PSA- The Make it Funky mix I did for Blueprint is now back up. Thanks to Martini & Jopperelli for not using zshare lol. You can find it to the left under the treats heading, or you can download here or here... 30 minutes of some mellow funk/soul burners, enjoy..

Total Pack

I try to dig up joints from groups that are slept on, and these guys here I don't know much about myself. Googling these guys doesn't bring any pictures and very little info. Total pack consists of two MC's (Ce Style and Kamal B-Wise). The only released material they have documented as a group is what's on the Wild Pitch mixtape DJ Eclipse made. You can check here to read more on their releases on that.

I first heard these guys freestyling with the Artifacts on Stretch and Bobbito, and I'm sure they were up there a few other times as well. They always had their demo material I'm not really sure what they did with. Here I have two demos dug up from some old tapes, and a 20 minute clip with Ce-Style from the Halftime show in 1999, complete with a short interview, some freestyles, and a few Ce-Style solo joints from the same year. Have a listen and let me know what you think. This is for everyone who heard that Wild Pitch mix and wanted to hear more from them...



Total Pack - N.B.A. (No Biting Allowed)


Total Pack (featuring Eguan) - Park House Music


Ce Style on Halftime 1999 (comes in late at 1:30)

New York Live 1997

This tape should explain why I used to listen to DJ Riz every Wednesday on 89.1 WNYU back in the day. Riz had the newest joints and cut shit up with few mistakes as you can hear on this live mix from 1997 (Check him cut up that Verbal Attack) I see a few heads comment on the WNYU tapes I post so I know some of you out there know the time, the New York Live show definitely deserves it's props. At one point you had it running on Wednesdays with Riz, mayhem and Sunset, and on Thursdays with DJ Mayhem.


There's a lot of joints on here I don't know the names for, so just like on the Tony Touch tapes I posted, I need all you guys out there to help me fill in the blanks on this track list. I'm trying to figure out track number 3, someone help me identify this thing, all you indie label heads take a listen and let me know. It's a nice 60 minute mix from one of my favorite Dj's, enjoy...

UPDATE: 12:21: Completed track listing thanks to my homegirl Ho1ogramz, my boy Mondelicious & PMD coming through with the missing track names. Really appreciate the help from everyone and definitely expect more treats to come soon


DJ Riz - New York Live 1997

1) One Step Beyond The Labyrinth - Dedicated
2) Da Naba Hood Threat - Mindtricks
3) Masterminds - I'm talented
4) Mr Complex - Visualize
5) Shamus - Tight Team
6) Camp Lo & De La Soul - Hollywood
7) Kardinal Official - Two for da show
8) Black Attack - Verbal Attack
9) Nitty Gritty Southside- Tru Grain
10) Keith Murray, Smif N Wessun, Busta Rhymes - Pay Your Dues
11) Busta Rhymes & Q-Tip - Wild Hot
12) Raidermen & Natural Elements - Magnetic
13) Iman Thug & Tragedy - True Confessions
14) KRS-One - A Friend
15) Resevoir Dogs - Back to Berth

Eminem & Royce 5'9

Right when I say I'm not gonna post for awhile I end up throwing up a bunch of stuff. I'm just not going to say anything from now on. I've been meaning to post this for a minute, some early freestyles from Eminem and Royce 5'9. I don't know where I put that 12" the two of them had on Game or else I'd throw a rip of that to go along with this, but this is right before Eminem's first LP came out in 1998. The XL freestyles are kind of short at like 3 or 4 minutes, but the Halftime freestyles run about 13 minutes, enjoy...








Eminem Feestyles XL show 10-11-1998


Eminem & Royce 5'9 Freestyles 1/2 time 9-23-1998

Rayz it up

Peace to my boy to K Lew who I saw earlier this week, he's been doing his thing on the DJ/production for a minute. Here's a couple C Rayz Walz tracks from 2001 produced by K Lew. Peace to all the dojo heads.












Hot second


You might get slapped

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?

Dil Cosby

I've had the new Madlib Beat Konducta 5&6 on repeat in my ipod lately, definitely want to give it mentions and recommend it for heads out there. They're called 'Dil Cosby Suite' and 'Dil Withers', both dedicated to the late great J Dilla. You can definitely hear the Jay Dee/Dilla influence on the beats. Dilla's 'Donuts' and his beat CD's (particularly #3), were probably the hottest shit I've ever heard in my life, and this is a nice little tribute in that style from Madlib. I'm not a fan of everything Madlib does, but as far as production, I would say he's one of the best out right now, and these latest are on point. Check out one of my favorites off part 5, J's Day Theme #3. For more info check StonesThrow

Like I keep saying it's been difficult to focus on blogging as of lately but I'm trying to keep up with posts now and then. Hopefully towards the end of the year I'll have some time to post some holiday treats, but don't hold me to that. I'm still around and checking out other sites so you'll hear from me now and again. Hope everyone out there is staying well and keeping healthy. Peace.

Re-Ups

Apparently zshare sucks. A shitload of links got knocked out as a result of hosting issues (practically every zshare link on DW). Don't ask me why I'm continuing to use their services (lazy), but Here are some DW exclusive treats that I wanted to re-up for everyone. These are some of my favorites from previous posts, if anyone has any requests let me know and I'll try to find them and get them back up and running... Also I'm starting to re-up some of the older posts starting with the most recent, hopefully I'll have a good perecentage of the stuff available again soon.

INI

I haven't had that much time to
rip the joints lately, but I dug up something nice from my old WNYU New York Live tapes. It's a nice little freestyle from INI and Pete Rock, who were up there promoting the 'Fakin' Jacks' 12", one of the better 12"s to come out that year in my opinion, especially with the remix and Props on the B-side. Unfortunately these guys had label issues and didn't get to release the full length album out on Elektra in 1996, it was later put out on a bootleg orange label, and then officially released through Pete Rock on his Lost&Found series. For those who don't know, INI consists of Pete Rock's brother Grap Luva and Rob-O. Check the freestyles from 1996.

I've heard zshare is having some problems, does any know anything about this? I'm not sure if my links are working or what...

Mr Complex

Readers of this blog are
probably familiar with Mr Complex, who got his start with Organized Konfusion as part of the Organismz. He was also a part of the Polyrhythm Addicts, and he went on to do plenty of solo material. He's one of many artists who got a lot of exposure working the radio circuit, and here I have a few WKCR/WNYU freestyles from the late 90's, and some of his early 12"s. He definitely has a distinctive style, you have to pay attention to what he says, you may even have to play his shit a few times before you catch everything. You can get everything below in the zip or or peep them individually...

Freestyles-

Live WNYU April 1997
Live WNYU April 1998 (with Apani B Fly)
Live WNYU
Live WKCR CM Fam show (with J-Live)
Live WKCR

12"s-



A lot of people probably first heard about Complex on 'Visualize' produced by Spinna, but this is Mr Complex's first solo release in 1995 on Core records. My favorite track on here of the three is 'Feel me'













I caught these next two 12"s recently in the dollar bins, don't sleep on Complex . This joint is called 'Imakillit', from 1999.













This one is from 2000 called
'Do it Up' on Blindside records