rolling rap for oldheads 2018 (1979-1999)

boy i sure have been playing my Rumpletilskinz CD a lot lately!

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gonna settle in here

also, i DJed at a packed bar a week or so ago and i got to play one of my fave Lord Finesse tracks REALLY loud on a booming system.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOiFxMhh1SQ

i played this even louder. sounded like heaven. you should have heard it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C29OVf4KYv0

also, in the *new to me* department, loving this CD! where you been all my life? better late than never.

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a.w.o.l.'s dj was shot to death two years after this cd came out. and his name was dj homicide. he was really good!

also, a.w.o.l. stands for Afrocentric Wicked Old-School Lyricists. in case you didn't know that.

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good thread idea :)

skot you might want to check out the new Payroll Giovanni and Cardo - Big Bossin Vol 2, it's kind a nice modern take on older midwest/west stuff

speaking of 1999, dead prez are playing next to my store tomorrow night. i'm dusting and polishing my jansport.

https://www.facebook.com/events/1652972011428502/

they had masta ace and krs play last year. they got mr. lif coming too but mr. lif does not fit the parameters of this thread. he might have had a couple of turn of the century singles...

masta ace has done some good music in recent years - the falling season was this autobiographical story album, really good

i'll bet! he's so good. though i think the last one i actually owned was his summertime concept album.

been listening to tha alkaholiks a lot lately too. likwidation and 21 & over. i need more alkaholiks 12-inches to spin at the bar. i'll bet i got some down in the dollar dungeon.

One of Mr. Lif's best songs – over the Bad Bascomb break – is a 12" from the old head era courtesy of Grand Royal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RK5hLhhMf-4

Whoops, that's THE WHO

got my ghostface tickets for May 19th! WUUUuuuuuuu! Greenfield is gonna be rockin'.

https://www.facebook.com/events/211570676089135/

I hope for your sake he's better live than when I saw him ~10 years ago.

i like this song its about the weekend
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwKah1lG1ps

Eric B. & Rakim are touring!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95gP3m-uBHA

i sent a message to the local bar guy about that. crossing fingers!

ghostface could stand there and play his records and i'd be happy.

Does anyone remember the Punk Barbarians? They appeared briefly on Public Enemy's Muse-Sick-N-Hour Mess-Age (itself a very underrated album) and got a co-sign from Chuck D. They only released one album and some singles, but they did a music video for 'Hooptie Car' and that got some rotation on BET's Rap City (which is how I discovered that they had even released any of their own music). The album was really good, for a no-nonsense NYC hip hop record from 1996. A must for fans of classic MPC-crafted beats with mellow jazz samples.

Another more closely Public Enemy-related group that was also pretty good was Hyenas in the Desert. Their album came out on Chuck D's Slam Jamz label. The beats were a lot more weird, as Gary G-Wiz was more heavily involved in the production. Another case of one album, a couple singles, and nothing else. The main guy from Hyenas also featured on Chuck D's solo, if anybody remembers that.

I remember the name Hyenas in the Desert, but never heard a note of their music.

I have (or had) a Hyenas in the Desert 12 inch at one point I'll try to keep an eye out. you can have it if I can find it. I think it's pretty cool iirc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4lM51lPpW0

hip hop is interesting when you think about it, it's always evolved so relentlessly (cfe imagine playing Future or Migos to someone from 20 years ago) but also it was almost instantly nostalgic and looking back to its past (cfe songs like "Goin' Way Back" by Just-Ice is from 87!)

or like bringing back "real hip hop" the idea that hip hop betrayed its roots is present almost from the beginning - even literally the first hip hop hit record (Rapper's Delight) is a betrayal of hip hop (the stealing of Caz's routines by some pizza shop nobodies for a shady R&B label)

this needs to be here. watched it last night after a bottle of wine and i danced up a storm.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vw10bdA-HTQ

1996 westcoastgangsta album i'd never heard before today. digging it. it rides low. i don't really listen to a TON of westcoast stuff like this. when i'm in the mood i usually put on my double-CD nate dogg g-funk classics set. that's a pretty undiluted shot of cali when i need it. anyway, the one and only Kinfolk album is worth hearing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwkBVHDE3qA

that's nice g funk, squiggle those synths!!!

this got posted somewhere but seems worth reposting for o.g. headz

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKA8H_LolNM

Please rate these albums in order of preference:

DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince - He's the DJ, I'm the Rapper
Cash Money & Marvelous ‎– Where's The Party At?
MC Shan - Born to Be Wild

thx.

i love the cash money record. i wish i still had my copy. then shan. then jeff. though jeff takes a backseat to nobody not even cash money as a dj.

No one outside of NYC seems to have any memory of this but this was THE coveted cassingle in my squad for a few months

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbFGdM3mryc

god i love "beg no friends"

rest in peace craig mack and matt dike. you will be remembered.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNFqMx0gY7I

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5qIfx3X0G4

can't view any youtube at work, but will check this thread tonight. Can say I've been all about 90s hip hop this month, with Showbiz & AG, Kool G Rap & 3-6 Mafia getting a lot of play.

matt dike??? oh no :(

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/music/la-et-ms-matt-dike-obituary-20180313-story.html

Heroin :(

Damn that's sad.

I always wondered why the Dust Brothers just seemed to fade away.

Sweet interview by CW

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/qa-eric-b-rakim-talk-reunion-the-birth-of-cool-w519474

thnx p

Ghostface was fun last night! He looked great. Packed house. Everyone in the crowd was happy. I'm sure there were people who thought he wasn't on long enough. it's basically an hour long greatest hits set. but it was fine by me.

I always wondered why the Dust Brothers just seemed to fade away.

Matt Dike wasn't a member of the Dust Brothers btw, Capitol just didn't want to credit three entities on the Paul's sleeve

I did not know that!

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/05/28/the-spectacular-personal-mythology-of-rammellzee

Rammellzee died in 2010 but there’s an exhibit of his art and music now in NYC. Hua Hsu article

playing now. a go-to CD for me. always hits the spot.

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