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6/29/2007

Re-Ups, Requests, Re-Do's, Rehab, Reposts, ReRead...You Get The Picture

**Be sure to vote in the new tourney group posted in the post below**

I finally wrote down all the requests and reups people have been asking for (I hope). I've noticed a lot of the zshare links have been dying rather quickly. I'm not sure if this is due to zshare cracking down on downloading or if it's our resident deliquent fucking with them. None the less, I'm going to go back to Sharebee for these, sorry if it fucks anyone up, but I'm not left with a lot of choices (I'm not sold on Mass Mirror yet).

I have a couple requests myself. First one is a shitty bass album that got some play during the summer of '96, but nostalgia can be a bitch. Quad City DJ's - Get Up & Dance
The second one is something I posted up myself, but didn't get to it before the link got pulled. That would be the Atmosphere Headshots Vol 1 that I posted up. Thanks in advance....
I apologize in advance for any re-ups I might have missed. Once you get over 30, your memory starts going, so if you sent an email or asked for a re-up in the cbox and I missed, just politely remind me again. Also if you post a request in an older comments section, there is a good chance I won't see it. After a post has been up for a week, I stop checking comments pretty much and the email that the comments requests go to is so full of crap, it's hard to tell whats what, so you are better off asking for requests in the cbox.

For once we have less of me and more of you...which might be a bad thing, but what the hell (I know, I know, a bad Jim Rome rip-off).....lets jump on into it.

A1 Intro (1:48)
A2 On A Vibe (3:20)
A3 Time To Shine (2:59)
A4 Check It Out (3:20)
B1 Constantly At It (2:15)
B2 Rock A Show (3:43)
B3 I Thank God (3:53)
B4 Chill Out Zone (2:52)
I can't remember if I've posted this before. I want to say no, but I've posted so much shit in the past year and a half that I'm losing track of it all. This is an NY duo consisting of Jack The Ripper and J. Blackstar. They were heavily involved with the D&D studios in the mid/late 90's, but never really release more than this EP. If you are into the NY underground and the kind of stuff that appeared on Primo's NY Reality release, then this right here is for you.

Cenobites - The Cenobites LP (Fondle 'Em, 1997) (This is the original wax version, no the CD re-release, hence the missing track that didn't appear on the LP version)
A1 Lex Lugor (3:50)
A2 I Was Forgotten (3:48)
A3 Kick a Dope Verse (4:09)
A4 Mommy (3:19)
A5 You're Late (3:44) Rap [Featuring] - Percee P
B1 Rhymes I Sniff Aka Carlos Died (4:13)
B2 Keep On (4:34)
B3 How The Fuck You Get A Deal (5:38)
B4 Kick A Dope Verse (Remix) (4:13)

I can't remember if I re-uped this not too long ago or not, but if not, here it is now. As I mentioned on top, this is the wax LP version that Polarity himself ripped from his collection and it doesn't include one song that the CD version had. For those of you not up on this, this is Godfather Don and Kool Keith before Keith got all spacy and shit. Excellent album, grab if you've missed the first 5 or 6 times I've posted it up here.

A1 Davy's Ride (3:43)
A2 Get Busy (We Ain't New To This) (2:53) Featuring - Hurricane
A3 Keep Your Distance (3:58) Featuring - Hurricane
A4 Feel For You (3:11)
A5 Bustin' Loose (4:39) Featuring - Hurricane
A6 Your Love Is Like Money In The Bank (1:36)
B1 Live On Hollis Day (3:02) Featuring - Hurricane
B2 Ohh Girl (4:31)
B3 Have You Seen Davy (3:22)
B4 Do Ya Do (3:31)
B5 Bring It (3:51) Featuring - Russell Simmons
B6 Let's Rock (1:43)

Someone sent me an email yesterday wanting this after reading about it on the Philaflava tournament thingy going on. It doesn't include "One For The Treble" but it's not all that bad. Kind of in that Afro's, Hollis Crew, Run DMC, Hurricane vibe that all those artist seem to have going at the time.

No track listing

I'm not even sure this is a legit project, since I can't find shit about it anywhere, but then again its filled with songs I've never heard before. The tracks are not named which kind of sucks. Deacon is pretty much the lead MC for Cunninlynguists which are one of my favorite groups out now a days. This is kind of lack luster, only a couple Kno beats I can pick up on, not sure who did the others, maybe his own stuff


01) D-Flow & A-Bless: ‘Ridin and Rollin
02) Brand Nubian & Diamond: ‘I Flip Styles’
03) Fat Joe & Big Pun: ‘Best Behaviour’

05) AG & Diamond: ‘Put it in Your System’
06) DITC: ‘Stick Up’
07) OC: ‘Half Good, Half Sinner’
08) The Omen (Sadat X, Diamond & Kamari): ‘It’s Our World’
09) DITC: ‘Dignified Soldiers RMX’
10) Diamond: ‘With The Dope Sound’
11) OC: ‘U-N-I’
12) Milano: ‘Deal With A Feeling’
13) Big L: ‘How Will I Make It’
14) A-Bless: ‘My Life’s On the Edge’
15) The Omen: ‘Do It Now’
16) Diamond: ‘The Hiatus RMX’
17) OC & Showbiz: ‘Showtime’
18) Sadat, Diamond & Finesse: ‘You Can’t Front’

19) A-Bless: ‘That’s Bless’
20) Fat Joe & Big Pun: ‘Best Behaviour RMX’
21) DITC: ‘Themes, Dreams & Schemes’
22) Lord Finesse: ‘In The Ghetto’
23) A-Bless, Party Arty & D-Flow: ‘Rap Game’
24) The Omen: ‘Get On Up’
25) A-Bless, OC & Party Arty: ‘Bad Reputation’.
26) John Dough, Big Red, K. Terrobul & Ras Kass: ‘You’re in the Wrong Place’
27) DITC: ‘We Known For That’
28) Milano: ‘Rep For The Slums’
29) Big L: ‘Put It On RMX’
30) Party Arty, A-Bless & AG: ‘Hold It Down’
31) Diamond & John Dough: ‘MC2’
32) DITC: ‘Wildlife Theme’
33) OC & Jay Z: ‘Bonafide’
34) Lord Finesse & Diamond: ‘Do Your Thing RMX’
35) The Omen: ‘Half Steppin’
36) Lord Finesse: ‘Down For The Underground’

I think the links for these were still good, but someone wanted to know if I could re-up them in something other than megaupload and since they caught me on a good day I went ahead and did it. Plus this was back in Nov or so, and I know some of y'all are too lazy to go back that far, so here they are again, and no corrupt tracks thsi time.

Not sure of the story behind these, these were another thing Polarity sent me (damn I need to send him his CD's one of these days, no wonder he doesn't post anymore). Mostly comprised of 12 inch releases and the such.

1. Into the Future
2. Soundwave Sermon
3. Common Knowledge
4. My Vision
5. Life Of an Entertainer
6. Hole In My Pocket
7. Something About It
8. Brainstorm
9. I'm Slammin'
10. The Rell Thing

No one mentions this all this album much and it's not a bad album for the most part. I had completely forgot about this myself until a year or two ago. It was one of those tapes I had for awhile and disappeared never to be thought of again.

Rell sounds like a cheap rip off of Rakim, but is that really a bad thing?

1. Aggravated Mayheim
2. Mad Nigga
3. Record Deal
4. Life
5. Runaway Slave
6. Da Hood
7. What You Say
8. Da Bullet
9. Cold World
10. Me By Myself
11. Have You Ever Heard
12. Last Driveby
13. Kill Whitey

Knucklehedz - Strictly Savage, 1993 (Not Offically Released, though seems to be some promos floating around)

1. Hedrush
2. Savages
3. Wuntz Upon A Time
4. Party Wrecker
5. Uglee Picture
6. Girlies Keep Screamin
7. All She Wanted
8. Trouble Makas
9. 5 Hoods In A 4 Door
10. Who Called The Cops
11. Joy Ridin'
12. Merlin

If you don't know what this, then you proably shouldn't be downloading it haha...Short story about this since I've typed it a million times. These white boys were supposed to be the next in line in Hit Squad releases before the EPMD break up. It never happened, that coupled with the fact they were on East/West records who dropped more balls than Jose Canseco playing Center Field and they were doomed to be never heard from again. Some people say this was released, but I'm 99.9% sure it never was although there seems to be numerous promo copies floating around.


1. Autobiography
2. An All Out Bash
3. Motivated
4. Intermission
5. Take Heed
6. I Came Back
7. Motivated Reprise
8. My Bass In It
9. Let's Get Physical
10. Make It Funky
11. King Of The Swing
12. I Bring The Funk
13. Meeting Of The Minds

If you've read this blog long enough, you'll know that I'm a big fan of ADE's "How Much Can You Take" which I will call the best Miami Bass album of all time. This was the follow up to that release. While not as good, it definately has its stand out cuts. This one is a little more "hip-hoppy" in the terms of music.

I bought this when it dropped way back then the day, only to lose it like probably about 50% of my collection over time. Dread at Bust The Facts hooked me last year but I finally broke down and bought a copy on amazon after searching all the local stores for it.


1. I like Cherries - Audio Two
2. Chillin' - Audio Two
3. The Freshest Slow Jam - Audio Two
4. Where's The Fellas - Alliance
5. We Got A Beat Pt 2 (Rough Rough) - Alliance
6. Why Oh Girl - Alliance

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6/13/2007

Total Randomness - A Bloggers Freestyle

I'm sitting here, avoiding work, and figured I'd do a post. I had no idea what I wanted to cover, but I haven't really posted up anything "new" lately (new meaning not previously posted on here before), so I went digging through some of the disks I have with me in my side pack (what the old b-boy uses in the work place in place of a backpack). I found three or four things that are worthy enough of the WYDU treatment. But since there was no planning out before starting, we have no clue where this is going to end up....but fuck it, here we go, the Bloggers freestyle.

Note...I'll try to update the links tomorrow for those of you that have left links for me to check lately.....

Audio Two/ Alliance - The Flip Flip EP (First Priority Music (?), 1986)

1. I like Cherries - Audio Two
2. Chillin' - Audio Two
3. The Freshest Slow Jam - Audio Two
4. Where's The Fellas - Alliance
5. We Got A Beat Pt 2 (Rough Rough) - Alliance
6. Why Oh Girl - Alliance

I think I've established the fact that I'm a big Audio Two/First Priority Music Family fan, so I won't even rehash that out. This is one of my prized joys that I've downloaded in the past year or so. Stagalicious posted it in the cbox this past winter (where you at stag??). If you are like me, you only read basically what is shown in the cbox and rarely look any further (Unless it's Dreads cbox, then the comedy factor is worth looking back at the posts) so this might have gotten passed over by some people.

I can't find jack on this release, I can't even find anything on it on Hip Hop Discogs. I'm guessing this is a rather rare find. It's broke into two sides; Side A belonging to Audio Two and Side B belonging to Alliance. I'm guessing (with no proof) that if this was indeed released in '86, it would be the first recordings of Audio Two and Alliance.

The first song appearing on the Audio Two side is "I Like Cherries", which did show up on "What More Can I Say". I always looked at it as "filler" on the album, but it's fine on an EP, I suppose. The second joint, "Chillin" is not on any other release as far as I know. It's in traditional Audio Two mold, in that it's a party jam with loads of Old School feel to it, complete with Gizmo getting on the tables and behind the mic. If you like Audio Two, you'll like this joint for sure. The third joint "The Freshest Slow Jam" was on one of the "Top Billin'" remix joints that dropped before the album. At first, it sounds like some Uncle L "I Need Love" type bullshit, but after really listening to it, you figure out it's more of a parody to those type of syrupy bullshit songs. It's kind of funny actually.

The Alliance side comes with all material exclusive to this release (as far as I know). "Where's The Fellas" makes me want to question their, ummm, preference in the human race, but whatever. It's ver old schoolish sounding, but just ho-hum, but there is some cool DJ routines on it. The second track is "We Got A Beat" which is better, with King of Chill dropping some old school goodness. The third track comes to us in the form of "Why, Oh Girl", which sounds like some corny 80's R&B joint, but it's humorous, even if it doesn't mean to.

For any one that is a fan of 80's hip hop, needs to pick this up on the quickness.

House of Pain - Unreleased EP (And Other Stuff)

No track order--List of Tracks included

Reachin' Out (from No Doubt Promo Vinyl)
Sick of It All - Just Look Around (House of Pain Remix)
3rd Rock From The Sun
Choose Your Poison Remix
Irish Pride
Same Old
Intro
Womb To The Tomb

I'm not even going to pretend like I know anything about this, because I don't. It's kind of surprising too, because I liked House of Pain back in the day, but I've never heard of this. I'm guessing it's legit, but then again, I don't know. I found it in Bust The Facts cbox one day.

Judging from Everlasts vocals, I'm guessing this came in the later stages of the groups existence. He sounded like he had a corn cob planted in an unpleasant orifice on the body on the last two albums. It's worth checking out for those of you into unreleased stuff or just a fan of House of Pain. Anyone got any info on this, please feel free to share it.

Punk Barbarians - Sex, Props, Cream ....And The Drama In Between (Lethal Records, 1995)

1. You Dont Know?
2. Blast Off
3. Sweets
4. L.I. Zone
5. Prelude To Drama
6. The Drama In Between
7. Hooptie Car
8. The Struggle
9. Magic
10. Eclispin' Niggas
11. Sex Off The Hook
12. Platinum
13. Bubblin'
14. Rest In Peace
I'm not sure what my infatuation was with this group back in '95, but I loved this album. Listening to it now, I realize if it wasn't for the nostaglia factor, I probably wouldn't find this all that special, but I still love throwing it in the phones ever once in awhile and give it a listen. Maybe since they were tied to Public Enemy's Terminator X and I worshipped anything remotely related to PE, I gave this more credit that it deserved.

It's not very original and sounds a lot like most of the New York/Long Island music coming out in the mid '90's with some smooth/rugged NY shit, but I guess it depends which groups you heard it from first, which for me it was these guys. The production is nice, but again, nothing terribly original. It's just a fun album to listen to you if you dig the mid 90's stuff.


1. Time To Get Ill

2. Big City Hustlers

3. Nightlife

4. Get Out The Life

5. Keep Earning

A very unspectaclar demo/promo effort from the Tim D-O-G that, from what I heard, dropped sometime early this decade. I've never been a big Tim Dog fan other than his "Penacillian On Wax" debut LP, so maybe my opinion isn't the one you should ask for for this particular album. I think I originally got this on Rapchwast last summer, but it's been a year, so this for those of you that may have missed it then.

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4/27/2007

First Priority Music Family's Greatest Hits, WYDU Style



When you've been around for over a year and a half (which is 25 years in bloggers years), you can get away with posting up a re-run every so often. This week has been craaazy, school, work, bomb threats at work (long story), computer issues, internet issues, and I added a second job (bartending for catering company) has left me with a crunch with time. Hopefully the second job will enable me to finally hook up high speed internet at my apartment and then a lot of this will be a none issue.

Anyway, I'm going to re-use a previous post to back up this next Greatest Hits collection I have for my second favorite "Posse" of all time (after the Juice Crew), the First Priority Music family, which consisted of Audio Two, MC Lyte, Alliance, Barsha, Michie Mee, Kings Of Swing and Positive K. They were THE crew after the Juice Crew disbanded in the late 80's, yet they don't recieve much recoginition in the grand scheme of things in the history of the hip hop culture. The FPM family consisted of; Audio Two (brothers Milk Dee & Gizmo), MC Lyte, Alliance, Michie Mee, Kings Of Swing, Positive K, Barsha, and one of two in house producers (Milk Dee was the other) King of Chill. The label was lead by Lyte's, Milk's & Giz's father, Nat Robinson who, if I remember right, started up the label to help Milk further his hip hop career.

As noted, much of the production on many of the albums was handled by either Audio Two or King of Chill and consisted of the "bare bones" approach so highly popular during the day. It was great "boom bap" music of the time. The label never garnished any high record sales, except with maybe Lyte's releases (gold on the first two releases ?), but still mark one of the greatest labels in the "golden age" of hip hop. They are still in business and I was suprised to see they had the R&B sensation from a few years ago, Eamon.

http://www.myspace.com/firstprioritymusic

http://firstprioritymusic.com/

Here's a little re-post in case anyone missed it the first time. I must also give MAJOR props to Moves on the cocaine blunts boards, if it wasn't for him, a few of these albums wouldn't be available to me and it's helped quench my thirst for this early FPM music.

THE DISCOGRAPHY


The First Priority Music Family : Basement Flavor (First Priority Music 1990)

1 Alliance -Get On Down (3:48) Producer - The King Of Chill
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 Michee Mee & LA Luv- Victory Is Calling (5:29) Featuring -MC Lyte Producer - Beat Factory
5 MC Lyte- Survival Of The Fittest (3:58) Producer -The King Of Chill
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 & LA Luv- On This Mic (5:42) Producer - Beat Factory
9 Alliance- Kibbles And Bits (4:24) Producer - Alliance
10 Positive K- Impulse On Three (4:35) Featuring - Barsha Producer - Audio Two
11 Soulshock- Break The Limits (4:54) Featuring - See-Que Producer - Solid Productions

Kings Of Swing - Strategy

The first legit post of this series see's the Kings of Swing's album "Strategy" which was released in 1990. The Kings of Swing consisted of Sugar Kay, Mike Master & Cocoa Chanelle. Despite the horrible looking R&B/New Jack Swing looking cover the album contains some rather nice tracks. The album was produced by the two in house producers, Milk and King of Chill, and has some rather funky breaks used, something that seemed more diverse than some other FPM family releases. Two Minutes of Funk is just that, two minutes of funk and uses a loop that Marley Marl dug up on LL's To Da Break Of Dawn. Betty Boop has a funky guitar loop conjured up by King Of Chill. On the next track, Nod Your Head To This uses a loop that would later be used by DJ Muggs on Cypress Hill's Real Estate track from their self-titled debut. The cut also contains some crazy DJ work.

One of the odd things about the group then, and even now, is the fact the female, Cocoa Chanelle, was the groups DJ and a damn good one at that. This album contains lots of cuts and scratching from the female DJ and even has two DJ cuts on here. From what I read, she is now a DJ on one of the NY radio stations.

While they are not the greatest MC's, they are able enough not to distract from the overall product and let's face it, lyricism wasn't at an all time during this time period for the most part. I'm sure overrating this because of the old school mode I've been in lately, but this is one of the better albums of 1990 (I always thought 90' was the most over hyped of the so-called "Golden Years"), defintely give it a listen if you at all into the older stuff.


AUDIO TWO - I Don't Care The Album & What More Can I Say

Part two of our First Priority Music Family series leads us to who I orginally wanted to lead off with, Audio Two. Audio Two were composed of Milk Dee on vocals and Giz as the DJ. As mentioned before, the two were brothers and sons of label head, Nat Robinson. Despite that MC Lyte seemed to be the top seller (I don't have the actual numbers, just guessing) on the label, Audio Two seemed to be the the crown princes of the label. This is was only natural since Giz and Milk were Nat Robinson's natural son's while Lyte was only a half sibling of the two. They dropped a hip hop classic in "Top Billin" (my personal favorite all -time favorite hip hop single) in 87' and then their debut album "What More Can I Say" in 88'. It garned enough attention to put them up amoung top releases of one of the best hip hop years ever. In 1990 they dropped their somewhat underrated album "I Don't Care: The Album".

I've read a lot of bad press on this album. I think it was actually TO bragadocious for people. The album got slammed for being "to one dimensional" (go figure, now it's okay). It also caught flack for some of the lyrics on "Whatcha' Lookin' At?" which contained some so called "bigotary" lyrics, with his "gay mutha's should get punched in the face" line along with a few other questionable lines. As a naive high school senior, I loved it. Not saying it was right, but it added to the albums attractiveness. As far as lyrics, there is nothing ground breaking. It's either party starters or Milk bragging how bad he is. To me hip hop is built on that though, people forget that. Yeah, it's fine to grow, but like the roots of a tree, the roots of hip hop also hold the art form into the ground firmly and thats what Audio Two did. It's in your face bragging rhymes. Tracks like "Milk Does The Body Good (remix)" are straight badass lyrics. While it's true Milks lyrics are not deep or politicaly correct, but to me, this is the stuff that drew me to hip hop in the first place. They are one of the first artists to dis MC Hammer on "Start It Up Y'all" with his "(Pos K & others)So what's up with Hammer? Yo Hammer can't rhyme and 357 is a bunch of Ho's". Straight in your face lyrics and hard core beats. Don't expect to be blown away by lyrics.

Beat wise, it's all done by Milk. It's a bit more musical that "What More Can I Say", but that ain't sayin' much. Lot's of familar breaks (familar because of Milk and the other old school cats) and some hard drums. Milk seemed to still favor the 808 approach to things that had started to pass by NY by this time. There is nothing mind blowing as far as beats go, but for a simpler time, this music was great. I remember playing this a lot on the way to my senior year in high school (yeah I'm dating myself) and knowing just about all the words. This is a classic to me, fuck everyone else....

Alliance - We Could Get Used To This (First Priority Music, 1988)

1 Bustin' Loose (3:58) 2 We Could Get Used To This (4:48) 3 I, Alliance (3:49) 4 Fish Heads (2:55) 5 Your Idol (3:07) 6 Down To Earth (3:15) 7 Just Another Message (3:04) 8 Ready Set (4:08) 9 I've Found (2:13) 10 Pure Skill (3:37) 11 Extensions (0:41) 12 Leeches (3:01) 13 Still You Sleep (3:04)

Part three of our FPM family takes to the 1988 album from the Alliance. The Alliance were made up of King Of Chill, K-Swift and DJ Skill. They were also among the first to drop albums on the label, right after Audio Two and MC Lyte. King of Chill would become one of the main producers at the label.

I honestly don't know shit about the group for the most part and was only introduced recently to the album by Moves from the Cocaine Blunts board. I've only gone through the ablum 2-3 times real well, but it's in typical FPM fashion, a definete must for any fan of the label.

Michie Mee & LA Luv - Jamacian Funk, Canadian Style (First Priority Music, 1991)

1. Prelude No. 1 2. Jamaican Funk Canadian Style 3. Kotch 4. Insecure Luva 5. Prelude No. 2 6. If Only They Knew 7. Prelude No. 3 8. All Night Stand 9. We've Arrived In America 10. L.A. Luv De Bout 11. You're Feisty 12. A Portion From Up North 13. Canada Large 14. Get It Together (Bonus Track) 15. Jamacian Funk (Bonus Track)

Part four of the series is another album I know very little about. While looking for an album cover and some info on Michie, I found out she was the first female Canadian hip hop artist signed to an american label. The album itself is a weird mix of raggae and hip hop, which was abundant in the early 90's with the dancehall craze taking off. She has a done some acting in recent years. You can learn more about her here http://www.myspace.com/michiemee2007

Then of course you had the first two MC Lyte albums that were heavily First Priority influenced with either King of Chill or Milk D doing the production on them

WYDU PResents The First Priority Music Family's Greatest Hits (For all those out there unfamiliar with the Crew, here is a sampler of their music)
http://www.divshare.com/download/475128-f2a

1. Audio Two - Top Billin
2. Positive K & MC Lyte - I'm Not Havin' It
3. Alliance - Bustin' Loose
4. Audio Two - On The Road
5. Kings Of Swing - Strategy
6. Audio Two - I Don't Care
7. Michie Mee & DJ LA Luv - Jamican Funk Candian Style
8. Barsha - Knockin' Hineys
9. MC Lyte - Cha Cha Cha
10. Kings Of Swing - Two Minutes Of Funk
11. Alliance - We Could Get Used To This
12. Positive K & Barsha - Tramp
13. Barsha - B.A.R.
14. Alliance - Get On Down
15. Kings Of Swing - Nod Your Head To This
16. Audio Two - Milk Does The Body Good
17. MC Lyte - Lyte As A Rock
18. Audio Two - The Questions
19. Alliance - Kibble and Bits
20. Audio Two, MC Lyte, & Positive K - Start It Up
21. Positive K & Barsha - Impulse On Three







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