Tragedy

Check these Tragedy freestyles on
WNYU's New York Live 1995 style
over a Mannish beat and a Jemini remix.
Scian Smooth on the wheels.

CM Famalam Show 2002 (Jaz-O)

Here is a
CM Famalam Show
towards near the end of the show's run in July of 2002. Special guest in the studio is Jaz-O. The show starts with Jaz-O's diss track directed at Jay-Z and the Rocafella camp. You'll hear words from Jaz about his motivation behind making the track and hear some
callers chime in with their opinions.




I'm curious to hear Jay Z's diss towards Jaz when this was going on,
I couldn't find it in a search. help fill in the other blank track
titles if you know them...Enjoy!!

CM Famalam Show 7-2002 (Jaz-O)

1) Jaz-O - Ova pt 2
2) Mic Break/Phone Calls (with Lord Sear and Jaz-O)
3) Common - Funk Shit
4) M.O.P. - Stress Ya'll
5) LL Cool J - Strictly For the Haters
6) Brand Nubian - Who Wanna Be a Star
7) Rza & Afu-Ra - Dangerous Language
8) Darkman
9) Nas - Pure Dialect
10) Large Professor - Large Proverbs
11) Apex 89.9 Promo
12) Scratch Beatbox
13) Juggaknots - She Loves Me Not
14) Ra The Rugged Man - On the Block
15) Heather B - Live MC


Peace to Stretch & Bobbito
Also peace to Aleph & Bomba

Do Over

Here are a couple of funky fresh live mixes found over at the Do-Over blog. I've never been to this spot but it looks jumpin. Check the site to get some more live mixes from the special guests they have there.

DJ AM set

DJ A-Trak set

DJ Craze set

Beat Junkies set

DJ Rich Medina set

DJ Jazzy Jeff set

R.I.P. Guru

Stretch & Bobbito 1-12-1995 (Nine)

This show has to be late 1994-early 1995 judging by the tracks on it. Special guest in the studio is Nine. You'll hear Stretch mention the 'In My Lifetime' record as 'some new Jay-Z', a Shook Ones remix using Gangstarr's '? Remains' instrumental, and an overall nice selection of tracks. This tape is a contribution to Dirty Waters from the homey SG in Perth Amboy, NJ. Any readers who have radio tapes they need ripped to MP3 and want to share them on this blog, feel free to email. Peace to Stretch & Bobbito Stretch & Bobbito 1-12-1995 (Nine) 1) Double X Posse - He Asked for it 2) Crustified Dibbs & BIG - Renaissance 3) Alkaholiks - WLIX 4) Mobb Deep - Shook Ones (Stretch Remix) 5) World Renown - How Nice I am 6) Channel Live - Mad Izm (Buckwild Remix) 7) Smif N Wessun - Sound Boy Burriel 8) Jay Z - In My Lifetime (Original Ski version) 9) Big Red & Diamond D - How They Want it 10) Eddie F & The Untouchables - Let' Get it on (Beatnuts Remix?) 11) Lord Finesse - Check the Method 12) Nine - Redrum 13) Artifacts - Cmon With the Get Down (Buckwild Remix) 14) Nine Freestyle 15) Diamond D - With the Dope Sound (Demo Version) 16) Channel Live - Reprogram Nine's appearance on Yo! MTV Raps from Themeaningofdope ..

Stretch & Bobbito 1-1996 (Bahamadia, DJ Homicide)

Here's a Stretch Armstrong Show from January, 1996 with DJ Homicide filling in for Stretch and guest MC Bahamadia in the studio. Bahamadia was promoting the 'Uknowhowwedo' 12" and I think she was premiering the 'Three the Hard Way' track on this night. This was a few months before her Kollage LP was released.




You'll also hear a mock DJ battle between DJ Homicide, Bobbito and Lord Sear. They take phone calls from people and ask them to vote for a winner. This one is trimmed down to about 78 minutes so you can burn it to a CD if that's your thing. Peace to my homeboy Greg T, Stretch & Bobbito. The more feedback I get in the comments section, the more inclined I am to post more of these shows, so keep the feedback running...

Wordsworth & Punchline/Trackmastaz

Got some time to throw up some more treats while we're snowed in here in N.J. again. This time some old Wordsworth and Punchline joints produced by The Trackmastaz. After doing a search, I found a pretty extensive biography of Punch and Words here, and it mentions the Trackmastaz got the two a deal under Sony. I'm wondering how many tracks they made back in those early days or if they ever got released, but here are two they made as a team.





This one has sort of an odd combination. 50 cent with Wordsworth & Punchline. produced by The Trackmastaz. They use of one of my favorite breaks on this one, Sammy Nestico's 'Shoreline Drive.' The year on this is 1998.

Wordworth & Punchline featuring 50 cent





This one goes back to 1994. The Trackmastas use a Bob James sample and take a line from Grap Luva's freestyle on the Mecca and the Soul Brother skit, 'rock to the beat get wreck on the regular.' Stretch and Bobbito gave this many plays on their show..

Wordsworth & Punchline - Wreck on the Regular

Happy Valentine's Day!

One of my all time favorite 45's. Bobby Byrd and James Brown with 'Never get enough.'

Big Pun Dedication

It's been 10 years since Big Pun passed, so in tribute here's a clip of Big Pun's first radio appearance on the Stretch Armstrong Show with Bobbito on August 31, 1995. As Bobbito said, this is the first time a lot of people heard Big Pun under his name Big Dog the Punisher. Fat Joe was up there premiering some of his joints from the 'Jealous one's Envy' LP and brought up Big Pun, Armeggedon, and Keith Nut. R.I.P. Big Pun.



Words from Bobbito...

"In ‘95, Fat Joe brought up Armeggedon, Keith Nut, and Big Dog The Punisher to freestyle on me and Stretch’s show. After the session, I thought in my head, “That dude Big Dog killed it!” That was the first time anyone ever heard him live, and perhaps the first time anyone ever heard of him period as he was unsigned and had never appeared on any of Fat Joe’s records yet. Two years later he was on Loud Records with a big hit “Not A Player” and went multi-plat, etc. Cool story and good memory. He had a very tough image to the public, but around me, Stretch, and Sear, who are all clowns, Pun was a bug out, liked to snap and joke around just like anyone else."

Stretch & Bobbito 6th Anniversary Show

Here's a good 75 minutes from the 6th anniversary of the Stretch Armstrong Show on October 24, 1996. The show features freestyles from King Tee, Bootcamp's (Buckshot & Steele) and the Indelible MC's (El P, Breezly Brewin', J-Treds). Dr. Dre was also in the studio but didn't rhyme. The tape jumps around a little (pause edits), but still holds a lot of treats.




*update - the full 4 hour show for this date has been recovered by Aleph/nobs/Steve
via the Philaflava forums...

Peace to Stretch & Bobbito.

Check out words from Stretch about the 5th Anniversary Show
featuring Kool G Rap and Grimm on this post from Stretch's blog.

And big shouts to A-One for blessing us with portions of the
4th Anniversary Show featuring Common on this post.