, I have a few of them. Redhead Kingpin’s “A Shade Of Red” has always been one of my favorites, but I still have some hope that people see that as a legit album. Both Kid N Play’s “Funhouse” and MC Hammer’s “Let’s Get It Started” hold dear memories of corniness gone amuck in my past, but I have to go with Kwame’s “A Day In The Life”….oh those crazy polkadots.
W: So if you had to pick a producer not named DJ Premier, Pete Rock, RZA or Dr.Dre, who would it be?
T: I’ve always been big into The Bomb Squad, except they haven’t produced anything in probably 15 years. J-Zone ranks pretty high up there as well, lots of bells and whistles involved. Frankenstein was good as well, but again, nothing from him for awhile. Noise is good when it comes to production though.
W: If you were on a road trip and could bring one NON Hip Hop album, what would it be?
T: Since I don’t have “The Best of Poison” on CD, I’d probably go with Steve Miller’s Greatest Hits from 1974-1978.
W: Are you much of a drinker?
T: I’ve been known to toss a few back in my day.
W: Beer or Liquor drinker?
T: I stick mostly to the suds, but I’ll do some shots every now and then.
W: What’s your favorite beer?
T: Well if I’m out just drinking to get drunk or sitting with some friends watching some sports, I’ll usually go with Coors Light, but if I want a “special treat”, usually my favorite beer is
W: You are at your favorite bar and want to start drinking the hard shit, what do you order then?
T: Hmmmm….if it’s a mixed drink, usually Capt Morgan rum and coke. Straight shots, then usually Jager or Tequila. A mixed shot, usually Redbull and anything but Vodka, that shit is like liquid crack or an occasional Irish Car Bomb.
W: In the Hip Hop atmosphere, it's important to be "Hard", have you put in any work? Have you ever been arrested?
W: Do you have any kids? Are you married?
T: I have a beautiful soon to be nine year old daughter. I don't get to see her as much as I'd like, but she's always on my mind. I'm not married, but I've been dating the same girl for approaching eight years now, although the future is kind of up in the air at this time.
W: What other hobbies do you have?
T: I love sports, mainly baseball and football and I play a lot of fantasy baseball and football. This year I'm playing in four baseball leagues, but I'm getting my ass kicked in three of them, i
ncluding the Bloggers Invitational League, where I'm dead fucking last, which is rather embarrassing. I am also a weather nerd and love to go storm chasing. I don't have all the fancy equipment, so we are usually stuck with using some radar on a phone a blackberry or calling a friend that is back home near a computer. I've seen a couple tornadoes doing it and it's a rush. It's also beautiful seeing what nature can do. I like playing poker, mainly Texas Hold 'Em as well. I don't have the lavish lifestyle to play too many money games but I have a game in Colorado Springs I play. I used to have one up in Wheat Ridge, Colorado I'd play on a weekly basis, but that one got closed. I play some on the internet, although I don't win a ton of money, I do well enough I don't have to put much more than 20 bucks or so in every year or so after I do some stupid move and lose it all. I also play some of the free games around Denver at the bars and stuff. I usually do well enough to get on the final table until I'm too drunk and do something stupid.T: Baseball, it's the lowly Pittsburgh Pirates. I believe in loyalty and nothing pisses me off more than sports fans jumping teams every other year, so I'll never change, but damn, they challenge that loyalty often. Just don't bring up Sid Bream or Fransico Cabrera up around me, I'm still in counseling over that '92 NLCS. I picked the Pirates because it was the name of my T-Ball team when I was six years old, so I've seen them suck more often than not. For football, the Pittsburgh Steelers. I got to see them win the AFC Championship a couple years ago here in Denver and I
would classify it up with the day my daughter was born as one of the greatest days in my life. Before the Super Bowl with the Steelers and the Rams in '80, my mom bet me .50 cents that the Rams would win, I took her up on it and they won. I figured any team that wins me money is alright in my book. Oh, and "fuck the Cowboys" goes out to my man JR Rider. As far as basketball, I'm more of an NCAA fan, but I watch the NBA during playoff season. I tend to go for the Jazz, but I'm no where near as gung-ho about them as I am my other teams. Hockey, I really don't care. I yell for the Av's since I live in the town and also tend to follow the Pittsburgh Penguins, since I must have lived in Pittsburgh in a past life or something. I used to be a big Mario Lemiuex fan until he hit on my girlfriend and a charity golf tournament a few years ago.W: What's in the future for WYDU and yourself?
T: Up yours, eat shit...thanks......
Here is a couple re-ups people have asked for in the past couple days. I tried looking for that Three Times Dope - Sequel album, but I didn't see it on my computer or in my copied disks, so I'm afraid I might have missed it myself or it got accidentally deleted. If someone out there has it, it'd be much appreciated with a re-up.
First Priority Music Family - Basement Music (First Priority Music, 1988)
| 1 | Alliance (2) | Get On Down (3:48) |
| Producer - King Of Chill, The | ||
| 2 | Audio Two | Many Styles (4:55) |
| Producer - Audio Two | ||
| 3 | MC Lyte & Positive K | I'm Not Havin' It (3:29) |
| Producer - Audio Two | ||
| 4 | Michie Mee and LA Luv | Victory Is Calling (5:29) |
| Featuring - MC Lyte Producer - Beat Factory (2) | ||
| 5 | MC Lyte | Survival Of The Fittest (3:58) |
| Producer - King Of Chill, The | ||
| 6 | Positive K | Tramp (3:22) |
| Featuring - Milk Dee Producer - Audio Two | ||
| 7 | Audio Two | Peer Pressure (4:06) |
| Producer - Audio Two | ||
| 8 | Michie Mee and LA Luv | On This Mic (5:42) |
| Producer - Beat Factory (2) | ||
| 9 | Alliance (2) | Kibbles And Bits (4:24) |
| Producer - Alliance (2) | ||
| 10 | Positive K | Impulse On Three (4:35) |
| Featuring - Barsha Producer - Audio Two | ||
| 11 | Soulshock | Break The Limits (4:54) |
| Featuring - See-Que | ||
J-Rock - Streetwize (Ghetto Groovez Records, 1991)
| A1 | Let Me Introduce Myself | |
| Producer - Easy Mo Bee | ||
| A2 | Segment One: Under Arrest | |
| A3 | Streetwize | |
| A4 | Brutality | |
| Producer - DJ Premier | ||
| A5 | The Pimp | |
| Producer - DJ Premier | ||
| A6 | The Shakedown | |
| A7 | Neighborhood Drug Dealer | |
| A8 | Don't Sleep On Me | |
| A9 | Root Of All Evil | |
| B1 | The Messiah | |
| B2 | Ghetto Law | |
| Producer - DJ Premier | ||
| B3 | Segment Two: Street Scene | |
| B4 | Around My Way | |
| B5 | The Real One | |
| Producer - DJ Premier | ||
| B6 | Another Tough Guy | |
| B7 | Segment Three: Dead | |
| B8 | Save The Children | |
| B9 | Cazanova | |
| B10 | Let's Get It Together | |
5/22/2007
Tuesday Lite
With summer coming, it means we are in that season where some song will become our summer anthem and will have the possibility to become immortalized in our memories for the rest of our lives. Sometimes, it’s some classic song, other times, it might even be a song we don’t even like, but it made it’s mark in our memories and becomes associated with a particular summer. It happened to me in ’03, I was unemployed after the company I worked for decided to head south of the border after quarter after quarter of seeing red after the whole 9/11 debacle. The company employed around 1,000 people at it’s height and a group of us became pretty tight knit, partying together, playing Madden together, playing softball and the fact we went through a company shut down, it made us even tighter. Since it was a fairly large company getting shut down and the fact the economy wasn’t very good in the first place, we all automatically received a year’s unemployment. You still had to do all the things you had to do on unemployment (it was my first time), like look for a job, but trust me, we didn’t look to hard. Even if we did look, we got a “no thank you” and a door in our face most of the time. We ended up getting NAFTA (North American Free Trade Act) which is how I ended up in
ype of stuff a lot when I was around them. It was also our “theme” song for our softball team, which wasn’t all that bad, for being 4-5 beers into it by the time our games would start. Trying for a rally? Magic Stick. Swingin’ like the
You would think this would be a good lead off into a summer song mix or songs of summers past for the “lite” side of things, but I’m saving that for another time and for another blog. I could be turning into the Busta Rhymes of blogging, if I ever get my ass in gear and finish the posts for the three guest appearances I have been asked to do. Regardless, be looking for my summer time post coming to you a blog near you. Just don’t think this rules out a summer theme WYDU Classics in the future.
No real connecting theme this time, just some stuff I found while going through some of my old disks of music I had laying around.
Sticky Fingaz – Jackin’ For Beats ’99
Before my addiction to the Black Album remixes, I had an addiction to the “Jack
in’ For Beats” tracks that were coming out at a weekly clip at one time. I loved the original from Cube, I’m not sure what it was, but it just got me amped. In ’99, Sticky Fingaz released his version of “Jackin’ For Beats” complete with a 50 cent dis and some GREAT lines. You can’t help wanting to get up and punch someone while listening to this version. This is right when Sticky went solo and it was a great way to throw his hat in the ring. He jacked bigged name stars such as Jay, Nas, and Busta, and in some cases, sounded better on the beats than the original artist. That was the reason Cubes original version became so wildly popular in the first place. Unfortunately, or fortunately, I quickly became cured of the “Jackin’ For Beats” obsession when I realized that most of these songs sucked. The only other one I’d suggest is Slug’s “Jackin’ For Freaks”.
Princess Superstar feat J-Zone – I Love You, Or At Least I Like You
Now you know I’m not including this because of Princess Superstar, who
is some techno/trip hop DJ, I think. I'd throw it in her, but she’s doesn't really do my type of music. The real reason for this is J-Zone. If you are a regular reader of this blog, you know my fondness for Zone’s music. The dude is hilarious with his lyrics and just brings fun back to hip hop and this joint is no different. This is the ultimate pimp song with Zone spitting lines like “…if you want to give me the ass, first give me the cash..” or “young ladies wanna swallow mine, not until I see dollar signs”, yeah your basic locker room humor, but the way Zone and Princess Superstar go back and forth at each other, it’s just good plain fun ignorance. This song would make Jarred from Subway ready to go mack on some females. Zone didn’t do the beat, but that doesn’t take away from the song. All true Zone fans need to check this out. Don’t bother if you are easily offended.
Three Times Dope – No Words (Mental Mutations Mix)
I think this was the one someone asked for last week. Someone else posted the track up last year and I forgot I had it. I found it while digging through some files on my computer.
Double XX Posse – Headcracker (Remix)
While we are on the subject of remixes, I’ll throw this track in there as well. The original is one of my favorite tracks of the ‘90’s, it was just raw as fuck. The remix isn’t as good as the orginal, but doesn’t take away from the greatness of the original either. There is dope ass bassline and a killer horn loop on the hook that just keeps as raw as a hooker that’s on her 50th customer of the day.
Limp Bizkit feat DMX, Method Man & Redman – Keep Rollin’ (Remix)
Yeah, it’s Limp Bizkit, I know what you are thinking and you are right, Limp Bizkit is horrible and doesn’t belong on this blog. Just ignore Fred Durst’s whiny ass for the first minute or so and this track isn’t all that bad with Meth and Red stealing the show. I should know who produced this track, it sounds familiar, but I can’t. It sounds like some Asian sample interloped into a drum track. Red and Meth are typical Red and Meth and come with tight verses. DMX is DMX, I’ve never cared for him all that much as far as quality hip hop, but he is okay in the clubs. The main reason I put this up is someone last week said they were collecting Redman verses, well not too many hip hop heads are going to have this, and with good reason. Think of this as step below of “All In Together Now” that was, ahem, pretty good.
Trav’s Top Spins For The Week
1. Marco Polo – Port Authority
I still stand by description of it last week, lots of fast-forwarding going on, but some real gems on here. I’m amazed at the variety of artists he has on it though, everything from Wordsworth to JoJo Pellagrino. It was bound to make for an uneven effort just on that detail, but I admire the chance he took and you can’t really nail down a “sound” for Marco Polo, which could be good or bad, depending on how you look at it.
5. Cunninlynguists – A Piece of Strange
Why????
Why are the Pirates doomed to be shitty forever? Is there really a curse of Barry Bonds going on there? By the way, FUCK Barry Bonds
Why can’t I wait for football season, even though I have a baaaad feeling about the Steelers?
Why is it the coolest fucking thing since…..well since
Why is getting drunk at Coors field a whole lot more fun than actually watching the game, especially when said game is 15-2?
Why can’t I find a softball team to roll with this summer? Although I haven’t looked that hard after the Meteorology dept softball team from school fell through from the lack of women.
Why does Rawkus deem it necessary to start a hip-hop version of myspace? I haven’t looked at it yet, but I’ve seen numerous myspace bulletins from groups asking people to join them in some race between 50 groups to get the most friends. When I looked I knew 18 groups and only about 8 of those did I really like. It was nice to see the
Why did I go see Paul Wall a week ago? Well, because they were free tickets. I won’t even say who was on the rest of the bill. But I do want to thank the person who hooked me up with the tickets (you know who you are), despite it not being my kind of music, enough beers and anything is fun and I did have a good time.
Why do I not believe the rumors about a Grand Puba album produced entirely by Lord Finesse?
Why did I nearly shit my pants when I saw the $52.00 price tag on that Buckwild Rare 2 disc Studio sessions that I saw in the store last week? I like Buck, but not for 52 bucks.
Why I haven’t heard that Marley & KRS One collabo yet?
Why are they re-releasing (or finally releasing) all these great albums like the Ill Biskits and the deluxe version of Masta Ace’s “Take A Look Around”. Not that I’m bitching.
Why haven’t they re-released Nine’s albums yet? Dammit!
Why do I have more trips planned this summer than money? My best friend has won $15,000 at online poker this past month and he is trying for a seat at the World Series of Poker. I told him if he made it, I’d be his entourage in Vegas during the event. Shit, the way he is winning, he can pay my entourage fee that I charge.
Why am I more excited about seeing Al Green and Etta James more than anything else this summer on the concert circuit.
Why am I hesitant to go see that tour with Felt, Living Legends and others? I guess besides Felt, I really could care less for anybody else on the bill, but as mentioned before, beer and an outside concert almost makes a crying hillbilly country singer listenable.
Why have I only been storm chasing three times this year when it’s been a great spring for it (from a storm chasers point of view). I was in the county that the Greensberg,
When did making cute little pictures out of keyboard symbols become gully? That’s GANGSTA!
Why did I make it on the mailing list of every upcoming producer, website, and wannabe MC that I can’t even read my email anymore? Some of it’s cool, but it’s becoming too much.
Why do I want to have a threesome with
Vanessa Carlton & Nelly Furtado and become their boy toy?
Why do I feel embarrassed to say I’m a closet Timbaland fan?
Why after saying that, do I feel compelled to say his solo album sucked for the most part.
