Rap Treats #86: Stretch & Bobbito 20th Anniversary on WKCR

Yes, I know this is mad late and you can find it everywhere, but I wanted to add it to the Rap Treat archive so here it is. This is a piece of history that everybody should have so if you haven't yet downloaded Stretch & Bobbito's reunion show do so asap. In fact, if you aren't familiar with their show then hit google and download every old show that you can get. The Stretch & Bobbito show was a HUGE influence on my radio life and as a Hip-Hop head in general. Before the internet reigned supreme this show is where you found all the new shit, the exclusive shit, and the rare shit. Plus, dudes had jokes. Hopefully this won't be the last show there two do together.

Stretch Armstrong & Bobbito Garcia

Stretch & Bobbito's 20th Anniversary Show on WKCR

Classic Material: Jay-Z Live on the Reasonable Doubt Tour (1996)

Rookie Jay-Z on the Reasonable Doubt tour performing "22 Two's" (acapella), "Dead Presidents", "D'Evils" and "Can't Knock The Hustle" as well couple freestyles over a Biggie and a Dogg Pound beat. Also, featuring Dame Dash the hype man.

Rap Treats #85: The Beatnuts - Intoxicated Demos EP

Here goes the One Leg Up Records pressing of The Beatnuts songs that were recorded between '91 and '93. There were only 200 copies of this so if you didn't get yours you are out of luck. See the label above for the track listing.

The Beatnuts

Intoxicated Demos

Kanye West - Ranaway (Short Film)

Kanye get's artsy. This is the full version of his short film.

Nardwuar vs. Wyclef Jean

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

Live @ The Source Awards (1995)

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

Nardwuar vs. Charlie Murphy

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

Live In Concert (4.9.92)

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

Bring The Noise 2000

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)

"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!’”

Nardwuar vs. Sage Francis

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.