Fuse Crate Diggers

Really diggin' these episodes.
This should be a show on the History channel.
Here are some of my favorites...

Stretch & Bobbito video footage

some illy Stretch & Bobbito footage from 1993 & 1994, shouts to philaflava.

Halftime Show 15 Years

Peace to DJ Eclipse.. Head out out to Le Poisson Rouge tonight to check out The Halftime Show 15th Anniversary PARTY! On the wheels you will have Petey Cologne, DJ Skizz, DJ Eclipse, DJ Riz, Stretch Armstrong & DJ Premier. Hosted by D-Stroy and Lord Sear, with surprise performances as well. Doors at 10:30pm. www.lpr.com for more info.

AG, Scienz of Life, Artifacts, Sadat X Live 8/23/2013

courtesy P Original

AG, Artifacts & Sadat Live

Peace to El the Sensai for getting AG, TameOne and Sadat X to come through New Brunswick, NJ last night to perform. We got a little bit of video footage for some exclusive Dirty Waters content. Big shout to P Original and DJ Kaos also in the place. 

Your boy Nes had to bring out the Next Level 12" for this one. Always been a big Showbiz & AG fan, and gotta say he's definitely cool people. Check out these AG freestyles from the Dirty Waters archives, and some live video from the show to follow...



AG XL 1998


AG & GD 1/2 Time Show 1998


This video footage didn't work out quite the way I wanted it to, but AG still kills it.
P Orig has some better footage that will be up soon..

New Artifacts

Drum Crazy

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DJ Steve Dee Interview

Check out this Interview with DJ Steve Dee spotted here.
Steve Dee is the creator of beat juggling and one of the founding members of the X-Men DJ crew.

Common Hot 97 Freestyle 1997

on Stretch & Bobbito's Sunday night Hot 97 show in October 1997.. He drops a few freestyles over OC's 'War Games' and 'Dangerous' instrumentals.

Common Hot 97 Freestyle






--sent this over to The Meaning of Dope awhile back
Fab 5 Freddy interviewing Common Sense in Chi-town circa 1995.

Native Tongues

I'm re-posting this video material since blogger now has the
option to 'full screen' videos (bottom right corner) and in
case you missed them the first time they were posted. These
are two native tongue interviews from Yo! featuring Dres from
Black Sheep getting interviewed in Central Park and Tribe
Called Quest and L.O.N.S. on the set of the Scenario video.


Dres Interview 1991 (part 1)


Dres Interview 1991 (part 2)


Tribe & L.O.N.S. 1992

Coke La Rock & RC La Rock

I think a good majority of DJ's or turntablists are aware of (and correct me if I'm wrong) Cool Herc being the pioneer of hip hop and hip hop DJ'ing circa 1973, and Grand Wizard Theodore inventing the scratch, but what about the first MC? Who was the first?

Apparently, the answer to that is Coke La Rock, down with Cool Herc. For more insight into the history, check the youtube video below for words from the man himself.






Speaking of La Rock's, I had a beat up original copy of RC La Rock's record under the name Radiance called 'Micstro', which is amazing. It's got a disco/party vibe and a really good energy. RC La Rock kills it with no hook for like 5 minutes until a bridge comes in. The Ego Trip compilations featured this one on singles from 1982, and then a reissue was going around, seen here. If you've never heard this I urge you to check it out.




Radiance - Micstro


Despite some of my posts here where I might sound like I know what I'm talking about, I'm not really going to pretend like I know anything about hip hop or the history of hip hop. The truth is, as a young kid grabbing my older brother's cassettes back in the late 1980's, listening to albums like Rasin' Hell, Liscence to Ill, Paid In Full, etc., I wasn't even 10 years old, and we're talking about some fifteen odd years of hip hop being around. I don't really mind the era I grew up in but I completely missed a lot of good hip hop years and a lot of good records like this one I'll probably never know about. Anyone who actually remembered this song when it came out or knows more about Coke La Rock or RC LA Rock I'd love to hear about it..

*update.. peace to DJ RC LaRock

DJ RCLaROCK said...

THANK YOU ALL ...the original DJ RC LaROCK...THE MICSTRO .
.STILL SPINNING..FLOWIN CRAZY..NO CHANGE
.PARTY BOOKINGS.. 
646 387 8129..
VEGAS/ 702 463 2918

Buck Em Down!

Here's a short clip of Black Moon
performing 'Buck Em Down' circa 1998 at Trammps

Drum Crazy 15

This episode has about 14 records with some nice open drums. See how many of the records or samples you can identify. Peace to all the DJ's, producers, and crate invaders. Peace to all my favorite record stores and any store that carries vinyl.









You can watch the rest of the drum crazy episodes (1-14) in this older post, or download the mixtape video. Also for those of you late to the blog check out this DW interview with Mike Van Olden creator of the Drum Crazy record series.

Love on the Wing

Here's a belated Valentine's Day treat for all. This is a short film from innovative animator/director Norman Mclaren from 1938. The white images you will see floating over the background were hand drawn on 35mm film slide, each slide had a slight movement to create the animation, which must have taken an incredible amount of time. This was a short for the postal service called 'Love on the Wing,' looks like a Valentine's Day card being sent. Special shout to my girl, hope everyone had a great weekend. ENjoy..



Here's another Norman McLaren short, of the ones I've seen this is probably my favorite. He films a painting and makes it come to life by creating effects with ink on the slides. This one's called 'A Little Phantasy on a 19th-century Painting' from 1946.

Unreleased Rakim

I really wish I didn't have these finals and I was able to check Rakim at the Knitting Factory this past Friday. I was talking to my boy Keef the other day about how shows just aren't the same anymore, but Rakim is someone I've wanted to see live for a long time now, and I heard it was a decent show. The final hip hop show being held at the Knitting Factory. R.I.P. Was a decent spot. I remember seeing a bunch of good shows there

This is one of my favorite tracks right here called 'Livin' for the City'. I'm pretty sure I got this LP of unreleased studio sessions in 1995. I've seen it come in green and purple color fades aside from the blue that I have here. I paid a decent amount (too much) for this record at this spot that used to be in New Brunswick, but I'm glad I did because it's been a record I go to a lot. It defintely had heads running to the tables to find out what it was. The sound quality is pretty decent too for a bootleg pressing. Some of the tracks on here weren't released until years later ('Remember That' on the 18th Letter in 1997). The songs on this have standed the test of time and have been released once again this year as a 2 LP unreleased set.

Rakim - Livin' For The City


Nathan Davis - Stick Buddy





Man, I wish I had an original pressing of this, I should just buy the re-pressing because I'll never find one, or want to ball out and drop $100 on this. I'm happy with an mp3 I guess. This is the sample used on 'Livin for the city'. You can find this full length LP on a few different places online if you google it. This is some really smooth funky jazz from Nathan Davis. This LP in it's entirty is pretty nice and highly recommended, he's got some other good albums too.





Eric B & Rakim - Everything's cool


Fatback Band - Feed me Your Love


Here is another unreleased Rakim song called 'Everything's cool'. It kind of reminds of 'what's on your mind' the way he describes a scenario of trying to hook up with some chick passing through the set.



Whoever produced this grabbed a sample from Fatback Band's 'Feed me your love'. You can hear everything they used for Rakim's song including the horns on the hook which you'll hear at the few remaining seconds.






So what about Eric B? Unfortunately this year he wasn't on the ballot for presidential election. I wouldn't have voted for him anyway. I'm not really feeling the fake you out pretending to cut moves he pulls or deciding to play the vocal version for a live performance. Check the throwback performance... I was waiting for my boy JC to host this one, but they're doing some reconstruction on the site so maybe in the future I'll have it embedded on this post. If you were as hook as I am on The Meaning of Dope, tell these guys to get back in the game. For now you'll have to settle for a zshare link, but I warn you, don't post this on youtube because they will eject you.

Update: 1/6/09 : Peace to JC back at it hooking up the embed for me, enjoy:

Ak Ha Who?

What's up peoples? Back with some more treats from the cassettes.
Here goes a clip of Akinyele live on Haltime from October 2001 for all you Ak fans. Peep the shout out he gives me at the end. Nah, I guess there's some other dude out there named Nes but I'm digging it regardless. I'm trying out rapidshare this time for the downloads.


I guess 'Put it in your mouth' is where most people know him from, but if you haven't heard it, peep his 1st LP from 1993. The majority of the LP, if not all of it, was produced by Large Professor with some cuts added by DJ Rob Swift. The album was pre Akinyele rhyming only about sex, and showcasing his semi annoying low drop in vocal tone on his rhyming words. You either like this guy or you don't I guess, he's definitely one of those...


Also check out one of my favorites from his 93 LP 'Dear Diary' (Rob Swift get busy!) and the video for 'Ak-Ha-Ha' fitting right in with the skully cap trend. This LP is one of my gems, I think it was pressed on vinyl as a promo only on interscope, like a lot of LP's from 92/93 (Diamond D, Tribe's 'Low End', etc). I've seen it on vinyl with a picture cover but not sure if it's a bootleg or what. Anyone who knows can drop the knowledge. This was when they thought Cd's were taking over, now it's mp3's. I'm glad to see some people still insisting on releasing vinyl.



Anyone out there have a nice quality rip of the 'Break a Bitch neck' remix with Kool G Rap?

DJ Red Alert Goin' Berserk

Dj Red Alert has been around since the very beginning of hip hop and remains doing his thing to this day. He's got over 25 years in the radio game, and you can still catch him on 98.7 Kiss FM on Friday nights. The old school at noon shows were bangin, I used to go back and forth between him and Mister Cee. I've heard some of his older Kiss FM shows back in the 80's and he was definitely ahead of his time on the mix. I dug up this old Yo interview footage with Red rockin the Devils jersey, and threw up a couple Red Alert joints as a tribute..








Sparky Dee - He's my DJ












Ultramagnetic MC's - Bait

Post #200

Here goes a clip from an ITF Competition around 1997.
They had both scratching and beat juggling battles,
this is 1st place DJ Craze's set from the scratch portion of the battle.

I think DJ Craze might be my favorite battle DJ. Not only is dude really innovative but he's well developed in both scratching and beat juggling without being too technical to follow along with.