Rap Treats #75: Brand Nubian - The Now Rule Files EP

This record was limited to only 200 copies and features original, alternate and demo tracks. All songs were recorded between 1989 and 1997 and were produced by Brand Nubian except for "How Ya Livin" and "Love vs. Hate". I love hearing the original Brand Nubian line up together. They've always been dope, but not quite the same after Grand Puba left.

Brand Nubian

The Now Rule EP

(One Leg Up Records)

A1 "How Ya Livin" *Produced by Pete Rock

A2 "I Ain’t Goin’ Out Like That"

A3 "The Devil"

B1 "Mind Your Business" (Original Mix)

B2 "Where Is Puba?"

B3 "Probable Cause" (Original Mix)

B4 "Love Vs. Hate" (Alternate Version) *Producer by Lord Finesse

Questlove's J Dilla Tribute

Questlove made an appearance on Tony Touch's "Toca Tuesdays" radio show this week and dropped a DJ set of none stop Jay Dee related music. Super dope.

Questlove

J Dilla Tribute

Rap Treats #74: KDAY Concerts - Eazy-E & N.W.A + Public Enemy + King Tee Live From Skateland USA, Compton

For a rap radio junkie like myself, Los Angeles' KDAY is up there with Mr. Magic on WBLS, DJ Red Alert on KISS, Stretch & Bobbito on WKCR, and Sway & King Tech on KMEL. In fact, in my eyes it trumps them all because KDAY was the first station to adopt an all Hip-Hop format in 1983. What can you say about a station who's street team included Dr. Dre, Ice Cube, Ice-T, MC Hammer, Tone Loc, Kid Frost, and Young MC to name a few. It's the station that coined the term "Traffic Jam" and was the first to play artists like N.W.A. Tapes of KDAY have been hard to come across, even in the age of the internet, but thanks to OldSchoolRapTapes a few have surfaced. These are concerts by Eazy-E & N.W.A., Public Enemy, and King Tee who performed Live in Compton that were broadcast on the station. There is also a recording of Ice-T introducing his "new" record "Colder Than Ever" that I had never heard before. These recordings are nowhere close to being CDQ so you'll have to deal with the sound quality, but 1580 KDAY was an AM station so there isn't much that could have been done about that.

N.W.A. & Eazy-E

Public Enemy

King Tee

"Live From Skateland USA, Compton"

Ice-T

"Live On KDAY/Colder Than Ever"

Nardwuar vs. Kid Cudi

Classic Material: The Pharcyde on Yo! MTV Raps (1992)

The Pharcyde rocking a freestyle on Yo! MTV Raps back in '92.

Pretty sure this was their debut.

Nardwuar vs. Too Short

Todd Shaw and Nardwuar, biiiiiiiaaaaaaatch!

Stussy X J Dilla (Documentary)

This has been out for a minute, but it's dope still. Stussy's Jay Dee documentary.

Part 1 above, 2 & 3 below.

Nardwuar vs. Yelawolf

Rap Treats #73: Jay-Z & Nas Live In London

This is a Rap Treat that comes straight from DJ Green Lantern. He blessed us with a board feed (in other words a good quality recording) of Jay & Nas performing together in London. This was around the time they had just squashed their beef and started working together. I got shivers just listening to this. It's a trip hearing Hov play hype man for Nasir.

Jay-Z & Nas

Live In London

Jay-Z & Nas

"Dead Presidents" Live feat. Chris Martin

"Heart Of The City" (Sunday Bloody Sunday Remix)

Live in Dublin, Ireland feat. Chris Martin

DJ AM R.I.P.

DJ AM

March 30th,1973 - August 28th, 2009

Hit the link below for a great collection of 20 DJ AM mixes.

DJ AM

Mixtape Database

Nardwuar vs. Nas

Rap Treats #72: Eminem "Hammer vs. Vanilla" + 3 More Songs

So here are a bunch of old ass Eminem songs. Needless to say this is way before his Slim Shady days. One look at that outfit and hair cut though and you know these were recorded WAAAAAAY back when he still ran with homie the Chaos Kid (whoever that is). Plus the sound quality sound like doo doo.

Eminem

"Hammer vs. Vanilla"

"Poo Butt" feat. Chaos Kid

"Unrealistically Graphic" feat. Chaos Kid

"Artificial Flavor" feat. Chaos Kid