random old rap you are loving

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuYSteLH104http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuYSteLH104

Just learned of this incredible '97 Ghetto Mafia jam from Killer Mike in an RTJ interview.

niiiiice

(title is confusing there...album and song are both "Straight from the DEC")

Haha, hit discogs to see if I could find it cheap and shipped from the US. 2 for sale - $120 and $199.

it's crazy there's an amazing Killer Mike album that never got official release

the first ghetto mafia cd is great and cheap

"on da grind" too

Straight from the DEC album is fucking great; I missed this back in the 90s! Thanks!

young bleed - give and take
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPE9F6jPQw8

should say its a really great sounding song and the video audio is piss poor, this version sounds better

that's fire

i recently remembered this classic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLzenunwAOQ

both great tracks

https://youtu.be/RyIOMCTkLSI

Always liked every "Inside You" sample and that mc's voice (whose name I don't know, only heard him in one or two other tracks)

he sounds familiar.

totally forgot about i look good

goin thru some old vinyl in the quarantine

Killer Mike's "Monster" is a lot better than I remembered it. Can't find a youtube of U Know I Love U.

the prince paul remix of blue flowers is the best
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUCQpCRFtJk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uc2xESpxO2s

Today's Test Pressing playlist from Telephones has this absolute gem on it. Used to play this album to death back in the day but haven't listened to it in ages and will have to dig it out again

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJuKqT8Puvo

I still play "The CIA is Trying To Kill Me" a few times a year

fat pat - reality
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HKEJGrjwcQ

fat pat is the best. happen to bump this gem the other day

(dea - sun hit da fade)

https://youtu.be/2QsN0EDq8C8

98 was the best year for rap

love fat pat, project pat, patrick ewing, patrick henry...

listening to the DEA album now thank you brimstead

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqmAiVkLayQ

absolute jam.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HPhKGMNjQ4

always thought this was really good for a blatant attempt to get on the radio.

I have that album, somehow they got a double album as a debut.
really good forgotten album of that era.

such a sick lineup

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iztp036z54

heavy d! man, you want to talk about underrated, i loved his 90s post-boyz material.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYNcCcus0lQ

this was a big mixtape favorite in high school.

about 6 months ago i spent a couple weeks listening to only heavy d. really underrated in general

agreed.

At the time I thought everyone started wearing white sox gear cause they were gang colors. Thinking about it now, that doesn't make sense. Google says it was cause the color scheme ISN'T gang colors.

i had a few numbskull friends that backed out part of the logo so it looked like it said "sex."

*blacked out

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJ-_sQ262Dg

solid jam.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaXOnvhCw-A

an absolute masterpiece on an otherwise disappointing album.

witchdoctor — "holiday"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhDZWu_MRf0
if anyone ever asked me why organized noize is one of the most innovative bands of all time, i reckon this beat should be a sufficient enough reason.

I love that whole album

yeah, the whole thing was solid, but the beat on "holiday" so amazing. i had the 12" and used that instrumental on so many mixtapes for blends.

I've been listening to a lot of early hip-hop. (Is the Smithsonian Anthology of Hip-Hop and Rap still coming out this year?) Anyway, I programmed a brief historical survey - 30 songs from 1979 to 1992 - and I put it in strict chronological order. Within that context, I found a greater appreciation for Run-DMC. It's amazing how many a-holes I run into who are down on Run-DMC, like "why was this so great?" Never believed in that line of thought, but place within their context, it sinks in how radical they may have sounded to many listeners. The production, the beats, the overall sound of "It's Like That" (the original 12" single) is especially stark and minimalist compared to the songs that came before it - those Grandmaster Flash and Afrika Bambaataa singles were lean in their own ways too, but all the basic musical elements are stripped down even further. Even less movement in melody and even less notes in general. Even compared to earlier Run-DMC recordings like "Here We Go" and "Together Forever" (both live performances), there's a pronounced change in "It's Like That." The single more or less became the blueprint of their debut LP, which came about 6 or 7 months later (it's on there too, albeit in a shorter version), and it's amazing that it became the first hip-hop album to be certified gold - intuitively, I think of bigger selling records (records that are more accessible and more "pop") as being more tuneful and more lush, and yet a lot of the music on that album went in the opposite direction. ("Rock Box" is an exception on that album, and that's basically a blueprint for their next big development.)

This is a bit later than the stuff you're talking about, but I got way into Raising Hell earlier this year. Absolutely holds up IMO.

Yeah, "Raising Hell" is a great album. Their first four LP's (self-titled, King of Rock, Raising Hell, Tougher than Leather) are all really good-to-great. I love hearing them back-to-back because there is a continuous growth from one to the next that I really enjoy hearing in the way it unfolds. (It's frustrating that none of their compilations are in chronological order, because in their case it's not really a perfunctory way of sequencing their music - it actually works in their favor to hear their singles that way.)

anyone who disputes the classic status of run-dmc in the 80s is on the wrong side of history.

me, i'm still on an organized noize kick.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTYUDZl21-g
this original extended version of "player's ball" is unbelievably good. always been my favorite version and it still somewhat frustrates me that most people still only know it in the unsatisfying reprise on their first album.

No one ever disputes the first four Ramones records

Ive been enjoying the album Doomsday by Agallah

so there's a really old black eyed peas b-side called "le rox" that i've been looking for. it pre-dates even their first album. discogs seems to think it's a remix for fallin up but it's 100% not. i used to have that 12" single, but it's been lost to several moves over the years. i liked bep a lot when they first came out for those first two albums and i'm not even joking when i say that's probably their best song. i can't find it anywhere online.

i lieu of that, here's the 12" remix for "karma", which is probably the second best song they ever did.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPlB9ADkc40

It's on YouTube xp

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9A5RmYPNAPk

I'm absolutely loving Nate P's new book on the history of hip-hop/sampling except that every other sentence I want to put it down and listen to a track he references.