Another Nu Roots Riddim, from Californian Lustre King label. Conscious style again. This is available in cd I think, here it's my favorite four 7" singles.
Check it : (1) A - Luciano & Al Pancho - Unity Is Strength
(2) A - Lutan Fyah - Rise And Shine
(3) A - Turbulence - Revolution Pon The Wicked
(4) A - Natural Black - Straight Up
(4) AA - Version - Alarm Clock
Tracklist :
(1) A - Luciano & Al Pancho - Unity Is Strength (1) AA - Natty King - See The Wicked Run (2) A - Lutan Fyah - Rise And Shine (2) AA - Lutan Fyah - Woe To The Bloody City (3) A - Turbulence - Revolution Pon The Wicked (3) AA - Moon The Digital Ancient - Last Call (4) A - Natural Black - Straight Up (4) AA - Version - Alarm Clock
VC prove that even if you're a baldhead you can make good conscious tunes, or act right in your everyday life. I really like this single, the riddim isn't that good but it's all about what he says and how he says it.
"Sitting in your church on Sunday Thinking who you gonna screw Monday Who you gonna thief, who you gonna rob Take it that me tell you Say, you can't fool God, no.."
Addis Records is a label from Switzerland, this is a (Nu) Roots riddim with a big heavy bassline that will make your head nod ! The riddim is produced by Addis crew (Jil & Stuff) and features legendary Jamaican saxophone player Dean Fraser...
Check it : Natural Black - Bun Down Rome
Version - Frontline Riddim
The folder contain three 7" (4 vocals cut + the version).
-Admiral Tibet - Valley Of Division -Chezidek - Give Thanks & Praises -Mark Wonder - Misconception -Natural Black - Bun Down Rome -Version - Frontline Riddim
Produced by Jil & Stuff Mixed @ Mixing Lab by Colin "Bulby" York
I don't listen to Rock at all, nor white music, but when it's mixed with Hip Hop it's all good for me. They're not the first who do that (of course Run DMC, Public Enemy & Anthrax, Boo Yaa Tribe's "Bang Your Head" to name a few) but their flow fits well into this type of production...
Check the style : A2 - Ground Zero (Dirty)
B2 - Hilltop Flava (No Sleep Til Brooklyn) (Dirty)
Tracklist :
A1 - Ground Zero (Clean) A2 - Ground Zero (Dirty) A3 - Ground Zero (Instrumental) B1 - Hilltop Flava (No Sleep Til Brooklyn) (Clean) B2 - Hilltop Flava (No Sleep Til Brooklyn) (Dirty) B3 - Hilltop Flava (No Sleep Til Brooklyn) (Instrumental)
This is the first full lenght LP released by Swedish label Street Level after few 12 Inches releases that had good critics in the press and the public, the best ones are compiled here with new tracks. Including 1999's Promoe's (from Looptroop Crew) classic Off The Record plus a remixed version. Other titles features Group Home, 8-Off, Agallah, as well as a french group called Interactif Crew (which I've never heard about before that...), and of course there's swedish MC's also (only one track is not in english). Usually I don't listen Rap from other countries than US or France but this one is pretty good compilation...
There's two swedish track that uses the sameMichel Gonet'sFlower Dancesample from his 1976 albumPhasing News Vol 2. First one is from 1998, it'sThomas Rusiak feat. PeeWee - Suckers; the other one isOff The Recordand was released in 1999.
Check the style : C2 Promoe - Off The Record
Thomas Rusiak feat. PeeWee - Suckers (256k mp3, I don't have the original vinyl/CD)
Tracklist :
A1 Scratchaholics - I Like To Introduce Featuring DJ TechNic A2 Swing-Fly - Come Get It Feat 8-Off, Agallah, Ayo A3 Form One - Three Poisonus Darts Feat Camu Tao, Copywrite A4 Promoe - Off The Record (Remix) B1 Group Home - Handle Your Bi Feat 8-Off, Agallah, Bleedz B2 Swing-Fly - It's Alright Feat Dappa Don B3 Glaciuz The Icy - Drunkard B4 Promoe - It's Promoe C1 Interactif Crew - Go Out There Feat Dinah C2 Promoe - Off The Record C3 Form One - Fight Club C4 Ken - Artist Eller Kriminell* D1 Swing-Fly - Don't Get Scared Feat Buc Norris, Mike Mulee D2 Group Home - Street Life (E.N.Y. Story) Feat Bleedz D3 Timbuktu, Promoe - Of Men And Mics (This is the correct title, I messed up the tag!) D4 Ken - Artist Eller Kriminell (Remix)*
Ali Vegas writes this diss record against Dj Clue and Fabulous when he was 16/17 years old. DJ Clue requested apologies on NY Radio, so Ali put that records out, straight in their heads !
A2 -Apology (Street)
Tracklist:
A1 - Apology (Clean) A2 - Apology (Street) A3 -Apology (Instrumental) B1 - People Talk (Clean) B2 - People Talk (Street) B3 - The Welcome Freestyle (Clean) B4 - The Welcome Freestyle (Street)
Credits : Executive Producer Dave Walis, Kenny J, Lyvio G
One Be Lo other known as OneManArmy is one half of Binary Star duo (other half is Senim Silla) from Michigan. He went solo after they split up after several releases that were critically acclaimed (like Masters of the Universe or Waterworld). This dope album is from 2005 with the Trackezoïds on the production (here we have : Decompoze, One Be Lo, Magestik Legend and Chic Masters) and DJ Virus and DJ Phrikshun on the cuts... Favorite tracks are : The UNDERground, enecS eht no kcaB (with the Redman scratch from EPMD's Headbangers) or Oggie. But theu're all good as the album is really homogeneous.
A2-The UNDERground
Tracklist :
A1 - Intro A2 - The UNDERground (Prod Magestik Legend) A3 - enecS eht no kcaB A4 - Propaganda A5 - The Ghetto
C1 - Used 2 Be Fly (Prod Chic Masters) C2 - Deceptacons C3 - The Future C4 - E. T. (Scratches DJ Phrikshun)
D1 - The Capital IST D2 - Rocketship (Scratches DJ Phrikshun) D3 - Unparalelled Feat Magestik Legend (Prod Magestik Legend) D4 - Follow My Lead
I uploaded two version, because there's no gaps between most of the tracks on the vinyl, so there's one splitted (get it by clicking the post title) and a non splitted one : here
This one is a 7" remix of the great Born Jamericans' Yardcore cut from Bunafire Sound, produced by Mamba, on the Bam Bam riddim. It's a German crew that's all what I know about them...
Tracklist :
A - Born Jamericans - Yardcore(Pushing MamBam Remix) B - Born Jamericans - Yardcore (Straight MamBam Remix)
Another Hip Hop / Dancehall collabo. This one is from Beenie Man's Maestro 1997 LP. Little mess with the labels, it's supposed to be the same tracks on each side (In The Ghetto Radio, Dirty and Instru), instead of that they put on B side, which is a good idea, Beenie Man's Romie tune... Big hit on a recut of the legendary Punaany (originally by King Jammy & Steelie & Cleevie) done by Shocking Vibes's crew... In The Ghetto is produced by Da Bush Babees' Mr Man, they always had jamaican influences in their productions or on the Mic...
Check it : A2 - Beenie Man feat Da Bush Babees - In The Ghetto (Album Version)
B - Beenie Man - Romie
Tracklist :
A1 - Beenie Man feat Da Bush Babees - In The Ghetto (Radio Edit) A2 - Beenie Man feat Da Bush Babees - In The Ghetto (Album Version) A3 - Beenie Man feat Da Bush Babees - In The Ghetto (Instrumental) B - Beenie Man- Romie
Credits : In The Ghetto produced by Mr Man (of Da Bush Babees) Romie produced by Patrick Roberts
Got some Reggae / Dancehall ready to post... But first, as I like collabos between the two style here's is a compilation from 1992 on a riddim named Hip Hop Rhythm (with a booming bassline !) produced by Larry Boswell (?). It's Raggamuffin time, early 90's guns, slack and a little bit of conscious lyrics with the usuall suspect of that time, like Mad Cobra ("Shoot first, then ask question"), Cutty Ranks (conscious style !) or Papa San. Something that's not usual is B4 (Charlie Sprang) where he spit both in Deejay and in Rap style !
Check it : A1 Cobra - Quick Fishshoot
B4 Charlie Sprang - Girls
Tracklist :
A1 Cobra - Quick Fishshoot A2 Cutty Ranks - Cool Down A3 Dirtsman - Crack Head A4 General TK - Signal A5 Papa San - Women A The Best B1 Gospel Fish - Talent B2 Nardo Ranks - Samething B3 Tenacat - Lean On The Girls Them B4 Charlie Sprang - Girls B5 Larry Boswell - Version
Their first release with top notch producers ! Alchemist produced track, which is really dope, don't appear on the LP, don't know why, maybe sample clearance ?
Check it : A1 Long Time Coming (Prod Pete Rock)
Tracklist :
A1 Long Time Coming (Prod Pete Rock) A2 What They Want (Prod Large Professor) B1 How You Want It (Prod Pete Rock) B2 It's Over (Prod Alchemist)
Usually I don't post full LP rips here (at least only compilations), I post this one and maybe it will be the first and last one... Don't sleep on this !
The group comes from Long Island, NY. Composed by Dino Brave, Laku, Mic Raw and Rock Marcy ( aka Roc Marciano ) who was former Flipmode Squad member.
Looks like they're close with Pete Rock and the less that we can say it's that he gave them ill beats, no doubt that it was one of the best that came out in 2004 ! It contain tracks that were already released by Archives Inc Records (check the other posts for almost all their releases) but reworked properly. Straight raw east coast shit !
Check the Fire : D2 - The U.N. - Shakedown
Tracklist :
A1 Buildin' A2 Mind Blowin' A3 D.O.A. (Dead On Arrival) (Prod by Mahogany)
B1 Avenue (Prod by Pete Rock) B2 What They Want (Prod by Large Professor) B3 P. Money Setup B4 Golden Grail
C1 Aint No Thang(Prod by Pete Rock) C2 Monsta C3 Get Yo ******
D1 Russian Hat Wear D2 Shakedown D3 The Art D4 Game Of Death (Prod by Pete Rock)
Check it : A1 D.O.A. (Deadly On Arrival) (Album Version)
Tracklist :
A1 D.O.A. (Deadly On Arrival) (Album Version) A2 D.O.A. (Deadly On Arrival) (Clean) A3 D.O.A. (Deadly On Arrival) (Accapella) B1 D.O.A. (Deadly On Arrival) (Instrumental) B2 Russian Hat Wear (The Cold Money Remix) B3 Game Of Death (Rock Marciano Solo) (Producer Pete Rock)
Classic UK Dancehall tune, was rare until it was reissued in 2004, and still rare on the net for download... Basic Replay always reissue very good stuff, props to them for this one and all the Wackie's catalogue !
The Reggae version of High Times compilation, it's the CD version wich contain 3 more tracks than the vynil one. Some tracks are classic Ganjah Tunes like Jigsy King's Give Mi the Weed or Mikal RoseStalk of Sensimilla, if you don't already have them it's a must have for all herb smokers !
Legalize It !
Rizzla ready ? Go !
Tracklist :
1 - Bounty Killer - Smoke The Herb 2 - Anthony Malvo w/ Josey Wales - Sensi 3 - Sluggy Ranks w/ Tuffest - Weed Man 4 - Wayne Wonder w/ Don Yute - Sensi Ride 5 - Mikal Rose - Stalk Of Sensimilla 6 - Beenie Man w/ Silver Cat - The Chronic 7 - Jigsy King - Give Mi The Weed 8 - Sanchez - Chronic 9 - Capleton - Chalice 10 - Turbo Belly - True Inspiration 11 - The Mighty Diamonds w/ Fragga Ranks - Chalice In A Circle 12 - Everton Blender - Bring The Kuchie 13 - Bajja Jedd - Ganja Smokin' 14 - Red Dragon - Light My Spliff 15 - Phillip Famous - Herb Vendor
* I inverted artist names and titles for the last 3 tracks in the files tags.
I already posted this one few weeks ago on HQ Hip Hop, I drop it here with another similar one with Jamaican Singers/Deejays...
Tracklist :
01 - Intro - Lord Seat 02 - Bart Burnt - The High & Mighty (Producer DJ Mighty Mi) 03 - High Times - Black Moon feat Starang Wondah, Sean Price & Top Dog (Producer Da Beatminerz) 04 - Something About Mary - Serial Rhyme Killers feat B-Real (Producer The Audio Hustlers) 05 - Sweet Dreams - Intoxicated Demons (Producer Psycho Les) 06 - Roll Up - Shabaam Sadheeq feat Steele (of Smif n' Wessun) (Producer Dev 1) 07 - Puff, Puff, Pass - Hom (Producer Emz) 08 - Bomb Tree - Defari (Producer E-Swift) 09 - Get Your Head Straight - Afu-Ra (Producer The Arabian Knight) 10 - Sticky Green - The Pharcyde (Producer Soul Unit Pros) 11 - Big Green Buds - Phil Da Agony, Chocolate Tye & J-Ro (Producer E-Swift) 12 - My Favorite Ladies - MF Doom (Producer The Prof) 13 - Escape - Ripshop (Producer D-Son & Kon) 14 - Take A Hit - Lootpack (Producer Madlib) 15 - So High (G-13) - Rza feat Timbo King (Featuring Timbo King)
Another 12" from Royce Da 5'9'' that wasn't on the Game Tight compilation. Clean version missing on each side...
Check it : B2 My Friend (Street) ProducerDJ Premier
Tracklist (*Missing) :
A1 Mr. Baller (Radio) Featuring Clipse , Pharrell & Tre Little Producer The Neptunes A2 Mr. Baller (Street) Featuring Clipse, Pharrell & Tre LittleProducer The Neptunes A3 Mr. Baller (Instrumental) Producer The Neptunes B1 My Friend (Radio) Producer - DJ Premier B2 My Friend (Street) Producer - DJ Premier B3 My Friend (Instrumental) Producer - DJ Premier
Check it : A1 - Black Moon - How Many Emcee's (Must Get Diss) Bushwick Jeep Mix
Tracklist (*Missing) :
A1-How Many Emcee's (Must Get Dissed) (Bushwick Jeep Mix) A2-How Many Emcee's (Must Get Dissed) (Bushwick Jeep Beats) A3-How Many Emcee's (Must Get Dissed) (Clean Radio Edit) A4-How Many Emcee's (Must Get Dissed) (Acappella) B1-Act Like U Want It (F.A.P. Mix) B2-Act Like U Want It (F.A.P. Instrumental) B3-Act Like U Want It (Clean Radio Edit)
No cover and clean version missing, but nobody gives a fuck about clean...
Check it : A1 - Big Daddy Kane - Any Type Of Way (Street Version) (Prod DJ Premier)
Tracklist (* Missing):
A1 Any Type Of Way (Street Version) A2 Any Type Of Way (Clean Version)* B1 Any Type Of Way (Instrumental Version) B2 Any Type Of Way (Accapella Version)
Don't have enough ? No cover too (I don't like that) and any infos on discogs, there's no label maybe it's an Archives Inc Records or something like that, don't remember exactly...
Check the fire : - Special Ed - Freaky Flow Remix
Tracklist :
Big Daddy Kane - Show And Prove (Remix) Blahzay Blahzay - Danger (Remix Instrumental) Blahzay Blahzay - Danger (Remix) Group Home - Suspended In Time (Remix) MOP - Ante Up (Remix) feat Busta Rhymes Special Ed - Freaky Flow (Remix Instrumental) Special Ed - Freaky Flow (Remix)
