Big L

Here's a Big L freestyle I'm pretty sure isn't floating around online, it's a quick 2 minute verse on WBAI's Underground Railroad. The beat used is Raekwon's 'Heaven or Hell' and the year is 1995. Check out Underground Railroad's host Jay Smooth at Illdoctrine.

Big L Freestyles (underground railroad)

Nighttrain January 1998

Here's a Nighttrain Show with DJ Eli and friends from January 1998. For those who don't know, the show was on WKCR, Tuesday nights from 1-5 during the late 90's. The show was primarily funk/soul/jazz incorporating some hip hop.


This might be two different nights, there are some pause edits on this one so it jumps around a bit. I cut out most of the talking and certain songs here and there when I recorded this. Towards the end some freestyles from Sir Menelik, Percee P, Saga, Kweli, L-Fudge, and Shabaam Sahdeeq. This was a good show for those who remembered.

Syreeta

I finally caught this record on ebay recently, an album of Syreeta doing Stevie Wonder covers with Stevie on production. The album is really amazing and highly recommended, especially if you are a Stevie Wonder fan. This joint here, 'I love every little thing about you', if I'm not mistaken was sampled by someone (the intro) but can't think of who...

Syreeta - I love every little thing about you

The Gutso is going home with me

Enjoy this one from my boy Relm, this time taking it way back to 1981 to hip hop's more formative years. Thanks again to Relm for his contributions, taking us out of the 90's on this site for a second. Words from Relm..









"Got another treat for ya and for the blog. This is a vinyl version of the Cold Crush Brothers vs Fantastic Romantic 5 live at Harlem World 1981. I have hunted everywhere on blogs and stuff but have yet to find this vinyl version on any so in a way it's an exclusive sort of. I have included the artwork and a tracklist and the quality is superb."



Cold Crush Brothers vs Fantastic Romantic 5
live at Harlem World 1981



Side A

1: Intro, Yes Y'all, 1981, Other Mc's, Taken on stage

Side B

1: And it's us. Charlie Chase never leaving the base alone - Tony tone never leaving the girls alone, Hey Y'all freestyling.

Side C

1: Freestyling, Cold Cold Crush, The Fantastic 5 Intro.

Side D

1: The Gusto is going home with me, Freestyling, Charlie Chase Outro

Feel That

This next post goes out to my boy Greg T, a good friend of mine from high school who I caught up with today. Greg and I were avid Stretch & Bobbito listeners, and between the two of us have a pretty decent tape collection. After a few Heinkens (a la 1995) I convinced him to write a guest post for DW, so stay tuned for a guest spot from Greg in the near future...


This joint was one of our personal favorites from 1995 from a group called the Constant Deviants, "feel that." You may know this group from their 12" single "Competition Catch Speed Knots" on Vestry records. This jont here I'm not sure was released on vinyl or if "Feel That" is the title. Basically the song is about the dude's aspirations to live great and do his thing, so feel that.






Constant Deviants - Feel That

Stretch & Bobbito 5-11-1995 (Whodis)

This is an unlabeled tape I had from sometime in 1995: Update: May 11, 1995. I'm pretty sure I fell asleep and let the tape ride because it sounds like the last hours of the show. The guest MC's are from New Haven, Connecticut, a group called Whodis...

CM Flood

My boy Relm now has official Dirty Water status, this is his third guest post for us here on Dirty Waters, again with some unedited 130 minute CM Famalam goodness. Dirty Waters is getting flooded with radio shows and it won't stop soon. Peace to Relm, Beat Detective, everyone in the UK, and also peace to Bobbito.





This show is dated May 18, 2000 and features freestyles from Maseo, D.V., Scienz of life, Point Blank, and maybe some others in there, along with some Roc Raida/ Lord Sear skits...enjoy..and don't forget to say peace to Relm for his contributions...



On a side note, I've been on a mission to find Mo Majid's "Wall of Fame" Vol 3 CD, I have the first two CD's he did and really dig them, I heard there was a third but not sure where I can get. Can anyone out there send, trade, or put me on to where I can get my hands on this?


Also I rejoined youtube to promote the blog here with the drum crazy videos, feel free to embed/post on your own sites if you want to. Thanks to everyone out there sending music, leaving comments, checking the site, and showing support. Prepare for some heat this summer!

Soul Strut Mixes

I don't know about all of you out there, but I can't get enough of dusty crate mixes. Peace to all the DJ's putting down quality break mixes. I haven't had time to post lately so I want to put you all on to some mixes from Soul Strut if you haven't already peeped. You can find both of these and many more for download on their site as well.




Raj Mahal - Royale With Beats










Steen Rock - Rock Science

CM Fam September 1999

Here is another reader submission from my boy Relm in the UK, more CM famalam goodness. This is just about a full show from September 1999, featuring Oktober, BOE (?), Lord Scotch and James TOP.





The first side features Oktober and BOE dropping some freestyles over a variety of beats. I had a chance to meet Oktober down at WRSU, Radio Ruckus a few years back and he's definitely cool peoples. Anyway, lot of treats on here and some I don't know so I didn't get time to make a track listing..






The second side features grafitti writers Lord Scotch aka Keo (dude who designed MF Doom's Doomsday cover) and James TOP chopping it up with Bobbito for a minute about grafitti and other topics, so al the writers out there might want to peep this one...







Peace to Bobbito, check him out at Bouncemag and
Peace to Relm and thanks to everyone leaving comments and sending stuff in!
Relm I got you on those rips in a minute...

One Leg Up

I'm sure a lot of you out there already know about this, but for those that don't, I definitely want to mention and give props to the people over at One Leg Up records. These guys get at hip hop artists to unearth and release demos and unreleased recordings from back in the day. Among the list of artists included are Herb McGruff, Cenubites, Godfather Don, Shorty Long, Lord Digga, The Beatnuts, and most recently Pete Rock and CL Smooth. It's an incredible series and I just want to show support and express how siked I am to see people doing this sort of thing.



Here's one of the cuts off the Beatnuts vinyl called 'You Got my Back'. The Beatnuts is probably my favorite from the series so far, but I haven't heard the Pete Rock joint yet...