Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Sunday, October 10, 2010
Rap Treats #84: Wu-Tang Clan Live @ The Source Awards (1995)
Wu-Tang is for the children. Just a reminder. Anyways, this is the audio from the 1995 Source Awards of Wu at the height of their buzz. Hip-Hop's hottest new group at Hip-Hop's most influential magazine's award show (sorry Right On). These dudes sound hungry as fuck. Ah, the good old days.
Wu-Tang Clan
1. Intro
2. Wu-Tnag Clan Ain't Nuthin To Fuck Wit
3. Protect ya Neck
4. Shame On A Nigga
5. C.R.E.A.M.
6. Clan In Da Front
7. 7th Chamber
8. Method Man
9. Rosie Perez Presents Gold Record
Monday, September 20, 2010
Friday, September 10, 2010
Rap Treats #83: Public Enemy Live in Concert (1992)
That's right. Back to back PE Rap Treats. If you haven't noticed, ItTakesANationOfMillionsToHoldThisSac are Public Enemy fans. This treat is a recording of Public Enemy live in concert from April 1992 when they were on tour supporting their Apocalypse '91... The Enemy Strikes Black album. Classic, classic shit right here.
Public Enemy
1. Lost At Birth
2. Night of the Living Baseheads
3. Bring the Noise/Welcome to the Terrordome
4. Nighttrain
5. By the Time I Get to Arizona
6. Fight the Power
7. Gotta Do What I Gotta Do
8. Buck Whylin'/She Watch Channel Zero
9. How to Kill a Radio Consultant
10. More News at 11
11. A Letter to the NY Post/I Don't Wanna Be Called Yo Niga
12. Rebel without a Pause/Public Enemy No. 1/Don't Believe the Hype
13. Shut Em Down
14. 911 is a Joke
15. Can't Truss It
Rap Treats #82: Public Enemy - Bring The Noise 2000 (Unreleased Internet LP)
Chuck D has always been ahead of his time, and PE's use of the internet is no exception. Back in 1998 Chuck D posted this album on Public Enemy's website for fans to download for free, but his record label freaked the fuck out and forced them to take it down. After all, who would ever give music away for free on the internet? That shit will never catch on. Anyways, here is the whole unreleased Bring The Noise 2000 album... for free... on the internet. Imagine that.
Public Enemy
1. There Were More Hype Believers Than Ever in '97
2. Welcome to the Terrordome (X-games remix)
3. Bring the Noise
4. You're Gonna Get Yours
5. Whole Lotta Love Going On In the Middle Of Hell
6. Don't Believe the Hype
7. How to Kill a Radio Consultant
8. Night of the Living Baseheads
9. Cold Lampin'
10. Move!
11. Welcome to the Terrordome
12. What Side You On?
13. Hazy Shade of Criminal
14. Buck Whylin'
15. Yo! Bum Rush the Show
16. 911 Is A Joke
17. Louder Than A Bomb
18. Rebel Without A Pause
19. G'Damn That DJ Made My Day
20. Son of Public Enemy
21. Burn Hollywood Burn
22. Incident at 66.6 FM
23. Live and Undrugged
24. She Watch Channel Zero?!?!
25. Fight the Power
26. Mind Deep
27. Mind Deep (Instrumental)
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
"I Showed You Your First Tec On Tour With Large Professor"
I've always wondered about that Jay-Z line in "Takeover" that calls out Nas for keeping his "tec on the dresser". To refresh your memory it goes "You scribbled in your notepad and created your life/I showed you your first tec on tour with Large Professor/(Me, that’s who!) Then I heard your album bout your tec on the dresser". Well the back story has been unearthed in a very dope Large Professor piece done for XXL back in 2002 (okay, so it was unearthed 8 years ago but I just caught wind of it recently).
Excerpt:
Main Source soon set off on tour, along with the UMCs and Jaz. One particular night of that tour came up recently in the very public catfight between Jay-Z (then Jaz’s hypeman) and Nas (who rolled with Main Source). During a show in Washington D.C. the sound system cut out, forcing the artists to do the same. The angry crowd rushed the stage and chased the rappers back unto their tour bus.
“We were figuring we were gonna have to knuckle down,” explains LP of the incident, which Jay has used to attack Nas. “Jay came outta nowhere, reachin’ in his gym bag like, ‘Don’t even sweat these niggas. I got that.’ He didn’t show [Nas] the gun like, ‘I’m gonna shoot you,’ but we were all just like, ‘Whew!’”
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Friday, August 13, 2010
Jay-Z Performance @ Nike's World Basketball Festival
Here is some all pro footage of Hov performing last night for Nike at Radio City Music Hall.
Saturday, August 7, 2010
Rap Treats #81: Jay-Z & The ROC @ The Tunnel (Audio)
The Roc is in the building... and that building is the infamous Tunnel Nightclub in NYC. This is a recording of the video we put up a while back of Jay, Beans, Memph Bleek and Amil tearing down the club. Click HERE to check out the video. This was right around the time Hov started to become THAT dude
Jay-Z & The Roc
1. Pain In The Ass Intro
2. Jay Z - Its Hot
3. Jay Z - Jigga My Nigga
4. Jay Z - So Ghetto
5. Jay Z feat. Amil - Can I Get A...
6. Jay Z - Money Aint A Thang
7. Jay Z feat. Memphis Bleek - Its Alright
8. Memphis Bleek feat. Jay Z - What You Think Of That
9. Memphis Bleek - Memphis Bleek Is...
10. Beanie Sigel - What A Thug About
11. Beanie Sigel - 45 Freestyle
12. Jay Z - Who U Wit
13. Jay Z - Aint No Nigga
14. Jay Z - Imaginary Player
15. Jay Z feat. Amil - Jigga What, Jigga Who
16. Jay Z feat. Memphis Bleek & Beanie Sigel - Money, Cash, Hoes
17. Jay Z feat. Beanie Sigel - Put Your Hands Up (Do It Again)
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Thursday, July 22, 2010
Rap Treats #80: Cold Front Rap Compilation
Who is familiar with this one? Hands in the air. This one is for my Canadian Rap Nerds. I remember seeing the release party special on Much Music and immediately going to the record store to pick it up. I was already a Maestro and Main Source fan and them being on this comp made everybody else seem legit to me, although to this day I've always wondered why Michie Mee wasn't on it. Anyways, there is the comp to download. Oh, and for the record... Main Source IS Canadian Hip-Hop to me. I don't care that Large Pro was the main dude, two out of three wins on a technicality. I'll take that.
Various Artists
Cold Front Rap Compilation
1. CIUT 89.5 - Master Plan Show Spot
2. Maestro Fresh Wes - Black Tie Affair
3. Base Poet - When I Went To Buy Milk
4. Sweet Ebony - With This
5. Dream Warriors - 12 Sided Dice
6. Large Professor - CKLN 88.1 Power Move Show Spot
7. Main Source - Atom
8. Sonyalive - I'm Coming Into Consciousness
9. CIUT 89.5 - Master Plan Show Spot
10. Kish - Jim Class
11. R & R - Having A Good Day
12. Nu Black Nation - Soul Vibration
13. CHRY 105.5 - Jam Factor Spot
4. KGB - Letters Of Three
15. Top Secret - Stupid
16. Fresh B - This Is For The Record
17. CKLN 88.1 - Oblivion Express Spot'
From the liner notes:
“Although rap music has existed in Toronto since the late 70′s under the influence of N.Y.C. and brought to the people via mobile sound crews like Sunshine, Maceo, City Crew and Ebony All-Star, the Toronto rap music community has had to share the beat with Funk, R&B, and Reggae almost pushing rap into an obscure underground until the mid-eighties. It wasn’t until CKLN radio DJ Ron Nelson dedicated his three hour funk/hip hop show “The Fantastic Voyage” solely to rap music and began promoting concerts that new life was breathed into a community saturated by Roxanne Roxanne answer records and Egyptian lover beats.
“From the mid to late eighties, no Canadian artist had rapped on vinyl until Ivan Berry, Rupert Gayle and Richard Rodwell (AKA Maximum 60) formed Beat Factory Productions. In 1987 Beat Factory met Scott La Rock and KRS 1 during a BDP show. The result of that meeting was the Beat Factory EP featuring Michee Mee & L.A. Luv, and Rumble & Strong, which was co-produced by BDP and released on Beat Factory Records.
“Still, many Canadian labels weren’t paying attention to the program. It wasn’t until December of 1989 that Attic Records broke things wide open when they released Symphony In Effect, the debut album from Maestro Fresh Wes. Maestro and his manager Farley Flex had a chance meeting with Stevie B during a performance on the local television dance show The Electric Circus which led to an American deal with LMR Records. The album was released in Canada on Attic and quickly proved rap’s commercial power to the industry by sailing past the platinum sales plateau and making Wes the first Canadian artist in any genre to score two Top 5 singles from a debut album — thus forever changing the way the Canadian record industry viewed rap music.
“Meanwhile, Beat Factory had relative success with the signing of Michee Mee to First Priority and the release of HDV’s debut LP, Sex, Drugs And Violence on ISBA (CBS) Canada. But, it wasn’t until Island Records released the Dream Warriors LP, And Now The Legacy Begins, that Canadian hip-hop was finally recognized world-wide.
“Finally, A&M Records became the first major label to sign a Canadian rap artist when they picked up Kish from the Full Flex Management stable. Kish’s debut Order To Chaos shows the new funky direction taken on by the Canadian hip hop nation.
“The Cold Front LP is not all that makes Toronto strong, but it’s a taste of a rap community that has been stewing for over a decade.” – John Bronski
Thursday, July 8, 2010
Rap Treats #79: Go Getters - World Record Holders LP (Pre Roc-A-Fella & Pre Broken Jaw Kanye West)
This is pretty dope. A pre Roc-A-Fella Records Kanye West album featuring GLC, Really Doe, Rhymefest and a few others. Large up Andrew from FakeShoreDrive for unleashing this one! I'll let him explain this project...
"Once upon a time there was a Chicago music conglomerate known as Kon-Man Productions, which was represented by Hustle, a marketing and promotions company run by Don Crowley, John “Monopoly” Johnson and Happy Lewis. At the top of the Kon-Man productions pyramid, was a up-and-coming rapper/producer by the name of Kanye West. Kanye had recruited some of Chicago’s top talent to join him on his road to riches and quest for stardom. Producers such as Boogz, Arrowstar and Brian “All Day” Miller helped him on the production side, while emcees such as GLC, Mikkey, Rhymefest, Timmy G, Miss Criss, Shayla G and Really Doe held down microphone duties.
Out of this conglomerate, a small “group” was formed which featured Kanye himself, GLC, Timmy G and Arrowstar – and this group was called the Go Getters. The Go Getters recorded a handful of songs, did some promo shoots and made radio appearances – but an official album was never released. A few of these tracks were released about 10 years ago via the World Record Holders album, which was more of a Kon-Man Productions compilation that also featured some completed Go Getters tracks. Also included on this album/mixtape were loose songs Kanye produced and completed songs from various Kon-Man artists."
Go-Getters
1. World Record Holders Intro
2. World Record Holders (Performed by GLC, Kanye West, Timmy G)
3. Nothin’s Gonna Stop Me (Performed by Kanye West)
4. Dem Guys (Performed by GLC, Timmy G)
5. Ghetto Senorita (Performed by Miss Criss, Kanye West & Shayla G)
6. All I Need (Performed by Kanye West, Mikkey Halsted, Miss Criss)
(Prod. by Brian “All Day" Miller)
7. Foolish Game (Performed by Mikkey Halsted)
(Prod. by Brian “All Day” Miller)
8. No Luv (Performed by GLC, Timmy G)
9. Fight With The Best
(Performed by Kanye West, Rhymefest & Mikkey Halsted)
10. 10 In A Benz (Performed by Rhymefest & Kanye West)
(Prod. by Andy C)
11. Uh Oh (Performed by Kanye West, Timmy G, GLC)
12. Mind Yo Business (Performed by GLC, Timmy G, Kanye West)
13. Let Em In (Performed by Kanye West, GLC, Timmy G)
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