Saturday, May 17, 2008

Remember real mixtapes?


This free download is about an hour, the songs blend into the next with scratching thrown in as well. No talking thru a crazy reverb chamber(im saving that for another tape) and jet fighter sound effects.

Burn it using iTunes, but make sure there is no silence between tracks, so it should play straight thru, plus you can skip back and forth as you want to.

I did this back in late 2003. Enjoy it, and spread it out to people who like shit like this. In the era of wack bitchass MP3 compilers, shit like this is rare.


TRACKLISTING:
TROOP MOVEMENTS 2 (LINK)

Monday, April 14, 2008

Long Live Eli Porter...



This dude proves even with a debilitating condition, wack emcess must get crushed.

Watch the video and see what the hype is about.

IRON MIC CHALLENGE

Tuesday, March 25, 2008

"Mind Tricks The Body, Body Thinks The Mind Is Crazy.."

"Buddah Blessed It" / "Mind Tricks" (Promo) - Supernatural
Label: EastWest, 12" 1995


This is Supernat's 1st record as far as I know, for an LP from EastWest Records(Atlantic) that never came out officially, but leaked around 2000. The single was officially released after this promo, with an additional song, "Flashback".

The A-Side "Buddah Blessed It" is a weed anthem, complete with a Cal Tjader chime sample that is made for maximum maxin' and relaxin'. The beat was done by Dijini Brown (Unspoken Heard), and is classic 90s, good drums, filtered sample, naw mean? Bless the mic with the god!

The B-side was the gem to me, "Mind Tricks". Produced by KRS-One, it had heavy drums and gritty sounds. If you dont know where the hook is taken from, your retarded, stop reading my blog, and go cop "Enta Da Stage". I used this joint on my " Tae Kwon Dolo" mixtape in 1996, the lines you see on the label were my markers for sections I was backspinnin. Rumor had it that Supernat did this song in one take, he just freestyled the verses together. He might have, as theres no real concept, just Supernat rocking about how ill he is.

"Buddah Blessed It" - Supernatural

"Mind Tricks" - Supernatural


Monday, March 24, 2008

"I Introduced The Breakbeat To Kool Herc..."

"Bomb M.C." - The Colored Section
Label: 12' RPM, 1997

12" Green Vinyl

A real overlooked record due to how much ill shit was being released in the 97 independent single flood, this is the only joint Ive seen from Colored Section. I used this song on the first of my Troop Movements mixtape series, which dropped in 97. The beat is a rugged drum/piano combo, the hook is a Common Sense vocal triggered in. The concept is the cat spitting is such a bomb mc that he is responisble for all types of hiphop events. For Example:

"Niggas wanna know why Im a Bomb MC/
Cause Im the one who hooked Doug E. Fresh up with Ricky D/
Ladi Dadi, we at a party/
Freestylin, drinking bacardi/
trying to clown/
I told Slick "Write that shit down"/..

If you never heard this, do yahself a favor, check this:

"Bomb M.C." - The Colored Section

"...cause I tried to keep EPMD together!"

say word.



Fly Ladies, Theyre On My Jammie...

"The Dips" (O.G. Version) - The Wascals
1994, 12"

The Wascals were four cats signed to Delicious Vinyl, and they basically sounded like Pharcyde, Part 2. The MCs were Bucwheed, Spit-Anky, Alphie, and St.Imey, and all had that high pitched voice sound. The record had two version, the OG (which was the B-Side) and the A-side was a J-Sw!ft remix that is real westcoast synthy, and to me, is not as dope as the OG. The OG beat is dope, J-Swi!ft was pretty consistent at that point, too bad Pharcyde didnt get a shot at this beat. Dope Drums, good piano, horns. The lyrics are straight, funny shit, they all basically rock verses about the honeys. I might sound forge chop and screw this track and make the voices a normal fuckin pitch, word.

*In the pic, you can see i colored in the "L" in the WASCALS logo to remind me that copy skipped less and to put it on the left table, the table i scratch with more lol

"The Dips"(OG Version) - The Wascals


Ill include the westcoast remix in the next update.

Wednesday, February 20, 2008

We Holdin Fort, We Aint Going No Whereeeeee...


Today's Milk Carton Artists:

Rottin Razkals, "Oh Yeah" 12"

From a time when it seemed like a rule to have a "z" in their name in place of an "s", came this group from New Jersey, signed to IllTownRecords thru Mad Sounds(a subsidary of Motown)."Oh Yeah" is produced by Kay Gee of Naughty By Nature, who is pretty underated when producers are mentioned. Sticker on the sleve proclaims it an anthem, and this shit was for a minute. I used this at alot of house parties thru 95-97 steady, it always got a good response crowd wise. It samples from "Say Yeah" by the Commodores on their Lp Natural High, on Motown, 1978. An RnB jackmove happened in 98 by Tamia, a fate which many dope hiphop records couldnt escape at the time.

Laink:
RottinRazkals "Oh Yeah" Main Version




say word.